Mathematics

Bucsela Prize winners Anand Deopurkar, left, and Galyna Dobrovolska. Dobrovolska was also a co-winner for the Alice T. Schafer Prize.

Mathematics awards

June 4, 2008

MIT researchers have figured out how the phalarope, a shorebird with a long, narrow beak, transports its food from the tip of its beak to its mouth. Here the bird feeds by pecking at the water surface.

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey

May 15, 2008

Department of Mathematics hosting Clay Research Conference May 12-13

May 7, 2008

Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90

April 16, 2008

MIT Professor of Mathematics Gigliola Staffilani, one of the organizers of the Women in Math conference taking place April 12-13 at MIT, teaches a course on multivariable calculus.

MIT conference celebrates women in math

April 7, 2008

Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

Film loosely based on MIT blackjack team opens Friday

March 28, 2008

MIT third overall in Putnam math competition

March 27, 2008

Math professor and crossword puzzle fiend Kiran Kedlaya works on Friday's New York Times puzzle. He will compete in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament on Feb. 29.

MIT's crossword king girds for annual battle of wits

February 22, 2008

American Mathematical Society honors Lusztig

January 16, 2008

Dan Gabriner, Weston High School math teacher, works with Maria Picardi Kuffner of MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Surveillance Systems group.

Schoolteachers get a 'lift' at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Program spurs students to pursue scientific careers

January 4, 2008

Bazant among Popular Science's 'Brilliant Ten'

October 24, 2007

This illustration is a visual representation of data by MIT and Harvard scientists on how irregular verbs regularize over time. Verb size in the image corresponds to usage frequency. Large verbs tend to stay sequestered at the top, while smaller verbs tend to fall through to the bottom. The paper predicts that 'wed' is the next verb to regularize, so it teeters on the brink.

Predicting the future of the past tense

Mathematicians apply evolutionary models to language

October 15, 2007

Institute of Medicine elects Brown

October 13, 2007

Lakshminarayan Srinivasan (S.M., Ph.D. 2006) is part of a team that develops standardizing math equations to allow neural prostheses to work better. He is currently a medical student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Nervous System Repair at Massachusetts General Hospital.

MIT research helps convert brain signals into action

October 2, 2007

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