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.

All faculty, staff, and students involved in RPI's procurement process are invited to attend this year's Supplier Showcase, which will be held from 11:00am to 2:00pm on Thursday, December 4 in the Alumni Sports & Recreation Center. Stop by to network with RPI's key suppliers and the Procurement team, get your professional head shot taken, win exciting raffle prizes, have some fun in the photo booth, and enjoy a sparkling spread of savory and sweet treats from campus and local shops!

Thursday / November 6, 2025 at 1:00 pm The Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has named the founders of Ecovative Design the 2025 recipients of the William F. Glaser ’53 Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Innovation is a significant part of RPI's storied past. The William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes successful entrepreneurs whose vision, commitment, and creativity embody the entrepreneurial spirit that is the past, present, and future of RPI. This year, the winners of the award are Eben Bayer ’07 and Gavin McIntyre ’07, founders of Troy-based Ecovative. Join us for an awards ceremony, fireside chat with President Schmidt, and an RPI startup pitch competition

Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Title: "Probing Emergent Phenomena in Layered Magnets"

Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Join us as Dean Shekhar Garde formally assumes the first endowed deanship in RPI’s history, made possible through the generosity of Thomas R. Farino, Jr. ’67 and Patricia E. Farino. Ceremony 3 p.m. | Light Refreshments 4 p.m. Please register no later than Wednesday, October 29.

Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Join RPI at Work Dean Aric Krause, Ph.D., on a 30-minute information session highlighting the online, project-based graduate certificate programs in Analytics, Machine Learning & AI. Expect to learn how data can inform better decisions and review an analytic method that can be used regardless of the tools at hand. Please register if you plan to attend.