NC State Department of Mathematics

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ Math Department Colloquium 📅 March 23 📍 SAS 4201 ⏰ 4:15–5:15 PM ☕ Tea beforehand in SAS 4104 (3:30–4:30 PM) Speaker: Andrew Sageman-Furnas (NC State) Title: Discovering Isometric Tori With The Same Curvatures

Andrea Hayes Pennix and Susan Uy were nominated for the inaugural NC State Staff Senate Cornerstone Award! 🎉 This honor recognizes outstanding service, dedication, and collaboration that strengthen the NC State community. ❤️🐺

We loved hosting 11 MA/AMA grad students for Recruitment Weekend! 🎉 They explored our Math programs, heard research talks, connected with current grad students, and learned about internships, fellowships, and campus life. Excited about the future! 📚✨

Now that snow is (hopefully) behind us and spring is ahead 🌸❄️ Every snowflake is full of math—hexagonal symmetry, fractals, self-similarity, branching, angles, probability, and growth patterns. Turns out winter was doing calculus all along ➕❄️✨

We recently hosted a Math Circle event to celebrate Fibonacci Day, and it was a tremendous success. We had an outstanding turnout from local families—about 100 students registered, and more than 300 people attended overall.

🎓🐺 Congratulations to all our Fall 2025 NC State Wolfpack Graduates! 🎉 Your hard work, grit, and Pack pride have paid off. We’re so proud of everything you’ve accomplished—and this is just the beginning! ❤️🖤 #Wolfpack #NCState #GoPack #Fall2025

🎓 Graduate Spotlight: Junheng Zhou 📐 Applied Math major who finished in just 3.5 years 🏀 Loved being part of the Chinese Basketball Association 🍵 Favorite study spot: Moge Tea 💼 Next step: Investment Banking ✈️ Bucket list: Travel! Congrats, Junheng! 🔥🌍

Graduate Spotlight: Sydney Hughes! Double major in Math & Mechanical Engineering, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Fav memory: Welcome Week Inside joke: Slipping on the bricks when it rains Advice: “18 credits is never a good idea.” Plans: Applying to PhD programs

Our Math Team had a fantastic time participating in the first Wolfpack STEM Tailgate outside Carter-Finley Stadium during FanFest before the football game! 🏈🔬 Throughout the event, the team showcased the exciting academic programs our department offers.

Andrew Sageman-Furnas studies the geometry of nets and he was involved in the research in figuring out the shape changes and implications of how to dance on the nets (imagine trying to stand, let alone *dance*, on a hammock!?).

Our first Colloquium for the year will be given by Dr. Emiel DenHartog (NCSU) on Monday, September 15, from 4:15–5:15 pm, in SAS 4201.

This summer, two of our faculty members,Yairon Cid-Ruiz and Jacob Matherne  took part in Collaborate@ICERM, a highly selective program hosted by the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) at Brown University.

Our department had a large group of current and former NC State students and faculty meet up to attend the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual meeting in Edmonton, CA.

The academic community is mourning the loss of Dr. Nicholas Rose, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Mathematics, who passed away at the age of 101. Dr. Rose led the department from 1968 to 1977.

Congratulations to Yairon Cid Ruiz, Zane Li, Tye Lidman, Nathan Reading, Teemu Saksala, and Seth Sullivant for receiving the Simons Foundation’s 2025 Travel Support for Mathematicians Award! This award provides each a 5 year travel grant.

This summer, Gabriela Ramon, Geena Sarnoski, and Vasishta Tumuluri are tackling a research project titled: Multifidelity Sensor Placement in Bayesian Inverse Problems. Their work focuses on designing a smart, efficient algorithm to determine the best places to install sensors.

DRUMS REU Spotlight: Our team is diving deep into the challenge of estimating global sea surface temperatures using only limited observational data. They are testing linear vs. nonlinear methods to see which offers the best reconstructions

Stepan Paul is one of seven artists whose work is being featured in a new show being held at Composite on Fifth, the Gallery of MoMath on Thursday, June 19, at 6:30 pm. This exhibition brings together the artists whose work is rooted in the visual language of curved spaces.

Meet one of our DRUMS REU Teams! This Summer, we're diving into Spatiotemporal Double Machine Learning. We are developing a new method of causal inference and applying it to data from the deforestation rates in Cambodia.

Congratulations to Harshit Bhatt for being elected as the Vice President of Academic Affairs in the NC State Graduate Student Association for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year. He is very grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the graduate student community!