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

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.

Data Assimilation in Medicine

Data Assimilation in Medicine

David Albers, Cecilia Diniz Behn, and George Hripcsak write about using ODE models of physiology to make forecasts with sparse, inaccurate data.

Executive Director Jim Crowley Retires After 25 Years of SIAM Leadership

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.

Virtual Summer Schools: Can We Make Them Work?

Virtual Summer Schools: Can We Make Them Work?

Chris Jones and Hans Kaper discuss their experiences using Sococo to implement a virtual summer school in 2020.

Recently Published Books in Dynamical Systems

Recently Published Books in Dynamical Systems

Here is a list of some of the recently published books in dynamical systems. Should you be interested in reviewing one of these, or any other book that you think would be useful, please contact the book reviews editor (James Meiss; jdm (at) colorado.edu).

Integrability in Magnetic Variants of Billiard Systems

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.

Stokes' Phenomenon and Nanoptera

Stokes' Phenomenon and Nanoptera

Chris Lustri talks about exponential asymptotics and its applications to Stokes phenomena and nanoptera in dynamical systems.

Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems on Quantum Computers

Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems on Quantum Computers

Yuri Alexeev, Jeffrey Larson, Sven Leyffer, and Ruslan Shaydulin describe the current state of the quantum approximation optimisation algorithm

Balancing a Knife, Euler’s Elastica, and the Mathematical Pendulum

Balancing a Knife, Euler’s Elastica, and the Mathematical Pendulum

Mark Levi describes the physics and mathematics of balancing a knife.

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