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Mathematics Awareness Week Garden Party Wool And Oil Do Mix Arts And Sciences Underwater Astronomy A Fungus Below Us Brain Food? pp. 4. "Mathematics and Medicine" is the theme for this year's Mathematics Awareness Week, April 24-30. Organizers hope to draw attention to the critical but often overlooked role of mathematics in many areas of biomedicine. Important examples, they say, are the use of mathematics in genetic

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"Mathematics and Medicine" is the theme for this year's Mathematics Awareness Week, April 24-30. Organizers hope to draw attention to the critical but often overlooked role of mathematics in many areas of biomedicine. Important examples, they say, are the use of mathematics in genetic studies and DNA analysis; the reliance on mathematics of such medical-imaging technologies as computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET); the construction of mathematical models for studying the immune system; and development of the algorithms that underlie computer molecular modeling. Colleges, universities, and research laboratories are sponsoring lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, and other special events to celebrate. The event is coordinated and funded by the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics in Washington, D.C., representing the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, with additional funding from the U.S. Army Research Office.

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