Computational Plate Tectonics and the Geological Record in the Continents ResearchSIAM News Earth’s surface is composed of a few slowly but continually-moving ‘rigid’ plates floating on a convecting, fluid interior.
Cardiovascular Blood Flow Simulation ResearchSIAM News Cardiovascular blood flow simulations offer non-invasive means to quantify hemodynamics in the heart and major blood vessels.
Mathematician’s New Algorithm Represents Significant Advance in Complexity Theory Research Mathematician and computer scientist László Babai seems to have successfully simplified the graph isomorphism problem.
Berkeley Mathematician Receives Three Million Dollar Prize for Advances in Topology Research Ian Agol received the second annual Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his research in 3-D geometric topology.
Telescopes and Symplectic Mappings ResearchInsightsSIAM News Symplectic geometry, which traces its origins to the work of Poincaré on Hamiltonian systems, has reached a high level of abstraction.
Applying Mathematics to Data Assimilation Methods ResearchSIAM News The potential for application of data assimilation in all realms of science and engineering cannot be overstated.
Mathematical Aspects of Self Organized Dynamics ResearchSIAM News Nature and human societies offer many examples of collective dynamics that tend to self-organize into large-scale clusters.
Better Living through Phase and Isostable Reduction ResearchSIAM News The exploration of fundamental and practical questions in biology and medicine is blurring traditional boundaries between engineering and life...
Coastal Ocean Dynamics ResearchSIAM News By studying and modeling coastal ocean dynamics, we can draw important conclusions about the entire global ocean and the health of our planet.
Population Interactions in Ecology Happening NowPrograms and PublicationsResearch Lou Rossi, section editor of SIAM Review, gives an overview of the "Education" paper in the September 2015 issue.
Problems of Minimal Resistance and the Kakeya Problem Happening NowPrograms and PublicationsResearch The editors of SIAM Review recap the SIGEST paper in the September 2015 issue of SIREV.
Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction ResearchSIAM News Historically, the rise of numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the 1950s played a major role in germinating the field of data assimilation.
The Jungle of Stochastic Optimization ResearchSIAM News There is a vast range of problems that fall under the broad umbrella of making sequential decisions under uncertainty.
Biologically-Inspired Linkage Design: Computing Form From Function ResearchSIAM News Read about the humanoid DRC-HUBO robot, which won the DARPA Robotics Challenge to accelerate development of robots as human substitutes.
Computational Sciences in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry: The ExxonMobil Experience ResearchCommentarySIAM News In the upstream oil and gas industry, decision-making is based on models that reconstruct seismic data into three-dimensional images.
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