https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-47-number-08-october-2014SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:41:26 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/an-invitation-from-the-research-spotlights-section-of-siam-review/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/an-invitation-from-the-research-spotlights-section-of-siam-review/Members of the SIAM community are invited to submit articles for the "Research Spotlights" section of SIAM Review.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZTim Kelley, Evelyn Sanderhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/dms-update-on-interdisciplinary-workforce-programs/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/dms-update-on-interdisciplinary-workforce-programs/Read about Division of Mathematical Sciences interdisciplinary and workforce-development programs of particular interest to the mathematical scienc...Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZXiaoming Huo, Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl, Henry Warchall, Michael Vogeliushttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/euclidean-distance-degree/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/euclidean-distance-degree/Many models arise as the set of real solutions to systems of multivariate polynomial equations w/ real coefficients.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZRekha R. Thomashttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/exploring-connectivity-in-the-brain-s-network-of-neurons/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/exploring-connectivity-in-the-brain-s-network-of-neurons/Technical breakthroughs offer unprecedented data about the brain’s network architecture and activity. Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZEric Shea-Brownhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/golub-summer-school-in-optimization-draws-45-students-to-linz/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/golub-summer-school-in-optimization-draws-45-students-to-linz/From August 4 through 15, 45 students representing six continents took part in the Gene Golub SIAM Summer School in Linz, Austria.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZNegin Bagherpour, Peter Gangl, Francesco Ludovici, Petar Sapun, Erin M. Kileyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/hong-kong-hosts-2014-siag-is-conference/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/hong-kong-hosts-2014-siag-is-conference/The 2014 SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, held at Hong Kong Baptist University, drew approximately 580 scientists from all over the world.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZHongyu Liu, Michael Nghttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-activity-group/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-activity-group/SIAM has a new activity group—the SIAM Activity Group on Applied Mathematics Education (SIAG/ED).Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-harold-kuhn-1925-2014/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-harold-kuhn-1925-2014/Harold Kuhn, professor emeritus at Princeton University and an early president of SIAM, died on July 2.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZJames Casehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/role-for-the-math-sciences-in-federal-brain-initiative/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/role-for-the-math-sciences-in-federal-brain-initiative/With the launch of the BRAIN initiative, neuroscience and cognitive science have become major priorities of the Obama administration.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZMiriam Quintalhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-prizes-chicago-2014-annual-meeting/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-prizes-chicago-2014-annual-meeting/Additional 2014 prize recipients were featured in the September issue of SIAM News.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/student-chapter-activities-and-update/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/student-chapter-activities-and-update/Read about a myriad of student chapter activities that took place between January and May 2014.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-dark-side-of-image-reconstruction/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-dark-side-of-image-reconstruction/Many scientific applications rely on the accurate reconstruction of spatially, spectrally, and temporally distributed phenomena from photon-limited...Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZRebecca Willetthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/work-in-progress/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/work-in-progress/Recent visitors to the website of SIAM News might have a sense of shifting ground – and justly so.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 ZGail Corbetthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/postgraduate-membership-renamed-early-career-102014/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/postgraduate-membership-renamed-early-career-102014/Mathematicians who earned their highest degree within the last five years are now “early career” members.Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/