Academic Administrator Barbara Peskin has been recognized by an Excellence Award in the Outstanding Contributor category at the 2022 Excellence Awards + Collier Medal celebration. She was recognized for her dedication to this department in general, and specifically to its educational mission. Barbara, who holds a 1980 PhD from the Department of Mathematics working with Professor Mike Artin, is […]
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Prof. Lisa Piccirillo Explores Mysteries of Knots
April 13, 2022
Lisa Piccirillo explores the mysteries of knots with podcast host Steven Strogatz and mathematician Colin Adams. Read more at Quanta.
Dain Kim Receives Putnam Exam’s Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize
March 25, 2022
Junior Dain Kim, who finished in the top 15 in the 82nd William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, received the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. She was also recognized by our department as a top female scorer in the 2019 contest. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year’s exam! Read more in the MIT News. A […]
Yulia’s Dream: Free Program for Ukrainian High School Students
March 22, 2022
Yulia’s Dream is a free math enrichment and research program for exceptional high school students (grades 9-11) from Ukraine. Under this program, students would meet online once a week in small groups to study advanced math topics beyond high school curriculum or work on math research projects under the guidance of academic mentors from among […]
Lisa Sauermann named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow
February 22, 2022
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of mathematics Lisa Sauermann and six others at MIT receiving 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. Lisa’s main research interests are extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, and her research also connects to probability theory, number theory, and theoretical computer science. With a collaborator, she proved an inverse theorem for the quadratic Littlewood-Offord problem. A favorite […]
Marisa Gaetz helps launch Brave Behind Bars program
January 20, 2022
Math PhD student Marisa Gaetz is one of the co-founders of Brave Behind Bars, a pilot program based out of The Educational Justice Institute at MIT (TEJI). The program provides an introductory computer science and career-readiness program for incarcerated women. “[The students] seemed much more inspired to learn when it’s something that’s dear to your heart, rather […]