Sarah Tammen wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

Sarah Tammen wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

Graduating Senior Sarah Tammen has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.  She will use this award to support her graduate studies at MIT.  Sarah was winner of the the department's 2015 Charles M. Strahan Award for best junior  math major.  In the summer of 2014 Sarah participated in an REU at Williams College and in the summer of 2015 she was a a teaching assistant at the Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington.

Danny Krashen Wins PECASE

Danny Krashen Wins PECASE

President Obama Honors Extraordinary Early-Career Scientists

President Obama today named 105** researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The winners will receive their awards at a Washington, DC ceremony this spring.

1st Annual Cantrell Lecture Series

 

Professor Persi Diaconis, Harvard University

Dr. Diaconis's first lecture, for a general audience, is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, under its Humanities Science Interface Initiative. In this talk, Dr. Diaconis will discuss how coincidences can astound us, affecting where we live and what we do. In addition to reviewing relevant work of Freud and Jung, he will show how, sometimes, a bit of quantitative thinking can show that coincidences are not so surprising after all.