Department of Mathematical Sciences

Kathrin Smetana, assistant professor of mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology, was recently awarded a five-year, $461,998 grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s prestigious CAREER program to develop “Randomized Multiscale Methods for Heterogeneous Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations.” In her project, Smetana and her students will focus on designing multiscale methods via randomization techniques that have originally been proposed in the context of data science. They will use these randomization techniques to detect hidden structures in the local numerical simulation data, such as the simulations of the deformation of portions of wind turbines, and, in particular, to detect the functions that are relevant for the approximation of the solution of the PDE.

From June 14-16, 2023, the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Stevens organized a conference on group theory and its applications in honor of the 80th birthday of Professor Robert Gilman.

Gilman is the director and a cofounder of the Algebra and Cryptology Center who has spent his professional career at Stevens and established himself as a leading expert in multiple subfields of algebra.

The three-day conference, titled Groups and Computation: Interactions Between Geometric Group Theory, Computability and Computer Science, featured talks by internationally renowned experts and long-time collaborators of Gilman, including several members of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Some talks were held on the Stevens campus; others were held online.