Did you know the mathematics department has a summer REG, REU, and REU+ program?

National Public Radio on the "Recruiting War" for Mathematicians

December 2010 Alumni Newsletter

Drexel Professor of Mathematics Tim Kelley has been named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics effective January 1, 2012.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Tao Pang and two coauthors have won a 2011 Best Paper Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory. Their paper, "Optimal Stopping Problem for Stochastic Differential Equations with Random Coefficients," was judged one of the two best published in the last two years in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Mette Olufsen is collaborating with researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and six universities on a five-year, $13 million NIH-funded project to produce a "virtual rat." The computational models will help decipher the underlying causes of diseases, including hypertension, renal disease, heart failure, and metabolic syndromes. Professor Olufsen is the only mathematician on the project, which will include an NC State graduate student and postdoc.

Math Department Wins Second National Award

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has named NC State's Mathematics Department one of two winners of its 2011 "Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference" award. The award recognizes NC State's "extraordinary record in serving students who have traditionally been underrepresented in mathematics, especially African-Americans." The AMS notes that in the last ten years for which data are available, NC State awarded over 12% of the Ph.D.'s granted to African-Americans by the nation's leading mathematics departments, while accounting for just 2% of Ph.D.'s from these departments overall. Last year NC State's Mathematics Department won the AMS's other departmental award, the AMS Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department. Almost 1400 US mathematics departments are eligible for these two awards.

The Mathematics and Statistics Departments moved into state-of-the-art SAS Hall in May 2009. An article in the PAMS magazine SCOPE tells how the new building is changing life in the two departments.The story behind SAS hall is here. More SAS Hall photos here.

Awards Day

Awards Day was held April 27. Photos of recipients are available.

Mathematics Graduation Ceremony

The Fall 2011 Mathematics Graduation Ceremony was held on Friday, December 16th at 3:00 in 2203 SAS Hall. Filming of the ceremony and photos are posted here.

Special Events

American Mathematics Competitions
Wednesday February 22, 2012 3:15 PM
SAS 11022

Kwangil Koh Lecture on Mathematics in Our Time
Monday April 16, 2012 4:30 PM
SAS 2203
Donald Saari, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine

Categorification of Quantum Groups and Representation Theory
Saturday April 21, 2012 8:00 AM to Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM
1102 SAS Hall, NCSU

Today's Events (02-09-2012)

Nothing Scheduled