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...
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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...
Dean McMorris Speaks on "Consensus Pyramids" at Workshop Honoring Edwin Diday on September 4 in Paris
Dean F.R. "Buck" McMorris of the College of Science and Letters and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, was one of eight international researchers invited to speak at the Workshop...
Sitton Wins University Award for Faculty
Dr. Sue Sitton, senior lecturer of Applied Mathematics, won the 2007 Julia Beveridge Award for faculty. The award is named for an extraordinary woman who served as the librarian of Armour Mission and...
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...
International Meeting of CMMSE 2007
IIT's Applied Mathematics Department together with the Center for Industrial Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted the Seventh International Conference on Computational and...
Remembering Karl Menger 2008
April 24, 2008 About 115 guests heard Dr. Lloyd N. Trefethen of Oxford University speak at the second annual IIT Karl Menger Lecture and Award in the MTCC Ballroom on Monday April 14, 2008. Trefethen...
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..
Applied Math Faculty Win CSL Awards
Associate Professor Greg Fasshauer won the 2007 CSL Excellence in Teaching Award during a luncheon held Nov. 16, 2007. Based on a combination of student reviews and colleagues' recommendations, the...