https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-49-number-08-october-2016SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:09:03 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-bike-wheel-and-the-gauss-bonnet-theorem/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-bike-wheel-and-the-gauss-bonnet-theorem/Mark Levi asks if a wheel, held by the axle and having zero spin, can turn around the axis and explains a geometric theorem about cones.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-socially-useful-idea-of-privacy/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-socially-useful-idea-of-privacy/Paul Davis discusses Cynthia Dwork’s work with differential privacy, which she presented during AN16.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZPaul Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/acoustic-boundary-condition-dynamics-and-internally-coupled-ears/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/acoustic-boundary-condition-dynamics-and-internally-coupled-ears/More than half of land-living vertebrates are equipped with internally coupled ears, which are essential to survival.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZJ. Leo van Hemmenhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/donald-knuth-talks-satisfiability-and-combinatorics/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/donald-knuth-talks-satisfiability-and-combinatorics/During the SIAM Annual Meeting, Don Knuth explored the satisfiability of Boolean formulae.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZJames Casehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/eniac-the-first-electronic-computer-s-place-in-history/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/eniac-the-first-electronic-computer-s-place-in-history/Ernest Davis reviews ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer, by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley, and Crispin Rope.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZErnest Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/looking-beyond-the-black-box-in-optimization/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/looking-beyond-the-black-box-in-optimization/Paul Davis recaps Stefan Wild’s lecture from the AN16 about “black-box” optimization problems.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZPaul Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mathematics-of-simple-olfactory-search/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mathematics-of-simple-olfactory-search/Bard Ermentrout presents specific algorithms that allow animals to locate and follow odor sources as dynamical systems.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZBard Ermentrouthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-john-w-cahn/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituaries-john-w-cahn/The mathematics and materials science communities lost a giant when John W. Cahn died of MDS on March 14, 2016.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZJean E. Taylor, Carol A. Handwerkerhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spatio-temporal-dynamics-of-childhood-infectious-disease/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spatio-temporal-dynamics-of-childhood-infectious-disease/Epidemic diseases such as measles have an oscillatory behavior closely analogous to predator-prey dynamics in ecology.Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:00:00 ZDebbie Snidermanhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/