https://www.siam.org/rss-feed/siam-news/issue-archive/volume-58-number-08-october-2025SIAM News Rss Issue Archive Feeden-USCopyright 2026Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:06:05 Zhttps://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/active-hydraulics-as-analog-computers-to-solve-complex-problems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/active-hydraulics-as-analog-computers-to-solve-complex-problems/A new set of active matter experiments have matched an exact solution for a particular system known as the six-vertex or ice-type model.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZMatthew R. Francishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/amplifying-researchers-voices-in-us-science-policymaking/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/amplifying-researchers-voices-in-us-science-policymaking/At AN25, a special panel session overviewed current and anticipated changes in U.S. science policy and outlined opportunities for involvement.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZJillian Kunzehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/career-opportunities-panel-at-an25-compares-employment-experiences-within-and-beyond-academia/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/career-opportunities-panel-at-an25-compares-employment-experiences-within-and-beyond-academia/A panel discussion at AN25 explored career options that are available to applied mathematicians, computational scientists, and data scientists.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZLina Sorghttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/group-science-the-open-source-study-of-higher-order-networks-with-xgi/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/group-science-the-open-source-study-of-higher-order-networks-with-xgi/The CompleX Group Interactions (XGI) software package offers analytical tools, tutorials, and documentation for higher-order network science research.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZNicholas W. Landry, Laurent Hébert-Dufresnehttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/openai-extraordinary-accomplishments-but-at-what-cost/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/openai-extraordinary-accomplishments-but-at-what-cost/Ernest Davis reviews Karen Hao's new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZErnest Davishttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/red-sock-award-at-ds25-recognizes-outstanding-student-research-in-dynamical-systems/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/red-sock-award-at-ds25-recognizes-outstanding-student-research-in-dynamical-systems/The four graduate student recipients of SIAM's Red Sock Award overview the dynamical systems research that they presented at DS25.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZTwinkle Jaswal, Juan Patiño-Echeverría, Laura Pinkney, Anna K. Thomashttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spectral-geometry-for-dynamical-systems-and-time-evolving-networks/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/spectral-geometry-for-dynamical-systems-and-time-evolving-networks/The modification of classical ideas from spectral geometry can produce linear operators that are induced by nonlinear microdynamics.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZGary Froylandhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-mechanics-of-the-powerball/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/the-mechanics-of-the-powerball/The Powerball is a gyroscope mounted inside of a plastic ball with an opening that allows the user to give the gyro an initial spin. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZMark Levihttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/theory-guides-the-frontiers-of-large-generative-models/https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/theory-guides-the-frontiers-of-large-generative-models/At AN25, Courtney Paquette spoke about her efforts to predict the behavior of large models that are trained via stochastic gradient descent.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 ZManuchehr Aminianhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/