https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-50-number-10-december-2017SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:16:19 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2017-germund-dahlquist-prize/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2017-germund-dahlquist-prize/The 2017 Germund Dahlquist Prize was awarded to Per-Gunnar Martinsson at SciCADE2017.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-water-based-solution-of-polynomial-equations/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-water-based-solution-of-polynomial-equations/In this month's column, Mark Levi describes a “hydrostatic” calculator of roots—at least of positive real ones—of a polynomial of any degree.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/algebraic-vision/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/algebraic-vision/Algebraic vision is an emerging viewpoint of geometric problems in computer vision that examines polynomial models.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZRekha R. Thomashttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/direct-current-transmission-and-the-future-of-electricity/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/direct-current-transmission-and-the-future-of-electricity/The U.S. will soon save money and energy by transporting electricity through direct current rather than alternating current transmission lines.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZJames Casehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/how-will-early-quantum-computing-benefit-computational-methods/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/how-will-early-quantum-computing-benefit-computational-methods/2017 saw considerable news about the imminent impact of quantum computing on science, math, and data analysis.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZPhil Goddard, Susan Mniszewski, Florian Neukart, Scott Pakin, Steve Reinhardthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mitigating-bias-in-science-and-engineering/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mitigating-bias-in-science-and-engineering/Implicit associations are natural, but become problematic when they are misapplied or biased by socialization.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZRobin O. Andreasenhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nonlinear-patterns-and-waves-from-spectra-to-stability-and-dynamics/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nonlinear-patterns-and-waves-from-spectra-to-stability-and-dynamics/Besides being aesthetically pleasing, patterns and waves often serve important beneficial or detrimental functions.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZBjörn Sandstedehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/persistent-homology-analysis-of-biomolecular-data/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/persistent-homology-analysis-of-biomolecular-data/Recent technological advances have fueled the exponential growth of “omic” data in biology.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZGuo-Wei Weihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/quantifying-uncertainty-in-numerical-analysis/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/quantifying-uncertainty-in-numerical-analysis/When recasting numerical analysis in a probabilistic setting, it suffices to have a few basic notions of probability.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZDaniela Calvettihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-science-policy-fellowships-12012017/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-science-policy-fellowships-12012017/SIAM has initiated a new Science Policy Fellowships Program to engage early-career professionals in policy and advocacy.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZJames Crowleyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/surprises-regarding-the-hall-effect-an-extraordinary-story-involving-an-artist-mathematicians-and-physicists/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/surprises-regarding-the-hall-effect-an-extraordinary-story-involving-an-artist-mathematicians-and-physicists/A recent microstructure of interlocking rings reversed the sign of the Hall coefficient in a material with electrons as the predominant charge carr...Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZMarc Briane, Muamer Kadic, Christian Kern, Graeme Milton, Martin Wegener, Dylon Whytehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/tensor-decomposition-a-mathematical-tool-for-data-analysis/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/tensor-decomposition-a-mathematical-tool-for-data-analysis/One of the foundational tools for unsupervised analysis and data reduction is principal component analysis.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZTamara G. Koldahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-clever-mathematics-behind-wall-street-intrigue/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-clever-mathematics-behind-wall-street-intrigue/Richard H. Burkhart reviews The Money Formula by Paul Wilmott and David Orrell.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZRichard H. Burkharthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-mathematics-of-seeing-clearly-deblurring-images-for-national-security/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-mathematics-of-seeing-clearly-deblurring-images-for-national-security/Derek Jung was a graduate student intern in the NSF's Mathematical Sciences Graduate Internship (MSGI) Program.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZAnnette Hilton, Amanda Freulerhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-world-s-most-fundamental-matrix-equation/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-world-s-most-fundamental-matrix-equation/The world’s most fundamental matrix equation (WMFME) directly yields many less obvious formulas.Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:00:00 ZNicholas J. Highamhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/