Volume 49 | Number 02 | March 2016

See Light Move: Compressed Sensing and the World’s Fastest 2-D Camera

In this article, Hans Kaper explores compressed sensing in digital cameras. He explains how physics can be used to reduce or eliminate shutter lag, the delay between...

Computational Modeling of Convection in the Earth’s Mantle

Louis Moresi’s earlier article prompted a deeper look at models of Earth, and more specifically, into...

Large-Scale Inversion in Exploration Seismology

By studying seismic data's dynamic and kinematic properties, researchers can infer large-scale variations on a local...

Addressing Challenges in Reduced-Order Modeling

The predictive capability of computational models allows simulation to replace physical experimentation in many scenarios.

Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing

Alan Edelman, cofounder of programming language Julia, outlines the high-performance, dynamic features of the...

ADVANCE Grants: Narrowing the Gender Gap in STEM Fields

SIAM President Pam Cook has worked to advance diversity and enhancing opportunities for women in the mathematical...

Math within March Madness

Tim Chartier explores the mathematics behind hits, rebounds, points, times, and the odds of winning, just in time for March Madness.

Hot Hands, Streaks and Coin-flips: How The New York Times Got it Wrong

Dan Gusfield points out how two recent New York Times articles misinterpreted elementary concepts in...

Pent Up: Using Pentagons to Tile a Plane

Tilings, or tessellations, refers to a branch of discrete geometry that involves covering the plane (or space) with...

Comparing Notes on Computing Across the Curriculum

At the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings this January, SIAM hosted a panel in collaboration with the AMS and the MAA.

Will AI Make Jobs Obsolete?

James Case reviews Martin Ford’s Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future.

Cambridge Hosts 20th Anniversary Meeting of UKIE SIAM Section

The 20th meeting of the SIAM United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (UKIE) Section took place on January 7.

Classroom Notes: Symmetric Matrices and (a Little) Work

Mark Levi presents four observations that occurred to him a few years ago after teaching a linear algebra course.

Optics and Photonics Workshop at the SIAM Annual Meeting

The “NSF-SIAM Optics and Photonics Workshop” will take place on July 11, 2016 as part of the 2016 SIAM...

New Initiative Focuses on Computational Science and Advanced Computing

The Obama Administration and federal agencies thrust computational science and advanced computing into the...

Letter to the Editor: And the Mathematics is Incorrect

Read a letter to the editor reacting to The Models are Incomplete, the Intuitions are Unreliable, published in the December 2015 issue of SIAM News.

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