Edward Lorenz 1917-2008

Edward Lorenz, Professor of Meteorology, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, passed away on Wednesday, April 16. He was 90 years old.

Elliptic and Parabolic Problems : A Special Tribute to the Work of Haim Brezis

Editors: C. Bandle et al.

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane

Reviewer: Richard Liu, Michigan State University

Elliptical Eyes, Eccentricity, and the Speed of Light

Mark Levi discusses the relationship between the eccentricity and focusing geometry of an elliptical lens.

Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems

All SIAM members are invited to participate in the election of authors for the Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, which is hosted by www.scholarpedia.org.

Engineered for Function: The Power of Biologically-Constrained Neural Networks for Neurosensory Integration

Charles B. Delahunt, Charles Fieseler, and J. Nathan Kutz report on two bio-inspired models for neurosensory integration that are constructed using data-driven modeling methods. One model is for olfactory processing of the Manduca sexta moth. The other model captures functioning...

Enjoying a small college

Aaron Hoffman shares his impressions on teaching and doing research at Olin College, a one of a kind undergraduate, engineering-only college whose brand centers around project-based learning.

EquaDiff 2015

Scott McCalla reports on EquaDiff 2015 held in Lyon, France.

Scott McCalla reports on EquaDiff 2015 held in Lyon, France.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mitigation Policies Against Disinformation

Butts and Murillo determine efficacy of disinformation mitigation policies in dynamic models.

Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life

Reviewer: Stephen Schecter
North Carolina State University

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.

Experiment Involving Problem-Solving Techniques

(humor) A group of scientists were doing an investigation into problem-solving techniques, and constructed an experiment involving a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician.

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.

Featured minisymposia at DS15

Featured minisymposia at DS15. What are they about and why should you attend them? Below you will find brief overviews of all eleven of them.

Featured minisymposia at Snowbird

The new thing at Snowbird this year: featured minisymposia. What are they about and why should you attend them? Below you will find an overview.

Fifth EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference

A report on the fifth EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference that was held 8-12 August 2005 at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands.

Fifth IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems

Koen Verheyden reports on the Fifth IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 8-10; a beautiful environment, excellent weather and good meals...

Finding Appropriate Dynamics for the Social Sciences

The growing area of "mathematical social sciences" has provided valued insights for several disciplines, but a key aspect of this development desperately needs help from mathematicians who are skilled in dynamical systems. Namely, although "change" obviously is a central feature for all of the...

First Announcement: Computational Neuroscience Summer School

Organized by the new Center for Neural Dynamics at the University of Ottawa, the first Canadian Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, which will be held from Sunday June 17, 2007 until Friday June 29, 2007 inclusively.

Flight at Low Reynolds Numbers: The Aerodynamics of Tiny Insects

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

Floris Takens (1940–2010)

Floris Takens, Professor, Emiritus, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, passed away on Sunday, 20 June. He was 69 years old.

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.

From the editor-in-chief of SIADS

In January 2012, Björn Sandstede took over as editor-in-chief of SIADS from Tasso Kaper. Below Björn Sandstede gives his view on the journal.

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...