In This Issue

People tend to greatly under or overestimate the state of the art and helpfulness of mathematics in understanding infectious disease spread. 

Nuclear test ban treaty monitoring and earthquake early warning systems are made possible via seismic wave analysis.

The relationship between emotion and the physical properties of music has been studied but is not fully understood.

The cover of SIAM’s brand-new journal, the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, features seven pictures. 

George Johnson of the New York Times responds to Dan Gusfield's "Hot Hands, Streaks and Coin-flips" from the March 2016 issue.

Professor William “Bill” Hill Reid, a prominent physical applied mathematician, passed away on January 31, 2016, at age 89 with his loving family b...

SIAM Fellows Simon Levin and Michael Artin were among nine scientists and researchers awarded the 2015 National Medal of Science.

In this exciting new book, Alvin Roth—McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University, joint winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics, and o...

In many ways, SIAM activity groups are the heart of SIAM.

In a time of generally tight budgets, SIAM's Committee on Science Policy (CSP) held its regular spring meeting on March 28 and 29.

Mathematical modeling can be taught at every stage of a student’s mathematical education, from kindergarten to undergraduate school.

The Math Congress of the Americas, better known to some as MCofA, will hold its second Congress in Montreal, Canada, in July 2017.

A simple but illuminating equivalence exists between Newtonian mechanics of a particle and the statics of Hookean springs.

SIAM welcomes chapters at National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan), McMaster University (Canada), and the University of British Columbia (Canada).

SIAM has reciprocity agreements with 14 professional societies, which allows members to receive a 20-30% discount off regular SIAM member dues.

Many SIAM conferences offer support for attendees with small children.

SIAM is a broad community with increasing interests in applied and industrial mathematics trends, managed with high-level professionals.

A second international MPE competition for science museum exhibits was announced at the Next Einstein Forum in Dakar, Senegal, on March 10, 2016.

The Universidad Francisco Gavidia (UFG) in El Salvador held its First Congress of Mathematical Modeling in San Salvador from February 22-26, 2016.