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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_…
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
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
