May has been quite a busy month, traveling around US for meetings and conferences:
- On May 4 – 6, I’ve been at the NETL 2010 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science where I gave a talk on the progress made with quadrature-based moment methods for gas-particle flows in Prof. Fox research group.
- On May 24 – 26, I’ve been at a very interesting conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, in the Mathematics Department of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where I’ve been kindly invited by Prof. Shi Jin to give a talk on quadrature-based moment methods for gas-particle flows.
- On May 31 – June 4 I’ve been at the International Conference of Multiphase Flow, in Tampa, Florida. If you’re interested in the paper I presented at ICMF, you can find it here, while the paper presented by Varun Vikas is here. Tampa is a wonderful place, with a very nice sun! I met some colleague from Europe I only knew by email before, and it has been a pleasure to meet in person and discuss of our work. I also had the opportunity to talk with some friend I did not see for a while, and to exchange interesting ideas with other researchers, which is always go.
Now, back to work 
Posted in CFD.
By Alberto
– June 7, 2010
NIST announced the release of an updated version of their handbook of mathematical functions. Resources are available online at the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions. You will need a Math-ML enabled browser like Firefox to properly see the page.
Posted in General.
By Alberto
– May 14, 2010
Geeko, the openSUSE chameleon, is going to release the newest and greenest version of openSUSE in July. A counter has been created, as usual, and gives you also an idea of the new artwork that will come with the distribution. You can see it in the sidebar.
Enjoy 
Posted in openSUSE.
By Alberto
– May 14, 2010
BleachBit makes it very easy to clean your disk, remove automatically created backup files, and protect your privacy. It is available for both Windows® and Linux®. If you use openSUSE, you can find it on the openSUSE buildservice.
Posted in General, Linux, openSUSE.
By Alberto
– May 13, 2010
It has been a while since I changed look to my blog, so I’m trying some new theme. Also, the Works and CV pages have been updated, and a page on CFD, with some details on my work is coming.
Posted in General.
By Alberto
– May 9, 2010
OpenOffice.org is the reference office suite for the open source community, and its adoption has been increasing (see here and here, for example) thanks to its complete implementation of the standard ISO OpenDocument format and the good compatibility with commercial formats.
OpenOffice.org offers the possibility of extending the functionality of the suite through extensions, which can be downloaded from the OpenOffice.org extensions website. A few extensions are very useful to authors and scientists:
- OOoLatex allows LaTeX equations to be inserted in your Writer and Presenter documents, without any limitation. The LaTeX installation of your system is used to compile the LaTeX source, and the equation is added to the document as an image of the specified resolution. Equations can be edited with a click, and the image will be updated automatically.
- AST (Author Support Tool) offers an extensive suite of tools to manage templates for papers, reports, bibliographic sources and styles. In addition it allows brainstorming and cooperative work to be done thanks to an integrated versioning system, it integrates the possibility of taking personal notes, managing the progress of the work (time management), checking the style and backing up revisions.
- Magenta Chemistry allows chemical formulas to be easily insterted in documents, with the possibility of using different conventional syntaxes, and to specify if two-dimensional or three-dimensional structures have to be generated.
This is only a short list. There are many more extensions on he OpenOffice.org extensions website. Just visit it and explore!
Posted in General.
By Alberto
– March 27, 2010
Alda Merini was a very prolific Italian writer and poet. You can read more about her on her website, wanted by her daughters to remind of her.
Posted in General.
By Alberto
– March 17, 2010
R is available for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise on the openSUSE Build Service. Unfortunately it is not so easy to find because the search engine requires more than two letters in the search. However, you can find a complete list of 1-click install links here. Thanks to Detlef Steuer who took care of preparing the page
Posted in openSUSE.
Tagged with openSUSE, R.
By Alberto
– January 22, 2010
I have just packaged enGrid for openSUSE 11.2. You can install it from this page, using 1-click installation.
Enjoy
Posted in CFD, Linux, openSUSE.
Tagged with engrid, openSUSE 11.2.
By Alberto
– January 6, 2010
JabRef is a very good multi-platform (it works on Linux, Mac, Windows) tool to manage BibTeX files, with advanced functionalities like automatic management of journal abbreviations, integration with Lyx and many more. You can find the RPM for openSUSE 11.2 in my repository on the openSUSE buildservice.
Enjoy
Posted in openSUSE.
Tagged with jabref, openSUSE 11.2.
By Alberto
– January 3, 2010
