MIT Department of Mathematics

03/18/2026

🤖 The first installation of Not Just Math, a new lecture series launched by our very own Gigliola Staffilani, featured a panel discussing AI in mathematics. The panelists included two MIT Math faculty members, Shafi Goldwasser and Ankur Moitra, as well as Javier Gomez-Serrano (Brown University).

03/16/2026

🌟 Week 1 of 2 of our annual Simons Lecture Series - Geometry in High Dimensions: Convexity and Lattices by Bo’az Klartag (Weizmann Institute of Science).

03/14/2026

🗓️🧩 On 3.13 we ‘8 sum pi’ ahead of the big day. Swipe for a slice of how we do Pi Day at MIT Math! 🍰

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09/09/2025

Faith Baca ’25 finds her passion in linguistics and AI

07/15/2025

Summertime board outside 2-361.

06/27/2025

“The third annual conference of Yulia’s Dream program was a wonderful success,” says MIT PRIMES’ director Slava Gerovitch PhD ’99. https://math.mit.edu/community/2025/06/27/primes-hosts-third-annual-yulias-dream-conference/

06/24/2025

Rising senior Julia Schneider, who is double-majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making and mathematics, joined the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s (SCC) Undergraduate Advisory Group (UAG) as a first-year student to learn more about the college’s mission of fostering interdepartmental collaborations.

“Since I am a student in electrical engineering and computer science, but I conduct research in mechanical engineering on robotics, the college’s mission of fostering interdepartmental collaborations and uniting them through computing really spoke to my personal experiences in my first year at MIT,” Schneider says.

Representing a broad swath of both traditional and blended majors in electrical engineering and computer science and other computing-related programs at MIT, the Undergraduate Advisory Group provides vital input to help advance the mission of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

06/05/2025

A little quieter around campus this week.

06/05/2025

The Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to four students with MIT Math ties:

Matthew Caren ’25 studied math, electrical engineering and computer science, and music at MIT. He researches computational models of how people use their voices to communicate sound at CSAIL, and interpretable real-time machine listening systems at the MIT Music Technology Lab.

Arav Karighattam is a 2024 Harvard alum who is coming to MIT to pursue a doctorate in mathematics. Karighattam is fascinated by algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry and seeks to understand the mysteries underlying the structure of solutions to Diophantine equations.

Benjamin Lou ’25 received his MIT SB in mathematics and physics, and will pursue his doctorate at MIT to to work on unifying quantum mechanics and gravity, with an eye toward uncovering experimentally testable predictions. One of his research projects applies symplectic techniques to understand the nature of precision measurements using quantum states of light.

Albert Qin ‘24 majored in mathematics and physics at MIT, and is also interested in biology, researching single-molecule approaches to study transcription factor diffusion in living cells and studying the cell circuits that control animal development. Qin is currently pursuing a PhD at Princeton University, addressing questions about the behavior of neural networks.

They are among eight total recipients at MIT, and a total of 19 selected from across the United States. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to a total of $250,000).

Read more at MIT News. https://news.mit.edu/2025/hertz-foundation-fellowships-0602