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speaker_name: "Derek Steinmoeller"

talk_title: "pyblitzdg: the future of physical model development has arrived"

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talk_tags:
- "Machine Learning & Data Science"
- "Quite Different"



talk_abstract: "In this talk, we introduce the [pyblitzdg](https://pypi.org/project/pyblitzdg/) module for physical model development and unveil some of the power that it puts into the hands of the scientific model developer. `pyblitzdg` is a new open-source Python 3 extension module that provides bindings to the C++ modelling library [blitzdg](https://github.com/WQCG/blitzdg) which incorporates the `blitz++` tensor arithmetic library. `Pyblitzdg` excels at carrying out fast simulations of wave dynamics in sophisticated geometries. With support for both Finite Volume (FV) and Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) numerical methodologies, a wide set of tools are made available to the model developer. Object-oriented programming is not required to use `pyblitzdg`, and simple procedural-style simulation programs can usually be written in a single ~100 line python 3 script. The syntax used relies on NumPy and would be familiar to users of wide-spread mathematical software like Matlab or GNU Octave. Worked examples that are relevant to real-world physical problems will be shown, and future application areas and potential extensions will be revealed."

about_author: "Derek Steinmoeller is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo Applied Mathematics Ph.D. program, specializing in numerical methods in fluid dynamics. He also has 5 years of experience in the software development industry. Derek holds interests and expertise in a range of areas including: numerical methods and their implementations, algorithms, scientific computing, software build and test automation, and cloud-based web services. He is the lead developer of the mathematical modelling library blitzdg and its python module pyblitzdg."

talk_metadata:

    - "**Date:** Saturday Nov. 16"

    - "**Location:** Concert Hall"

    - "**Begin time:** 16:00"

    - "**Duration:** 10 minutes"