When Walter Craig saw the images of the devastating 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami he felt compelled to act. So he grabbed a pencil and envelope and started calculating. A little more than a ...

One of the great joys in mathematics is the ability to use math to describe phenomena seen in the physical world, says UB mathematician Gino Biondini. With UB postdoctoral researcher Dionyssios ...

David Ambrose, PhD, associate department head and professor of mathematics at Drexel University, is the recipient of the second biennial T. Brooke Benjamin Prize in Nonlinear Waves. The SIAM Activity ...

When I first heard of gravitational waves being detected a billion light years away from Earth—I must say that I was quite skeptical. A NY Times article explained the event very well and I did some ...

There's a huge amount of clean energy locked away in ocean waves, if only we could find a way to harness more of it. A new ...