The Models are Incomplete, the Intuitions are Unreliable

Karl Kempf of Intel Corporation discusses the reliability and influence of intuition when making big-business decisions.

Regaining Control in our Electric Grid

The power grid in the U.S. and throughout the world is implementing new technologies to realize the “smart grid” vision.

In the upstream oil and gas industry, decision-making is based on models that reconstruct seismic data into three-dimensional images.

The Obama administration declared food security a federal priority area, presenting opportunities for modeling and computational expertise.

Des Higham, section editor of SIAM Review, gives an overview of the "Survey and Review" paper in the September 2015 issue.

Computational scientists in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering have been experiencing their own big data revolution.

Ulrich Rüde explains the underperformance of many novel algorithms and the creative research necessary to design efficient HPC software.

In this issue’s column, Mark Levi outlines a quick constructive proof of the Riemann mapping theorem.

In this month's column, Mark Levi explains Kelvin’s theorem in two dimensions.

Mark Levi presents is a calculus-free solution of the standard vector calculus problem.

This is the first installment of a regular column by Mark Levi of the Pennsylvania State University.

The 2014 SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing comprised a wide range of combinatorial topics.

The finite element method is one of the most powerful techniques for the simulation of the physical world.

Nick Higham revisits his previous review of Michael Overton's 2001 book, Numerical Computing with IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic.

As our digital footprints become more visible, and machine-to-machine communication more commonplace, cities can become “Living Labs.”