[yt-dev] Good news about a yt grant

Thu Aug 10 10:13:16 PDT 2017

This is so awesome!  Congrats to everybody!!!

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, congratulations!
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Suoqing Ji <suoqing at physics.ucsb.edu>
> wrote:
> > That’s extremely exciting! Congratulations!!
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > —
> > Suoqing Ji
> > Ph.D Candidate
> > Department of Physics
> > University of California, Santa Barbara
> > http://physics.ucsb.edu/~suoqing
> >
> > On Aug 11, 2017, 12:37 AM +0800, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>,
> > wrote:
> >
> > Congratulations to you guys for the award!  A great honor!
> >
> > Looking forward to making yt more general for a larger audience!
> >
> > Cameron
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> We (Nathan, Meagan, Kacper and I) wanted to share some good news.
> >> We've recently received a grant from the NSF SI2 program; NCSA put out
> >> a press release here:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/the_yt_project_
> awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_to_multiple_new_science_domains
> >>
> >> (This includes a link to the full proposal, which goes into some
> detail.)
> >>
> >> This is a five year grant, supporting part or all of a couple postdocs
> >> (UIUC, Columbia, Wisconsin), a research scientist, some PI time and a
> >> graduate student (along with some workshops).  It has a couple areas
> >> of development that we'll be working on.  The strictly technical ones
> >> will be related to improving non-spatial indexing, enabling "path"
> >> queries in a more full way (think advanced streamlines) and an
> >> all-new, symbolic field system.  In a sense, these are things we're
> >> already kind of familiar with how to work on -- YTEPs, code reivew,
> >> documentation, testing, etc.
> >>
> >> The part that's going to be harder -- from the social perspective --
> >> is that we're going to be working harder to make yt an attractive
> >> analysis and visualization system outside of astronomy, without losing
> >> its attractiveness *within* astronomy.
> >>
> >> This cross-domain effort ties into things like Britton's recent work
> >> on splitting out yt_astro_analysis, and the idea of compartmentalizing
> >> things a bit more within the frontends and whatnot.
> >>
> >> We've identified an advisory board with folks from geophysics,
> >> weather, oceanography, nuclear engineering, plasma physics and
> >> observational astro, and we're going to spin up a couple new mailing
> >> lists for this purpose:
> >>
> >>  * yt-advisory: advisory board discussions
> >>  * yt-ssi: administrative info for the grant (possibly boring?)
> >>
> >> I'm working to get our lists moved to the yt-project.org domain before
> >> doing this, though.  All of these will be open, although I suspect not
> >> of broad interest (and thus why we're creating new ones.)  It might
> >> turn out that domain-specific discussion ends up overwhelming
> >> discussion on yt-dev or yt-users, in which case we can split it out,
> >> but for now yt-dev seems like the right place to put that.
> >>
> >> Anyhow, the main takeaway I want to give from this is: I'm pretty
> >> excited, and I am really, really looking forward to the work we're
> >> going to do with this.  We could not have gotten this far without the
> >> amazing community that has grown up around yt.  We're going to work on
> >> this project in an open, collaborative way in keeping with the spirit
> >> of what we've done with yt already.
> >>
> >> In the proposal itself, we detail the ways in which we will follow the
> >> standard yt community norms (for design, review, upstream, etc) and
> >> before it was submitted, we discussed it with the yt steering
> >> committee to make sure that the language we included did not sideline
> >> or "squeeze out" anyone in the community.  Ensuring that this
> >> *supports*, rather than *detracts from*, the community is absolutely
> >> essential to its success, and we will not be doing anything to
> >> jeopardize that success: this means more effort on yt, but it does not
> >> mean that yt will suddenly become a "professionalized" project that
> >> loses sight of how it got here.  And, we would welcome feedback --
> >> especially if it seems that we're missing the mark.
> >>
> >> We're still figuring out how to most effectively do project management
> >> for it, but it's going to all be above board, and we'd absolutely
> >> *love* to collaborate with interested folks on it.
> >>
> >> More soon!
> >>
> >> -Matt & Nathan
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cameron Hummels
> > NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
> > Department of Astronomy
> > California Institute of Technology
> > http://chummels.org
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