Please join ISE on Wednesday, April 22 at 12:15 PM in LOW 3039 for a colloquium featuring Dr. Andrew Trapp's research on From Model-Optimal to Human-Optimal: Human-Centered Optimization for the Common Purposes of Life! All are welcome!

CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) softball team split a non-league doubleheader at Cortland this afternoon at Dragon Field, dropping a 1-0 decision before answering with a 1-0 win in eight innings.

TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team rallied for nine unanswered runs after a rough start, but ultimately came up short in a 16-10 non-conference loss to Middlebury this afternoon at Robison Baseball Field.

TROY, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's lacrosse team was tested by a red-hot Union squad tonight, dropping a 14-7 Liberty League decision at ECAV Stadium.

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Title: “First-principles Prediction of Spin Relaxation, Dephasing and Transport From Density-Matrix Dynamics”

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Glen R. Loppnow, University of Alberta and Cabezon Games, will be speaking on "The Future of Chemistry Education: Should We Be Teaching Answers or Questions?"

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Intelligent Manufacturing What if manufacturing systems and materials could sense, adapt, and respond? We often think of manufacturing as shaping raw materials into parts, but this talk explores a different vision: using intelligent systems to embed functionality directly into materials. Examples include self-monitoring additive structures, robotic ecosystems, and biomedical materials—moving manufacturing toward systems that perceive, decide, and act.

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - "Risk-informed, performance-based design of seismic isolation systems for nuclear energy facilities". Risk-informed pathways are being developed for the design and licensing of next generation nuclear facilities. This presentation will address one such pathway to implement seismic base isolation, which involves the development of a) isolation-system-specific seismic displacement demand curves from seismic hazard curves, and b) fragility functions for seismic isolation systems.

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Join RPI  at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., in a 30-minute information session highlighting the whole range of RPI's online, project-based graduate certificate programs. These certificates are three courses in length, developing targeted ability groups, and can be completed in as little as seven months. Please register if you plan to attend.

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - The Class of '27 Lecture Series, established in 1960 to honor the first chair of the Math Sciences Department, holds two special lectures annually. Lecture I, on April 7, will present "Nonlocal PDEs and Quantum Optics". Lecture II, on April 8, features "Inverse Problems in Quantum Optics", by speaker John C. Schotland from Yale University.