[Chicago] Use of Python in the LIGO Project (Gravitation Wave Detection)

[sheila miguez]

And someone created a binder for the tutorial.

http://mybinder.org/repo/minrk/ligo-binder/GW150914_tutorial.ipynb

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Adam Forsyth <adam at adamforsyth.net> wrote:

> There was a great post of the PSF-Community mailing list
> <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/psf-community/2016-February/000235.html>
> about how Python played a role in the recent detection of gravitational
> waves, as predicted by Einstein 100 years ago. I've reproduced it below.
> Really, really amazing to see how the tools I used all the time for often
> unimportant purposes can be used for huge, significant discoveries.
>
> hello everyone in this wonderful community,
>
> probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO
> <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major
> prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge
> milestone to human endeavour to understand nature.
>
> what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of
> software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in
> day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering
> data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2].
> Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the
> team-members of LIGO.[3], [4]
>
> i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations.
> Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a open-source
> believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor
> of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits.
> We facilitated something bigger than us.
>
> i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D.
> Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with
> cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations through
> 2-D matplotlib plots.
>
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> Khaled Monsoor,
> a common user of Python
>
>
> refs:
> [1]:https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux
> [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png
> [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html
> [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc
>
>
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