Volume 48 | Number 10 | December 2015
Cardiovascular Blood Flow Simulation

Cardiovascular Blood Flow Simulation

Cardiovascular blood flow simulations offer non-invasive means to quantify hemodynamics in the heart and major blood vessels. 

Obituaries: Carla Dee Martin

Obituaries: Carla Dee Martin

The applied mathematics community suffered a major loss when Carla Dee Martin (nee Moravitz) was killed under tragic...

Computational Plate Tectonics and the Geological Record in the Continents

Computational Plate Tectonics and the Geological Record in the Continents

Earth’s surface is composed of a few slowly but continually-moving ‘rigid’ plates floating on a...

Letter to the Editor: DMS Questions its Impact as Innovation Engine

Letter to the Editor: DMS Questions its Impact as Innovation Engine

Read a letter to the editor reacting to an article published in the October 2015 issue of SIAM News.

Regaining Control in our Electric Grid

Regaining Control in our Electric Grid

The power grid in the U.S. and throughout the world is implementing new technologies to realize the “smart...

The Models are Incomplete, the Intuitions are Unreliable

The Models are Incomplete, the Intuitions are Unreliable

Karl Kempf of Intel Corporation discusses the reliability and influence of intuition when making big-business...

Communicating Science as a Mass Media Fellow

Communicating Science as a Mass Media Fellow

Applied mathematics graduate student Anna Lieb recaps her time as a SIAM-sponsored AAAS Mass Media Fellow.

Villani's "Birth of a Theorem"

Villani's "Birth of a Theorem"

Robert McCann reviews Cedric Villani’s newly-translated book, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure.

Ethics and Raw Data

Ethics and Raw Data

Ted Lockhart discusses the benefits and pitfalls of sharing raw data between scientists.

Gromov’s Non-squeezing Theorem and Optics

Gromov’s Non-squeezing Theorem and Optics

In his "Mathematical Curiosities" column, Mark Levi discusses a remarkable theorem discovered by Gromov.

Annual Symposium Brings Together SIAM Chapters Across Germany

Annual Symposium Brings Together SIAM Chapters Across Germany

The fourth symposium of German SIAM Student Chapters took place this past August in Trier.

Chris Budd Honored with OBE

Chris Budd Honored with OBE

SIAM News editorial board member Chris Budd was made Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.