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Announcements
Sign Up for Credit by Exams in the Math office, December 7-9.
Credit by Exam in MASC 1024 will be Thursday, December 10, 2:00 - 4:00 PM.
Women in Mathematics: Career Day at Virginia Tech will be at the Math Emporium on the morning of Friday, November 20. Virginia Tech faculty, students, and alumnae will join approximately 250 sixth graders for an intergenerational, multimedia, mathematical celebration.
The Putnam Mathematical Competition will be on Saturday, December 5. Undergraduates wishing to participate should sign up at McBryde 472 by October 9.
Featured Research
Traian Iliescu - Much of my current research is on gravity currents, cold masses of water protruding into warm ones. The mixing between the cold and warm water takes place through the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Gravity currents are believed to have a significant role in general ocean circulation models. However, their numerical simulation is very challenging due to the large (geophysical scale) parameters involved. My main interest in the numerical investigation of gravity currents is the ability of LES to perform at parameters prohibitive for a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) approach.Click here for more information.