Donald Schwendeman Department Head
The fundamental mission of the Department of Mathematical Sciences is to build an active, diverse and welcoming environment designed to enrich existing areas of mathematical research and to develop new areas, as well as to educate students to become the future leaders in mathematics, science, engineering, business and society. Throughout the history of Rensselaer, research and education conducted in the math department have made a significant impact within the Institute and in the scientific community. This tradition has not changed, and today our community of researchers and educators continue to make new discoveries and important contributions at the cutting edge of mathematics and interdisciplinary research in numerous areas of science and engineering. Our students benefit from this activity and have moved forward to successful careers at top-tier universities and national laboratories, and in business and industry.
Research Focus
- Numerical methods for PDEs, Fluid-structure interaction problems, Gas dynamics and wave propagation, Multi-scale and multiphase reactive flow, Adaptive and parallel algorithms
Contact
- (518) 276-2647
- schwed@rpi.edu
Jeffrey Banks" />Jeffrey Banks
Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair
Research Focus:
Numerical methods for partial differential equations, Fluid-structure interaction, Computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanicsFull Profile
Kristin Bennett" />Kristin Bennett
Associate Director of the IDEA
Research Focus:
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Data Science, Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics, Combining operations research and artificial...Full Profile
Mohamed Boudjelkha" />Mohamed Boudjelkha
Lecturer
Research Focus:
Differential Equations from Applied point of view, Asymptotics, Special Functions and their Applications to various branches of Science...Full Profile
Joseph Ecker" />Joseph Ecker
Professor
Research Focus:
Math Education, Operations Research, Nonlinear ProgrammingFull Profile
William Henshaw" />William Henshaw
Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics
Research Focus:
Numerical methods for PDEs, adaptive and overlapping grids, incompressible and compressible flows, fluid-structure interactions, solid...Full Profile
Isom Herron" />Isom Herron
Professor
Research Focus:
The theory of the stability of fluid flows., Common applications are to phenomena in the atmosphere, the oceans, to problems of the...Full Profile
Mark H Holmes" />Mark H Holmes
Professor
Research Focus:
Development and analysis of mathematical models for physiological systems, including modeling the biological tissues found in joints (...Full Profile
David Isaacson" />David Isaacson
Professor
Research Focus:
Mathematics applied to medical problems., Medical imaging, Electrical Impedance Tomography. Monitoring heart and lung functions.,...Full Profile
Elizabeth Kam" />Elizabeth Kam
Lecturer
Research Focus:
Computational Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermoacoustics, Finite-Difference Lattice Boltzamann Method, Navier-Stokes...Full Profile
Ashwani Kapila" />Ashwani Kapila
Professor
Research Focus:
Applied Mathematics: Reactive and multiphase flow, nonlinear waves, perturbation methods, scientific computing, Education: Development...Full Profile
Maya Kiehl" />
Gregor Kovačič" />Gregor Kovačič
Professor
Research Focus:
Matematical neuroscience, wave dynamics, integrable systemsFull Profile
Peter Kramer" />Peter Kramer
Professor
Research Focus:
Stochastic modeling in microbiology, Stochastic dynamics on networks, Spatial ecologyFull Profile
Gina Kucinski" />
Rongjie Lai" />Rongjie Lai
Assistant Professor
Research Focus:
Computational differential geometry and applications, Image processing and applications, Geometric methods for manifold-structured dataFull Profile
Fengyan Li" />Fengyan Li
Professor
Research Focus:
Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Finite element methods, High order methods for MHD, Hamilton-Jacobi, Maxwell's in linear and nonlinear...Full Profile
Chjan Lim" />Chjan Lim
Professor
Research Focus:
Network Science, Computations on networks, Applied StochasticsFull Profile
Yuri V Lvov" />
Harry McLaughlin" />Harry McLaughlin
Professor
Research Focus:
McLaughlin has research interest in the general areas of Applied Geometry as it applies to design and manufacturing problems.Full Profile
John E. Mitchell" />John E. Mitchell
Graduate Program Director
Research Focus:
optimization, integer programming, linear programmingFull Profile
Bruce Piper" />Bruce Piper
Associate Department Head
Research Focus:
Mathematics Education, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Approximation TheoryFull Profile
David A Schmidt" />Donald Schwendeman
Professor, Department Head
Research Focus:
Numerical methods for PDEs, Fluid-structure interaction problems, Gas dynamics and wave propagationFull Profile
Yangyang Xu" />Yangyang Xu
Assistant Professor
Research Focus:
Optimization, Parallel computing, Compressed sensing, Matrix completion, tensor factorization and learningFull Profile
Affiliated Faculty
Bulent Yener" />Bulent Yener
Director, Data Science Research Center Computer Science
Research Focus:
complex networks, bioinformatics, medical informatics
Donald Drew" />
William Siegmann" />