Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Come to the McNeil Room on October 23rd to enjoy activities and food in the Rensselaer Union for the International Festival held by the Multicultural Leadership Council. For any further information or questions, reach out to tourem@rpi.edu.

Understanding and controlling the process–structure–property relationship is central to advancing manufacturing. This talk presents AI/ML methods that study manufacturing processes and material properties through physically meaningful intermediate representations. We begin with droplet evolution modeling in inkjet printing, where diffusion-corrected neural operator learning characterizes process-level dynamics that govern material deposition and initial geometric fidelity.

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Many systems in science, engineering, and machine learning evolve according to underlying laws that are only partially known and observed. Understanding their behavior therefore requires inferring these laws from incomplete data. This thesis investigates this inverse problem across three settings, including networked dynamical systems, neural network training, and in-context learning with Markov chains.

Date: Friday, October 23, 2026 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM - Come take part in the schedule events planned for Family Weekend 2026!

TROY, N.Y. — The RPI women's soccer team fell to Vassar, 5-0, in Liberty League action this evening at ECAV Stadium. The Engineers moved to 4-5-4 overall and 0-5-1 in conference play.

Please join us as the Department of Economics welcomes Dr. Filippo Massari (Fairfield University), who will present "Unconditional transfers, inequality and growth in the short and the long run" on Wednesday, October 28th at 3:30 PM in SAGE 3101.

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - The Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy Presents The Professor Meyer H. Birnboim Endowed Lecture Series in Optics Speaker: NICHOLAS A. KOTOV Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Title: “Chiral Nanostructures and Giant Optical Activity”

Wednesday / October 21, 2026 at 1:00 pm The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has named Ajit Prabhu ’98, Co-Founder and CEO of Quest Global, as the 2026 recipient of the William F. Glaser '53 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The honor recognizes Ajit's role in co-founding and leading Quest Global, a global engineering services company. Presented by Severino Center Talk Founder of Quest Global to Be Named RPI’s Entrepreneur of the Year

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Established in 1990, the Entrepreneur of the Year award honors Rensselaer graduates who have achieved success as entrepreneurs and now serve as role models for current students and aspiring entrepreneurs. The Severino Center and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites you to celebrate this year's honoree Ajit Prabhu ’98, the founder of Quest Global. The awards ceremony, fireside chat with President Schmidt, and an RPI startup pitch competition will start at 1 pm in the EMPAC theater.

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Materials Science and Engineering of Magnesium Diboride Thin Films Xiaoxing Xi Department of Physics, Temple University