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Thinking Outside the Box Score - Math and basketball: Part 1

Muthu Alagappan explains how topology and analytics are bringing a new look to basketball.




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Getting Inside Your Head - The brain's communication pathways: Part 1

Van Wedeen talks about the geometry of the brain's communication pathways.




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Making an Attitude Adjustment: Part 1

Nazareth Bedrossian talks about using math to reposition the International Space Station.




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Unifying Diverse Cities: Part 1

Despite the considerable variety among cities, researchers have identified common mathematical properties that hold around the world, regardless of a city.s population, location or even time.




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Scheduling Sports

Michael Trick talks about creating schedules for leagues.




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Being Knotty: Part 1

Colin Adams talks about knot theory




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Exploiting a Little-Known Force: Part 1

Lydia Bourouiba talks about surface tension and the transmission of disease




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Providing Power

Researcher: Michael C. Ferris, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Moment Title: Providing Power Description: Michael C. Ferris talks about power grids




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Going Back to the Beginning - The Big Bang

Edward Witten talks about math and physics.




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Treating Tremors - Helping with Parkinson's disease - Part 1

Researcher: Christopher Butson, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah. Christopher Butson talks about work he's done to help treat Parkinson's disease.




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Going Over the Top - Designing roller coasters

Researcher: Meredith Greer, Bates College. Going Over the Top Description: Meredith Greer talks about math and roller coasters.




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Holding the Lead Description

Researcher: Sidney Redner, Santa Fe Institute
Moment: Moment Title: Holding the Lead Description: Sidney Redner talks about how random walks relate to leads in basketball.




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Adding a New Wrinkle Description

Researcher: Norbert Stoop, MIT
Title: Adding a New Wrinkle
Description: Norbert Stoop talks about new research on the formation of wrinkles.




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Piling On and on and on

Researcher: Wesley Pegden, Carnegie Mellon University
Moment Title: Piling On and on and on!
Description: Wesley Pegden talks about simulating sandpiles




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Scanning Ancient Sites

Researcher: Jackson Cothren, University of Arkansas
Moment Title: Scanning Ancient Sites
Description: Jackson Cothren talks about creating three-dimensional scans of ancient sites.




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Working With the System: Part 2

Researcher: Cristina Stoica, Wilfrid Laurier University
Description: Cristina Stoica talks about celestial mechanics.




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Thwarting Poachers: Part 2

Researcher: Thomas Snitch, University of Maryland
Description: Thomas Snitch talks about nabbing poachers with math.
Audio files: podcast-mom-poaching-1.mp3 and podcast-mom-poaching-2.mp3




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Dis-playing the Game of Thrones: Part 2

Researcher: Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College
Moment Title: Dis-playing the Game of Thrones
Description: Andrew Beveridge uses math to analyze Game of Thrones.




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Explaining Rainbows

Researcher: John A. Adam, Old Dominion University. John A. Adam explains the math and physics behind rainbows.




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Making Art Work

Researcher: Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College. Annalisa Crannell on perspective in art.




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Trimming Taxiing Time

Researcher: Hamsa Balakrishnan, MIT. Hamsa Balakrishnan talks about her work to shorten airport runway queues.




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Maintaining a Balance Part 2

Researcher: Daniel Rothman, MIT. Dan Rothman talks about how math helped understand a mass extinction.




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Farming Better

Researchers: Eleanor Jenkins, Clemson University and Kathleen (Fowler) Kavanagh, Clarkson University. Lea Jenkins and Katie Kavanagh talk about their work making farming more efficient while using water wisely.




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Designing Better Bicycles

Researcher: Jim Papadopoulos, Northeastern University
Description: Jim Papadopoulos talks about his years of research analyzing bicycles.




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Hunting for Planets

Researcher: Konstantin Batygin, Caltech
Description: Konstantin Batygin talks about using math to investigate the existence of Planet Nine.




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Generating Patterns Part 2

Researcher: Michel C. Molinkovitch, University of Geneva Description: Michel C. Milinkovitch used math, physics, and biology for an amazing discovery about the patterns on a lizard's skin.




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Scoring with New Thinking

Researcher: Andy Andres, Boston University Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm136-baseball.pdf Andy Andres on baseball analytics.




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Keeping the Roof On

Researcher: Stefan Siegmund, TU-Dresden Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm137-hurricane.pdf Description: Stefan Siegmund talks about his an invention to protect homes during hurricanes.




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Going Into a Shell

Researcher: Derek Moulton, University of Oxford Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm138-shells.pdf Description: Derek Moulton explains the math behind the shapes of seashells.




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Revolutionizing and Industry

Researchers: Christopher Brinton, Zoomi, Inc. and Princeton University, and Mung Chiang, Purdue University Moment: http://www.ams.org/samplings/mathmoments/mm139-netflix.pdf Description: Christopher Brinton and Mung Chiang talk about the Netflix Prize competition.




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Winning the Race

Researcher: Christine Darden, NASA (retired) Description: Christine Darden on working at NASA.




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Unbunching Buses

Researchers: Vikash V. Gayah and S. Ilgin Guler, Pennsylvania State University Description: Gayah and Guler talk about mitigating the clustering of buses on a route.




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Screening for Autism

Researcher: Jordan Hashemi, Duke University Description: Jordan Hashemi talks about an easy-to-use app to screen for autism.




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Making the Earth Flat

Tom Patterson and Bojan Savric discuss the Equal Earth projection map that they created with Bernhard Jenny.




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Keeping People Alive Part 2

Steven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Mary Bushman says, "It's really cool to try and use math to nail down some questions that have gone unanswered for a really long time."




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Making Beautiful Mathematics

Rob Schneiderman talks about the metaphorical connections between math and music




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Unmasking Deepfakes

Hany Farid talks about fighting fake videos: "Mathematically, there's a lot of linear algebra, multivariate calculus, probability and statistics, and then a lot of techniques from pattern recognition, signal processing, and image processing."




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Picturing Powehi

Fumie Tazaki talks about creating the first image of a black hole and its shadow, which relied on Fourier transforms. About the work to make the image, she says, "Our collaboration has 200 members and we did it with all of our efforts."




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When Your Passion Works Against You

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 13:00




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Low-Code Automation and the Future of Work

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 13:15




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Housing Advocates Sound Alarm as May Rents Collide with Coronavirus

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 13:15





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In Effort to Stop Faulty Goods, China Asks Importers to Ensure PPE Meets Standards

Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 13:30








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euromicron AG takes on Funkwerk as a strategic anchor investor

euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for networking business and production processes, has taken on Funkwerk AG, Kölleda, as a strategic anchor investor. Funkwerk AG is a leading provider of innovative communication, information and security systems and intends to acquire a total of up to around 28% of euromicron AG’s increased share capital following the implementation of the resolved capital measures.




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Letter from the Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, Evelyne Freitag, to shareholders

Dear Shareholders, As Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, I am contacting you personally today in advance of the Annual General Meeting to ask for your continued trust and support.




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euromicron AG improves earnings in first half of 2019

Consolidated sales of EUR 146.7 million EBITDA (before IFRS 16) increased strongly by EUR 3.8 million to EUR 2.1 million Forecast for 2019 as a whole confirmed Working capital ratio declines by 2 percentage points to 10.6% euromicron AG, a medium-sized technology group and specialist for the digital networking of business and production processes, published its preliminary figures for the first half of 2019 today.