The Sports Analytics Research Group employs quantitative analysis to give teams the hard numbers they need to perform better ...

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

OptiMind is a specialized language model that translates natural-language problem descriptions directly into solver-ready mathematical optimization formulations. This removes one of the most expertise ...

The Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) method and its various variants have recently been shown to perform well on general instruction tuning tasks. These methods focus on optimizing models directly ...

In addition to ascertaining that the internal vitality of the mathematical sciences is excellent, as illustrated in Chapter 2, the current study found a striking expansion in the impact of the ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Abstract: To optimize the converter efficiency, footprint and volume of magnetic devices simultaneously, this article proposes a mathematical modeling and multiobjective optimization method based on ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...