Volume 48 | Number 07 | September 2015
Chaos and its Manifestations

Chaos and its Manifestations

Chaos does not have a satisfactory single mathematical definition; rather, it has many mathematical manifestations in many different situations.

Tensor Decompositions  in Smart Patient Monitoring

Tensor Decompositions in Smart Patient Monitoring

Sabine Van Huffel shows that tensor decompositions can be highly useful in biomedical data processing.

Obituaries: Charles Lawson

Obituaries: Charles Lawson

Charles Lawson, who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, died on July 2, 2015, in Laguna Woods, CA.

Control, Intuition, Existence, and Regularity

Control, Intuition, Existence, and Regularity

Francis Clarke discusses issues for an optimal control problem that arises in modeling renewable resources.

Bringing SIAM News to Life for Nearly Three Decades

Bringing SIAM News to Life for Nearly Three Decades

Gail Corbett steps down as managing editor of SIAM News after more than 28 years.

How Interstellar Was Born

How Interstellar Was Born

James Case reviews The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne and discusses the recent blockbuster movie.

A Cycloid is a Tautochrone

A Cycloid is a Tautochrone

In his recurring column, Mark Levi presents a very short geometrical proof of the tautochronous property of the cycloid.

Moving SIAM to the Forefront of Technology in the Information Age

Moving SIAM to the Forefront of Technology in the Information Age

Upon his retirement, Jim Goldman muses on working at SIAM and SIAM's progression as a society in terms of technology.

A SIAM Special Function at NIST

A SIAM Special Function at NIST

The 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications was held in June 2015.