https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-50-number-08-october-2017SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:11:34 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-multiprecision-world/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-multiprecision-world/With the introduction of support for other precisions, the floating-point landscape has recently become much richer.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZNicholas J. Highamhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/convergence-in-imaging-sciences/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/convergence-in-imaging-sciences/The notion of convergence has a very specific connotation of coming together without ever moving apart.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZEric Millerhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/downwind-faster-than-the-wind/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/downwind-faster-than-the-wind/A regular sailboat cannot exceed wind speed when going dead downwind, i.e., exactly in the wind's direction.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/from-global-to-local-getting-more-from-compressed-sensing/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/from-global-to-local-getting-more-from-compressed-sensing/Over the last decade, compressed sensing and sparse recovery techniques have had a significant impact on applied mathematics.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZAlexander Bastounis, Ben Adcock, Anders C. Hansenhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nsf-pic-math-grant-sponsors-data-analytics-workshop/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nsf-pic-math-grant-sponsors-data-analytics-workshop/The PIC Math Workshop on Data Analytics exposed attendees to techniques used in data analytics problems.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZThomas Wakefieldhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/processing-manifold-valued-images/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/processing-manifold-valued-images/Modern image acquisition methods can capture info. that is no longer restricted to Euclidean spaces but can be manifold-valued.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZRonny Bergmann, Friederike Laus, Johannes Persch, Gabriele Steidlhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/separating-shape-and-intensity-variation-in-images/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/separating-shape-and-intensity-variation-in-images/The two largest modes of image variation are intensity variation and variation in point correspondence.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZLine Kühnel, Stefan Sommer, Akshay Pai, Lars Lau Rakethttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/unhidden-figures/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/unhidden-figures/Four African American women spoke to a packed auditorium at the "Hidden Figures" panel during the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZKarthika Swamy Cohenhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/unifying-different-perspectives-from-cubism-to-convolution/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/unifying-different-perspectives-from-cubism-to-convolution/Visual perception as a fundamental sensation that shapes our understanding is of interest to science and art.Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:00:00 ZRujie Yinhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/