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Sharper Images: How the Brain Filters Out the Noise
March 4, 2025

Researchers uncover the role of lateral inhibition in enhancing contrast and filtering distractions, with implications for neuroscience and AI.


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What’s the shape of the universe? Mathematicians use topology to study the shape of the world and everything in it
February 25, 2025

John Etnyre's article which appears in The Conversation, an independent nonprofit news source.


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Charting a Path at NeurIPS 2024
December 3, 2024

This year, Georgia Tech is represented by 84 teams that have contributed new discoveries to AI technologies and applications.


QuantNet ranks the Georgia Tech M.S. QCF program No. 8 in the nation.
Georgia Tech M.S. in Quantitative and Computational Finance Ranked Top 10 in the U.S.
December 3, 2024

An interdisciplinary initiative between the Scheller College of Business, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the School of Mathematics, M.S. QCF has been ranked No. 8 in the U.S. among the 2025 QuantNet Best Financial Engineering Programs.


Molei Tao holding his College of Sciences Faculty Development Award during the 2022 Spring Sciences Celebration.
Mathematician Molei Tao Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
October 30, 2024

School of Mathematics Associate Professor Molei Tao has been honored for his work on the foundations of machine learning, particularly diffusion generative models.


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Upcoming Events

Apr
03
2025
Atlanta Combinatorics Colloquium hosts John Urschel

The Atlanta Combinatorics Colloquium is a seminar in discrete mathematics jointly hosted by the combinatorics groups at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and Emory University.
Apr
04
2025
Pi of the Party: Speed Networking Event

Come participate in the first-ever SoM Speed Networking Event!
Apr
10
2025
SCMB Final Annual Symposium

The Final SCMB Symposium is being held on April 10th – 11th, 2025 on Georgia Tech campus.
Apr
10
2025
Math Mini-Conference

Graduate students will present cool math topics designed specifically for Undergraduate Math Majors and Minors.
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