SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's lacrosse team bounced back with a 16-12 Liberty League win at Skidmore on this afternoon at Wachenheim Field.

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join us for an ECSE Distinguished Mercer Lecture: "Highly nonlinear optical materials and their application in photonics" with Prof. Robert Boyd of University of Rochester. Abstract and bio can be found at the event URL.

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - This Mathematical Sciences Colloquium will feature a presentation titled "Predicting Transient Behavior via Computation of Kreiss Constants" by Dr. Tim Mitchell. He s an Associate Professor of Computer Science at CUNY Queens College and Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center interested in numerical analysis, optimization, and scientific computing.

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - This Mathematical Sciences Colloquium will feature a presentation titled "Predicting Transient Behavior via Computation of Kreiss Constants" by Dr. Tim Mitchell. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at CUNY Queens College and Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center interested in numerical analysis, optimization, and scientific computing.

A snapshot of some of the latest research from RPI experts.

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 12:00 AM - 1:00 AM - Dr. Rosa Kajmalnik Brown of Arizona State University presents BME's distinguished Weinbaum lecture.

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Quantum computers introduce new opportunities for modeling and solving decision problems. In this talk, we will first discuss the unique positioning of Industrial Engineering in the quantum research landscape that motivates new directions at the intersection of application and theory. Then as an example, we will present a new algorithm, Iterative-QAOA, for combinational optimization problems.

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2026 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM - The RPI Semiconductor CoLab Catalyst Seminar Series brings together faculty, researchers, and industry partners to share ideas, highlight collaborations, and advance semiconductor and microelectronics innovation. The seminar on March 17th, at the Albany NanoTech Complex, features Jacob Merson (RPI) and Dureseti (Chidu) Chidambarrao (IBM) in a two 45-min talks with a networking break. Registration is required. Follow the link for more information.

Engineering professor Wei Bao and colleagues have created a new and unusual state of matter — known as a supersolid — by engineering how light and matter interact inside a nanoscale device. The work, published in Nature Nanotechnology, demonstrates that this exotic quantum phase can exist at room temperature, overcoming a long-standing limitation in the field.

On Wednesday April 1 at 11:30 AM, RPI’s Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (NROTC) will host the landing and display of a U.S. Marine Corps Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter on ‘86 Field. Members of the campus community are invited to view the helicopter landing at 12 pm and meet the pilots until 2 pm. The community is also invited to observe take off between 3:30 - 4 pm.