2025 was a unique year. I lived in four different states and was a resident of those states. I moved across the country three times, with professional movers, packing and unpacking, registering my car, updating bank accounts, IDs, insurance, and permanent addresses. I leased apartments, sold my beloved house in Florida, and navigated multiple career …
Category Archives: Misc
Remember a Perfect Day
On a spring day at University of Florida, I walked from Professor Haftka’s office, now my own. Up the small rise from aerospace, near the student union and under the trees, I made my way to class. Years of developing the Navier–Stokes equations for aerospace students, joined by mathematics students. The room held thirty, yet …
Univ. Mich Art Exhibit
Today I attended the University of Michigan Art Exhibit on North Campus, which featured thousands of works by prisoners in the state of Michigan. The event serves both as a charity and as a program designed to provide the incarcerated with a creative outlet and a means of connecting with the broader community. The artwork …
New Year 2025
The year 2025 has begun. Within just a few weeks, I left my professorship, relocated to Maryland, became a resident of the state, and embarked on a new chapter of life.
Academic Odyssey to Ithaca
Today marks the conclusion of my professorship at the University of Florida. Odysseus’s journey from the Ilion Wars (Trojan Wars) back to Ithaca was an odyssey that defined much of his lifetime. Though separated from his love, it was the journey that made his love meaningful. Approximately eight and a half years ago, I began …
Eight Years at Florida
It has now been eight years since I joined the University of Florida. Years ago, the University was a very different place. Many things have changed due to external and internal factors. One thing is for certain: I am told that the academic community and academics are always changing. To be a successful professor, much …
On Websites at Florida
I have moved my faculty website to this website. My personal and faculty website are now located and combined here at saemiller.com. There is a redirect from https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/fluids/ The university depends on academic freedom, and academic freedom depends on tenure. Without tenure there is no academic freedom, and without academic freedom there is no university.
MSDOS 4 Source Code
Find myself going down the rabbit hole as MS posted their MSDOS assembly code on GITHUB. Initials JK appear through source code, which I’m not sure who it belongs to. My assembly programming is at best poor. It’s fun to read the commands like del.asm etc. DOS seemed to be behind the times in 1986, …
Self-Portrait, 2024
Generated via advancing front / Delayne algorithm, surface grid, marched in normal direction to lines of maximum gradient. CPU time \(1.5 \times 10^{-1}\) s on Mac M1.
Diophantine Equations
Contributions of Diophantus of Alexandria hold a distinguished place. His seminal work, Arithmetica, unveiled in the 3rd century CE, is a key in the study of number theory, particularly in the realm of integers. This ancient text, encapsulating 130 equations, laid the foundation for what are now known as Diophantine equations—equations constrained to integer solutions. …