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

In the source panel method, the coefficient matrix has 1/2 in the diagonal. What does it represent? #AerpPython http://t.co/sbbReAFX7T View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A math moment

Tingyu Wang and Natalia Clementi at the whiteboard, sorting out some math.

RT @slashdot: No Film At 11: the Case For the Less-Video-Is-More MOOC http://t.co/6IEaftoqSq View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Probing protein orientation near charged surfaces

First version submitted: 31 March 2015. Submission of split papers: June 7 & June 12. Accepted: 4 Sept. & 26 Dec. 2015. UPDATE: The material in the original manuscript was split in two papers, submitted to different peer-reviewed journals. The editorial decision on the first submission was that the paper was out of scope... Continue »

We have coffee & cookies (candidate trying to ingratiate himself), but committee not arrived—join the PhD defense! https://t.co/sak5rufWW9 View // Reply // Retweet // Like

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 »

@RobertTalbert Me too. I love the Jot Pro: the weight of it, the precision: it's just great. There's a new Evernote version, but more pricey View // Reply // Retweet // Like

A collaboration to issue badges in #numericalmooc

Lorena Barba

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 »

I hear the history of #jazz in O'Day's "Sweet Georgia Brown"—story-telling, blues, swing, bebop—and I love it! http://t.co/u5jvdjJUck View // Reply // Retweet // Like

@RobertTalbert A basic feature of the flipped class is being exposed to content for the first time outside of class—not necessary for PI (?) View // Reply // Retweet // Like

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 »