Ever wondered whether fast direct solvers are compatible with Quadrature by Expansion, a method for the evaluation of singular layer potentials? Wonder no more 🙂 In https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13809, we offer an algorithmic recipe, analysis, an end-to-end error model, and some weighting tricks, the latter two applicable beyond QBX, along with numerical experiments. #layerpot #fastalg #fastalgorithm #numpde #numerics #scicomp #paper 🎓 📖

I'm releasing lecture slides and related demos (Jupyter notebooks) for my classes in open-source form on Github:
https://andreask.cs.illinois.edu/lecture-slides-and-demos-released-as-open-source/ 🗨️ 🎓 📖 🧑‍🏫 #teaching #scicomp #opensource #lecturenotes

Dear Redacted State Graduate School, your recommendation letter form sure seems to have an idea about the type of work environment you have in mind for your graduate students. 🤔

#IMPACT2025, the 15th International #Workshop on #Polyhedral #Compilation Techniques, to be held in Jan of 2025 in Baercelona, is soliciting #paper submissions: https://impact-workshop.org/ Deadline is Nov 8 AoE #cfp #call (Photo by Manuel Rodríguez (CC BY-SA 2.5 MX)

#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/