Paris 2010 Meeting

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Participants

Confirmed participants:

  • Aron Ahmadia, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • Thomas Capricelli, Sylphide Consulting
  • Joel Falcou, LRI, Université Paris Sud (Friday morning)
  • Gael Guennebaud, INRIA Bordeaux
  • Hauke Heibel, Technische Universität München
  • Benoit Jacob, University of Toronto
  • Dodji Seketeli, Red Hat (Friday morning)

Schedule

From Friday, February 19, to Sunday, February 21, 2010.

Friday

On Friday we will be at the INRIA research center, see below.

Friday morning (9-12 AM): The meeting will start at 9 AM. It will consist of:

  • Presentation of Eigen, by Hauke, 10 minutes;
  • Presentation of NT2, by Joel, 10 minutes;
  • Presentation of G++ internals, by Dodji, 40 minutes.
  • Informal discussion, until 12 AM.

Friday afternoon (1:30-5:30 PM):

  • Presentation of Eigen's new class hierarchy (DenseBase...) by Gael
  • Discussion about that
    • What remnants of the old system still have to be cleaned? For example, the PlainMatrixType typedefs need to be renamed...
  • Hacking

Saturday

On Saturday and Sunday we will be at COMPANY NAME's offices, see below.

Saturday morning (9-12 AM):

  • Presentation of block Householder transformations, by Benoit, 10 minutes
  • Discussion
  • Presentation of the non-linear optimization module, by Thomas, 15 minutes
  • Discussion
  • Presentation of use cases of Eigen in supercomputing centres, by Aron, 15 minutes
  • Discussion
  • Hacking

Saturday afternoon (1:30-5:30 PM):

  • Hacking all afternoon, after the morning's discussions. We could split into groups. Possible activities:
    • porting Eigen to the IBM compiler with Aron.
    • implementing blocked householder transformations.
    • working with Thomas on non-linear optimization.
    • anything else :)
  • Discussion of items remaining to do and roadmap for the 3.0 release

Sunday

  • More discussions and more hacking from 9 AM to 5:30 PM, though people might leave earlier.
  • Will Mathieu / Maxime come? It would be great to be able to discuss Lie / Geometry stuff. Would you guys like to give a quick talk on Sunday morning or early afternoon?

Location

The meeting will be held in Paris.

  • Friday: INRIA, 23 avenue d'Italie, 75013 Paris, Google Map, nearest subway station: Place d'Italie (metro lines 5,6,7). ID required to enter the building. Say that you're going to the Eigen meeting. The INRIA suites are on the 5th and 6th floors, and their entrance is on the 5th floor. More information (in French).
  • Saturday and Sunday: (Thomas, what's the name of the company? What floor, etc?), 2 rue des quatre fils, 75003 Paris, Google Map.

Accomodation

Suggested hotels: