In This Issue

Ulrich Rüde explains the underperformance of many novel algorithms and the creative research necessary to design efficient HPC software.

Sequential planning under uncertainty is a basic optimization problem that arises in many different settings.

Michael James David Powell, who passed away on April 19, helped establish numerical analysis as a major discipline.

SIAM provides students with math modeling experience via the Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge, which celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Ernest Davis reviews Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, by Stephen Chrisomalis.

At its 2015 meeting in San Jose, California, the American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized AAAS fellows elected in 2014.

Mark Levi presents a solution that is shorter than Johann Bernoulli’s famous optics-based idea of minimizing an integral.

On February 2, the SIAM Student Chapter at TU Delft held a one-day workshop on Krylov subspace methods.

This year's SIAM Conference on CSE featured a new attraction: SIAM Communication Doctors.

Among the most important honors accorded to scientists and engineers in the U.S. is election to the National Academies of Engineering and Sciences.