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Oct 25, 2020

Outstanding Young Alumna Award to Ellison Anne Williams

The College of Sciences has honored Ellison Anne Williams, 2004 NCSU Mathematics Ph.D., as an Outstanding Young Alumna. Williams spoke at the Department of Mathematics graduation ceremony in May 2019.

Oct 16, 2020

Kavanagh Appointed to Endowed Chair

NCSU alumna Kathleen Kavanagh has just been named the Robert A. Plane Professor of Mathematics at Clarkson University.

Sep 1, 2020

Meet the New 2020-21 Math Department Faculty

The Math Department welcomes 7 new faculty members from all over the world in 2020-21.
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Aug 30, 2020

Meet the New 2020-21 Sciences Faculty

Fifteen innovative leaders in their fields are joining our college this year.

Aug 10, 2020

Wolfe wins Goldwater Scholarship

Math and Physics major Noah Wolfe has won a prestigious Goldwater scholarship. The junior, who is also a Park Scholar, is president of the NCSU Astronomy Club.

Jul 28, 2020

Invitation to apply – BSME Fall 2020 Online Program

Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education (BSME) is a study abroad program in mathematics education. BSME participants explore the Hungarian pedagogy, in which a strong and explicit emphasis is placed on problem solving, mathematical creativity, and communication. Here’s a flyer that describes the pedagogy a bit more.   BSME will run an online program for the…

Jul 16, 2020

Farazmand Paper wins ASME Award

Assistant Professor Mohammad Farazmand has won the 2019 Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, for his paper, “Extreme events: mechanisms and prediction.” The award is for the best paper published in Applied Mechanics Reviews in the preceding two years.

Jul 16, 2020

Teaching the Teachers

As part of his CAREER award, Associate Professor Arvind Saibaba assisted by graduate student Rachel Minster and postdoc Eric Hallman, led a virtual workshop with high school math teachers, helping them develop teaching modules that will open their students to state-of-the-art mathematical concepts. They are designing hands-on and reproducible teaching modules that draw from research…

Jul 16, 2020

Virtual Workshop: Mathematical Models for Prediction and Control of Epidemics August 12-14, 2020

 “Mathematical Models in Understanding COVID-19” Virtual Workshop: Mathematical Models for Prediction and Control of EpidemicsAugust 12-14, 2020 Organizers: Christian Borgs (University of California, Berkeley), Abba Gumel (Arizona State University), Maya Petersen (University of California, Berkeley), Amin Saberi (Stanford University), Katherine Yelick (University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) This virtual workshop will bring together researchers from epidemiology, global health, and mathematics to discuss challenges in developing predictive…

Jul 16, 2020

Virtual Global Internship Opportunities

The Office of Global Engagement is working to expand international internship opportunities for students. In our current situation, a great option is a virtual global internship. These programs allow students to work from home with a company in another country while travel is not possible. Students complete the internship while continuing their NC State semester…