Volume 45 | Number 05 | June 2012

REU Students Apply Wavelets to Boston’s Pothole Challenge

Like every city, Boston has its springtime traditions: the beginning of baseball season, the Boston Marathon...and potholes.

Berkeley Tops Competition for Simons Institute in Theoretical CS

Richard Karp is the founding director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.

At Oxbridge, the standard nickname for Oxford and Cambridge, things last a long time.

Budgets, especially the president’s budget for an upcoming fiscal year, always reflect a bit of wishful thinking.

Philip Davis reviews Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative.

James Case reviews "Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory," by Avner Ash and Robert Gross.

Inverse problems are about deciphering indirectly measured data of an unknown quantity, such as the inner structure of a patient.

An auction design by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awards contracts for durable medical goods.

John Bell, Wendell Fleming, and Ruth Williams were elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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