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Leighton Family Professor of Mathematics Scott Sheffield has been elected to @theNASciences National Academy of Sciences. 👏 @ScienceMIT nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…
ALT Headshot of Scott Sheffield
Congrats to arithmetic geometer Ryan Chen and Alex Cohen, who researches harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and microlocal analysis, who have been awarded 2025 Clay Research Fellowships. @ScienceMIT claymath.org/people/?people_…
Competitors in the annual #PutnamExam mathematics competition fill Walker Memorial. Good luck, everyone!
ALT Students at desks taking exam
Recognized with FOCS’ Test of Time 30-yr award are Peter Shor PhD ’85 for his quantum computation algorithms & discrete logarithms and factoring; and Michael Sipser and Dan Spielman PhD ’95 (now @Yale) for their expander codes. @ScienceMIT
Abdun-Nur Prof of Math George Lusztig received a gold medal from the West University of Timișoara in Romania. George was born and raised in Timișoara. Felicitări, George! @ScienceMIT
Asst Prof Dor Minzer and grad student Kai Zhe Zheng will receive a Best Paper Award at the June 24-28 #STOC2024. @ScienceMIT acm-stoc.org/stoc2024/
Pi to the rescue for MIT Regular Action Decision Day (available online at Tau-inspired 6:28 PM ET.) youtu.be/k4eUKx9Os1c?feature… via @YouTube
Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: grinfeld.org/strang/
All are welcome to attend The Yulia’s Dream Virtual Conference May 14-15 via Zoom mit.zoom.us/j/94423871903?pw…
Passcode: 562389
Conference program: math.mit.edu/research/highsc…
Celebrating International Women in Mathematics with talks and cake. @ScienceMIT
Bjorn Poonen, Gurumurthy Kalyanaram PhD ’89, Dept. Head Michel Goemans, Michael Sipser, and Indiaspora founder MR Rangaswami read from Ramanujan’s Notebooks following dedication of Dept’s Srinivasa Ramanujan bronze bust on 2nd floor of Simons Building. @ScienceMIT
Happy #SmootDay! October 4, 1958, marks the day Oliver Smoot ’62 was used to measure the length of the Massachusetts Avenue bridge. Image: Jenny Baek
5 on the #IMO2022 Ukraine team participated in our #YuliasDream program. The team won a gold, a silver, and 3 bronze medals, and finished 17th. Yulia's Dream student Ihor Pylaiev achieved the perfect score of 42/42.
@UMich Prof Bhargav Bhatt gives first of 3 lectures on p-adic Hodge Theory and Applications, for our annual Simons Lecture Series April 27-29, 2022. @ScienceMIT math.mit.edu/news/seminars/s…
ALT Prof Bhargav Bhatt gives lecture before an audience.
In response to #RussianUkraineWar, our new #MITPRIMES program #YuliasDream honors mathlete war victim Yulia Zdanovskaya by offering free math enrichment and research program to talented students grades 9-11 from Ukraine. @ScienceMIT @MIT math.mit.edu/research/highsc…
