Author Archives: Dan Gezelter

Gpiv

Gpiv is a graphic user interface program for recording and analyzing images obtained from a fluid flow that has been seeded with tracer particles by the so-called Particle Image Velocimetry technique (PIV). The program allows to have a quick overview … Continue reading

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AMBER

AMBER is group of programs used for simulation of biomolecules. It is highly efficient parallel MD simulation program written in FORTRAN. Find AMBER at: http://ambermd.org/

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New Software Links

We’ve been completely swamped lately with duties relating to Freshman chemistry. There’s been a backlog of new OpenSource scientific software, so without further ado: In our Partial Differential Equation section, we’ve got a new link to FEniCS, which appears to … Continue reading

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Engineering Science Blog

Our friends Geoff Davis and Peter Fiske over at PhDs.org have started a new blog called Engineering Science. The first few posts have been very good, including these excellent posts on writing effective grant proposals and the stereotype threat. Go … Continue reading

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Gretl

Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library) is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is is free, open-source software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU … Continue reading

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NA_WorkSheet

The NA_WorkSheet is a collective aggregation of algorithms coded in Java that implements various Numerical Analysis solutions/techniques in one easy to use opensource tool. The app. may be used for graphing, root finding, differentiation, integration, interpolation, linear systems solving, and … Continue reading

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Scientific Expert or Not. Does it matter?

Slate Magazine is running an article about a Sociologist who posed as a physicist. Harry Collins (the sociologist) studies “expertise” in his day job, but has a strong interest in experiments for detecting gravitational waves. He and his colleagues collected … Continue reading

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SwisTrack: Multi-Object Video Tracking Software

SwisTrack allows for tracking multiple objects such as insects or robots from a video stream provided by a file or directly from a camera. SwisTrack’s user interface allows adjusting parameters on the flight, and thus allow to find an optimal … Continue reading

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google

Here’s an amazing rant / short story from Bruce Sterling called “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google”. Any story that obliquely references to Steve Jobs and The Smiths can’t be bad…

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Debyer

Debyer and companion programs analyze and manipulate atomistic models. In particular, debyer can calculate powder diffraction pattern of virtual sample using the Debye scattering formula. It takes as an input a file with positions of all the atoms in the … Continue reading

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