How do people in social networks behave? How do online networks influence individuals? Can math help answer these questions?

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

Lou Rossi, section editor of SIAM Review, gives an overview of the "Education" paper in the latest issue.

Evelyn Sander, section editor of SIAM Review, recaps the "Research Spotlights" paper in the September 2014 issue.

Quantitative descriptions of growth and biological development shed light on the full complexity of living organisms.

The last 20 years have seen a transformation in the development of market mechanisms for electric power supply.

The 2014 SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing comprised a wide range of combinatorial topics.

Digital technologies such as tomosynthesis can produce 3D image information of breast cancer tumors via modified conventional X-ray systems.

"Imperfect vaccines" can make controlling certain childhood diseases is difficult, despite high vaccination coverage in many countries.

“Experimental mathematics” recently emerged as a competing paradigm for research in the math. sciences.

The West African Ebola outbreak has inspired several new modeling analyses to understand the disease's dynamics.

The concept of “sharing economy” is rapidly taking hold in the context of urban transportation.