Mathematics

MIT Professor Bonnie Berger is being honored for her contributions to the field of computational biology.

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.

February 26, 2019

MIT Assistant Professor Yufei Zhao (far right) gave undergraduates (l-r) Mehtaab Sawhney, David Stoner, and Ashwin Sah a particularly vexing combinatorics problem. Their theorem on the number of independent sets in a graph is on the board behind them.

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.

February 25, 2019

Left to right: Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao are MIT’s 2019 Sloan Research Fellows.

Four from MIT named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows

Nikhil Agarwal, Daniel Harlow, Andrew Lawrie, and Yufei Zhao receive early-career fellowships.

February 21, 2019

Professor Zhiwei Yun has struck up fruitful collaborations with others in the math department, all of whom share a common quality: “We are all driven by curiosity, and the beauty of the subject itself,” he says.

Mathematician finds balance and beauty in math

Zhiwei Yun seeks to connect seemingly disparate fields in mathematics.

February 13, 2019

Members of the Health Analytics Collective: (left to right) Mohamad Zahreddine, Michelle Gayari, Duane Robinson, Uma Sharma, Vijay Ivaturi, Kelly Hill, Joga Gobburu, Alan Edelman, and Prasad Koppolu, gather at MMS Holdings in Canton, Michigan.

Julia Lab joins team to speed up drug approval process

Health Analytics Collective uses real-world evidence to modernize health and drug development decisions.

January 25, 2019

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.

January 9, 2019

Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language, (l-r) Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah, and Jeff Bezanson, will receive the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. MIT Julia Lab Leader and Professor Alan Edelman is pictured at right.

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.

December 26, 2018

Clockwise from top left: Crystal Winston, Katie O’Nell, Kyle Swanson, Anna Sappington, and Radha Mastandrea

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.

December 2, 2018

MIT students participating in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program include: (clockwise from top left) Haripriya Mehta, Rohil Verma, Christabel Jemutai Sitienei, Andy Wei, Gabriel Margolis, and Mattie Wasiak.

The many interfaces of computing

A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.

November 11, 2018

Youssef Marzouk (left) and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou assume new roles at the Center for Computational Engineering at “an exciting time for computation at MIT,” says School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan.

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.

October 31, 2018

The 2018 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellows will receive financial support and valuable experience working in DOE laboratories. They are: (l-r) Billy Moses, Kaley Brauer, Paul Zhang, and Sarah Greer.

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.

October 19, 2018

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.

October 19, 2018

MIT researchers have developed a cryptographic system that could help neural networks identify promising drug candidates in massive pharmacological datasets while keeping the data private, which could enable broader pooling of sensitive pharmacological data for predictive drug discovery.

Cryptographic protocol enables greater collaboration in drug discovery

Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data.

October 18, 2018

Four from MIT have been honored by the American Physical Society for their outstanding contributions to the field. Clockwise from top left: Lisa Barsotti, Martin Bazant, Richard Lanza, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero.

Four from MIT named American Physical Society Fellows for 2018

Lisa Barsotti, Martin Bazant, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Richard Lanza receive prestigious honor recognizing them for their research and leadership.

October 17, 2018

Angelika Amon wins 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Four other MIT researchers to receive New Horizons Prizes in math and physics; two alumni win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.