Photos from Dynamics Days 2012

The Dynamics Days 2012 conference in Baltimore included a celebration of Ed Ott's 70th birthday. Ernie Barreto lets the pictures speak for themselves.

Photos from Bardfest 2014: Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Methods: From Neuroscience to other Biological Applications

Ernie Barreto presents a photo essay covering Bard Ermentrout's 60th birthday conference.

Poetry and cockroaches

Phil Holmes is famous for his broad and innovative work in applied mathematics. Not only does he have a passion for the practical use of abstract mathematics, he also has a love for words and has published four books of poetry. He is currently the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on...

Preparations for AN14

Apart from the Snowbird meeting, our Activity Group also organises tracks of dynamical systems related sessions at a major applied mathematics meetings. Two years ago, Evelyn Sander organised such a track at the 2011 ICIAM meeting in Vancouver. Next year, our AG will be featured along with...

Preserving the History of Applied Mathematics

John Boyd reflects on some mathematical figures and their stories, and calls for more preservation of applied mathematical history.

Professional Feature - Ann Almgren

Ann Almgren is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Department Head of Applied Mathematics in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division.

Professional Feature - Daniel J. Gauthier

Daniel Gauthier describes his life and professional journey.

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.

Professional Feature - F. Bill Shi

Bill Shi shares his story.

Professional Feature - Igor Mezic

Igor Mezic relates some of his adventures.

Professional Feature - Jianhong Wu

Jianhong Wu describes his educational and career journal, highlighting the value of following your interests.

Professional Feature - Leon Glass

Leon Glass followed his curiosity to find his professional path.

Professional Feature - Lisa Fauci

Lisa Fauci describes her path overcoming prejudice to become a highly successful mathematician and leader.

Professional Feature - Mark J. Ablowitz

Mark Ablowitz details his journey from a childhood in the Bronx to first-generation college student to a successful academic researcher and leader.

Professional Feature - Mary Silber

Mary Silber is the Director of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics and a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.

Professional Feature - Mason A. Porter

The Professional Road that Mason Porter has Traveled (so far).

Professional Feature - Nancy Kopell

Nancy Kopell shares her career trajectory, showing you are not just what you have previously studied.

Professional Feature - Yang (Angela) Yang

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

Publication price and value

The Elsevier boycott call has opened another round in the debate on subscription costs, publisher profit and open access. Let's have a peek.
The spring editorial by former Editor-in-Chief Jens Rademacher.

Pull-Push Action Helps Neural Crest Cells Migrate Collectively

Introduction to neural crest cell collective dynamics.

Quenched Stripes: Wavenumber Selection and Dynamics

Ryan Goh of Boston University discusses the effect of quenching in the Swift-Hohenberg equation as a model for spacial growth.

Questions of Responsibility: Modelling in the Age of COVID-19

Maurice Chiodo and Dennis Müller discuss ethical questions that arise in math research with a special focus on COVID-19.

Reaction to our April Editorial on scientific publishing.

In his April editorial, Jens Rademacher discussed some of the perils of open source publishing. One of the web sites he cited, Scholarly Open Access, features Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) as "predatory open-access publisher". Chris Cannings is Emeritus Professor of mathematics at the...

Reactions to "Edelspam"

In our first Editorial, Lennaert van Veen brought up the issue of academic phishing, bogus conferences, pushy publishers and other highly targeted spam we face in our profession. In particular, ICIAM TV was mentioned as an example. Tony Harkin of the Rochester Institute of Technology comments.

Reactions to The end of theory?

In the January, 2011 issue of DSWeb, Krešo Josić discussed claims that software is able to autonomously generate scientific theories in The end of theory?. Tony Harkin and Siemion Faitlowicz commented.