https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-48-number-08-october-2015SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:22:05 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/biologically-inspired-linkage-design-computing-form-from-function/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/biologically-inspired-linkage-design-computing-form-from-function/Read about the humanoid DRC-HUBO robot, which won the DARPA Robotics Challenge to accelerate development of robots as human substitutes.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:26:00 ZJonathan D. Hauenstein, J. Michael McCarthyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/celebration-in-honor-of-gil-strang/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/celebration-in-honor-of-gil-strang/More than one hundred people gathered at ICIAM 2015 in Beijing to honor Gil Strang and celebrate his 80th birthday.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:22:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/computational-sciences-in-the-upstream-oil-and-gas-industry-the-exxonmobil-experience/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/computational-sciences-in-the-upstream-oil-and-gas-industry-the-exxonmobil-experience/In the upstream oil and gas industry, decision-making is based on models that reconstruct seismic data into three-dimensional images. Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:13:00 ZThomas Halseyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/dms-mathematical-sciences-research-institutes-update/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/dms-mathematical-sciences-research-institutes-update/The NSF's Michael Vogelius and Henry Warchall sent an open letter to the mathematical community regarding the Mathematics Institutes.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:58:00 ZMichael Vogelius, Henry Warchallhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/data-assimilation-in-numerical-weather-prediction/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/data-assimilation-in-numerical-weather-prediction/Historically, the rise of numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the 1950s played a major role in germinating the field of data assimilation.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:20:00 ZSebastian Reich, Andrew M. Stuarthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/discrete-time-markov-jump-linear-systems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/discrete-time-markov-jump-linear-systems/Discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLSs) are a particularly interesting class of models within the context of modern control systems.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:26:00 ZO.L.V. Costa, M.D. Fragosohttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/forty-years-of-preconditioning/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/forty-years-of-preconditioning/The 9th International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications was held in June.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:12:00 ZWil Schildershttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/iciam-2015-in-beijing/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/iciam-2015-in-beijing/Recipients of the five ICIAM prizes for 2015 received their awards and delivered prize lectures at the ICIAM meeting held in Beijing, China.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:34:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/inaugural-meeting-of-the-siam-activity-group-on-mathematics-of-planet-earth/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/inaugural-meeting-of-the-siam-activity-group-on-mathematics-of-planet-earth/The newly-formed SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth will hold its inaugural meeting from September 30 through October 2, 2016.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:03:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/is-there-a-role-for-mathematics-in-food-security/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/is-there-a-role-for-mathematics-in-food-security/The Obama administration declared food security a federal priority area, presenting opportunities for modeling and computational expertise.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:33:00 ZHans Kaperhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/life-is-a-tensor-pilot-program-aims-at-expanding-siam-impact/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/life-is-a-tensor-pilot-program-aims-at-expanding-siam-impact/A pilot mentoring and Broader Engagement program organized by the Sustainable Horizons Institute gave students a venue to present their research.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 18:13:00 ZSilvia Crivelli, Mary Ann Leunghttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/moser-s-theorem-on-the-jacobians/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/moser-s-theorem-on-the-jacobians/In his recurring column on Mathematical Curiosities, Mark Levi discusses an interesting result proved by Jürgen Moser.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:43:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-joseph-f-traub/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-joseph-f-traub/Joseph F. Traub passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 24.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 17:36:00 ZHenryk Wozniakowskihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-jungle-of-stochastic-optimization/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-jungle-of-stochastic-optimization/There is a vast range of problems that fall under the broad umbrella of making sequential decisions under uncertainty.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:49:00 ZWarren B. Powellhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-personality-of-numbers/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-personality-of-numbers/Philip J. Davis reviews The Personality of Numbers by Marc Chamberland, with a separate chapter for numbers one through nine.Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:13:00 ZPhilip J. Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/