In this talk, Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago) analyzes how special educators at a school for children with intellectual disabilities in India engage in collaborative sense-making projects with the children with whom they work (although there is the question of what collaboration actually means) and in the process they create create rich social worlds that are oriented towards the present and the near future. Join us 11/12 at 11:30am in Sage 5711.

Join Liz Bowen (Bioethics & Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical Center), Johanna Crane (Alden March Bioethics Institute), Michele Friedner (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago), and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Science and Technology Studies, RPI) for a conversation about medical ethics from 2pm-3:30pm in Sage 5510.

This interactive experience explores how engaged social practice can serve as a methodology for collective research and restorative community building. Through facilitated invitation, inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros (musician, humanitarian, and founder of Deep Listening), participants explore presence and play, cultivating capacity for orientation to what is emerging in this moment. Join at EMPAC Studio Beta from 5-7pm on 11/19.

The RPI Concert Choir, with RPI’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, will present its inaugural Festival of Lessons and Carols. Following the format of the University of Cambridge's famous festival, RPI's program will interweave readings and music that celebrate charity and benevolence. The program will feature the RPI Concert Choir performing music of Durufle, Chesnokov, Rachmaninoff, Brahms and U2 alongside readings by several distinguished surprise guest readers! Admission is free.

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Alexei Bulazel currently serves as Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Cyber at the White House National Security Council (NSC), where he leads US government coordination of national security policy on cyber issues.

The next meeting of the Quantum Users’ Group will be held at 4pm on Wednesday November 12 in AE 217. We will discuss Qiskit_session and the initialize and statevector functions plus topics of concern from the attendees.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM - Join us for a dynamic panel hosted by the RPI Hudson Mohawk Alumni Chapter featuring: Bill Hoffman ’92, Chief Technical Officer, Kitware; Wes Turner ’85, PhD ’01, Sr. Lecturer, Computer Science, RPI; Karthik Bala ’97, CEO, Velan Studios; and Rick Arthur '92 Sr. Principal Engineer, GE Aerospace Research. No charge to current students, but you will need to arrange your own transportation to attend. Kitware is located at 1712 Route 9, Suite 3, Clifton Park, NY. Register by 10/31.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Chuchu Fan is an Associate Professor (pre-tenure) in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro) and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. Her research group, the Realm at MIT, works on developing computational tools that integrate rigorous mathematics into machine learning and AI for the design, analysis, and verification of safe, large-scale, and complex systems.

Microsoft Windows 10 support ended on October 14th, 2025.  At this time Windows 10 systems are no longer eligible for support including important security patches.  Without appropriate mitigation, Windows 10 systems are non-compliant with multiple RPI security policies. Please click in for additional information.