Volume 48 | Number 05 | June 2015

New Mathematics for Extreme-scale Computational Science?

Ulrich Rüde explains the underperformance of many novel algorithms and the creative research necessary to design efficient HPC software.

On Markov Decision Processes

Sequential planning under uncertainty is a basic optimization problem that arises in many different settings.

Michael James David Powell, who passed away on April 19, helped establish numerical analysis as a major discipline.

SIAM provides students with math modeling experience via the Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge, which celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Ernest Davis reviews Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, by Stephen Chrisomalis.

At its 2015 meeting in San Jose, California, the American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized AAAS...

Mark Levi presents a solution that is shorter than Johann Bernoulli’s famous optics-based idea of minimizing an integral.

On February 2, the SIAM Student Chapter at TU Delft held a one-day workshop on Krylov subspace methods.

This year’s SIAM Conference on CSE featured a new attraction: SIAM Communication Doctors.

Among the most important honors accorded to scientists and engineers in the U.S. is election to the National Academies of Engineering and Sciences.

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