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Alumnus John E. Evans’06 returned to RPI as a Strauch Family Endowed Faculty Fellow in the Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University Colorado Boulder and chair-elect of that department. His visit from October 14 to 16 was primarily sponsored by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE), where he had conducted multiple research projects as a student, and was co-hosted by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, where he earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees.
Prof. Dr. Frank Sottile from Texas A&M University visited the Department of Mathematical Sciences on September 29 to deliver the 2025 Richard C. DiPrima Lecture, “Galois Groups in Enumerative Geometry.” The DiPrima Lecture 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. Stemming from a family of Sicilian immigrants, Dr.
Professor Yuri V. Lvov, Ph.D., and a team of oceanographers develop a first-of-its-kind model of internal wave dynamics that lays the foundation for new, more reliable models of ocean circulation.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Fengyan Li, Ph.D., professor of mathematical sciences, has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). AWM Fellows demonstrate a sustained commitment “to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.”
As Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute celebrates its Bicentennial, we reflect on the many great minds, pioneers, entrepreneurs, and game-changers who are Rensselaer alumni. In 1995, the Rensselaer Alumni Association, with the full endorsement of the Institute Board of Trustees, created the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame to preserve and celebrate the exceptional heritage of alumni accomplishments throughout the years. Honorees are chosen by a selection committee based on reputation, professional achievements, service and career contributions, and uniqueness.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
