…no-regret online learning and develop the relevant notions of complexity in a surprising parallel to Statistical Learning Theory. We characterize online learnability through finiteness of the sequential versions of combinatorial…

MIT’s Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences Sara Seager has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors. Announced by the…

…(teresa@space.mit.edu) Jean Papagianopoulos — Purchasing Agent (jpap@mit.edu) Placing orders Tax Exemption Deliveries Fabricated Equipment Credit Cards Purchase Reimbursements Travel Booking and Reimbursements Placing orders Electronic orders are placed through the…

…Jean Papagianopoulos before placing an order. MIT has established specific thresholds for different categories of equipment purchase that can have significant implications for the amount of overhead charged to a…

…— might create a more dynamic song . Colliding black holes don’t actually create sound waves, but they do create gravitational waves — distortions to space-time, the fabric of reality…

…memoir, Hale Bradt (1974–2012) Prof. Bruno Rossi, autobiographical moments (2008) Prof. Stanislaw Olbert, pre-MIT biography, Norma Olbert (2014) Selected CSR/MKI Milestones June 1963 Founding of the Center for Space Research…

…designing science-centric visuals. The handbook is available to read online, or to download and share as a PDF. “We think lots of people can benefit from this handbook, but we…

…black holes/neutron stars accreting at super-Eddington rates, massive stellar-mass black holes accreting around Eddington and even intermediate-mass black holes accreting at sub-Eddington rates. In order to differentiate between these potential…

…rate of gravitational-wave detections, grows as the cube of these distances. Q: What do you hope to “hear” and detect, now that LIGO is back online? A: We definitely expect…

…in galaxies and the mass and extent of their parent halos dominated by dark matter. Existence of such correlations indicates that powerful processes operate to bring order out of chaos….