In This Issue

SIAM President Nick Higham talks about how to deliver an engaging, effective presentation at conferences.

The authors create a model to address the empirical observation that jet lag is more severe for eastward travel than for westward travel.

Hans Petter Langtangen, a brilliant and beloved scientist and educator, passed away last October from cancer.

Mary Silber applies mathematics to understand repetitive patterns of dry vegetation, which alternate rhythmically with bands of bare soil.

Jim Case reviews Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart.

The historic election of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. president will have significant implications for scientific funding and research.

"SIAM Review" needs a book lover to take over the job of Book Review Section Editor starting on January 1, 2018.

The ICIAM Prize Committee calls for nominations for ICIAM prizes to be awarded in 2019.

Computational models are a promising means for tackling many dynamical and rheological blood-related problems.

The National Science Foundation intends to support up to 10 NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in 2018.

The time scales over which fluids evolve have a critical effect on the physical systems in which they occur.

Read about an opportunity for students and postdocs from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan.

Mathematical study of aerial motion has led to the discovery of “513XD,” a tricky new dive with five full twists.

The Ostrowski Foundation provides a prize for outstanding achievements in pure and numerical mathematics. 

The Member-Get-a-Member program encourages SIAM members to invite their colleagues to join SIAM.

SIAM awarded over $64,000 to over 120 chapters for events and activities throughout the 2016-2017 academic year.

Five schools recently had student chapters join SIAM.

The SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA) is the latest journal published by SIAM.

There is a surprising connection between a bike's catenary (the shape of the hanging chain) and the pursuit curve.

Beginning on April 1, readers who live outside North America will have a new source when buying SIAM books.