Automated method helps researchers quantify uncertainty in their predictions
An easy-to-use technique could assist everyone from economists to sports analysts.
An easy-to-use technique could assist everyone from economists to sports analysts.
MIT researchers propose “PEDS” method for developing models of complex physical systems in mechanics, optics, thermal transport, fluid dynamics, physical chemistry, climate, and more.
This new method draws on 200-year-old geometric foundations to give artists control over the appearance of animated characters.
In a study that could help fill some holes in quantum theory, the team recreated a “quantum bomb tester” in a classical droplet test.
Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Jörn Dunkel and Surya Ganguli ’98, MNG ’98 receive Science Polymath awards; Josh Tenenbaum is named AI2050 Senior Fellow.
Professor Wit Busza, Instructor Karol Bacik, postdocs Cari Cesarotti and Chao Li, and Pablo Gaston Debenedetti SM ’81, PhD ’85 honored for contributions to physics.
Senior Joshua Kuffour has set a goal of taking classes in as many departments as he can before he graduates. “It's taught me about valuing different ways of thinking,” he says.
High schooler Dustin Liang estimated his blood cell counts by applying knowledge from an MITx course and talking to doctors.
Twelfth grader Jessica Wan three-peats, as MIT hosts the 15th competition for female middle and high school math enthusiasts.
The program supports “outstanding theoretical scientists.”
Co-directors Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou describe how the standalone degree aims to train students in cross-cutting aspects of computational science and engineering.
Sixteen professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.
In a visit to MIT, the educator and author led a lively and inspiring Q&A with students.
Ranking at the top for the 12th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas.