Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

Quantum ESPRESSO

Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of Open-Source computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials. Find Quantum ESPRESSO at: http://www.quantum-espresso.org/

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Icy

Icy is an image analysis software primarily targeted at biological needs. It provides high-quality tools for biological image processing tasks, such as filtering (linear, nonlinear, morphological, etc.), cell segmentation, particles detection, tracking, multiple-class thresholding, measurements, microscope control, etc. It is … Continue reading

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cadnano

Cadnano simplifies and enhances the process of designing three-dimensional DNA origami nanostructures. Through its user-friendly 2D and 3D interfaces it accelerates the creation of arbitrary designs. The embedded rules within Cadnano paired with the finite element analysis performed by cando, … Continue reading

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Open Science consulting gig with the American Heart Association

I just got notification about a short-term consulting gig with the American Heart Association that is specifically related to issues of Open Science: The American Heart Association has recently formed a task to explore and determine AHA’s role in open … Continue reading

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Advice to junior faculty who want to do get promoted doing Open Science

I recently sent some advice to a colleague who is coming up for tenure at another university.  He’s quite well known in the Open Science community and is trying to figure out how best to make the case to his … Continue reading

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An informal definition of OpenScience

Over at the open-science mailing list at okfn.org, Michael Nielsen just posted a great “informal” definition of open science:   Open science is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical … Continue reading

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Puma-EM

Puma-EM is a code that allows the computation of various electromagnetic quantities when a target is excited by an electromagnetic source. These quantities are the scattered fields and the currents on the surface of the target. It can compute: monostatic … Continue reading

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Maxima

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numeric results … Continue reading

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Finite Element Method Magnetics – FEMM

FEMMis a suite of programs for solving lowfrequency electromagnetic problems on two-dimensional planar and axisymmetric domains. The program currently addresses linear/nonlinear magnetostatic problems, linear/nonlinear time harmonic magnetic problems, linear electrostatic problems, and steady-state heat flow problems. Find Finite Element Method … Continue reading

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MPB

The MIT Photonic-Bands (MPB) package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. It was developed by Steven G. Johnson at MIT along with … Continue reading

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