Locating People Lost at Sea - Professor Mattia Serra featured in the American Mathematical Society 'Mathematical Moments'
People shouldn’t die because their boat capsizes. Yet hundreds of people, some seeking a better life and others who just run into trouble with their own boats, die every year because they aren’t found in time. Search teams rely on currents and weather to predict where people will drift, but currents are highly variable and often push both people and objects far away from where the rescuers expect them to be.Using a new technique based on differential equations, researchers have identified.
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