Category: SIAM News
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Bicycles, networks, and biological homeostasis
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains equations, I wrote it to be understandable even if you…
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Ecological stability far from equilibrium

The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains equations, I wrote it to be understandable even if you…
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Fighting racial gerrymandering with math
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains equations, I wrote it to be understandable even if you…
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The threat of AI comes from inside the house
My other SIAM News contributions are necessarily math-focused. This one is a bit different: a review of a very good and funny popular-science book about machine learning and its failures. [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write!…
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The science connecting extreme weather to climate change
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While this article contains (just a few simple) equations, I wrote it to be…
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Protecting privacy with mathematics
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While the article contains equations, I wrote it to be understandable even if you…
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Gaining time for brain cancer patients with mathematics
The linked article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional mathematicians and related researchers working in a wide variety of fields. While the article contains equations, I wrote it to be understandable even if you…
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The mathematics of knowledge networks in the brain
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional…
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The secret to good digital animation is physics
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the magazine for members of the Society for…
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The knotty problem of DNA tangling
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the magazine for members of the Society for…
