The Unconventional Aerodynamics of Paper Airplanes

Li and Ristroph describe experimental/modeling work identifying the origin of paper airplane stability.

Front Propagation in a Model for Civil Unrest

Ghazaryan and Rodríguez describe recent work revealing front propagation in a model of civil unrest.

Sequence Generation in Inhibition-dominated Neural Networks

The authors summarize their recent SIADS article using dynamical systems to identify sequential attractors that emerge given the architectures of a special class of neural networks that are inhibition-dominated.

Professional Feature - Yang (Angela) Yang

Yang (Angela) Yang is a Staff Research Scientist at Meta.

Abdul-Aziz Yakubu (1958-2022)

Yakubu, professor of mathematics at Howard University, died August 14, 2022, at the age of 64.

Professional Feature - Ernesto Estrada

Ernesto Estrada is a full research professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

The Brain Is a Dynamical System

Lai-Sang Young describes her recent work dynamically modeling interactions in the visual system that accomplish edge-detection and motion-tracking.

Control and Machine Learning

Enrique Zuazua discusses the intricate mathematical connections between control theory and machine learning.

How Do Snakes Slither? A Recipe for Reptation

Mark Levi develops a "dynamical recipe for reptation" by analyzing the physics of slithering snakes.

Nonlinear Dynamical Uncertainty Quantification for Random Differential Equations

Kerstin Lux from the Technical University of Munich discusses a new article she co-authored in SIADS on extending bifurcation analysis to random differential equations.