Math is More:

Dear Colleagues,

Complex networks evolve with time and this survey article looks at ideas related to relational time series as a tool for the analysis of such networks.

http://ryanrossi.com/pubs/rossi-KER18-RTSF.pdf

Regards,

Joe

Dear Colleagues,

A variety of people have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences with ties to mathematics. Here is information about the people honored this year with connections to mathematics:

http://www.ams.org/news?news_id=4286

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Joe

Dear Colleagues,

Avi Wigderson from the Institute for Advanced Studies has made available note for a book he is preparing about mathematics and computation. Lots of nice things here:

https://www.math.ias.edu/files/mathandcomp.pdf#page=1

Regards,

Joe

Dear Colleagues,

Assaf Naor has won the 2018 Nemmers Prize for his work in geometry with applications to algorithms.

Here is information about Naor's work and the prize he won:

http://www.nemmers.northwestern.edu/pri ... r.htmlAssa

Regards,

Joe

Dear Colleagues,

Here are some thoughts about "elementary" mathematics and its nature:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1804/1804.05955.pdf

Regards,

Joe

Dear Colleagues, Gil Kalai's blog regularly has fascinating problems related to discrete/combinatorial geometry. https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/ Recently Gil posted this interesting collection of problems related to coloring arrangements of circles and pseudocircles: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2...

Dear Colleagues, Mathematicians typically pursue ideas in a particular line of work but sometimes results from one line of research produce "facts" that suggest that two seemingly independent approaches reflect a deeper connection that is not understood. This recent article in Quanta Magaz...

Dear Colleagues, Scheduling round robin tournaments where each of a group of teams typically plays one game against each of the other teams in the group raises a variety of interesting mathematical questions dealing with optimization issues and fairness issues. Here is a recent contribution to ideas...

Dear Colleagues,

Here is an account of how mathematical modeling is being used to improve the administration of chemotherapy for cancer treatment.

https://news.usc.edu/139889/cancer-cell ... schedules/

Regards,

Joe

Dear Colleagues, The seminal paper of David Gale and Lloyd Shapley (about college admissions) has generated a large volume of both theoretical and applied ideas about various "matching" problems. Here are two recent examples (variants of the same "circle" of ideas) that unify and...

Dear Colleagues, What is the minimum number of colors required to color the plane having no two points at Euclidean distance 1 from each other having the same color? This problem is often called the Hadwiger–Nelson problem. It is one of those simple to state and hard to answer questions that regular...

Dear Colleagues, There will be much discussion of the results of the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) tests which were recently announced. Here is one person's comments: https://dianeravitch.net/2018/04/10/naep-results-scores-mostly-flat-gaps-widen/ Sadly, with the "collapse&q...

Dear Colleagues, In some settings algorithms are used to assign teachers to schools. The ideas here are related to Gale/Shapley stable matchings notion and other related models that come up in allocation problems and school choice problems. One is concerned with efficiency and fairness. Here is a re...

Dear Colleagues, Philip Davis made many important contributions to the mathematics community both as a researcher and an author (co-author) of books and expository articles. More information about his career is available here: https://www.brown.edu/academics/applied-mathematics/philip-j-davis-profes...

Dear Colleagues, Teachers have recently gone on strike in various states in America. Despite the "economic recovery" from the "crash" of a some years back, teacher as a group within the people who get a college education have not done very well economically. This article comments...