Volume 49 | Number 07 | September 2016
Biofluids of Reproduction: Oscillators, Viscoelastic Networks, and Sticky Situations

Biofluids of Reproduction: Oscillators, Viscoelastic Networks, and Sticky Situations

Lisa Fauci models sperm motility, biochemical signaling, and mammalian reproduction using an immersed boundary (IB) framework.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Group, graph, and tiling theory can provide new insights into the architecture and formation of virus...

Beating in Fluid: Hearts and Cilia by the Immersed Boundary Method

Beating in Fluid: Hearts and Cilia by the Immersed Boundary Method

The versatile immersed boundary method is applicable to mathematical problems underlying heart and cilia...

Algorithmically Defining Olfactory Responses in Animals

Algorithmically Defining Olfactory Responses in Animals

This article explores simple algorithms and possible mechanisms for odor location in animals that do not depend on the actual concentration.

Computational Behavioral Ecology

Computational Behavioral Ecology

Tanya Berger-Wolf’s computational work uses wide-ranging data to provide scientific insight into the...

High-Performance Computing for the Detection of Strokes

High-Performance Computing for the Detection of Strokes

Victorita Dolean demonstrates the feasibility of a new imaging technique based on microwaves that characterizes...

Photos from the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting

Photos from the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting

View a collection of photos primarily from the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Boston this July.

Everyday Objects Make Applied Mathematics Tangible

Everyday Objects Make Applied Mathematics Tangible

The 2016 I.E. Block Community Lecture emphasized the importance of touching, seeing, and feeling to central concepts...

Careers Outside Academia: How Should Math and Applied Math Students Prepare?

Careers Outside Academia: How Should Math and Applied Math Students Prepare?

Lalitha Venkataramanan, Rachel Levy, and Bill Kolata highlight themes from a career panel that they organized at the...

Mathematical Molecular Bioscience and Biophysics

Mathematical Molecular Bioscience and Biophysics

The SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences has, for the first time, highlighted mathematical molecular bioscience and biophysics as a theme.