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Jed Brown
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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder working in fast algorithms for physically-based modeling, prediction, inference, and design. Among other things, I am a developer of the PETSc solvers package. See my research page for details.

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54 What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method? Aug 12 '13
50 What are criteria to choose between finite-differences and finite-elements Dec 8 '11
47 What core skills should every computational scientist have? Feb 2 '12
43 Why is Newton's method not converging? Nov 30 '11
32 Are there any famous problems/algorithms in scientific computing that cannot be sped up by parallelisation Feb 23 '12
31 Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs? Nov 30 '11
28 Why is my iterative linear solver not converging? Dec 23 '11
28 Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics Jul 19 '12
27 Why is my iterative linear solver not converging? Dec 23 '11
27 Scientific standards for numerical errors Oct 9 '12
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