Volume 51 | Number 03 | April 2018

Controllability and Local Asymptotic Stabilizability of Control Systems

Paul Davis overviews Jean-Michel Coron’s 2017 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Lecture on controllability and local asymptotic stabilizability.

Looking Back at 60 Volumes of SIAM Review

On the occasion of SIAM Review’s 60th volume, SIAM President Nick Higham traces the journal’s history.

Robustness of Complex Networks with Applications to Cancer Biology

Allen Tannenbaum investigates complex networks, focusing on applications to cancer biology.

Sensitive Dependence on Network Structure: Analog of Chaos and Opportunity for Control

Adilson Motter and Takashi Nishikawa explain how network dynamics often depends sensitively on network structure.

Singular Perturbations in Noisy Dynamical Systems

Paul Davis recaps Bernard Matkowsky’s 2017 John von Neumann Lecture, which focused on the effects of noise.

Untangling Random Polygons and Other Things

Charles F. Van Loan previews his upcoming 2018 John von Neumann Lecture about the polygon averaging problem.

Quantifying, Reducing, and Repurposing Wasted Food

The MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge poses prominent, multi-faceted issues to high schoolers. This year's problem focused on food insecurity.

SIAM Review’s Top-downloaded Paper Spotlights a Rapidly-growing Field

In honor of SIAM Review’s 60th volume, author Mark Newman reflects on the journal's most popular article.

Demystifying Chance: Understanding the Secrets of Probability

Jim Case reviews Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms.

The High-Performance Geometric Multigrid: An HPC Performance Benchmark

The High-Performance Geometric Multigrid incorporates machine sensitivities that correlate well with the sensitivities of high-performance computing applications.

Understanding and Appreciating Mathematics and Statistics

Participate in Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month by hosting and organizing events all throughout April.

Focusing on Nephroids

In this month's column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi discusses caustics, epicycloids, and nephroids.

NSF Releases Details of Proposed Fiscal Year 2019 Budget

On February 28, the National Science Foundation published its detailed budget request for fiscal year 2019.

Snow Business: Computational Elastoplasticity in the Movies and Beyond

In his talk at AN18, Joseph Teran will discuss how visual effects rely on a wide range of numerical methods for PDEs.

New Division Director for the NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences

Juan Meza has been appointed the new division director of the NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences.

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