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<Title>Yum Shoppe Bingo!</Title>
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<Title>October Yum Shoppe Deal of the Month!</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p><span>2017-18 URA Scholar Theodore Weinberg's p</span><span>aper originating from his undergraduate research was published online over the Summer by SIAM Undergraduate Research Online.  <br></span><span>Title: "</span><span>Fast implementation of mixed RT0 finite elements in MATLAB"</span><span> <br></span><a href="https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/SIURO/Vol12/S01743.pdf?ver=2019-07-19-110553-217" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://www.siam.org/Portals/0/Publications/SIURO/Vol12/S01743.pdf?ver=2019-07-19-110553-217</a>  <br><a href="https://www.siam.org/Publications/SIURO/Volume-12" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://www.siam.org/Publications/SIURO/Volume-12</a>  </p><p><br><span>Teddy is currently in the UMBC Applied Mathematics PhD program, still working with Dr. Sousedik on research, some of which continuing the undergraduate work.  </span></p><p><span><br></span><span>Abstract:<br></span><span>We develop a fast implementation of the mixed finite element method for the Darcy’s problem discretized by lowest-order Raviart-Thomas finite elements using Matlab. The implementation is based on the so-called vector- ized approach applied to the computation of the finite element matrices and assembly of the global finite element matrix. The code supports both 2D and 3D domains, and the finite elements can be triangular, rectangular, tetrahedral or hexahedral. The code can also be easily modified to import user-provided meshes. We comment on our freely available code and present a performance comparison with the standard approach.<br></span><span>Congratulations!</span></p><p><span><br></span><span>Check out more URA Scholars: <br></span><a href="https://ur.umbc.edu/ura/current-scholars/">https://ur.umbc.edu/ura/current-scholars/</a></p></div>
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    <div class="html-content">Come meet Markus Proctor, 2016 INDS graduate with a degree in "Technology Entrepreneurship and Organization Management", at the kick-off event to the Major Event. The kick-off will be held on Wednesday, October 2 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in ILSB 118, and 6:30pm-8:30pm in the Skylight Room. (The Major Event is the next day, Thursday October 3, from 11-1 in the UC Ballroom.)<div><br></div><div>Markus is one of four UMBC alums featured at the Major Event's kick-off to highlight how their undergraduate degree has lead to meeting their career goals. Read more about the event and Markus' bio:</div><div><a href="https://advising.umbc.edu/media/the-major-event-2019/kickoff-and-networking-event/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://advising.umbc.edu/media/the-major-event-2019/kickoff-and-networking-event/</a><br><div><br></div><div>Here are some articles written about Markus while he was a student at UMBC:</div></div><div><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/entrepreneurship/posts/46668" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/entrepreneurship/posts/46668</a></div><div><a href="https://news.umbc.edu/markus-proctor-founder-of-edupal-is-ready-for-career-as-an-entrepreneur/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://news.umbc.edu/markus-proctor-founder-of-edupal-is-ready-for-career-as-an-entrepreneur/</a></div><div><br></div></div>
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<Title>Writing Center Tutor Invited to Naylor Research Workshop</Title>
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<Summary>Congratulations to Ajay Kharkar, Academic Success Center's Writing Center Tutor!     Ajay will attend the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies this weekend at York College...</Summary>
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<Title>URA Scholar Gerson Kroiz Publishes Paper!</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><div><span>URA Scholar Gerson Kroiz (Mathematics and Statistics) published  a paper with his research mentors, Carlos Barajas, Matthias K. Gobbert, Gerson C. Kroiz, and Bradford E. Peercy in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>"Challenges and Opportunities for the Simulations of Calcium Waves on Modern Multi-Core and Many-Core Parallel Computing Platforms." </span></div><div><span>International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2019;e3244, published online 29 July 2019.</span></div></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><h3>Abstract</h3><div><p>State‐of‐the‐art distributed‐memory computer clusters contain multicore CPUs with 16 and more cores. The second generation of the Intel Xeon Phi many‐core processor has more than 60 cores with 16 GB of high‐performance on‐chip memory. We contrast the performance of the second‐generation Intel Xeon Phi, code‐named Knights Landing (KNL), with 68 computational cores to the latest multicore CPU Intel Skylake with 18 cores. A special‐purpose code solving a system of nonlinear reaction‐diffusion partial differential equations with several thousands of point sources modeled mathematically by Dirac delta distributions serves as realistic test bed. The system is discretized in space by the finite volume method and advanced by fully implicit time‐stepping, with a matrix‐free implementation that allows the complex model to have an extremely small memory footprint. The sample application is a seven variable model of calcium‐induced calcium release (CICR) that models the interplay between electrical excitation, calcium signaling, and mechanical contraction in a heart cell. The results demonstrate that excellent parallel scalability is possible on both hardware platforms, but that modern multicore CPUs outperform the specialized many‐core Intel Xeon Phi KNL architecture for a large class of problems such as systems of parabolic partial differential equations.</p></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>Here is the link to the paper:</div><div><div><a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3244" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.3244</a></div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations Gerson!</div><div>Find out how to become an undergraduate researcher:</div><div><a href="https://ur.umbc.edu/home/getting-started-in-research/">https://ur.umbc.edu/home/getting-started-in-research/</a></div></div></div></div>
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<Title>Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter</Title>
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<Title>URA Scholar Adursh Iyer Publishes Paper!</Title>
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