[Users] Release plans

[Eloisa Bentivegna]

On 03/11/14 17:37, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A new Einstein toolkit release is being prepared right now. In order to
> make this happen, the current code base is largely "frozen", with only
> small changes allowed to be made (bug fixes, documentation updates and
> the like). This will be followed by a complete freeze next Monday (Nov
> 10th), until the release a few days later.
>
> One suggestion for a release name (thanks Peter) is:
>
>   Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Choquet-Bruhat
>
> Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 29 December 1923 in Lille) is a French
> mathematician and physicist. She was the first woman to be elected to
> the Académie des Sciences Française ("French Academy of Sciences") and
> is a Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
>
> <snip> From 1951-1952 she worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in
> Princeton where she proved the local existence and uniqueness of
> solutions to the vacuum Einstein Equations. <snip> At the Universite
> Pierre et Marie Curie she continued to make significant contributions to
> mathematical physics, notably in general relativity, supergravity, and
> the non-Abelian gauge theories of the standard model.
>
> Please let us know if you disapprove, and/or if you want to nominate
> someone else.

Hi!

Another scientist worth the eponymous title is perhaps Mary Tsingou:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tsingou

The episode she was involved with is quite revealing:

http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/thierry.dauxois/PAPERS/pt61_55.2008.pdf

Best,
Eloisa