https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-57-number-08-october-2024SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:22:41 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/ai-in-education-a-progressive-practical-proposal/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/ai-in-education-a-progressive-practical-proposal/John Jungck reviews "Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning" by José Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZJohn R. Jungckhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/chinese-academy-of-sciences-siam-student-chapter-hosts-13th-annual-meeting/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/chinese-academy-of-sciences-siam-student-chapter-hosts-13th-annual-meeting/The meeting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences SIAM Student Chapter explored computational mathematics and its real-world applications.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZYan Yang, Jingru Zhuhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/feeling-lucky-the-relative-roles-of-skill-and-chance-in-sports/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/feeling-lucky-the-relative-roles-of-skill-and-chance-in-sports/The persistence of skill can serve as a metric for the placement of athletic competitions on the skill-luck spectrum.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZAnette Hosoihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/from-theory-to-advocacy-the-siam-science-policy-fellowship-experience/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/from-theory-to-advocacy-the-siam-science-policy-fellowship-experience/The SIAM Science Policy Fellowship Program offers an invaluable opportunity to influence key decisions in U.S. federal policy.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZBashir Mohammed, Victor Churchill, Arielle Carrhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/learning-in-image-reconstruction-a-cautionary-tale/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/learning-in-image-reconstruction-a-cautionary-tale/Inverse problems are growing in influence, leading to associated questions of reliability and trustworthiness for learning algorithms.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZMartin Burger, Tim Roithhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mpe24-panel-explores-mathematical-careers-in-earth-science-and-sustainability/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/mpe24-panel-explores-mathematical-careers-in-earth-science-and-sustainability/A multitude of jobs in academia, industry, and the national labs apply mathematical methods to environmental research.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZJillian Kunzehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/meeting-in-the-middle-for-randnla-optimization-and-inverse-problems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/meeting-in-the-middle-for-randnla-optimization-and-inverse-problems/50 graduate students from around the world converged in Quito, Ecuador, for the 2024 Gene Golub SIAM Summer School.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZMatthias Chung, Juan Carlos De los Reyes, Petros Drineas, Rosemary Renaut, Alex Townsendhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/pseudomagnetism-in-photonics-from-mathematical-theory-to-experiment/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/pseudomagnetism-in-photonics-from-mathematical-theory-to-experiment/One can engineer a nonmagnetic photonic crystal in which photons of light move much like electrons under the influence of a magnetic field.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZMikael C. Rechtsman, Michael I. Weinsteinhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-weak-form-is-stronger-than-you-think/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-weak-form-is-stronger-than-you-think/With a data-driven topology, the weak form can offer surprising noise robustness, accuracy, and computational efficiency.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZDaniel Messenger, April Tran, Vanja Dukic, David Bortzhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/understanding-jupyter-as-a-valuable-student-resource-for-computational-discovery/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/understanding-jupyter-as-a-valuable-student-resource-for-computational-discovery/"Computational Discovery on Jupyter" uses Python to expose students to mathematical ideas outside of the standard curriculum.Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:00:00 ZNeil J. Calkin, Eunice Y.S. Chan, Robert M. Corlesshttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/