The Virtual Ecologist ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM Newssiam.org FeedsGeosciences and Math of Planet EarthLife Sciences The small island of Isle Royale in Lake Superior is a natural laboratory harboring an idealized predator-prey system of wolves and moose.
Trust Me. QED. ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical Analysis Michael Heroux emphasizes the increasingly urgent need to recognize the importance of computational reproducibility.
Reflections on the Royal Society’s “Numerical Algorithms for High-performance Computational Science” Discussion Meeting Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsCommentarysiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical Analysis The Royal Society discussion meeting on "Numerical Algorithms for High-Performance Computational Science" took place this past April.
Dynamics of Table-top Fire Fronts Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsCommentarysiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves Researchers can describe propagating pulses—such as fire fronts—as excitable systems coupled in space.
Energy and Phased-Based Gait Recovery Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves Animals quickly recover the ability to move after mild injury. At DS19, George Council and Shai Revzen explored this recovery in robots.
Bridging the Gap between Cancer Risk-factor Prevalence and Cancer Incidence Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear WavesLife Sciences Andrew Brouwer uses multistage clonal expansion models to bridge the gap between cancer risk-factor prevalence and cancer incidence.
The World Needs New and Better Medicines Now Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsCommentarysiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical AnalysisLife Sciences Because medicine development is time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone, many diseases lack available medicines for treatment.
Learning with Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsData Science Identifying the underlying structures within large data sets is a crucial data science task, and numerous techniques exist to successfully do so.
Pentamode Materials: From Underwater Cloaking to Cushioned Sneakers ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsMathematical Aspects of Materials Science One type of pentamode design consists of double-cone elements arranged in a diamond-like structure.
New Jersey High Schoolers Earn Top Honors for Mathematical Model of Substance Abuse Happening NowPrograms and PublicationsAwards and RecognitionResearchInsightsCommentaryCareersStudents and EducationSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsEducationStudent The 2019 MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge winning team hailed from High Technology High School in Lincroft, NJ.
Which Energy is Greater? ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM Newssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Mark Levi explores the kinetic and heat energies that an object acquires upon hitting the windshield of a vehicle.
Capabilities, Collaboration, and Cancer Happening NowScience PolicyGet InvolvedConferencesResearchCommentarysiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical Analysis A combination of data science and bench science has the potential to transform the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent cancer.
The Fabric of Our Lives ResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsApplied Geometry One can model the lack of connectivity between a city's locations and the corresponding street network with a topological viewpoint.
Assessing Human Emotional Response to Aversive Stimuli in the Context of Contagion Dynamics Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves Sachit Butail modeled the temporal dynamics of human subjects to assess the effectiveness of extrinsic emotion regulation at DS19.
The Power of Persuasion: Media’s Impact on the Opinion Dynamics of Online Social Networks Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves Heather Zinn Brooks presented a theoretical dynamical model of content spread and opinion dynamics on a social network at DS19.