Doug Arnold, the director of IMA, has been elected as the new president of SIAM. His 2-year term will begin in January, 2009.

Möbius Transformations Revealed, a short video by IMA director Douglas Arnold and colleague Jonathan Rogness, which depicts the beauty of Möbius transformations and shows how moving to a higher dimension reveals their essential unity, is currently the top featured video on www.youtube.com and has been watched by almost 1,000,000 viewers. -- so for a brief shining moment, at least, stereographic projection and Möbius Transformations are getting top billing over talking cats and charging an iPod with gatorade. It can be found at www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/moebius/ .

You can read more about the making of this video at University of Minnesota news page, and the recent article on the cover of SIAM News.