https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-49-number-01-januaryfebruary-2016SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:23:58 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/an-inverted-pendulum-defying-gravity-and-intuition/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/an-inverted-pendulum-defying-gravity-and-intuition/In his recurring column on “Mathematical Curiosities,” Mark Levi explains the reasons behind the stability of an inverted pendulum.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:25:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/eigenvalue-analysis-and-model-reduction-in-the-treatment-of-disc-brake-squeal/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/eigenvalue-analysis-and-model-reduction-in-the-treatment-of-disc-brake-squeal/To lessen disc brake squeal, researchers developed a math model of a brake system to generate a small-scale reduced-order optimization model.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:16:00 ZVolker Mehrmann, Christian Schröderhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/energy-optimization-rain-is-free-or-isn-t-it/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/energy-optimization-rain-is-free-or-isn-t-it/Electricity poses a challenge; an electrical network should carry power in an amount that is “enough” but not “too much.”Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:42:00 ZClaudia Sagastizábalhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/leveraging-noise-to-control-complex-networks/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/leveraging-noise-to-control-complex-networks/Read about ways in which stochastic noise can be accounted and exploited to control network dynamical systems.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:12:00 ZDaniel K. Wells, William L. Kath, Adilson E. Motterhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/machine-learning-and-the-prospect-of-a-master-algorithm/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/machine-learning-and-the-prospect-of-a-master-algorithm/Ernest Davis candidly reviews Pedro Domingo's The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 20:04:00 ZErnest Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-year-brings-new-leadership-for-siam/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-year-brings-new-leadership-for-siam/A new year brings new leadership to SIAM. Read about the newly-elected officers here.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:58:00 ZLina Sorghttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/randnla-pythons-and-the-cur-for-your-data-problems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/randnla-pythons-and-the-cur-for-your-data-problems/Organizers recap the 2015 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School, which took place in Delphi, Greece.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:30:00 ZEfstratios Gallopoulos, Petros Drineas, Ilse C.F. Ipsen, Michael W. Mahoneyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/symposium-connects-government-problems-with-state-of-the-art-network-science-research/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/symposium-connects-government-problems-with-state-of-the-art-network-science-research/The Graph Exploitation Symposium is an annual meeting that pertains to the network science research community.Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:06:00 ZBenjamin A. Miller, Rajmonda S. Cacereshttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/