Volume 45 | Number 09 | November 2012
Uncertainty Quantification for Environmental Models

Uncertainty Quantification for Environmental Models

Environmental models  play a role in understanding and diagnosing potential environmental impacts of global climate change.

Unprecedented Simplicity

Unprecedented Simplicity

An proof of the optimality of the semicircle capped Richard Tapia’s talk on the isoperimetric problem at AN12.

Mathematicians in the Shark Tank!

Mathematicians in the Shark Tank!

The IMA at the University of Minnesota recently held a workshop on entrepreneurial mathematics. 

The Smart Money’s on Numerical Analysts

The Smart Money’s on Numerical Analysts

Nick Trefethen discusses two of the biggest unsolved problems in numerical analysis.

An Interview with Jeff Hoffstein

An Interview with Jeff Hoffstein

Fadil Santosa interviews Jeff Holstein about NTRU, the cryptosystem he created. 

Mathematics: Handmaiden to Architecture

Mathematics: Handmaiden to Architecture

Philip Davis reviews Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings by Alexander J. Hahn.

A Leading Role for Mathematics in the Study of Ionic Solutions

A Leading Role for Mathematics in the Study of Ionic Solutions

Bob Eisenberg discusses the study of ionic solutions as they occur in life, a problem that is often too close to see.

SIAM Explores Modeling for STEM Pipeline

SIAM Explores Modeling for STEM Pipeline

Peter Turner, SIAM’s VP for Education, recently led a workshop titled "Modeling across the Curriculum."

Physics and Computation

Physics and Computation

Ernest Davis reviews "Computation and its Limits" by Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, and Greg Michaelson.