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

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - This Mathematical Sciences Colloquium will feature a presentation titled "Towards traversing and understanding the solution space of neural networks" by Dr. Will Redman. He is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute. His research interests are in the dynamics of learning and the learning of dynamics.

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Join us for an ECSE Mercer Distinguished Lecture: "Big Data at Scale and Small Data at Low Latency: From Research Prototypes to Production Systems" with Prof. Xiaodong Zhang from Ohio State. Abstract and speaker bio can be found at the event URL.