Scientific Computing for Visual Effects

Joseph Teran talks about scientific computing for visual effects.

Winners of two SIAM Dynamical Systems prizes announced

2017 J.D. Crawford Prize and Jürgen Moser Lecture

Martin Wechselberger, professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, won the J.D. Crawford Prize.

Edward Ott, Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at the University of Maryland, was awarded the Jürgen Moser Lecture.

Adaptive Networks in Action: Opinion Formation, Epidemics and the Evolution of Cooperation

The authors provide an overview and give some examples from the emerging field of adaptive networks, where the structure of a network changes in response to an underlying model.

Mathematics on the Chopping Block

The production of end-grain wooden cutting boards involves repeated operations

that lead to interesting mathematical questions. I explore some of the mathematical issues that arise in the process; they pose some interesting mathematical puzzles. I also show how mathematics can be used to create

intricate artistic designs for cutting boards that are amenable to

woodworking. These designs have been tested in real wood. Some of them belong

to a class of iterated-function-system fractals but others do not. The

overall goal is to produce an aesthetically pleasing design suggested by

mathematics and implementable in wood.

Joseph Bishop Keller (1923–2016)

Mason Porter gives a brief obituary of the brilliant applied mathematician Joe Keller.