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PyCBC Remote Meeting 16 17 September 2021

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The broader PyCBC community is holding a virtual meeting on the 16th and 17th September 2021. This will consist of two afternoon sessions on those two days. The first day will focus on updates about infrastructure changes and developments, with chance for people to highlight short-author work using PyCBC through sparkler talks. The second day will be a chance for people to work together, and participate in a "hackathon" to remove python2 backwards-compatibility from much of the PyCBC code base (and in doing so learn a little about how everything all fits together).

All times are given in UTC. UK time is UTC+1, CEST is UTC+2, PST is UTC-7 (those are the two timezones that Alex and I work in, please add others here so I don't get it wrong!)

Background Materials

General

Many of these are from the several workshops held by the GWOSC.

PyCBC specific

These follow materials in the PyCBC Tutorials repository.

DAY 1 12:00 - 13:30 UTC

  • 12:00 (15 minutes) - Introductions
  • 12:15 (5 minutes) - Retiring python2, v2.0.0 release plans, high-level roadmap (Alex Nitz)
  • 12:20 (15 minutes) - Pegasus5 and PyCBC workflows in v2.X.X. (Ian Harry)
  • 12:35 (10 minutes) - Using PyCBC to solve the problems of 3G observatories (Duncan Brown)
  • 12:45 (10 minutes) - PE developments (Sumit Kumar)
  • 12:55 (15 minutes) - PyGRB: Developing a targeted search for GRBs with PyCBC (Andrew Williamson)
  • 13:10 (10 minutes) - Challenges of including LISA into PyCBC (Connor Weaving and Laura Nuttall)
  • 13:20 (10 minutes) - How can we make PyCBC more accessible to new users? (Archana Pai)

DAY 1 14:00 - 15:40 UTC

Sparkler talks for short author works. These will be APS style talks (8 minutes + 2 for questions). Breakout rooms on the second day can be used for more in-depth discussion on any questions raised during these talks.

  • 14:00 (10 minutes) - "Hierarchical all-sky search for compact binary mergers" (Kanchan Soni)
  • 14:10 (10 minutes) - "Machine-Learning powered statistic in all sky searches" (Shreejit Jadav)
  • 14:20 (10 minutes) - "Deep learning coincident gravitational-wave search algorithms" (Marlin Schäfer)
  • 14:30 (10 minutes) - "A hierarchical approach to matched filtering using a reduced basis" (Rahul Dhurkunde)
  • 14:40 (10 minutes) - "Targeting IMBH signals with PyCBC" (Koustav Chandra)
  • 14:50 (10 minutes) - "Using Omicron to improve PyCBC search’s sensitivity" (Marion Pillas)
  • 15:00 (10 minutes) - "TEOBResumS: a faithful and efficient waveform model for GWs from generic compact binaries".
  • 15:10 (10 minutes) - "Including the effects of non-stationary in PE with PyCBC" (Oliver Edy)
  • 15:20 (10 minutes) - "Detection and sky localization of CBCs using Particle Swarm Optimization" (Souradeep Pal)
  • 15:30 (10 minutes) - "Source classification for PyCBC" (Verónica Villa Ortega)

DAY 2 12:00 - 15:30 UTC

Hackathon and group discussions. We'll use Zoom's Breakout Room functionality for this (make sure you have an up-to-date Zoom client!), which allows you to freely join and move about breakout rooms.

Hackathon or Discussion Topics (please add your own items of interest!)

  • Removing python2 support from PyCBC
  • PE optimizations
  • PyCBC Live O4 development ideas
  • Future detector development
    • 3G oriented developments (ET/CE/NEMO)
    • low frequency / space-based (LISA/TAIJI/TIANQIN/DECIGO)
  • Integration of PyCBC with Astropy
  • use of tensorflow / pytorch to help accelerate some critical codepaths?
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