https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-51-number-06-julyaugust-2018SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:18:50 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2018-global-survey-of-mathematical-computing-and-natural-scientists/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2018-global-survey-of-mathematical-computing-and-natural-scientists/The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists is part of an international project related to the gender gap.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-look-at-the-plenary-talks-at-mpe18/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-look-at-the-plenary-talks-at-mpe18/The second SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth will take place this September in Philadelphia, Pa.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-perspective-on-altitudes/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-perspective-on-altitudes/In his monthly column, Mark Levi delves into the problem of concurrency of altitudes in a triangle.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/advancing-siam/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/advancing-siam/At the end of April, SIAM held a two-day strategic planning workshop called ADVANCE to discuss its future directions.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZNicholas J. Highamhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/anomalous-localized-resonance-and-associated-cloaking/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/anomalous-localized-resonance-and-associated-cloaking/Graeme Milton and Ross McPhedran investigate how regions of anomalous localized resonance lead to cloaking effects.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZGraeme Milton, Ross C. McPhedranhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/detecting-gerrymandering-with-mathematics/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/detecting-gerrymandering-with-mathematics/John Mattingly has spent five years mathematically dissecting the structure of a typical redistricting to identify gerrymandering.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZLakshmi Chandrasekaranhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/integrated-catastrophic-risk-management-robust-balance-between-ex-ante-and-ex-post-measures/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/integrated-catastrophic-risk-management-robust-balance-between-ex-ante-and-ex-post-measures/Intensification of ex-ante measures can significantly reduce the overall burden of natural disasters on the economy.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZYuri M. Ermoliev, Stephen M. Robinson, Elena Rovenskaya, Tatiana Y. Ermolievahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/interpreting-deep-learning-the-machine-learning-rorschach-test/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/interpreting-deep-learning-the-machine-learning-rorschach-test/Theoretical understanding of deep learning is one of the most important tasks facing the statistics and machine learning communities.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZAdam S. Charleshttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nih-releases-strategic-plan-for-data-science/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nih-releases-strategic-plan-for-data-science/In early June, the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy released its new Strategic Plan for Data Science.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituary-hans-f-weinberger/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituary-hans-f-weinberger/Austrian-born mathematician Hans Felix Weinberger passed away at the age of 88 on September 15, 2017.Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:00:00 ZDonald G. Aronson, Peter J. Olver, Fadil Santosahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/