Report summary

For Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mathematics in 2015-2017, the graph shows 76 visible PIs and 7 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Mathematics as the leading field (58% of slots across 65 PIs; 65 labels), Geometry and Topology as the leading subfield (21% of slots across 40 PIs; 40 labels), and Algebraic structures and combinatorial models as the leading topic (10% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels). That looks relatively sparse, so claims about department-wide cohesion should be made carefully. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Martin Z. Bazant (13.5 weighted works; Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials). The clearest collaboration lines are P.‐T. Brun and John W. M. Bush (2 shared works, weight 1.6). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 3 internal connections, weight 2.1, around Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, led by Vadim Gorin, Alice Guionnet, Chenjie Fan.