Forward-Looking Panel Tackles Issues of the Mathematics of Planet Earth

MPE16, held last week in Philadelphia, featured a forward-thinking panel discussion about climate science issues and their relation to mathematics.

Protecting Our Coastlines From Hurricane Storm Surge

Clint Dawson discussed various tools used in studying potential mitigation systems to reduce hurricane storm surge at MPE16.

Epidemic diseases such as measles have an oscillatory behavior closely analogous to predator-prey dynamics in ecology.

During the SIAM Annual Meeting, Don Knuth explored the satisfiability of Boolean formulae.

Paul Davis recaps Stefan Wild’s lecture from the AN16 about “black-box” optimization problems.

Paul Davis discusses Cynthia Dwork’s work with differential privacy, which she presented during AN16.

Swati DebRoy describes the use of a SIR model that captures the dynamics of obesity levels in school-age children.

Check out highlights from the recent SIAM Industry Committee Meeting.

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt describes her model for diabetic glucose-induced damage to podocyte cells in kidneys, based on an LS16 talk.

Group, graph, and tiling theory can provide new insights into the architecture and formation of virus particles.

The versatile immersed boundary method is applicable to mathematical problems underlying heart and cilia systems.

Lalitha Venkataramanan, Rachel Levy, and Bill Kolata highlight themes from a career panel that they organized at the SIAM Annual Meeting.

View a collection of photos primarily from the Prizes and Awards Luncheon at the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting, held in Boston this July.

The 2016 I.E. Block Community Lecture emphasized the importance of touching, seeing, and feeling to central concepts in applied mathematics.

Tanya Berger-Wolf’s computational work uses wide-ranging data to provide scientific insight into the collective behavior of animals.