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Malena Espanol explains how she and others use linear algebra to fix blurry images.
Tim Chumley explains the connections between random billiards and the science of heat and energy transfer. Read and watch more...
Mathematics helps researchers analyze datasets containing the DNA of hundreds of thousands of people. Read and watch more...
Quantum computers are coming, and mathematicians are working to make sure our data will stay secure. Read and watch more...
A linguist and a physicist talk about how languages change over thousands of years. Read and watch more...
David Scheinker talks about the math involved in hospital operations. Read and watch more...
Mark Finney talks about the math involved in modeling and fighting wildfires. Read and watch more...
Mary Silber talks about the math of vegetation bands in near-desert ecosystems. Read and watch more...
Eugenia Cheng talks about the mathematics that surrounds us in the kitchen. Read and watch more...
Cathy O'Neil talks about the unfairness of predictive algorithms. See and hear more...
Mac Hyman talks about the math of COVID-19 models. See and Hear more...
Andrea Bertozzi wondered what, exactly, causes wine legs (or tears) to form. Hear what she found out. Hear more...
Fumie Tazaki talks about the math--and collaboration--that went into creating the black hole image. Hear more...
Amy Lang talks about her work figuring out how mako sharks can swim so fast. Hear more...
Robert Schneiderman, a math professor and jazz musician, talks about the shared characteristics of the two subjects. Hear more...
Steven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Hear more...
Tom Patterson and Bojan ?avrič discuss the projection map they created with Bernhard Jenny. Hear more...
Jordan Hashemi talks about the development of an app to screen for autism. Hear more...
S. Ilgin Guler and Vikash V. Gayah explain their research to make bus systems operate better. Hear more...
Former NASA engineer Christine Darden talks about her career at NASA, and about Hidden Figures. Hear more...
Christopher Brinton and Mung Chian talk about the Netflix Prize. Hear more...
Derek Moulton talks about using math to explain the shapes of seashells. Hear more...
Stefan Siegmund talks about an invention to protect homes during hurricanes. Hear more...
Mary Caswell Stoddard on her discoveries about the shapes of bird eggs. Hear more...
Peter J. Denning explains Bitcoin and blockchains. Hear more...
Moon Duchin describes how math can be used to identify partisan gerrymandering. Hear more...
Michel C. Milinkovitch discusses his surprising discovery about a lizard's skin pattern. Hear more...
Konstantin Batygin explains the math involved in looking for Planet Nine. Hear more...
Jim Papadopoulos talks about his years of research analyzing bicycles. Hear more...
Conant Prize winner Daniel Rothman's search for the cause of the end-Permian extinction. Hear more...
Annalisa Crannell explains perspective and how to use it to enjoy art more. Hear more...
Hamsa Balakrishnan talks about her research into shortening airport runway queues. Hear more...
Andrew Beveridge on using networks to analyze Game of Thrones. Hear more...
Jackson Cothren talks about creating three-dimensional images of historical and archaeological sites. Hear more...
Meredith Greer talks about the math involved in designing roller coasters. Hear more...
Chris Butson about work to improve the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease and other disorders. Hear more...
Lydia Bourouiba talks about her work involving surface tension. Hear more...
Luís M.A. Bettencourt on how math connects the characteristics of many cities. Hear more...
Repositioning spacecraft, including a great story about a master's thesis. Hear more...
Van Wedeen talks about the structure of the brain's communication pathways. Hear more...
Muthu Alagappan talks about using topology to analyze basketball. Hear more...
How does math figure in to cars and intersections of the future? Find out...
How is math used to analyze the worldwide obesity epidemic? Hear More...
Hear how math helped create Watson, winner of the Jeopardy! Challenge. Hear More...
ESPN?s Sport Science called on math prof Tim Chartier and former math major Daniel Martin to see if a triple cork was possible. Hear them talk about their investigation. Hear More...
Jennifer Wilson talks about determining the size of state delegations in the U.S. House of Representatives Hear More...
Emmanuel Candès speaks about the exciting new field of compressed sensing. Hear More...
Patrick Ball talks about his work investigating human rights abuses. Hear More...
Robert Ghrist explains how topology helps make sense of large data sets. Hear More...
Juan Meza talks about the many ways math is used to understand climate change. Hear More...
Sommer Gentry explains how math can increase the number of living-donor kidney transplants and save lives. Hear More...
Hear Chris Solarz and Matt Ferrisi describe how they used graph theory to visit every New York subway stop in record time. Hear More...
A math professor solves a mystery about the opening chord of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." Hear More...
The spools of wire above contain the only known live recording of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. Hear More...
A branch of mathematics called percolation theory helps explain how salt water travels through sea ice. Hear More...
Hear how computational fluid dynamics is used to analyze soccer kicks. Hear More...
Actually, they weren?t caught together at all ? their images were put together with software. Hear More...
A recent mathematical breakthrough uses topology to represent musical chords as points in a space called an orbifold. Hear More...
Mathematics is not just numbers and brute force calculation ? there is considerable art and elegance to the subject. Hear More...
Votes are cast by the full membership in each house of Congress, but much of the important maneuvering occurs in committees. Hear More...
Geometry, partial differential equations, and integer linear programming all allow doctors to inflict maximum damage to tumors. Hear More...
Origami paper folding may not seem like a subject for mathematical investigation or one with sophisticated applications. Hear More...
The outcome of elections is often determined more by the voting procedure than by the votes themselves. Hear More...