There is an interesting opinion article in this week’s Wednesday New York Times, “Is natural gas `clean’?” by Mark Bittman. Continue reading
Author Archives: Brian Conrey
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Several articles in the past few weeks have caught my attention. Continue reading
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A couple of weeks ago I saw former president Jimmy Carter on the Daily Show. The story he told Jon Stewart was nothing short of amazing. Continue reading
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Last September the White House honored Michael Flowers, New York’s Director of Policy and Strategic Planning Analytics, as a Champion of Change. Flowers’ team figures out ways to use an effective combination of common sense and analysis of data to efficiently solve some of New York’s vexing problems. Continue reading
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Last week a workshop was held at the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) in Palo Alto, California, around the theme of stochastic PDEs and applications in climate and weather modeling: “Stochastic in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Mathematical foundations and physical underpinnings.” The workshop brought together a lively mix of specialists in climate modeling and weather prediction alongside experts in the fields of deterministic and stochastic partial differential equations. Continue reading
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Why has the MPE2103 movement been popular with mathematicians? The traditional view of mathematicians is that they like to work in solitude and that there is a great divide between pure and applied mathematicians. So how has MPE2013, a massive collaborative effort on the part of pure and applied mathematical scientists, managed to bridge this chasm? Continue reading