https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-52-number-09-november-2019SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:24:25 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/carbon-cycle-catastrophes-a-dynamical-systems-perspective/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/carbon-cycle-catastrophes-a-dynamical-systems-perspective/Dynamical systems theory helps researchers understand mass extinction events, which are associated with disruptions of the carbon cycle.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZDaniel H. Rothmanhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/changes-to-siam-s-child-care-grant-program/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/changes-to-siam-s-child-care-grant-program/SIAM offers child care grants for those attending select SIAM conferences with small children.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 Zhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/computational-mechanics-three-decades-of-applications-and-extensions/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/computational-mechanics-three-decades-of-applications-and-extensions/James Crutchfield details his personal interest in computational mechanics and its applications to nonlinear physics.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZJames P. Crutchfieldhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/low-precision-floating-point-formats-the-wild-west-of-computer-arithmetic/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/low-precision-floating-point-formats-the-wild-west-of-computer-arithmetic/Floating-point arithmetic is fundamental to scientific computing and lies at the heart of almost all numerical computations.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZSrikara Praneshhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mathematics-infrared-technology-new-diagnostic-technique-for-autism/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mathematics-infrared-technology-new-diagnostic-technique-for-autism/A novel technique employs network analysis to identify eye-gaze patterns of children with autism spectrum disorder.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZAnita Layton, Mehrshad Sadriahttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nearly-three-decades-at-snowbird-the-iconic-venue-and-its-influence-on-dynamical-systems-at-siam/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/nearly-three-decades-at-snowbird-the-iconic-venue-and-its-influence-on-dynamical-systems-at-siam/The Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort has helped to shape the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZHans Kaper, Marty Golubitskyhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/panelists-talk-machine-learning-and-the-future-of-mathematics-at-iciam-2019/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/panelists-talk-machine-learning-and-the-future-of-mathematics-at-iciam-2019/ICIAM 2019 hosted a special panel on the future of mathematics in the age of machine learning that explored the field in detail.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZHans De Sterck, Gitta Kutyniok, James Nagy, Eitan Tadmorhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/past-and-present-of-variational-fracture/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/past-and-present-of-variational-fracture/The variational view of fracture yields a mathematically-consistent theory that reproduces many experimental results.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZBlaise Bourdin, Gilles Francforthttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/preparing-applied-mathematics-students-for-careers-in-industry/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/preparing-applied-mathematics-students-for-careers-in-industry/Presenters at ICIAM 2019 addressed mathematics education and explored ways in which they are leveraging their skills to train and prepare students.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZLucas Castlehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-cauchy-schwarz-inequality-and-a-paradoxpuzzle/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-cauchy-schwarz-inequality-and-a-paradoxpuzzle/Mark Levi presents an asymmetric U-tube and explains its connection to the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-physics-of-animal-motion/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-physics-of-animal-motion/Ernest Davis reviews How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls, a recent book by David Hu.Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:00:00 ZErnest Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/