A series of lectures on topics of current research interest in applied mathematics under the direction of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, supported by the National Science Foundation and published by SIAM. Temam, Roger. Navier-stokes equations and nonlinear functional analysis / Roger Temam. — 2nd ed.

The factors underlying obesity are multifaceted, but recent research suggests that the brain’s melanocortin circuits, which play a key role in controlling the balance between energy consumption and use, lie at the heart of obesity. According to Roger D. Cone, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt Univ...

A response to a critique by Roger W. Hunt of my views on the eventual likely need to use age as a standard for the allocation of expensive, high-technology, life-extending medical care for the elderly. The response encompasses three elements: 1. that while the elderly have a substantial claim to publicly-provided health care, it cannot be an unlimited claim; 2. that a health care system which ...

Photo 1. Dr. Roger at the first international workshop, Marseille, 1983. Joseph Roger passed away on September 3, 2012. He was a great man, a ‘‘giant’’ as one epileptologist has written, with a remarkable personality. It is with a great sense of loss that I pay tribute to him here. Born in 1918, he entered medical school in Marseille in 1941 but his studies were interrupted by the Second World ...