In This Issue

Nick Trefethen discusses two of the biggest unsolved problems in numerical analysis.

Environmental models play a role in understanding and diagnosing potential environmental impacts of global climate change.

Fadil Santosa interviews Jeff Holstein about NTRU, the cryptosystem he created.

An proof of the optimality of the semicircle capped Richard Tapia’s talk on the isoperimetric problem at AN12.

Bob Eisenberg discusses the study of ionic solutions as they occur in life, a problem that is often too close to see.

Peter Turner, SIAM’s VP for Education, recently led a workshop titled "Modeling across the Curriculum."

Ernest Davis reviews "Computation and its Limits" by Paul Cockshott, Lewis M. Mackenzie, and Greg Michaelson.

The National Science Foundation recently issued a solicitation for its EXTREEMS–QED program.

The IMA at the University of Minnesota recently held a workshop on entrepreneurial mathematics.

Philip Davis reviews Mathematical Excursions to the World’s Great Buildings by Alexander J. Hahn.