Technology Department Editor for Computing in Science and Engineering
I've been named to be Technology Department editor for Computing in Science and Engineering, a magazine aimed at the scientific computation and computational sciences communities sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics. This is a terrific opportunity for me to cover all the ways that technology is being used to support the computational sciences. My first column will appear in either the November-December issue of this year or the January-February issue of next year. I've written a review of SimEvents, a new Simulink toolkit from MathWorks and I hope you'll find it interesting. Future columns, perhaps by guest columnists, are planned for multiphysics systems, multigrid computing, and other topics.
Return to Full Time Work from My Sabbatical
It has been an enjoyable and stimulating sabbatical working on scientific computation topics, but now it's time to return to work on campus. I'll be trying to integrate what I've learned about scientific computation into my scholarship and teaching. On the teaching side, I'll be using more computation projects in my classes, especially those that can make use of existing systems such as MATLAB and Mathematica. This Fall I'm teaching Discrete Structures and I'm looking at how I can use MATLAB in the sections on combinatorics, probability, and matrices. If we make it to graph theory, there are also some possibilities there.
Over the sabbatical I worked on improving these notes with more exercises and problems from a wider variety of fields. I continue to search for a publisher with an interest in publishing these notes as an introductory textbook in the simulation of dynamical systems using Simulink, a part of the MATLAB system. In the meantime, I'll be using the notes in the Spring when I teach CSC-432 again.
Biotech Simulation in CSC-600
I will be testing my new Biotech projects this Fall in CSC-600 with our Professional Science Master's students who are specializing in Biotech. The enrollment is not large enough to warrant two sections, so it will be a challenge to handle both groups of students in the lectures. I'll also be reducing coverage of discrete event simulation and adding new material on continuous simulation.