People, Papers, Presentations

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Scott Collis,
assistant professor in mechanical engineering, was invited
to present three lectures at the 32nd Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) course at the prestigious von Karman Institute
for Fluid Dynamics in Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium, Sept.
9-13. This year’s CFD course focused on multiscale
methods, and Collis’ lectures dealt with the use of
multiscale methods in the computer simulation of turbulent
fluid flows. Collis’ talks were entitled “Monitoring
Unresolved Scales in Variational Turbulence Modeling,”
“Variational Multiscale Methods for Large Eddy Simulation”
and “Variational Multiscale Methods for Turbulence
Control.” An extensive set of written notes accompanied
these lectures and are available from the von Karman Institute,
<www.vki.ac.be>. Collis also was invited to attend
the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University
for the month of August to formulate and develop new multiscale
methods for turbulence simulation. While there Collis presented
three talks on turbulence simulation, including a review
lecture on the status of numerical methods for large eddy
simulation.

Beatriz Gonzales-Stephan,
the Lee Hage Jamail Professor of Latin American Studies
in Hispanic and Classical Studies, has had her book, “Fundaciones:
canon, historia y cultura nacional: La historiografia literaria
del liberalismo hispanoamericano del siglo XIX (Foundations:
Canon, History and National Culture. The Literary Historiography
of 19th-Century Latin American Liberalism),” published
recently by Iberoamerican. This second revision of her classic
study, which is one of the pioneering works of Latin Ameircan
socio-cultural criticism, examines not only the formation
of a literary canon but also how the creation of discursive
practices served to establish the “naturalness”
of nationality in the emerging Latin American states.

Hamid Naficy’s
book “An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmaking”
(Princeton UP) was selected one of the outstanding books
of 2002 by Choice Magazine. Naficy is the Nina J. Cullinan
Professor of Art and Art History. Naficy gave a talk titled
“Making Films with an Accent: Iranian Émigré
Cinema” at the annual Middle Eastern Studies Association
Conference, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 23-26.