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Dec 10, 2025

Applied Math Alum Sreeram Venkat Wins the 2025 Gordon Bell Prize

Sreeram Venkat, BS in Applied Mathematics ’21, is a member of the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize-winning team recognized for developing a groundbreaking simulation for tsunami prediction.  ACM named an eight-member team drawn from US institutions as the winner of the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project,  “Real-time Bayesian inference at extreme scale: A digital…

Nov 24, 2025

Laura Colmenarejo Helps Steer Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics

The Triangle Lectures in Combinatorics (TLC) conference took place on November 1st at Duke University with more than 70 participants from the Southeast. The list of outstanding speakers included Jacob Fox (Stanford University), Igor Pak (UCLA), Shubhangi Saraf (University of Toronto), Richard Stanley (MIT, emeritus). The talk by Shubhangi Saraf on ”The complexity of factors…

Nov 11, 2025

Join Us to Celebrate Fibonacci Day

On Sunday, November 23 (11/23 Fibonacci Day), from 1:30–4:00 PM in SAS Hall, the math department will host a Fibonacci Day Celebration to mark this special mathematical occasion and spark interest in reviving the NC State Math Circle in the spring semester. The event will feature two interactive talks: one designed for elementary students and…

Nov 3, 2025

Andrew Sageman-Furnas and co-authors publish in prestigious journal

The article “Compact Bonnet Pairs: Isometric Tori with the Same Curvatures” by Assistant Professor Andrew Sageman-Furnas and his co-authors, Alexander I. Bobenko (TU Berlin) and Tim Hoffmann (TU Munich), appeared in Publications Mathématiques de l’IHÉS in October, 2025. This journal publishes on average eight articles per year, and is considered one of the most prestigious…

Oct 27, 2025

Andrea Hayes Pennix graduates from the College Business Management Institute

Department Business Officer Andrea Hayes Pennix finished her final year of the College Business Management Institute (CBMI) at the University of Kentucky over the summer. She completed this 3 year program over several summers at the institute, leading her to gain a broader perspective of higher education business administration. Andrea graduated from CBMI and earned…
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Oct 17, 2025

Peter McGrath and coauthors’ article selected as topic of Séminaire Bourbaki meeting

The article “Embedded Minimal Surfaces in S^3 and B^3 and Equivariant Eigenvalue Optimization”, written by Assistant Professor Peter McGrath and coauthors Mikhail Karpukhin (Associate Professor, University College London), Robert Kusner (Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Daniel Stern (Assistant Professor, Cornell) has been selected by the Séminaire Bourbaki to be the topic of their Nov 29,…
An image of a dance performance at Interweave Fest, photo taken by Julie Lemberger

Oct 10, 2025

Andrew Sageman-Furnas works with NC State LIVE on InterweaveFest

Assistant Professor Andrew Sageman-Furnas was part of a team organizing InterweaveFest during the week of October 6th-11th. This week-long series of events at the intersection of the arts, sciences, design, math, and engineering culminated in a dance performance in Stewart Theatre hosted by NC State LIVE. The aerial dance performance choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, NOLI…
An image of Louisa Ebby, biomath PhD student, receiving the College of Sciences Student Leadership Award

Sep 30, 2025

Louisa Ebby receives the College of Sciences Student Leadership Award

Biomathematics Ph.D. student Louisa Ebby has been awarded the College of Sciences Student Leadership Award in recognition of her outstanding service and contributions to the NC State community. Louisa has demonstrated exceptional leadership through a wide range of activities. She currently serves as treasurer of the Association for Women in Mathematics and organized the Spring…

Sep 8, 2025

Stepan Paul Visits National Museum of Mathematics Exhibit Featuring His Work

Dr. Stepan Paul recently visited the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) in New York City with his family, where several of his mathematical art pieces are currently on display. His work is featured in the museum’s latest exhibit, Warped Realities: The Art of Differential Geometry. Among the highlights is an interactive sculpture designed by Dr.…

Aug 28, 2025

Tye Lidman Gathered in Montreal for Cameron Gordon’s 80th Birthday Conference

Mathematicians from around the world gathered at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) to celebrate the 80th birthday of renowned mathematician Cameron Gordon, whose pioneering work has shaped the field of low-dimensional topology for decades. Tye Lidman, traveled to the conference with former NC State postdoctoral researcher Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo.  Cameron Gordon was Tye’s postdoc…