The Association for Women in Mathematics announced that Letong “Carina” Hong, a math and physics double major, won the 2022 Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman. In addition, Mathematics major Alexandra Hoey was awarded honorable mention. Alexandra participated in the MIT Summer Program in Undergraduate Research and spent two summers at the University […]
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Marisa Gaetz ’20 receives Lusztig Mentor award
January 14, 2022
Mathematics graduate student Marisa Gaetz ’20 received the 2022 George Lusztig Mentorship for exceptional mentor service. Marisa is a PRIMES Circle coordinator and DPR mentor. Her studies center around representation theory and Lie theory. As an undergraduate at MIT, where she graduated in 2020, Marisa was a PRIMES Circle mentor for three years. As a grad student, she was a DRP mentor […]
The MIT Women’s Forum
January 14, 2022
The MIT Women’s Forum was born 50 years ago this month, during the second annual Independent Activities Period. In January 1972, Professor Emily Wick joined Professor Mildred Dresselhaus (pictured, teaching a class around the same period) in planning an IAP seminar to discuss the status of women at MIT at the time. About 100 women […]
Gigliola Staffilani’s Simons Foundation Lecture
December 13, 2021
Simons Foundation Lectures@SF_Lectures video of Gigliola Staffilani’s “The Study of Wave Interactions: Where Beautiful Mathematical Ideas Come Together” Simons Foundation Lecture is available here.
Lisa Sauermann Awarded European Prize in Combinatorics
November 23, 2021
Lisa Sauermann, who recently joined our department as assistant professor, has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2021 European Prize in Combinatorics, which was awarded at Eurocomb in September. The prize is for research in combinatorics and is awarded every two years. She was cited for her “profound contribution to combinatorics, particularly for […]
Yilin Wang and Hong Wang PhD ’19 Awarded 2022 New Frontiers Prize
November 18, 2021
CLE Moore Instructor Yilin Wang and Hong Wang PhD ’19, a UCLA assistant professor of mathematics, are recipients of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, awarded to outstanding early-career women in mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Yilin is cited “for innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves” according to the award citation, and Hong “for […]