Volume 47 | Number 08 | October 2014

The Dark Side of Image Reconstruction

Many scientific applications rely on the accurate reconstruction of spatially, spectrally, and temporally distributed phenomena from photon-limited data.

Exploring Connectivity in the Brain’s Network of Neurons

Technical breakthroughs offer unprecedented data about the brain’s network architecture and activity.

Obituaries: Harold Kuhn (1925-2014)

Harold Kuhn, professor emeritus at Princeton University and an early president of SIAM, died on July 2.

Hong Kong Hosts 2014 SIAG/IS Conference

The 2014 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, held at Hong Kong Baptist University, drew approximately 580 scientists from all over the world.

Euclidean Distance Degree

Many models arise as the set of real solutions to systems of multivariate polynomial equations w/ real coefficients.

Golub Summer School in Optimization Draws 45 Students to Linz

From August 4 through 15, 45 students representing six continents took part in the Gene Golub SIAM Summer School in...

SIAM Prizes, Chicago, 2014 Annual Meeting

Additional 2014 prize recipients were featured in the September issue of SIAM News.

DMS Update on Interdisciplinary & Workforce Programs

Read about Division of Mathematical Sciences interdisciplinary and workforce-development programs of particular...

Role for the Math Sciences in Federal BRAIN Initiative

With the launch of the BRAIN initiative, neuroscience and cognitive science have become major priorities of the...

An Invitation from the Research Spotlights Section of SIAM Review

Members of the SIAM community are invited to submit articles for the "Research Spotlights" section of SIAM Review.

Work in Progress

Recent visitors to the website of SIAM News might have a sense of shifting ground – and justly so.

Student Chapter Activities and Update

Read about a myriad of student chapter activities that took place between January and May 2014.

New Activity Group!

SIAM has a new activity group—the SIAM Activity Group on Applied Mathematics Education (SIAG/ED).

Check out the SIAM Student Blog

SIAM’s student blog is a great way to keep up with what many of SIAM’s 130-plus chapters are doing.

“Postgraduate” Membership Renamed “Early Career”

Mathematicians who earned their highest degree within the last five years are now “early career” members.

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