#CS at #Illinois is hiring #teaching #faculty! Applications are due November 15. Come work with us on training the next generation of CS movers and shakers! https://go.cs.illinois.edu/teaching-faculty-hiring

#IMPACT2024, the 14th International #Workshop on #Polyhedral #Compilation Techniques, to be held in Jan of 2024 in Munich, is soliciting #paper submissions: https://www.cri.ensmp.fr/conf/impact2024/ Deadline is Nov 3 AoE #cfp #call

Sad 😢 to hear that Champaign-based game developer Volition is shutting down. Descent (their break-out success from 30 years ago) was one of the defining games of my youth (yes, LAN parties! 😎 ) and... perhaps contributed to my ending up in CS at UIUC.
https://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/volition-has-been-shut-down/

Congratulations to Kaushik Kulkarni on defending his PhD in front of his committee, consisting of David Ham, Luke Olson, Paul Fischer (and me)! 🎉 🎓 📖
https://kaushikcfd.github.io

Congratulations to Isuru Fernando on defending his PhD in front of his committee, consisting of Travis Askham, Luke Olson, and Paul Fischer (and me)! 🎉 🎓 📖 https://github.com/isuruf/

Ever been irritated that Fast Multipole Methods require lots of special, problem-specific code for efficiency (e.g. specific to the Coulomb potential?) My student Isuru Fernando has fixed that for you: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17867 #fmm #paper #fastmultipole #pde #numerics #scicomp