[yt-dev] Good news about a yt grant

Thu Aug 10 12:16:26 PDT 2017

Fantastic news, congrats! let's have more analysis for plasma and accelerator physics in it, wuup wuup! 

Axel

On August 10, 2017 7:13:16 PM GMT+02:00, Jill Naiman <jnaiman at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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>Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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