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This summer school is intended for junior graduate students (first three years of a PhD program) or senior undergraduate students (last two years of an undergraduate program) at the time of application. Funding for travel and lodging is available for accepted applicants who are not local to Chicago. Specifics including travel guidelines and maximum reimbursement limits will be communicated at the time of acceptance.

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RPI Professor Fengyan Li Leads New Model for Integrating Underrepresented Minorities into Computational Research

During the summer, Fengyan Li, a professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, with three other organizers piloted a new model for engaging and integrating underrepresented researchers in Computational Mathematics at a two-week workshop held at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics Research (ICERM), Brown University, Providence, RI.  

DiPrima Lecture Characterizes Skill in Real and Fantasy Sports Competitions

Anette (Peko) Hosoi visited the mathematical sciences department on September 9 to present the 2024 Richard C. DiPrima lecture, which honors and remembers a former faculty member who through his research, teaching, and service as department chair, was instrumental in the transformation of our department in the 1950s-1980s to a prominent center for the application of mathematics to science and engineering concerns.  Dr.

Rensselaer Math Students Shine in International Modeling Contest
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) team of Calvin Ang ’24,  Haoran Bao ’25, and Caleb Smith ’25 received a Finalist designation for their paper the Mathematical and Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling! This means that their paper was judged among the top 99 out of 2,557 teams competing on their problem. 
Rensselaer Researchers to Address Big Data Challenges
Dr. Yangyang Xu, assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has received a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to research challenges associated with distributed big data in machine learning.
Rensselaer Researchers Receive $350k Grant To Explore Cellular Mechanisms Linked to Cancer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Scott Forth, assistant professor of biological sciences, and Peter Kramer, professor of mathematical sciences, have received a $359,572 grant  from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a better understanding of a cellular process that, when errors occur, is linked to cancer.
More Than 2,000 Degrees To Be Awarded at 216th Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Commencement Ceremony
This spring, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first technological research university in the United States, will award a total of 2,063 degrees — 119 doctoral degrees, 425 master’s degrees, and 1,519 bachelor’s degrees — to 2,033 students, some of whom have earned multiple degrees. These accomplishments will be celebrated during the 216th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 21, beginning at 8:15 a.m. in the East Campus Athletic Village stadium on the Rensselaer campus.
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