MIT students take 2nd place in annual Putnam Mathematical Competition
Student competitors earn two Putnam Fellowships, an Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, and 11 of 15 top spots.
Department
Mathematics
Innovating at the speed of light
Symposium speakers describe how colleges must meet the challenges of a rapidly emerging environment in which "computing is for everyone."
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2019
Institute ranks within the top 2 in 17 of 48 subject areas.
Mathematics Professor Bonnie Berger honored with ISCB Senior Scientist Award
The International Society for Computational Biology Senior Scientist Award recognizes highly significant, long-term career achievement.
Independence problem solved through collaboration
A math professor gives his undergraduates a frustrating combinatorics problem; their solution will soon be published in a leading journal.
Four from MIT named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows
Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.
Mathematician finds balance and beauty in math
Zhiwei Yun seeks to connect seemingly disparate fields in mathematics.
Julia Lab joins team to speed up drug approval process
Health Analytics Collective uses real-world evidence to modernize health and drug development decisions.
Achieving goals in the lab and on the pitch
Senior Anthony Badea, a physics major and varsity soccer player, investigates the beginnings of the universe.
Julia language co-creators win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
Awarded every four years, the Wilkinson Prize last came to MIT in 1999.
Five MIT students named 2019 Marshall Scholars
Radha Mastandrea, Katie O’Nell, Anna Sappington, Kyle Swanson, and Crystal Winston will begin graduate studies in the UK next fall.
The many interfaces of computing
A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.
Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou to direct the Center for Computational Engineering
New leadership team named for the Institute's interdisciplinary hub for advanced thinking in the science and engineering of computation.
Computational science grad students awarded U.S. Department of Energy fellowships
Kaley Brauer, Sarah Greer, William Moses, and Paul Zhang will receive DoE support to fuel research that tackles problems of national importance.
School of Engineering third quarter 2018 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.