Many people may wonder what happens in the vast stretches of the world's oceans. For some, it is simply a matter of "out of sight, out of mind". Fortunately that is not the attitude at the National Center for Ecological...

This consultant report for the California Energy Commission is to provide tools and guidelines for the installer to help ensure that residential photovoltaic power systems are properly specified and installed, resulting...

In this longitudinal study at the University of Washington, the retention of women in science and engineering is examined. This report covers the sixth year of the study in which the focus is on six cohorts of one...

Optimization has roots in operations research, and this collection of tutorials from IFORS Educational Research Committee covers many topics within OR. A fun applet requires the user to place as many queens on a chess...

The subject of this month's feature column from the American Mathematical Society Online is the solution to the "Three Body Problem" of Newtonian mechanics. The problem deals with three orbiting bodies of equal mass and...