<html><head></head><body>Fantastic news, congrats! let's have more analysis for plasma and accelerator physics in it, wuup wuup! <br>
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Axel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 10, 2017 7:13:16 PM GMT+02:00, Jill Naiman <jnaiman@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">This is so awesome! Congrats to everybody!!!<br /></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Joseph Smidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josephsmidt@gmail.com" target="_blank">josephsmidt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes, congratulations!<br />
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Suoqing Ji <<a href="mailto:suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu">suoqing@physics.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br />
> That’s extremely exciting! Congratulations!!<br />
><br />
> Best wishes,<br />
> —<br />
> Suoqing Ji<br />
> Ph.D Candidate<br />
> Department of Physics<br />
> University of California, Santa Barbara<br />
> <a href="http://physics.ucsb.edu/~suoqing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://physics.ucsb.edu/~<wbr />suoqing</a><br />
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> On Aug 11, 2017, 12:37 AM +0800, Cameron Hummels <<a href="mailto:chummels@gmail.com">chummels@gmail.com</a>>,<br />
> wrote:<br />
><br />
> Congratulations to you guys for the award! A great honor!<br />
><br />
> Looking forward to making yt more general for a larger audience!<br />
><br />
> Cameron<br />
><br />
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Turk <<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br />
>><br />
>> Hi folks,<br />
>><br />
>> We (Nathan, Meagan, Kacper and I) wanted to share some good news.<br />
>> We've recently received a grant from the NSF SI2 program; NCSA put out<br />
>> a press release here:<br />
>><br />
>><br />
>> <a href="http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/the_yt_project_awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_to_multiple_new_science_domains" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/<wbr />news/story/the_yt_project_<wbr />awarded_nsf_grant_to_expand_<wbr />to_multiple_new_science_<wbr />domains</a><br />
>><br />
>> (This includes a link to the full proposal, which goes into some detail.)<br />
>><br />
>> This is a five year grant, supporting part or all of a couple postdocs<br />
>> (UIUC, Columbia, Wisconsin), a research scientist, some PI time and a<br />
>> graduate student (along with some workshops). It has a couple areas<br />
>> of development that we'll be working on. The strictly technical ones<br />
>> will be related to improving non-spatial indexing, enabling "path"<br />
>> queries in a more full way (think advanced streamlines) and an<br />
>> all-new, symbolic field system. In a sense, these are things we're<br />
>> already kind of familiar with how to work on -- YTEPs, code reivew,<br />
>> documentation, testing, etc.<br />
>><br />
>> The part that's going to be harder -- from the social perspective --<br />
>> is that we're going to be working harder to make yt an attractive<br />
>> analysis and visualization system outside of astronomy, without losing<br />
>> its attractiveness *within* astronomy.<br />
>><br />
>> This cross-domain effort ties into things like Britton's recent work<br />
>> on splitting out yt_astro_analysis, and the idea of compartmentalizing<br />
>> things a bit more within the frontends and whatnot.<br />
>><br />
>> We've identified an advisory board with folks from geophysics,<br />
>> weather, oceanography, nuclear engineering, plasma physics and<br />
>> observational astro, and we're going to spin up a couple new mailing<br />
>> lists for this purpose:<br />
>><br />
>> * yt-advisory: advisory board discussions<br />
>> * yt-ssi: administrative info for the grant (possibly boring?)<br />
>><br />
>> I'm working to get our lists moved to the <a href="http://yt-project.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">yt-project.org</a> domain before<br />
>> doing this, though. All of these will be open, although I suspect not<br />
>> of broad interest (and thus why we're creating new ones.) It might<br />
>> turn out that domain-specific discussion ends up overwhelming<br />
>> discussion on yt-dev or yt-users, in which case we can split it out,<br />
>> but for now yt-dev seems like the right place to put that.<br />
>><br />
>> Anyhow, the main takeaway I want to give from this is: I'm pretty<br />
>> excited, and I am really, really looking forward to the work we're<br />
>> going to do with this. We could not have gotten this far without the<br />
>> amazing community that has grown up around yt. We're going to work on<br />
>> this project in an open, collaborative way in keeping with the spirit<br />
>> of what we've done with yt already.<br />
>><br />
>> In the proposal itself, we detail the ways in which we will follow the<br />
>> standard yt community norms (for design, review, upstream, etc) and<br />
>> before it was submitted, we discussed it with the yt steering<br />
>> committee to make sure that the language we included did not sideline<br />
>> or "squeeze out" anyone in the community. Ensuring that this<br />
>> *supports*, rather than *detracts from*, the community is absolutely<br />
>> essential to its success, and we will not be doing anything to<br />
>> jeopardize that success: this means more effort on yt, but it does not<br />
>> mean that yt will suddenly become a "professionalized" project that<br />
>> loses sight of how it got here. And, we would welcome feedback --<br />
>> especially if it seems that we're missing the mark.<br />
>><br />
>> We're still figuring out how to most effectively do project management<br />
>> for it, but it's going to all be above board, and we'd absolutely<br />
>> *love* to collaborate with interested folks on it.<br />
>><br />
>> More soon!<br />
>><br />
>> -Matt & Nathan<br />
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> NSF Postdoctoral Fellow<br />
> Department of Astronomy<br />
> California Institute of Technology<br />
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