Measuring Areas with a Shopping Cart ResearchInsightsSIAM News Mark Levi presents a "Mathematical Curiosity" that arose from rolling a shopping cart's wheel around a floor tile.
2017 SIAG/Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Prize Happening NowAwards and RecognitionGet InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM News Scott N. Armstrong and Charles K. Smart were awarded the 2017 SIAM/APDE Prize at PD17 for their 2016 paper.
The Mathematics of Wrinkles and Folds Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM News During his invited talk at AN18, Robert V. Kohn will discuss patterns in the wrinkling and folding of thin elastic sheets.
Recent Advances in Dimensionality Reduction with Provable Guarantees Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM News Jelani Nelson will discuss dimensionality reduction from the viewpoint of low-distortion embeddings at AN18.
Never Heard of Methane Hydrate? That Might be Good News ResearchInsightsSIAM NewsGeosciences and Math of Planet Earth Methane hydrate is an ice-like crystalline substance (gas clathrate) made of water molecules encasing a molecule of methane.