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"Build PDF for My Approval" for the 10th time. Why can't #Elsevier Editorial System deal with figure files in a sub-folder? #arXiv can! View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Accepted: Biomolecular electrostatics solver using Python and GPUs

Submitted: 20 September, 2013. Accepted: 24 October, 2013. This paper presents a study of the effect of solvent-filled cavities and Stern layers in a biomolecular electrostatics solver based on a boundary integral formulation. The tool for this study was the PyGBe code: a solver for biomolecular electrostatics using Python, GPUs and boundary elements. To determine... Continue »

@HatemElBidweihy What? You don't use a version control repo for papers? Or Dropbox, even? Still, you can't avoid the 100-email discussions. View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Submitted: "Lift and wakes of flying snakes"

Submitted: September 16, 2013. Accepted in Physics of Fluids: February 10, 2014. This paper presents a computational study of the aerodynamics of an anatomically correct cross-section of Chrysopelia paradisi, the flying snake. These animals inhabit the canopy of rainforests in East Asia, and have a very peculiar method of locomotion: they jump from tree branches, change... Continue »

Simon Layton, PhD 2013

Undergraduate graduation at University of Bristol, 2008. From left: Justin Whalley, Prof. Lorena Barba, Simon Layton.

How will the fast-multipole method fare in the exascale era?

SIAM News (Vol. 46, issue 6) has published on the front page our piece about the future of algorithms in the exascale era. This piece was written by invitation on the aftermath of a very successful SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, held in Boston last February. At this conference several minisymposia focused on... Continue »

CFD Python: 12 steps to Navier-Stokes

Lorena Barba

We announce the public release of online educational materials for self-learners of CFD using IPython Notebooks: the CFD Python Class! Update! (Jan.2014) CFD Python has a new home on GitHub Some background This post describes the first practical module of Prof. Barba's Computational Fluid Dynamics class, as taught between 2010 and 2013 at Boston University. The... Continue »

The science diasporas lead the action from campus to society—blog post on #2013GDF panel. Do comment! http://t.co/WMfQfeR2dq @DiasporaIdea View // Reply // Retweet // Like

The science diasporas lead the action from campus to society

Lorena Barba

The 2013 Global Diaspora Forum (GDF) in Washington, DC was held 13–14 May at USAID headquarters and the U.S. Department of State. I was invited to be a panelist in "The Science Diasporas Lead the Action: from Campus to Society," joining moderator Alfred Watkins (Executive Chairman of the Global Innovation Summit) and panelists Rohit Shukla (CEO, Larta Institute) Wole Soboyejo (President, African University... Continue »