C of C Math News Briefs:

• Amazing New Image Processing Algorithm: A nicely written article in Wired magazine reviews the discovery of (including involvement of Fields Medalist Terrence Tao) and theory behind a new mathematical technique for making clean, high resolution images out of noisy, low-res ones!
• From Fish to Infinity: The first in a series of math columns at NYTimes.com by mathematician Steve Strogatz.
• Math and Climate Change: Many of North America's leading math institutes (AIM, BIRS, CMI, CRM, DIMACS, FIELDS, IMA, IPAM, MBI, MITACS, MSRI, NIMBioS, PIMS, SAMSI) present a new program bringing the power of mathematics to the politically sensitive topic of climate change.
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International Math News Briefs (from the AMS):

Math Research News:

• Can differential equations replace using people in medical studies? It is a controversial claim, but "medical mathematician" David Eddy has good reason to think it is the future of drug trials.
• Mathematical modeling to aid in the healing of wounds.
• Using elliptic curves to strengthen IT Security
• American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) Announces Proof of Quantum Unique Egrodicity Conjecture (Sarnak: "This is one of the best theorems of the year.")
• Combining Math and Medicine to Treat Leukemia
• Mathematician brings us a step closer to true invisibility technology
• The Mathematics of String Theory May Provide Information about How Quarks Behave in Everyday Objects
• University of Alberta researchers unravel intricate animal patterns
• York mathematician probes geometric route to combat viruses
• MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence