Firedrake meeting 2023 07 19

Date and time 2023-07-19 16:00 BST (1500 UTC)

Action Items

1. Pick Chair and Minuter (DD to pick minuter)
2. ALL: (ongoing) triage the open issues and confirm if they are indeed still open (and perhaps provide labels)
3. JB: Move PyOP2 and FInAT to firedrakeproject
4. ALL: do things with SV's branches
5. ALL: discuss preparation for Firedrake User meeting
6. DH: Email to Andreas to have 2 (+ others!!!) loopy PRs merged
7. DH: Get Firedrake a docker open source account (link here)
8. DH: Talk to GregVernon about PR#2116.
9. DH: Revisit PR#2484.
10. DD: check PR#3009. DONE!

Agenda

Present: DH, KS, JB, DD, NB, FA, IM

Apologies:

DH: Firedrake23

The Firedrake team needs to think about the abstract to submit.

• Next week: start talking to venue, working out schedule etc

DH: PP24

• 5-8th March 2024, Baltimore
• Minisymposium proposal deadline 7th August (under 3 weeks away!)
• Suggestion: "Differentiable programming for parallel simulation" or similar
• Firedrake, FEniCS, devito, deadalus, hippylib/hippyfire...
• Name "Differentiable programming" might only be known in ML community?
• NB to email:
  • George Bisbas and Fabio Luporini for Devito,
  • Igor Baratta and Jorgen Dokken for FEniCS,
  • Geoff Vasil for deadalus,
  • Umberto Villa for hippyfire

NB: Dual

• UFL (Fix a few issues with dual in UFL)
  • Needs to be made against FEniCS UFL
• Firedrake
• Pyadjoint
  • See review

Merge PRs

• RNH: Retrieve original VOM decomposition #2936
  • See review

Date of next meeting

1600 BST (1500 UTC) 2023-07-26