Department of Mathematics

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Jun 11, 2025

Deidre Hartley Honored with NC State University’s Prestigious Award for Exellence

We are proud to announce that Deidre Hartley has been selected as one of twelve recipients of the 2025 University Awards for Excellence, the institution’s highest honor for non-faculty employees. This award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional contributions beyond their regular job responsibilities. Chancellor Kevin Howell presented the award to Deidre, with Associate Dean…

$Emi Boldor, a spring 2025 NC State graduate, poses in cap and gown in the leadup to commencement.$

Apr 28, 2025

Sending Off Our 2025 Graduates

Meet five graduates from NC State’s class of 2025 and learn about the journeys they took to get here.

Apr 24, 2025

Deidre Hartley wins the College of Sciences Awards for Excellence

Deidre Hartley was nominated for this year’s College of Sciences Awards for Excellence in the “Public Service” category for SHRA employees. This is the highest honor awarded to non-faculty employees at NC State, recognizing exceptional contributions and service. Each year, the College selects one SHRA and one EHRA nominee to represent us in the University-wide…

Apr 21, 2025

Kailash Misra has been named an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor

Kailash Misra has been named an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor. This prestigious honor celebrates exceptional graduate-level teaching at NC State, and Kailash will hold this title for the duration of his faculty appointment. Please join the Department of Mathematics in congratulating Kailash on this well-deserved recognition and celebrating his outstanding contributions to graduate education and the…

Apr 7, 2025

NC State Putnam Team Shines in 2024 Putnam Competition, Ranking in the Top 82nd Percentile

The NC State Putnam team placed in the 82nd percentile out of 477 institutions in the 2024 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the top undergraduate math contest in the U.S. and Canada. Top scorers Blan Morrison, Mason McElroy, Coleman Hines, and Everett Tucker will receive prizes and certificates for their outstanding performance. The department also congratulates the winners of the Monthly…

Apr 3, 2025

James Garrison won second place in the Mathematics category at the Graduate Student Research Symposium

Congratulations to James Garrison on winning second place in the Mathematics category at the Graduate Student Research Symposium. The title of his poster presentation was Randomized Preconditioned Cholesky QR in Mixed Precision. The research behind the presentation involved analyzing rpCholesky-QR, a randomized preconditioned Cholesky-QR algorithm for computing the thin QR factorization of full rank, real…

Mar 31, 2025

Several faculty were nominated for awards at the College of Sciences Celebration of Excellence in Teaching and Advising

Congratulations to the following Mathematics Department faculty who were nominated at the department and college level at our College of Sciences Celebration of Excellence in Teaching and Advising ceremony. Radmila Sazdanovic and Elisabeth Brown were department nominees for the Outstanding Teaching Award Kailash Misra was a college nominee for the Alumni Distinguished Graduate Award Luke…

Mar 26, 2025

Andrew Sageman-Furnas, Assistant Professor is a collaborator for the NC State LIVE in October

Andrew Sageman-Furnas is helping plan the week for NC State LIVE in October along with artists and other faculty on campus to re-imagine it to be a “mini-symposium” with programming connections for textiles / math / engineering / art / sustainability / dance and more! Watch this video about their interdisciplinary research process.

Mar 24, 2025

A group of faculty and graduate students participated in the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

A group of faculty and graduate students participated in the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25). They contributed by organizing mini-symposiums and presenting their research on a variety of topics, including randomized numerical linear algebra, uncertainty quantification, optimal experimental design, extreme events in science and engineering, image processing and numerical modeling in computational…

Mar 17, 2025

Khai Nguyen, Associate Professor, has had his paper selected as one of the Mathematical Control and Related Fields Editor’s Choice articles for 2024

Khai Nguyen, Associate Professor, has had his paper, “Generic Properties of Conjugate Points in Optimal Control,” selected as one of the Mathematical Control and Related Fields Editor’s Choice articles for 2024 in the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. These noteworthy and impactful articles are curated by MCRF editors to highlight high-quality research and topics of significant interest to readers.…