Evelyn Sander, section editor of SIAM Review, recaps the "Research Spotlights" paper in the September 2015 issue.

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

In his recurring column, Mark Levi presents a very short geometrical proof of the tautochronous property of the cycloid.

Francis Clarke discusses issues for an optimal control problem that arises in modeling renewable resources.

Sabine Van Huffel shows that tensor decompositions can be highly useful in biomedical data processing.

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

Researchers present a mathematical model to study the effects of individual movement on infectious disease spread, such as Ebola.

Sequential planning under uncertainty is a basic optimization problem that arises in many different settings.

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

Mark Levi presents a solution that is shorter than Johann Bernoulli’s famous optics-based idea of minimizing an integral.

The recent floods in Texas have caused some of the worst flooding since Hurricane Ike in 2008.

The field of optics and photonics encompasses the fundamental science of light and its applications.

Computational surgery focuses on medical imaging, medical robotics, simulation, and info. technology in surgery.