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08/25/2025

How Caltech Analysts Power the Dodgers Dynasty

Andrew Moseman

Alums Grace Peng and Ryan Casey leverage their computer science backgrounds to help the storied franchise make winning decisions.

Grace Peng and Ryan Casey stand on the field at Dodger Stadium

07/22/2025

Tom Hutchcroft Honored by London Mathematical Society

Whitney Clavin

Tom Hutchcroft, the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Mathematics at Caltech, has received the 2025 Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society.

05/27/2025

Undergraduate Michael Manta Named Knight-Hennessy Scholar

Julia Ehlert Nair

Michael Manta, a fourth-year undergraduate in mathematics, has been awarded the prestigious Knight-Hennessy scholarship for graduate studies at Stanford University.

02/13/2025

AI Program Plays the Long Game to Solve Decades-Old Math Problems

Whitney Clavin

A Caltech-led team has developed a new machine-learning algorithm to solve two families of problems related to a decades-old math problem.

A collage of a chessboard against the sky with clouds

11/15/2024

For the Love of Partial Differential Equations: A Conversation with Franca Hoffmann

Cynthia Eller

Mathematician Franca Hoffmann brings to Caltech her expertise in applied mathematics and data analysis, along with a passion for teaching and interdisciplinary investigations.