Several members of the Department of Mathematics community were recognized for their achievements at the recent Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. CLE Moore instructor Jia Shi received the Association for Women in Mathematics’ Dissertation Prize for her thesis that “proves major results on two separate topics in fluid mechanics, a hard classical field.” The association also awarded its […]
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Jia Shi Awarded 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize
December 6, 2022
CLE Moore instructor Jia Shi will receive the seventh annual Association for Women in Mathematics Dissertation Prize. Jia and two others will each be presented with the 2023 AWM Dissertation Prize at the January 4 Joint Prize Session at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston. Mentored by Gigliola Staffilani, Jia is interested in fluid mechanics and partial differential […]
‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88 receives IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
December 1, 2022
Radia Perlman ’73, SM ’76, PhD ’88 (Mathematics, EECS), received the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award “for contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols.” Currently a Dell EMC Fellow, she is best known for her invention of the algorithm behind STP, the Spanning Tree Protocol, which solved a challenging information routing problem and earned her […]
Carina Hong ’22 Honored With Morgan Prize
November 18, 2022
Letong (Carina) Hong ’22 will receive the 2023 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, for proving a number of results and solving conjectures in combinatorics, number theory, and probability. Carina, a double major in courses 18 and 8 and the former president of the Undergraduate Mathematics Association, is […]
Math enthusiasts take aim at STEM glass ceiling
October 25, 2022
A good math problem is like a walled, secret garden, according to Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) head and MIT Professor Asu Ozdaglar, who was addressing an audience of middle and high school female-identifying mathematics contestants at the 14th annual Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) event. “Many people walking around the outside never attempt to […]
Patterns in Integers May 21-26, 2023
October 5, 2022
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