https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-48-number-07-september-2015SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:06:14 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-cycloid-is-a-tautochrone/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-cycloid-is-a-tautochrone/In his recurring column, Mark Levi presents a very short geometrical proof of the tautochronous property of the cycloid.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:53:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-siam-special-function-at-nist/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-siam-special-function-at-nist/The 13th International Symposium on Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications was held in June 2015.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:47:00 ZWillard Miller, Jr.http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/bringing-siam-news-to-life-for-nearly-three-decades/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/bringing-siam-news-to-life-for-nearly-three-decades/Gail Corbett steps down as managing editor of SIAM News after more than 28 years.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:52:00 ZPaul Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/chaos-and-its-manifestations/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/chaos-and-its-manifestations/Chaos does not have a satisfactory single mathematical definition; rather, it has many mathematical manifestations in many different situations.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:59:00 ZEvelyn Sander, James A. Yorkehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/control-intuition-existence-and-regularity/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/control-intuition-existence-and-regularity/Francis Clarke discusses issues for an optimal control problem that arises in modeling renewable resources.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:38:00 ZFrancis Clarkehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/how-interstellar-was-born/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/how-interstellar-was-born/James Case reviews The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne and discusses the recent blockbuster movie.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 20:08:00 ZJames Casehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/moving-siam-to-the-forefront-of-technology-in-the-information-age/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/moving-siam-to-the-forefront-of-technology-in-the-information-age/Upon his retirement, Jim Goldman muses on working at SIAM and SIAM's progression as a society in terms of technology.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 21:27:00 ZJames L. Goldmanhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-charles-lawson/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-charles-lawson/Charles Lawson, who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, died on July 2, 2015, in Laguna Woods, CA.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 19:33:00 ZFred Kroghhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/tensor-decompositions-in-smart-patient-monitoring/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/tensor-decompositions-in-smart-patient-monitoring/Sabine Van Huffel shows that tensor decompositions can be highly useful in biomedical data processing.Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:26:00 ZSabine Van Huffelhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/