PoliMi SIAM Student Chapter

Higher-order Network Analysis Takes Off, Fueled by Old Ideas and New Data By Austin R. Benson, David F. Gleich, and Desmond J. Higham In 2004, the theme of Mathematics Awareness Month was “the mathematics of networks.” A corresponding SIAM News article dubbed 2004 “The Year of the Network” and predicted that graphs would soon be everywhere. Now, networks and graph...

Lagrange Multiplier as Depth or Pressure By Mark Levi With bicycle season beginning in the Northeastern U.S., I would like to describe a small bike-related observation. It actually has nothing to do with a bicycle’s mechanics; it simply occurred to me when I was riding my bike last fall. While climbing up a steep incline and observing a ...

Modelling Global Outbreaks and Proliferation of COVID-19 By Leon Tribe and Robert Smith? Many of us are experiencing the effects of a pandemic for the first time. We may not be sick, but COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in some manner. From the trivial shortage of toilet paper to massive social and economic upheaval, a microscopic virus is affecting all o...

A Network Model of Immigration and Coexistence By Yao-li Chuang, Tom Chou, and Maria R. D’Orsogna In the summer of 2015, more than one million refugees from the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa arrived in Europe via dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea and the Balkans [7]. German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the newly arrive...