Lorena A. Barba Group :: Professor Lorena A Barba’s research group at the George Washington University.

Must see! “The origins of @SageMath”—presentation slides by @wstein389, 11 June 2016 [PDF] https://t.co/UiacQvNOyN via @podehaye #opensource View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Prof. Barba gave keynote at PyCon 2016

Lorena Barba, flanked by fellow keynote speakers and PyCon Chair, Brandon Rhodes.

My reward—A gorgeous dragonfly came to visit me in the garden while I write. https://t.co/zkUIlB1OV8 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Reproducible and replicable CFD: it's harder than you think

Submitted: 13 May 2016. Preprint arXiv:1605.04339 Accepted: 13 Oct. 2016, Computing in Science and Engineering. Published: 17 Aug. 2017. Overview We do our best to accomplish reproducible research and have for years worked to improve our practices to achieve this goal. Barba made a pledge in 2012, the “Reproducibility PI Manifesto,” according to which all our research... Continue »

Great FAQ on computing education research, including lists of readings and active researchers in the field. https://t.co/SRi2UGS5G0 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Barba group student news

Barba group students have been awarded fantastic opportunities this year! Tingyu Wang was selected to participate in the International High-Performance Computing Summer School in Slovenia (June 26 to July 1). This will be the seventh instance of this international summer school, a collaboration of the National Science Foundation XSEDE program, the European PRACE program, Calcul Canada and... Continue »

Education Foo Camp: Fostering Innovations in Lifelong Learning @Russ_Shilling—I was privileged to part of it! #EdFoo https://t.co/PaqMgzrP2s View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Pi-Yueh Chuang at GTC 2016

At this year's NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, PhD student Pi-Yueh Chuang presented the work "Using AmgX to Accelerate PETSc Codes." AmgX is an NVIDIA library that provides sparse linear solvers, smoothers and preconditioners on GPU devices. Pi-Yueh presented his work to couple AmgX with our fluid-flow solver, PetIBM. This code solves the Navier-Stokes equations on Cartesian... Continue »

RT @mres: I'm frustrated by the puzzle-based approach of most #HourOfCode activities. We need more creative approaches: https://t.co/mMXToI… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Computational Thinking: I do not think it means what you think it means

Lorena Barba

“It’s a basic skill. Right along with the three Rs.” President Obama, on his weekly address just over a month ago, announced the $4-billion Computer Science for All initiative. Reactions quickly spread to make clear that the important skill is not coding, it’s computational thinking. But what does this mean? As it’s become a buzzword... Continue »

RT @tombennett71: As long as teachers are still robbed of valuable time by quack science like Learning Styles, I'll keep driving stakes int… View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Prof. Barba gave BIDS Data Science Lecture