Louis Howard, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 86
Influential mathematician and professor made fundamental contributions to subjects including hydrodynamic stability and geophysical flows.
High school students find their MathROOTS at MIT
Program aims to inspire female and underrepresented minority students to pursue STEM fields.
Modeling how thin films break up
Recent PhD recipient Rachel Zucker models phenomena collectively known as "dewetting" in microscale to nanoscale thin films.
School of Engineering awards for 2015
Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.
To handle big data, shrink it
Algorithm reduces size of data sets while preserving their mathematical properties.
Boiling down viscous flow
A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids.
Eight faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among 197 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
Adding up to a big win
MIT dominates at annual Putnam Mathematical Competition, taking five of six top individual spots.
Falling in love with numbers at MIT
Sheela Devadas '15, winner of the 2015 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, fell in love with the subject at MIT — while still in high school.
Five MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty specializing in mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and economics among 126 selected.
Wrinkle predictions
New mathematical theory may explain patterns in fingerprints, raisins, and microlenses.
Professor emeritus Richard Schafer, former deputy head of mathematics at MIT, dies at 96
MIT mathematician and emeritus professor Richard Schafer dies at 96
