Volume 46 | Number 09 | November 2013
Energy-efficient Building Design

Energy-efficient Building Design

At AN13, control theorist John Burns discussed opportunities to apply mathematical principles to energy-efficient building design.

Obituaries: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (1929–2013)

Obituaries: Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov (1929–2013)

Yuri Vasilyevich Prokhorov was born in December of 1929 and died in July 2013 at the age of 83.

The Remarkable Career of a Pioneering Computational Scientist

The Remarkable Career of a Pioneering Computational Scientist

Margaret Butler, the first woman named a fellow of the American Nuclear Society, passed away on March 8, 2013.

Smells Like a Traffic Jam

Smells Like a Traffic Jam

Katsuhiro Nishinari, a self-described “jam-ologist” at the University of Tokyo, spoke about traffic at this year’s Annual Meeting.

Multiscale Modeling of Foams

Multiscale Modeling of Foams

Foams are everywhere, but devising mathematical and numerical models for evolving foams is daunting. 

A Scorching Summer School in Shanghai

A Scorching Summer School in Shanghai

The 2013 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School took place July 22 to August 2 in a very hot Shanghai.