A Brief Biographical Sketch of Ken Meyer

Based on recent conversations with Ken Meyer, H.S. Dumas gives `the briefest possible' outline of Ken Meyer's academic life, followed by a chronological survey of some of the best and most representative parts of his work.

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.

SIAM/DS `Snowbird' conference 2011: the prize winners

The Crawford prize, Jürgen Moser lecture, and red sock poster awards.

Massively Multiplayer Mathematics

Although theorems are frequently named after a single person, most progress in mathematics is the result of a group effort. Recently several difficult problems in mathematics have been attacked by a collective of mathematicians that have communicated through online blogs. The immediacy of this mode of communication allowed the first proposed problem to be cracked in a surprisingly short time. Will this remain an isolated approach, or can we expect that hard mathematical problems will be regularly crowdsourced in the future?

Crawford prize winners revisited: Dwight Barkley

The Crawford prize is awarded biannually since 2001 at the `Snowbird' conferences by the SIAM activity group on dynamical systems for recent outstanding work on a topic in nonlinear science. In a series of articles we invite the winners to write about their mathematical biography, their work, and what they consider important problems in the field of applied dynamical system. This article is the contribution of the Dwight Barkley, the prize winner from 2005.