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I just returned from the 14th SIAM conference on parallel computing in Seattle. I was presenting a SIMD matrix compression algorithm Ive been working on for some applications in quantum chemistry. There were a lot of interesting technical talks but my favorite was a non-technical plenary talk by Horst Simon on energy-efficient computing, [...]

For anyone from the Los Angeles area who might be interested, Ill be running a workshop on sound synthesis at the Machine Project in May (details are here).

Perhaps you werent aware that there is a GIANT HEXAGON ON SATURN’S NORTH POLE. It appears to be a variety of standing wave. These are new pictures with an unprecedented level of detail- note the shockwaves (at least ithink theyre shockwaves) propagating off of the corners. Thanks to Joe Mason from the Cassini imaging media [...]

Ive finally accepted the fact that web hosting is not a strong point of the ucla math dept (nor should it be) and so Ive set up here instead.  A stripped-down version of my old academic page still exists here.  Hopefully with a 10x bigger pot (its hard to cram a lot of content into [...]