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Project name: ASCEND modelling environment http://ascend.cheme.cmu.edu/

Tags: modelling, modeling, solver, equations, NLA, NLP, DAE, ODE, simulation, engineering, science

ASCEND is an free open-source software program for solving small to very large mathematical models. ASCEND can solve systems of non-linear equations, linear and nonlinear optimisation problems, and dynamic systems expressed in the form of differential/algebraic equations.

For a full description including screenshots, please read ASCEND overview

Our wiki has lots of other information, see http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/

Contact details

• We maintain all our contact details on our wiki.
• See also our public-access mailing list.
• We don't currently use IRC. Typically, we collaborate using email and one-on-one via Google Talk.

[edit] Ideas List

Our occasionally-updated ideas list is here: http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Student_Projects

Feel free to suggest your own project, too.

[edit] Mentor Capacity

• John Pye and Ben Allan have been involved in mentoring projects up to now.
• We can supervise up to about 5 students at any given time.
• Face-to-face mentoring is possible in Canberra, Australia, and possibly other locations.
• Krishnan Chittur has used ASCEND for coursework teaching and may be interested in collaborating specifically in that regard.
• Art Westerberg, the project founder, remains active and interested in many of the theoretical aspects of ASCEND but is probably not supervising students at this stage.