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Title: Purdue University sticks it to the 9-11 "Truthers"
Source: churchoftheduke.blogspot.
URL Source: http://churchoftheduke.blogspot.com ... versity-sticks-it-to-9-11.html
Published: Jun 21, 2007
Author: churchoftheduke.blogspot.
Post Date: 2007-06-21 13:28:28 by can of corn
Keywords: twoofers, tinfoil hat, moonbats
Views: 316
Comments: 11

Makes me damn proud of my associated with Purdue, actually. The short version is that researchers at Purdue, which is known for having one of the finest engineering schools in the country, have concluded a 2.5 year study on the 9/11 attacks. The focus of the study was to examine the structural failure of the WTC towers with an eye towards designing buildings that could withstand aircraft strikes. The full article on http://CNN.com is here.

The researchers also posted a simple computer model of the attack on Youtube, which I've linked to here. I will say, that if you don't like reading the absolutely inane drivel of the 9/11 "Truthers", then don't read the comments on the video.

This excerpt is from the CNN article.

A computer simulation of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, posted on the Web site YouTube by Purdue University researchers, shows how hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.

Of course, this won't actually do anything to shut up the "Inside Job" movement, who amongst conspiracy theorists have the remarkable ability to jam their fingers in their ears and not listen to reason.

Unfortunately, as proud as I am of Purdue for releasing this study; I also know it won't do any good with the conspiracy types. Not because I think the study is flawed or anything silly like that, mind you. It's because you can't argue with a conspiracy theorist. Since they're not dealing with reality, any factual evidence can explained away by another government coverup. It must be great to be able to just make stuff up when the evidence stands against you.

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Why am I not surprised to find millions of $$$ of taxpayer money pumped into the making of this cartoon.

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http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cmh/simulation/phase3/WTC-1_EP.pdf [PDF]

http://tinyurl.com/29nld6 [HTML]

An Engineering Perspective of the Collapse of WTC-I

Ayhan Irfanoglu
and Christoph M. Hoffmann

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This project is supported in part by NSF-ITR grant DSC-0325227. Infrastructure support for the large-scale simulations was provided in part by the Northwest Indiana Computational Grid, by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology of Purdue University, and by the Bowen Laboratory for Civil Engineering

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http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cmh/simulation/phase3/

Project Funding
NSF-ITR DSC-0325227, A. Sameh, PI

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http://www.nsf.gov/about/congress/

March 8, 2007

The National Science Foundation is funded at $5.91 billion for the 2007 fiscal year that began on October 1, 2006 and runs through September 30, 2007. The Research and Related Activities account received a $334.74 million increase over the figure for FY 2006, while the other accounts were funded at about the same level as the previous fiscal year.

In other news, House and Senate appropriators have begun holding their hearings on the President's FY 2008 budget request. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies on March 1, NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr., said the requested $6.43 billion dollars for FY 2008 "will keep NSF on the course set by the President's American Competitiveness Initiative to drive innovation and sharpen America's competitive edge."

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http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cns/dddas/prior2005.pdf

Awards Abstracts:

Sameh
0325227 (L) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0325227

Gallivan
0324944 (NL) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0324944

Sorensen
0325081 (NL) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0325081

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Sameh
0325227 (L) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0325227

Award Abstract #0325227
ITR/AP: Collaborative Research: Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems for Real-time Control

NSF Org: CCF
Initial Amendment Date: August 21, 2003
Latest Amendment Date: July 12, 2006
Award Number: 0325227
Award Instrument: Continuing grant
Program Manager: Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova
CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2003
Expires: August 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date: $958502

Investigator(s): Ahmed Sameh sameh@cs.purdue.edu(Principal Investigator)
Christoph Hoffmann (Co-Principal Investigator)
Ananth Grama (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor: Purdue University
302 Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907 765/494-4600

NSF Program(s): ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS
Field Application(s): 0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s): HPCC,9216,1652
Program Element Code(s): 1687

ABSTRACT

This project proposes to extend the methods we have developed for model reduction of large-scale Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems to a new regime of problems that require adaptive models. In particular, we will consider large-scale structured problems that are either time-varying, or which require adaptive updating of the initial reduced models to obtain better approximation properties.

Intellectual Merit

The research proposed here will provide efficient and robust methods for producing reduced order models of large state-space systems. This activity is expected to have an impact on system theory of complex systems, parallel numerical linear algebra for large-scale problems, and on efficient implementation of these schemes on parallel and distributed platforms. Once the theory and computational methods are developed, we expect that high quality software will result and have applications in many areas of engineering. This will enable the design of real time controllers for complex systems. This project will also have an impact on the education of students in computational science and engineering, both at the undergraduate and the graduate levels.

Broader Impact

The proposed project leverages extensively the existing intellectual and equipment infrastructure at Purdue, Rice, and Florida State Universities, as well as the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. The overall group of PI's and senior personnel bring extensive expertise and experience in dynamical systems, model reduction, control theory, seismic design and analysis of structures, numerical linear algebra, geometric modeling, data analysis and visualization, and parallel computing. In fact, collectively, they have had experience in designing and implementing numerical linear algebra algorithms on most of the significant high-performance commercial architectures and many of the experimental parallel architectures since the Illiac IV (designed and built in the late 1960's!). The three groups complement one another perfectly and are well-poised to successfully realize the goals of this proposal.

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Gallivan
0324944 (NL) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0324944

Award Abstract #0324944
ITR/AP: Collaborative Research: Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems for Real Time Control

NSF Org: CCF
Initial Amendment Date: August 21, 2003
Latest Amendment Date: August 2, 2006
Award Number: 0324944
Award Instrument: Continuing grant
Program Manager: Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova
CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2003
Expires: August 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date: $414538

Investigator(s): Kyle Gallivan gallivan@csit.fsu.edu(Principal Investigator)
Paul Van Dooren (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor: Florida State University
97 S WOODWARD AVE, STE 300
TALLAHASSEE, FL 32306 850/644-5260

NSF Program(s): ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS
Field Application(s): 0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s): HPCC,9216,1652
Program Element Code(s): 1687

ABSTRACT

This project proposes to extend the methods we have developed for model reduction of large-scale Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems to a new regime of problems that require adaptive models. In particular, we will consider large-scale structured problems that are either time-varying, or which require adaptive updating of the initial reduced models to obtain better approximation properties.

Intellectual Merit

The research proposed here will provide efficient and robust methods for producing reduced order models of large state-space systems. This activity is expected to have an impact on system theory of complex systems, parallel numerical linear algebra for large-scale problems, and on efficient implementation of these schemes on parallel and distributed platforms. Once the theory and computational methods are developed, we expect that high quality software will result and have applications in many areas of engineering. This will enable the design of real time controllers for complex systems. This project will also have an impact on the education of students in computational science and engineering, both at the undergraduate and the graduate levels.

Broader Impact

The proposed project leverages extensively the existing intellectual and equipment infrastructure at Purdue, Rice, and Florida State Universities, as well as the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. The overall group of PI's and senior personnel bring extensive expertise and experience in dynamical systems, model reduction, control theory, seismic design and analysis of structures, numerical linear algebra, geometric modeling, data analysis and visualization, and parallel computing. In fact, collectively, they have had experience in designing and implementing numerical linear algebra algorithms on most of the significant high-performance commercial architectures and many of the experimental parallel architectures since the Illiac IV (designed and built in the late 1960's!). The three groups complement one another perfectly and are well-poised to successfully realize the goals of this proposal.

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Sorensen
0325081 (NL) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0325081

Award Abstract #0325081
ITR/AP: Collaborative Research: Model Reduction of Dynamical Systems for Real-time Control
NSF Org: CCF
Initial Amendment Date: August 21, 2003
Latest Amendment Date: July 12, 2006
Award Number: 0325081
Award Instrument: Continuing grant
Program Manager: Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova
CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date: September 1, 2003
Expires: August 31, 2008 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date: $826959

Investigator(s): Danny Sorensen sorensen@caam.rice.edu(Principal Investigator)
Athanasios Antoulas (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor: William Marsh Rice University
6100 MAIN ST
HOUSTON, TX 77005 713/348-4820

NSF Program(s): ITR MEDIUM (GROUP) GRANTS
Field Application(s): 0000099 Other Applications NEC
Program Reference Code(s): HPCC,9216,1652
Program Element Code(s): 1687

ABSTRACT

This project proposes to extend the methods we have developed for model reduction of large-scale Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems to a new regime of problems that require adaptive models. In particular, we will consider large-scale structured problems that are either time-varying, or which require adaptive updating of the initial reduced models to obtain better approximation properties.

Intellectual Merit

The research proposed here will provide efficient and robust methods for producing reduced order models of large state-space systems. This activity is expected to have an impact on system theory of complex systems, parallel numerical linear algebra for large-scale problems, and on efficient implementation of these schemes on parallel and distributed platforms. Once the theory and computational methods are developed, we expect that high quality software will result and have applications in many areas of engineering. This will enable the design of real time controllers for complex systems. This project will also have an impact on the education of students in computational science and engineering, both at the undergraduate and the graduate levels.

Broader Impact

The proposed project leverages extensively the existing intellectual and equipment infrastructure at Purdue, Rice, and Florida State Universities, as well as the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. The overall group of PI's and senior personnel bring extensive expertise and experience in dynamical systems, model reduction, control theory, seismic design and analysis of structures, numerical linear algebra, geometric modeling, data analysis and visualization, and parallel computing. In fact, collectively, they have had experience in designing and implementing numerical linear algebra algorithms on most of the significant high-performance commercial architectures and many of the experimental parallel architectures since the Illiac IV (designed and built in the late 1960's!). The three groups complement one another perfectly and are well-poised to successfully realize the goals of this proposal.

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http://128.10.19.20/about_us/annual_reports/97/faculty/sameh.html

Ahmed H. Sameh

Ahmed Sameh is the Head, and Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette. He joined Purdue in January, 1997, after being the Head of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the holder of the William Norris Chair in Large-Scale Computing, and prior to that the Director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include numerical linear algebra, and the design and performance analysis of parallel numerical algorithms.

Sameh received his B.Sc. from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1961, M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (U-C) in 1968, all in Civil Engineering (Structural Mechanics). He was a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois (U-C) from 1968 to 1991.

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http://www.cs.fsu.edu/faculty/faculty.php?userId=gallivan

Kyle Gallivan

Dr. Kyle Gallivan was awarded his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

Funding, recent and current http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~gallivan/?page=funding

Funding, previous http://people.scs.fsu.edu/~gallivan/?page=prevfunding

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http://www.caam.rice.edu/~sorensen/bio.html

Danny C. Sorenson

Danny C. Sorensen received a B.S. (1972) from the University of California at Davis and both an M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1977) from the University of California at San Diego. He then worked at the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois and is now a Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

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Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/501/wolfaut.html

Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova Strategic Analysis, Inc., Arlington, Virginia 22201 (achtchel@nsf.gov). Dr. Chtchelkanova is currently a Program Director at the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. She is on a leave of absence from Strategic Analysis, Inc. (SAI), where since 2000 she has supported numerous programs for clients at DARPA as a Senior Scientist in the Technology and Analysis Division. She has considerable experience in the areas of quantum computing, spintronics, scientific software analysis and design, signal and image processing algorithms, visualization, computational fluid dynamics, optics, and spectroscopy. In 2004, Dr. Chtchelkanova received the Alan Berman Research Publication Award at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for coauthoring a paper published in Science magazine. She is a coauthor of a chapter on spintronics in the Handbook on Nanoscience (CRC Press, 2003), and is coeditor, with Dr. Stuart Wolf, of the book Magnetic Interactions and Spin Transport (Kluwer, 2002). Before joining SAI, she spent more than four years at the NRL Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics. She is a member of the American Physical Society and is an author of more than 30 publications in computer science, physical, and astrophysical journals. Dr. Chtchelkanova received a Ph.D. degree in physics from Moscow State University in 1988 and an M.A. degree from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, in 1996.

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