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“Listening” to Signals Traveling Through Bridges for Diagnosing Damage

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 – A group of Clarkson University mathematicians and a civil engineer developed a passive and noninvasive approach to “listen” to a collection […]

Synchronized Swimming: How Startled Fish Shoals Effectively Evade Danger

Washington, D.C., November 29, 2016 — As panic spreads, an entire shoal (collective) of fish responds to an incoming threat in a matter of seconds, seemingly as […]

Shaking Things Up with More Control

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2016 — This month, Samsung recalled 2.8 million top-loading washing machines due to excessive vibrations that could cause the top to break off […]

How synchrony and asynchrony co-exist

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15, 2016 — Order and disorder might seem dichotomous conditions of a functioning system, yet both states can, in fact, exist simultaneously and durably […]

Using Nonlinearity in Understanding Market Forces

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 20, 2016 — There are certain markets within the U.S. and global economies in which two major corporations dominate. For example, Coca-Cola Co. and […]

The Science of Diffusion and the Spread of Public Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 22, 2016 — Most of us think of diffusion in the context of its scientific definition as the process whereby particles of liquids, gases […]

Chaos Could Provide the Key to Enhanced Wireless Communications

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 23, 2016 — Chaos, somewhat ironically, has one clear attribute: random-like, apparently unpredictable, behavior. However recent work shows that that unpredictable behavior could provide […]

Mathematical models explain east-west asymmetry of jet lag recovery

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2016 — Travelers frequently report experiencing a significantly slower jet lag recovery after an eastward vs. westward flight. While some are quick to […]

New Insights into California Electricity Crisis May Help Prevent Future Crises

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2016 — Between 2000 and 2001, California experienced the biggest electricity crisis in the U.S. since World War II. Exactly how it happened, […]