https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-52-number-07-september-2019SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:23:59 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-perspective-on-diversity-and-inclusion-in-computing/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/a-perspective-on-diversity-and-inclusion-in-computing/Elizabeth Bautista describes the tribulations she faces as a minority female mathematician in the computing industry.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZElizabeth Bautistahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/balancing-motherhood-with-a-successful-career-in-stem/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/balancing-motherhood-with-a-successful-career-in-stem/Three SIAM members share their insights on effectively balancing careers with the challenges of motherhood.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZKathleen Kavanagh, Kathryn Maupin, Talea Mayohttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/control-of-pdes-with-boundaries-governed-by-odes/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/control-of-pdes-with-boundaries-governed-by-odes/Miroslav Krstic writes about his W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Lecture from the 2019 SIAM Conference on Control and its Applications.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZMiroslav Krstichttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/electricity-markets-and-renewable-energy/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/electricity-markets-and-renewable-energy/Multiple countries are moving towards a deregulated, market-based electricity system in which competing agents make generation investments on a com...Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZMichael Ferris, Andy Philpotthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/first-siam-conference-on-mathematics-of-data-science/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/first-siam-conference-on-mathematics-of-data-science/The first SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS) will be held May 5-7, 2020 in Cincinnati, Ohio.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/laura-bassi-a-trailblazer-for-women-in-science/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/laura-bassi-a-trailblazer-for-women-in-science/Ernest Davis reviews Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe by Monique Frize.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:00:00 ZErnest Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituary-john-g-lewis/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/obituary-john-g-lewis/John G. Lewis, a SIAM Fellow and longtime member, died peacefully in his sleep on June 10 after battling ALS.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZThomas A. Grandinehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/photos-from-iciam-2019/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/photos-from-iciam-2019/View photos of major SIAM prize presentations at the 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/prize-spotlight-2019-siam-conference-on-financial-mathematics-engineering/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/prize-spotlight-2019-siam-conference-on-financial-mathematics-engineering/Daniel Lacker and Mykhaylo Shkolnikov received the 2019 SIAG/FME Early Career Prize at FM19.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-members-among-national-academy-of-sciences-inductees/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/siam-members-among-national-academy-of-sciences-inductees/Three SIAM members were inducted to the National Academy of Sciences earlier this year.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/smoothing-and-thresholding-a-flexible-methodology-for-image-segmentation/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/smoothing-and-thresholding-a-flexible-methodology-for-image-segmentation/Image segmentation is a fundamental task of image processing and computer vision and has numerous applications.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZXiaohao Cai, Raymond Chan, Hongfei Yang, Tieyong Zenghttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spinning-out/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spinning-out/When squeezing the rear brake on a bicycle, why does the bike not proceed in a straight line before stopping?Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-difficulties-of-addressing-interdisciplinary-challenges-at-the-foundations-of-data-science-part-i-of-ii/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-difficulties-of-addressing-interdisciplinary-challenges-at-the-foundations-of-data-science-part-i-of-ii/Michael Mahoney overviews the National Science Foundation’s Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZMichael W. Mahoneyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/trends-in-combinatorial-analysis-complex-data-machine-learning-and-high-performance-computing/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/trends-in-combinatorial-analysis-complex-data-machine-learning-and-high-performance-computing/Discrete algorithms and combinatorial analysis were well represented at CSE19, held this year in Spokane, Wash.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 ZAriful Azad, Bora Uçar, Alex Pothenhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/update-to-the-siam-journal-on-financial-mathematics/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/update-to-the-siam-journal-on-financial-mathematics/SIAM is pleased to announce the addition of a new section for the SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/