Study: There's Real Skill in Fantasy Sports Happening NowPrograms and PublicationsPress ReleasesResearchInsightsCommentary Researchers find most fantasy sports are based on skill, not luck. Read more.
Recovering Lost Information in the Digital World ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsImaging Science Is it possible to restore information that is lost in transition to the digital domain? The answer depends on what we know about the signal.
A Timely Focus on Data Science ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM Newssiam.org FeedsData Science The SIAM community is well versed in the aspect of data science that concerns the accuracy of results.
How Paradoxes Shape Mathematics Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Thomas Hales spoke about mathematical paradoxes during the I. E. Block Community Lecture at AN18 this July.
Grass, Trees, and Fire: Elements of a Savanna Lifecycle ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsGeosciences and Math of Planet EarthLife Sciences Savannas have a special ecology and are defined as a combination of grasses, saplings, and adult savanna trees, with fire as the driving element.
A Visual Way to Teach the Fast Fourier Transform ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM Newssiam.org FeedsApplied GeometryDiscrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science The algorithm behind the fast Fourier transform has a simple yet beautiful geometric interpretation.
Heat Exchange and Some Frivolous Aspects of e ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM News Can you heat a glass of milk at 0°C to over 50°C using only the heat from a 100°C glass of water?
Workshop on Modeling Dynamics, Statistical Interference and Prediction of Infectious Diseases Happening NowResearchInsightssiam.org FeedsGeosciences and Math of Planet EarthLife Sciences MoDSIP-ID proposed novel ideas in advancing the field of mathematical modeling of tropical infectious diseases.
Untangling DNA with Knot Theory Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsLife Sciences At AN18, Mariel Vazquez employed topological concepts from knot theory to demonstrate that cells detangle DNA with optimal efficiency.
The Unwinding Number ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM Newssiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical Analysis Early programmers had to write their own procedures to implement complex arithmetic and transcendental functions.
Wormlike Micellar Solutions, Polymers, and Mucins Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsSIAM News Pam Cook spoke about molecular-level modeling of materials that exhibit similarly schizoid behavior during her AN18 Julian Cole Lectureship.
Information Theory in Earth and Space Science ResearchInsightsSIAM Newssiam.org FeedsGeosciences and Math of Planet Earth Recent advances in information theory enable our understanding of the dynamics of abrupt climate changes.
Reproducible BLAS: Make Addition Associative Again! ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM News Hardware and software vendors and standards committees are addressing the challenge of reproducibility.
The Moon Sine ResearchInsightsCommentarySIAM News In this month's column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi contemplates moon angles and the lunar tilt illusion.
Compartmental Model Exposes Reality of the U.S. Opioid Epidemic Get InvolvedConferencesResearchInsightsCommentarysiam.org FeedsGeosciences and Math of Planet Earth Christopher Strickland presented a sobering model of prescription opioid addiction and treatment during MPE18.