Weakly Coupled Dynamic Programs, Fluid Limits, and COVID-19: How Optimization Can Help Inform Policymaking

Huikang Liu and Wolfram Wiesemann summarize recent work developing a model-based national patient prioritization scheme in response to the limited capacity in the UK due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic. Their approach leverages dynamic programming to simultaneously estimate capacity and...

Welcome to academia after 30 years in industry

After 30 years of working at Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire, Andrew Cliffe left his position as a Senior Consultant with Serco Assurance for a Professorship at the University of Nottingham. Hinke Osinga asks him about the differences between working in a company and at a university and...

Why Do Math

Inspired by the frequent need to answer the question, Why Do Math is a SIAM-sponsored website highlighting many of the exciting contributions made by computational science and mathematics to science, society, and everyday life. Though not specifically about dynamical systems, it includes...

Why you should contribute to the DSWeb magazine.

… and think about popularizing mathematics.

Winners of the DSWeb 2018 Software Contest

The winners of the DSWeb 2018 Software Contest are revealed!

Winners of the DSWeb 2019 Contest Tutorials on Dynamical Systems Software

The winners of the DSWeb 2019 Software Tutorial Contest are revealed!

Workshop at BIRS: Localized Multi-Dimensional Patterns

While the whole of the US was facing a sizzling heat wave and Europe was washed away by months of rain, some of us where so lucky to get invited to a workshop at BIRS. Peter van Heijster shares his impressions.

Yasumasa Nishiura's Mathematics Unit at WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research

Your portal editor-in-chief reports on a visit to Yasumasa Nishiura's Mathematics Unit at the WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University in Japan

Yorke elected for article on "Chaos" in Scholarpedia

The Encyclopedia of Dynamical Systems, hosted by Scholarpedia — the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia, is proud to announce the election results for the article "Chaos".

Your Graduate School Application

Eugene Wayne, Director of Graduate Admissions in the Math & Stats Department at Boston University, gives an insider's perspective on applying to graduate school.