Future Opportunities for Software in Research - 2022

Session

Session 2

12 May 2022, 15:25

Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)

25. barbac: A versatile tool for quantifying barcoded populations (onsite)

Dr Loukas Theodosiou (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology), Andrew Farr (MPI Evol bio), Paul Rainey (MPI Evolutionary Biology)

12/05/2022, 15:25

onsite

Over the last few years, evolutionary biologists have tagged with short sequences the individuals of bacterial populations, yeast populations, and cancer cells to understand better the eco-evolutionary dynamics that shape their biodiversity, as well as the dynamics that govern microbial communities. A crucial technical stepping stone for understanding these questions is quantifying these...

6. Research Software for Historical Language Comparison (remote)

Johann-Mattis List (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

12/05/2022, 15:45

remote

The field of traditional historical linguistics has long since applied
various techniques for the historical comparison of languages which aim
to reconstruct certain aspects of ancestral languages which are not
witnessed in sources through the comparison of extant language varieties
for which sources exist. Although the techniques are in theory highly
formalized, they are up to now almost...

9. Ubermag (onsite)

Hans Fangohr (Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter)

12/05/2022, 16:05

onsite

Topics of this contribution:

• Jupyter notebook as user interface
• reproducibility, interactive documentation
• special feature of ubermag: provides domain specific language (for micromagnetic research) how to express problem, which is then translated into configuration files for the simulation engine automatically
• software engineering
• github actions for CI
• unit tests,...

2. topwave - A scientific python package for topological properties of spin wave spectra (onsite)

Mr Niclas Heinsdorf (Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research)

12/05/2022, 16:25

onsite

Ever since the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to J.M.
Kosterlitz, D. J. Thouless and D. Haldane in 2016 for their pioneering
work on topological phase transitions, these exotic phases of matter
have become one of the most sought-after features in quantum materials.
They are of particular interest for their unconventional and
dissipationless transport properties, and are a key...

5. Numerical integration on an implicit surface in the Brillouin zone of chiral materials for the calculation of the circular photogalvanic effect (onsite)

Kirill Alpin (MPI for Solid State Research)

12/05/2022, 16:45

onsite

In this talk I will present the problem of calculating the circular
photogalvanic effect in topological semimetals[1], a property for
which we would like to study the effects of symmetry breaking of. One
of the approaches explored in this ongoing project, different than in
previous studies, is to evaluate the resulting implicit surface
integrals directly. Previous studies used an...

15. Syncopy - Systems Neuroscience Computing in Python (onsite)

Gregor Mönke (Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience)

12/05/2022, 17:05

onsite

Syncopy (www.syncopy.org) is aimed to be a completely open source, user-friendly yet powerful data analysis suite for the Neurosciences. It is developed in Python and makes extensive use of distributed computing via Dask, and achieves low memory footprints by using on-disc hdf5 data structures in the backend per default. For our users, we supply highly abstracted frontend functions, which...