2009 Student Research Poster Competition Results
Held during the 2009 Karl Menger Lecture and Awards event on April 20, 2009, the 2009 Student Research Poster Competition saw a record number of 11 entrants, with seven graduate students and four...
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Assistant Professor Shuwang Li Featured on Cover of Physical Review Letters
Assistant Professor Shuwang Li's article, " Control of Viscous Fingering Patterns in a Radial Hele-Shaw Cell," is featured on the cover of the May 1st, 2009 issue of Physical Review Letters. Concerned...
Ky Fan Visiting Scholar Visits Illinois Institute of Technology
Professor Jinqiao Duan hosted this year's American Mathematical Society (AMS) Ky Fan Scholar, Zongxia Liang of Tsinghua University, China, for research collaboration and to present a colloquium talk...
IIT Students Place in 2008 Putnam Math Contest
Five IIT students sat for the 2008 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition this past December, an annual team mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. The...
Debugging the Brain--BME Associate Professor David Mogul's Work Focuses on the Hippocampus
A seizure in the brain may begin as a sort of premonition, a constellation of symptoms often referred to as an aura. Unusual tastes or smells, tingling sensations, or racing thoughts sometimes...
Prof. Fasshauer Appointed to AMS Menger Prize Committee
Associate Professor Greg Fasshauer has been appointed to the American Mathematical Society Menger Prize Committee for a three-year term. The Menger Prize Committee is responsible for evaluating...
Professor Jinqiao Duan Wins NSF Grant to Develop a New Modeling Framework to Explore Small-Scale and Fast-Scale Geophysical Processes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $500,000 collaborative grant to Professor Jinqiao "Jeffrey" Duan, Department of Applied Mathematics at IIT, along with researchers from Argonne...
Dean McMorris in the News
Professor and College of Science and Letters Dean F.R. "Buck" McMorris was consulted as a "mathematical genius" on the odds of winning the lottery on CBS news..
Professors Hickernell and Fasshauer Organize Minisymposia
Professor and Chair Fred Hickernell organized a minisymposium on "Optimal Points and Shapes for Numerical Computation" at the recent Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics meeting in Boston...
Professor Ellis Wins NSA Grant
Congratulations to Robert Ellis, who was recently awarded a research grant. The grant is a $25K National Security Agency Young Investigators Grant to study error-correcting and covering codes with...