Junior Binwei Yan, a double major in Math and EECS, received the 2022 Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize as the top-scoring woman on the 83rd annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Binwei Yan, who finished in the top 16, receives a $1,000 award. She is the sixth MIT student to receive this honor since the award began […]
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“This is the type of life that I want”
February 24, 2023
Poet, student advocate, and math/physics double-major Catherine Ji is living boldly at MIT. January 26, 2023 Read more in the MIT News.
Female mathematicians awarded at JMM 2023
January 10, 2023
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 […]
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 […]