These are my upcoming and past keynotes and invited talks.
Journal of Open Source Software: bot-assisted open peer review and publication
Information Science & Technology Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sep 19, 2024
Invited seminar about the Journal of Open Source Software and our bot-assisted peer review process.
Strategies for tackling the computational cost of modeling reacting fluids and related problems
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
Mar 31, 2023
Invited department seminar describing my group's work on numerical methods in combustion, and how we extend methods developed in this field to other domains.
Using JupyterBooks for interactive teaching and fun
Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Education special interest group
Apr 22, 2021
Invited talk describing my approach to combining live handwritten lectures with JupyterBooks for examples and online references.
Strategies for tackling the computational cost of modeling reacting fluids
Engineering Lecture Series, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Apr 1, 2021
Describes the challenges of performing accurate simulations of combustion and reacting fluid flows, which require handling complex, large, and stiff chemical kinetic models. Also reviews work my group has done to tackle these and related problems.
Background and recent progress in using detailed chemical kinetics for numerical combustion modeling
Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
Oct 12, 2018
Describes how modern combustion and reacting-flow simulations represent chemical kinetics, and discusses the challenges of using accurate, detailed kinetic models. Reviews techniques for accommodating large, detailed kinetic models in numerical combustion simulations, including model reduction/simplification, tabulation, and use of improved integration algorithms, and presents some perspectives for the future of chemical kinetics in numerical combustion.
New community standards and open tools for chemical kinetics
Combustion Chemistry Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
Aug 29, 2017
Describes a pair of related, collaborative projects for a standardized method of describing fundamental combustion experimental measurements in a human- and machine-readable way (and tools for working with such data), and a study that uses these tools to examine the impacts of discrepancies in model parameters found across the literature.
Novel modeling tools for next-generation combustion
Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar, Oregon State University
Oct 28, 2016
Talks about why we need to study combustion and reactive-flow modeling, and the challenges of accurate modeling; also describes my efforts to reduce the cost of accurate chemistry in reactive-flow simulations, in particular reducing the size of chemical models and developing new strategies for exploiting GPUs.
Novel computational modeling tools for next-generation combustion
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Caltech
Nov 12, 2015
Talks about why we need to study combustion and reactive-flow modeling, and the challenges of accurate modeling; also describes my efforts to reduce the cost of accurate chemistry in reactive-flow simulations, in particular reducing the size of chemical models and developing new strategies for exploiting GPUs.
Novel computational modeling tools for next-generation combustion
Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Utah
Oct 2, 2015
This is a slightly updated version of the talk I gave at Caltech about my research.