https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-51-number-03-april-2018SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:57:28 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/controllability-and-local-asymptotic-stabilizability-of-control-systems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/controllability-and-local-asymptotic-stabilizability-of-control-systems/Paul Davis overviews Jean-Michel Coron’s 2017 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Lecture on controllability and local asymptotic stabilizability.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZPaul Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/demystifying-chance-understanding-the-secrets-of-probability/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/demystifying-chance-understanding-the-secrets-of-probability/Jim Case reviews Ten Great Ideas about Chance by Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZJames Casehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/focusing-on-nephroids/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/focusing-on-nephroids/In this month's column on "Mathematical Curiosities," Mark Levi discusses caustics, epicycloids, and nephroids.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/looking-back-at-60-volumes-of-siam-review/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/looking-back-at-60-volumes-of-siam-review/On the occasion of SIAM Review’s 60th volume, SIAM President Nick Higham traces the journal’s history.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZNicholas J. Highamhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nsf-releases-details-of-proposed-fiscal-year-2019-budget/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nsf-releases-details-of-proposed-fiscal-year-2019-budget/On February 28, the National Science Foundation published its detailed budget request for fiscal year 2019.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZEliana Perlmutter, Miriam Quintalhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-division-director-for-the-nsf-s-division-of-mathematical-sciences/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/new-division-director-for-the-nsf-s-division-of-mathematical-sciences/Juan Meza has been appointed the new division director of the NSF’s Division of Mathematical Sciences.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/quantifying-reducing-and-repurposing-wasted-food/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/quantifying-reducing-and-repurposing-wasted-food/The MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge poses prominent, multi-faceted issues to high schoolers. This year's problem focused on food insecurity.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/robustness-of-complex-networks-with-applications-to-cancer-biology/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/robustness-of-complex-networks-with-applications-to-cancer-biology/Allen Tannenbaum investigates complex networks, focusing on applications to cancer biology.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZAllen Tannenbaumhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-review-s-top-downloaded-paper-spotlights-a-rapidly-growing-field/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-review-s-top-downloaded-paper-spotlights-a-rapidly-growing-field/In honor of SIAM Review’s 60th volume, author Mark Newman reflects on the journal's most popular article.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZMark Newmanhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/sensitive-dependence-on-network-structure-analog-of-chaos-and-opportunity-for-control/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/sensitive-dependence-on-network-structure-analog-of-chaos-and-opportunity-for-control/Adilson Motter and Takashi Nishikawa explain how network dynamics often depends sensitively on network structure.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZAdilson E. Motter, Takashi Nishikawahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/singular-perturbations-in-noisy-dynamical-systems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/singular-perturbations-in-noisy-dynamical-systems/Paul Davis recaps Bernard Matkowsky's 2017 John von Neumann Lecture, which focused on the effects of noise.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZPaul Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/snow-business-computational-elastoplasticity-in-the-movies-and-beyond/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/snow-business-computational-elastoplasticity-in-the-movies-and-beyond/In his talk at AN18, Joseph Teran will discuss how visual effects rely on a wide range of numerical methods for PDEs.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZJoseph Teranhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-high-performance-geometric-multigrid-an-hpc-performance-benchmark/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-high-performance-geometric-multigrid-an-hpc-performance-benchmark/The High-Performance Geometric Multigrid incorporates machine sensitivities that correlate well with the sensitivities of high-performance computin...Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZSamuel Williams, Mark F. Adams, Jed Brownhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/understanding-and-appreciating-mathematics-and-statistics/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/understanding-and-appreciating-mathematics-and-statistics/Participate in Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month by hosting and organizing events all throughout April.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/untangling-random-polygons-and-other-things/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/untangling-random-polygons-and-other-things/Charles F. Van Loan previews his upcoming 2018 John von Neumann Lecture about the polygon averaging problem.Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 ZCharles F. Van Loanhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/