Lorena A. Barba group
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Ph.inally D.one!
Two Barba-group Ph.D. students successfully defended their doctoral dissertation this week. Congratulations to them! Anush Krishnan came to Boston University on 2009, after completing a Dual Degree (B. Tech & M. Tech.) in Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. He has worked on development of immersed boundary methods (IBM) for solving Navier-Stokes equations at moderate... Continue »
A collaboration to issue badges in #numericalmooc
Announcing a collaboration with Prof. Daniel T. Hickey (Indiana University Center for Research on Learning and Technology) to award badges in our independent MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." When I was writing the short, internal proposal for creating what is now GW's first massive open online course (MOOC), I had a handful of clear... Continue »
Proposal: A multi-campus, blended, connected course + MOOC
Proposal submitted to the GW office for Online Education and Academic Innovation
June 2014
This educational project will combine several key innovations. We will collaborate internationally, across four institutions, to develop connected courses to teach the fundamentals... Continue »
Announcing "Practical Numerical Methods with Python" MOOC
Aug. 6—New! Course site now open for registrations! As announced at SciPy 2014 (July 8), I will be teaching a numerical methods course at GW this Fall semester that will be connected with three other courses around the world, and also with an independent MOOC titled "Practical Numerical Methods with Python." This is a collaboration... Continue »
Prof. Barba gave keynote at SciPy 2014
If there's computational thinking, there's computational learning
Slides from the keynote talk at the Scientific Python conference, SciPy 2014, Austin, TX.
Dedication:
In a departure with academic custom, this talk is dedicated to my grandparents. On Sunday, July 6, as I was packing my bags... Continue »