I began myself to consider the movement of the earth. It seemed an absurd notion. Yet I knew that my predecessor had been granted the liberty to imagine all sorts of fictive circles to save the celestial phenomena. I therefore thought that I would be similarly granted the right to experiment, to try out whether, …
Continue reading “Copernicus’ Dedicatory Letter to Pope Paul III”
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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, …
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.
