Hi everyone!
We are delighted to invite you to a yt development workshop at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, March 4-6 of 2019. Please
feel encouraged to pass this information on to others that may find it
interesting!
Information on logistics and registration may be found at the workshop website:
http://yt-project.org/workshops/spring2019/
This workshop will be focused on extending existing functionality,
building collaborations with other software projects, and ingestion of
new types and classes of data into yt.
The workshop will take place at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications building on the north end of the UIUC campus. The NCSA
building is about a block away from the conference hotel and is next
door to a parking structure that offers metered all-day parking. There
are a number of food trucks nearby, a university-run cafeteria about 2
blocks away, and a university business district with many good lunch
restaurants about a half a mile away.
We are planning to offer funding for hotel and travel for those
requesting support. If you request funding, you will be notified of
available funds by February 16. Travel awards will be made in the
form of arranged lodging and airfare, with reservations being made by
the conference organizers.
Best regards,
The Organizing Committee
MT Campbell
Nathan Goldbaum
Madicken Munk
Matt Turk
Samantha Walkow
Hi all,
I just put in a PR for unyt that if it's merged will be a big behavior
change for unyt. We're planning to make yt.units use unyt under the hood,
so eventually this would be a big behavior change for yt.units as well. I
figured it would be worth pinging yt-dev about this in case people have
concerns. If you'd like to weigh in on this please speak up over on the
pull request.
The PR is here:
https://github.com/yt-project/unyt/pull/58
-Nathan
More details:
The PR adds a new simplify() method on Unit objects to automatically cancel
units in unit expressions when possible. So far only canceling of terms
with inverse dimensions has been implemented but in principle this could be
elaborated upon.
Rather than hide this behind a function you have to call, I've also made it
so that if you do e.g. something like this:
>>> from unyt import Watt, minute, hour
>>> power = [20, 40, 80] * erg / minute
>>> elapsed_time = 3*hour
Then you get back something like this when you try to find the total energy
expended:
>>> print(power*elapsed_time)
[ 3600. 7200. 14400.] erg
Before my pull request you would have gotten a result in erg * hour /
minute.
Hi all,
Long shot but if anyone is in Seattle for the Winter AAS meeting, Peter
Williams is looking for someone to represent the yt project at a data
visualization special session. See below for more details.
If you can do this and are willing to do so please reply to me and Peter
off-list.
-Nathan
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Peter K. G. Williams <pwilliams(a)cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:06 PM
Subject: Quick astro-viz demo at AAS on Monday morning?
To: Matthew Turk <matthewturk(a)gmail.com>, Nathan Goldbaum <
nathan12343(a)gmail.com>, <jzuhone(a)cfa.harvard.edu>
Dear all,
I'm helping to organize a special session on astronomical data
visualization at the Seattle AAS meeting. We've got a nice lineup of
speakers, but I realized that (AFAIK) we've failed to reach out to anyone
from the yt community to see if they'd like to contribute. So, I know this
is very last-minute, but would any of you be interested in showing
something fun at AAS on Monday morning? It will be a very informal session,
and presentations will be 8+2 minutes — we're interested in pure eye candy,
or serious viz-oriented science, or anything in between.
If there's someone linked to yt that I haven't CC'ed who might be
interested, please feel free to forward on the invitation!
Thanks, and happy new year,
Peter
--
Dr. Peter K. G. Williams — https://newton.cx/~peter/
Innovation Scientist, Center for Astrophysics and the American Astronomical
Society
Director of the AAS WorldWide Telescope
