Jared Bronski offered a mathematical explanation of a longstanding magician’s trick involving a ball chain and steel ring at DS19.

At DS19, Eve Armstrong presented a geometric dynamical systems tool for analyzing birdsong in cowbirds.

Paul Davis offers a detailed overview of some of the invited talks, prize lectures, and minisymposia presentations at CSE19.

Quantization—an efficient means of producing low-precision DNNs—yields interesting mathematical issues.

Could Hopf bifurcation be responsible for fluctuating wait times? Jamol Pender investigates at CSE19.

Roy Goodman presents an overview of Markdown, a lightweight markup language that is well suited for smaller writing projects.

Upgrading engineering safety requirements could account for the magnitude of adverse outcomes beyond safety thresholds.

Kaitlin Hill and Sara Clifton use a minimal model for promotion within hierarchically-structured fields to investigate gender parity.

A two-part minisymposium at CSE19 focused on the fast Fourier transform, an algorithm that is used in a variety of applications.

Determining proteins’ three-dimensional structure is key to understanding how they work and why they cause diseases.

The malaria parasite’s ongoing evolution towards drug resistance is a key challenge in combatting the epidemic.

Stents are mesh-like tubes that interventional cardiologists use to prop open diseased arteries and restore normal blood flow.

Geometrical models play a critical role in diverse fields, such as computer graphics and animation.

A glass cylinder is neither focusing nor defocusing, as entering parallel beams remain parallel as they pass through.