In This Issue

The Obama administration declared food security a federal priority area, presenting opportunities for modeling and computational expertise.

Read about the humanoid DRC-HUBO robot, which won the DARPA Robotics Challenge to accelerate development of robots as human substitutes.

Joseph F. Traub passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 24.

Historically, the rise of numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the 1950s played a major role in germinating the field of data assimilation.

In the upstream oil and gas industry, decision-making is based on models that reconstruct seismic data into three-dimensional images. 

Recipients of the five ICIAM prizes for 2015 received their awards and delivered prize lectures at the ICIAM meeting held in Beijing, China.

Discrete-time Markov jump linear systems (MJLSs) are a particularly interesting class of models within the context of modern control systems.

A pilot mentoring and Broader Engagement program organized by the Sustainable Horizons Institute gave students a venue to present their research.

Philip J. Davis reviews The Personality of Numbers by Marc Chamberland, with a separate chapter for numbers one through nine.

There is a vast range of problems that fall under the broad umbrella of making sequential decisions under uncertainty.

More than one hundred people gathered at ICIAM 2015 in Beijing to honor Gil Strang and celebrate his 80th birthday.

The NSF's Michael Vogelius and Henry Warchall sent an open letter to the mathematical community regarding the Mathematics Institutes.

The 9th International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications was held in June.

In his recurring column on Mathematical Curiosities, Mark Levi discusses an interesting result proved by Jürgen Moser.

The newly-formed SIAM Activity Group on the Mathematics of Planet Earth will hold its inaugural meeting from September 30 through October 2, 2016.