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"An objective comparison of languages for teaching introductory programming" (2006) by Mannila and de Raadt http://t.co/vRrIeBabH2 #Python View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Student guest blog post: pterosaur quad launch

Lorena Barba

This is the first of a series of blog posts from students' course work for the "Bio-aerial Locomotion" class at GW's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. The students explore several controversial topics about a giant pterosaur's ability to fly. Some background On Sept. 22, 2013, Prof. Michael Habib (who was a guest speaker in our... Continue »

"The one thing I need is someone to help me make online learning work." (Provost at unknown university) —@gsiemens #OAweek View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A successful student-led (flipped) class on avian wings

Lorena Barba

A sign that I still need to trust students to be able and willing to lead their own learning is that I had 70 slides prepared for this class (most of them pictures, of course). A sign that this was a successful student-led (flipped) class is that I only got to project one slide—a single... Continue »

#arXiv is smart and you can submit a .zip file of your whole paper repo with the .tex and figure files, and it will unpack and process it 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 »

In the last six years, @gwengineering has added 43 new faculty. This Fall, 21% of tenure-track faculty are women. #facultymeeting 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 »