Simon Layton, PhD 2013
Undergraduate graduation at University of Bristol, 2008. From left: Justin Whalley, Prof. Lorena Barba, Simon Layton.
Lorena A. Barba group
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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
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
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 »
Back-cover feature for Barba
Back-cover feature of the Spring 2013 issue of ENGineer magazine.
Comment: "Will MOOCs destroy academia?"
The editorial "Will MOOCs destroy academia?", by Moshe Vardi, appeared in the November 2012 issue of the Communications of the ACM. This is my reaction to that editorial, written at the time the editorial appeared online, with the intention of leaving a comment to it. The comment grew too long, and thus I decided to... Continue »