This essay was featured as a guest post on Silicon Reckoner. Many thanks to Michael Harris for allowing me the opportunity to share this with his readers.
Excited to share that the First Proof Foundation was recently featured in a New York Times article by Siobhan Roberts about the future of math research in the age of AI. The article includes an interview with me and my colleagues Mohammed Abouzaid, Martin Hairer, and Lauren Williams. Check it out!
Please help promote this project called “First Proof” led by Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford), Nikhil Srivastava (Cal), Rachel Ward (UT Austin), and Lauren Williams (Harvard). The goal is to understand the capabilities of AI systems on problems that come up in math research. We have a collection of research problems for which solutions have not yet been posted online, so it’s a good testbed. The solutions will come out in just one week.
February 1, 2026 Update: The next SIAM Linear Algebra conference is tentatively scheduled to be held in Long Beach, CA, on May 24-28, 2027. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
January 25, 2025: I will be co-chairing the 2027 SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra along with Mark Embree (Virginia Tech). The LA24 conference in Paris will be an impossible act to follow, but stay tuned.
We are happy to share the final draft of our forthcoming textbook which will be available in print in June 2025. Click for more…
As March 1st, I am serving as the (Interim) SIAM Vice President for Publications.
The 2025 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession is awarded to Tamara G. Kolda in recognition of her extensive leadership and service to multiple applied mathematics communities.
My old SIAM blog posts were lost for a time, but the SIAM staff has generously resurrected them!
Here are pointers to my SIAM Blog Posts on
If you’re ready to level up your LaTeX graphics game using TikZ and PGFPLOTS, check out my book and videos! Read on for links…
We are happy to share a draft of our forthcoming textbook. Click for more…