Volume 48 | Number 08 | October 2015
Is There a Role for Mathematics in Food Security?

Is There a Role for Mathematics in Food Security?

The Obama administration declared food security a federal priority area, presenting opportunities for modeling and computational expertise.

Biologically-Inspired Linkage Design: Computing Form From Function

Biologically-Inspired Linkage Design: Computing Form From Function

Read about the humanoid DRC-HUBO robot, which won the DARPA Robotics Challenge to accelerate development of robots...

Obituaries: Joseph F. Traub

Obituaries: Joseph F. Traub

Joseph F. Traub passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 24. 

Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction

Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction

Historically, the rise of numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the 1950s played a major role in germinating the field of data assimilation.

Computational Sciences in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry: The ExxonMobil Experience

Computational Sciences in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry: The ExxonMobil Experience

In the upstream oil and gas industry, decision-making is based on models that reconstruct seismic data into...

ICIAM 2015 in Beijing

ICIAM 2015 in Beijing

Recipients of the five ICIAM prizes for 2015 received their awards and delivered prize lectures at the ICIAM meeting...

Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems

Discrete-Time Markov Jump Linear Systems

Discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLSs) are a particularly interesting class of models within the context of modern control systems. 

Life is a Tensor. . .Pilot Program Aims at Expanding SIAM Impact

Life is a Tensor. . .Pilot Program Aims at Expanding SIAM Impact

A pilot mentoring and Broader Engagement program organized by the Sustainable Horizons Institute gave students a...

The Personality of Numbers

The Personality of Numbers

Philip J. Davis reviews The Personality of Numbers by Marc Chamberland, with a separate chapter for numbers one...

The Jungle of Stochastic Optimization

The Jungle of Stochastic Optimization

There is a vast range of problems that fall under the broad umbrella of making sequential decisions under uncertainty.

Celebration in Honor of Gil Strang

Celebration in Honor of Gil Strang

More than one hundred people gathered at ICIAM 2015 in Beijing to honor Gil Strang and celebrate his 80th birthday.

DMS Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Update

DMS Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes Update

The NSF's Michael Vogelius and Henry Warchall sent an open letter to the mathematical community regarding the...

Moser’s Theorem on the Jacobians

Moser’s Theorem on the Jacobians

In his recurring column on Mathematical Curiosities, Mark Levi discusses an interesting result proved by Jürgen Moser.

Inaugural Meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth

Inaugural Meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth

The newly-formed SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth will hold its inaugural meeting from...

Forty Years of Preconditioning

Forty Years of Preconditioning

The 9th International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications was held...