Education

Executive Director Jim Crowley Retires After 25 Years of SIAM Leadership

Lina Sorg, the managing editor of SIAM News, reflects on Jim Crowley's twenty-five year tenure as SIAM Executive Director, and shares memories and well-wishes of SIAM Members who have worked with him over the years.

Exploring Symmetry in Chaos

Michael Field and Martin Golubitsky announce the second edition of their book Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature.

Flight at Low Reynolds Numbers: The Aerodynamics of Tiny Insects

Aghav and Miller discuss their research investigating aerodynamics of wing bristles in small insects.

Four Decades of Kink Interactions in Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Models: A Crucial Typo, Recent Developments and the Challenges Ahead

P. G. Kevrekidis (kevrekid (at) math.umass.edu) and R. H. Goodman summarize the history and recent developments in the field of kink interactions in nonlinear Klein-Gordon models in 1+1-dimensions.

Front Propagation in a Model for Civil Unrest

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

Frontiers of Invariant Manifold Approximation in Multiple-Timescale Dynamics

Ian Lizarraga from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, (ian.lizarraga (at) sydney.edu.au) describes how to use the computational singular perturbation (CSP) method and the parametrization method to compute approximations to invariant manifolds. He also shows how...

Generalised Symmetry in Network Dynamics

Eddie Nijholt, Bob Rink, and Sören Schwenker talk about synchrony breaking bifurcations in dynamical systems on networks and how to understand them through generalised symmetry.

Geneviève Raugel (1951 - 2019)

An Announcement of the Death of Genevieve Raugel.

How Do Snakes Slither? A Recipe for Reptation

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

How to Move a SIAM Minisymposium Online from the Comfort of your Home

Heather Z. Brooks, Yuxin Chen, Michelle Feng, Yacoub H. Kureh, Mason A. Porter, and Alexandria Volkening talk about how they moved their MDS20 minisymposium on line.

In Memoriam for David Cai

Remembering David Cai.

In Memoriam: Richard Haberman

Richard Haberman, a champion of applied mathematics, passed away on December 31, 2018. Alejandro Aceves, Roy Goodman, and Peter Miller are describing his impact as a friend, scientist, mentor and educator.

In Memoriam: Rudy L. Horne

A personal tribute to Rudy Horne from Chris Jones.

Rudy L. Horne, an associate professor of mathematics at Morehouse College passed away on Dec.11, 2017.

In Memory of George Sell

Yingei Yi discusses the work of George Sell and some conferences in his memory.

Integrability in Magnetic Variants of Billiard Systems

Sean Gasiorek gives an introduction to mathematical billiard systems as well as a discussion of their so-called magnetic variants and the study of integrability therein.

Intrinsic Criteria for the Stability of Traveling Waves

Paul Cornwell from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (paul.cornwell (at) jhuapl.edu) describes how intrinsic features of travelling waves can be used, along with the Maslov index and the Evans function, to determine features of the associated linear stability problem.

Invitation: Submission Open for SIAM DS25 Minitutorials

The SIAM DS Organizing Committee is seeking proposals to organize minitutorials at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25).

Joseph Bishop Keller (1923–2016)

Mason Porter gives a brief obituary of the brilliant applied mathematician Joe Keller.

KUMUNU 2019 Conference Summary

KUMUNU Conference on PDE, Dynamical Systems, and Applications is an annual meeting organized jointly by the Departments of Mathematics at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU), the University of Kansas in Lawrence (KU), and the University of Nebraska Lincoln (NU). Harrison Gaebler, a...