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MIT Math is now on BlueSky! Follow us at bsky.app/profile/mitmath.bsk…
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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-…
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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_…
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Competitors in the annual #PutnamExam mathematics competition fill Walker Memorial. Good luck, everyone!
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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Scenes from our recent summer SPUR / RSI Lectures of summer.
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Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: grinfeld.org/strang/
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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…
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Celebrating International Women in Mathematics with talks and cake. @ScienceMIT
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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
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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
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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.
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