In This Issue

Just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, James Case discusses the aerodynamic history of World Cup soccer balls.

Mark Levi describes a connection between two distinct objects: the stationary Schrödinger equation and “bicycle tracks.”

The University of Oxford staged the 100th European Study Group with Industry during the week of April 7-11.

"Being part of ICIAM is fundamental to building bridges to the rest of the world,” says SIAM President Irene Fonseca.

SIAM News visited Leslie Greengard, director of the not yet one-year-old Simons Center for Data Analysis in NYC.

The SIAM Education Committee has released a new report, "Undergraduate Degree Programs in Applied Mathematics."

66 students who made contributions to their SIAM student chapters received Student Chapter certificates.

For the past 11 years, SIAM student chapters have been invited to send representatives to the SIAM Annual Meeting to present their research.

SIAM offers free memberships to almost all interested students, but only a small fraction become professional members of SIAM.

Philip Davis reviews "Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing."