Foucault’s Pendulum with a Twist ResearchInsightsSIAM News Mark Levi explains why it is well known that small-amplitude trajectories of a pendulum are approximately ellipses.
Cotranscriptional Folding: A Frontier in Molecular Engineering ResearchInsightsSIAM News Transcription synthesizes a temporal copy of a gene out of an RNA molecule; the transcript acts as an intermediary to express a protein or...
In Search of the Perfect Numerical Analysis Textbook Happening NowPrograms and PublicationsSIAM News The variety of available numerical analysis textbooks is wondrous. So why do authors keep writing them?
Obituaries: Richard J. Hanson SIAM News Richard J. Hanson passed away in December at his home in Albuquerque, N.M., after battling brain cancer.
Adaptive Mesh Refinement: An Essential Ingredient in Computational Science Get InvolvedConferencesResearchSIAM News Paul Davis reports on various applications of adaptive mesh refinement and looks towards the next generation of the method’s use.