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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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What are the conceptual differences between the finite element and finite volume method?
Aug 12, 2013
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What are criteria to choose between finite-differences and finite-elements
Dec 8, 2011
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What core skills should every computational scientist have?
Feb 2, 2012
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Why is Newton's method not converging?
Nov 30, 2011
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Are there any famous problems/algorithms in scientific computing that cannot be sped up by parallelisation
Feb 23, 2012
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Why is local conservation important when solving PDEs?
Nov 30, 2011
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Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?
Dec 23, 2011
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Why is my iterative linear solver not converging?
Dec 23, 2011
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Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics
Jul 19, 2012
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Scientific standards for numerical errors
Oct 9, 2012
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How appropriate are software package-specific questions?
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Is mathematical modeling on topic here?
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Undelete question 4650?
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Revising the "stability" tag
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aligning math equations in Latex
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CEDET scalability tips
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Constant array types in C, flaw in standard?
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pipe large amount of data to stdin while using subprocess.Popen
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Possible ambiguity with extern "C", overloading, and function pointers

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