The Mathematics Department is in the new state of the art SAS Hall. Graduate students have offices in SAS Hall and in an adjoining building.
Mathematics graduate students have access to computers in their offices and in labs on the second floor of SAS Hall. Wireless is available for student laptops. 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.
