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Scientific Computation in Jupyter Notebooks Using Python
Full text linkComputation is a significant part of the work done by many practicing scientists, yet it is not universally taught from a scientific perspective in undergraduate science departments. In response to the need to provide training in scientific computation to our students, we developed a suite of self-paced “modules” in the form of Jupyter notebooks using Python. These modules introduce the basics of Python programming and present a wide variety of scientific applications of computing, ranging from numerical integration and differentiation to Fourier analysis, Monte Carlo methods, parallel processing, and machine learning. The modules contain multiple features to promote learning, including Breakpoint Questions, recaps of key information, self-reflection prompts, and exercises
Tracing the Desert Island: Atlantis, Unknowability, and Colonial Imagination
Full text linkThis contribution studies the myth of the desert-ocean in Pierre Benoit’s 1919 [1920] hit novel L’Atlantide. Locating the mythical lost continent in the Sahara, the novel catered to the period’s exoticism while serving colonial ideology. While the desert was materially crucial for the Empire, it also provided new symbolic ground, becoming a favored locus of the colonial imagination as a site of extreme hostility, due as much to its climate as to its anticolonial activity. As the ultimate colonial fantasy, the desert also paradoxically provided fertile ground for a contrapuntal utopian discourse, apparent when reading Benoit’s novel in light of contemporary narratives, where it appears as a warrior hideout and a refuge for rebels, both real and fictional. Building on Paul Ricœur’s notion of the “trace,” I read the desert as a site of epistemological resistance. The imperialist compulsion to know, which lead to the thorough exploration and mapping of the land, coexists with an impulse towards unknowability, rooted in exotic fantasies and romantic projections. As the last reservoir of adventure and discovery in a globalized world of control and epistemological exhaustivity, the desert becomes a symbolic and literal “point de fuite,” a terra incognita where (anti)colonial narratives can take shape
Timecraft
Full text linkThis catalogue serves as a permanent record for the exhibition Timecraft curated by Alexis White and Mallory Fitzpatrick in conjunction with the 14th Biennial Graduate Group Symposium on the same theme. The exhibition, which ran from November 2023 to May 2024 in Carpenter Library, challenges viewers to rethink their understanding of the way time is shaped, categorized, and created in the past, present, and future.https://repository.brynmawr.edu/bmc_books/1046/thumbnail.jp
