Facilities

The Mathematics Department occupies most of circular Harrelson Hall, a campus landmark. Many graduate student offices are in comfortable old Withers Hall nearby, which also houses the Computer Science Department.

Mathematics graduate students use an excellent workstation laboratory in Harrelson, as well as one in Withers that is exclusively for their use. Students and faculty in the Mathematics Department have access to the high-performance computing and visualization equipment at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC), which is located in Research Triangle Park. NCSC currently operates a Cray T916 and a 32-node Cray T3D, and has a well-equipped visualization laboratory.

The research interests of the Mathematics Department faculty are diverse. A list of research areas in the department, together with the interests of faculty in each area, can be found on the page Research Areas. The page Faculty Profiles lists all faculty alphabetically, together with their research interests. Many faculty have wide-ranging interests and are listed under several areas.

Faculty have joint appoints and other formal connections to Operations Research, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Biomathematics, Computer Science, and Physics.

There are many collaborations with colleagues at nearby UNC Chapel Hill and Duke, and with other NC State departments. For example, Professor Shearer works with colleagues in the Duke mathematics and physics departments on a major project to understand the flow of granular materials, and Professor Kelley works with a group in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at UNC on flow through porous media. There are joint projects involving the mathematical physics groups at NC State and UNC. There are also joint projects with the NC State departments of Genetics, Forestry, Materials Science and Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The faculty also carry on numerous collaborations with different groups in the US and overseas.

The Center for Research in Scientific Computation (CRSC), which is housed in the Mathematics Department and is directed by University Professor of Mathematics H.T. Banks, serves as the University's focal point for research in computational science, engineering, and mathematics. The Center's activities include the Industrial Applied Mathematics Program and the two-week Industrial Mathematics Modeling Workshop for Graduate Students, held in August. This annual workshop, which began at the Claremont Colleges in 1993 and moved to NC State in 1995, exposes 30 mathematics and statistics graduate students from around the country to challenging problems from industry and government laboratories. The students divide into five-person teams to work on the problems with guidance from the problem proposers and faculty from NC State and elsewhere.

For more information on the CRSC, see the CRSC Home Page.