Volume 49 | Number 05 | June 2016
Climate, Black Holes and Vorticity: How on Earth are They Related?

Climate, Black Holes and Vorticity: How on Earth are They Related?

What do climate, black holes, and vorticity have in common? They are all related through oceanic eddies.

Tracing Genealogy Within an Invasion Wave

Tracing Genealogy Within an Invasion Wave

Invasion waves arise in many systems, including wound healing and brain tumor expansion.

Obituaries: David Stifler Johnson

Obituaries: David Stifler Johnson

David Stifler Johnson, a leader in theoretical computer science, passed away on March 8, 2016, at age 70.

Applied Algebra and Geometry: A SIAGA of Seven Pictures

Applied Algebra and Geometry: A SIAGA of Seven Pictures

The last installment of our intro to the SIAGA journal explores Bézier curves, the Rubik’s Cube, and a Kummer surface. 

New York City Students Get a Glimpse of Math in Action

New York City Students Get a Glimpse of Math in Action

The Moody’s Mega Math Workshop helped students connect math to real-world issues.

Math Models Examine the Effectiveness of Car-Sharing

Math Models Examine the Effectiveness of Car-Sharing

Car-sharing’s variability made it a perfect topic for the eleventh annual Moody’s Mega Math (M3)...

The Future of High Performance Scientific Computing is Anything but Clear

The Future of High Performance Scientific Computing is Anything but Clear

Cutting-edge scientific computing has relied for decades on what seems to be a never-ending parade of faster and faster computers.

Euler in the Age of Enlightenment

Euler in the Age of Enlightenment

  James Case reviews Robert Calinger's Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment.

The Final Touch? Solving Smale’s 17th Challenge Problem

The Final Touch? Solving Smale’s 17th Challenge Problem

In 1998, Stephen Smale published a list of 18 challenge problems for the 21st century.

Particles with Negative Mass and the Krein-Moser Theory

Particles with Negative Mass and the Krein-Moser Theory

Imagining objects with negative mass may seem like a scholastic exercise, but we're able to interpret some real physical phenomena.

Network Data: Dealing with Incompleteness and Bias

Network Data: Dealing with Incompleteness and Bias

Methods used to construct networks and the resulting bias and incompleteness draw limited attention.

Academia and Industry Meet at Emory University’s SIAM Student Meeting

Academia and Industry Meet at Emory University’s SIAM Student Meeting

The Emory University Chapter of SIAM hosted “Math & Industry: Happily Ever After” this March.