[Users] outreach and visibility of the toolkit

[Frank Löffler]

Am 18. Oktober 2017 12:38:05 MESZ schrieb helvi witek <hwitek at icc.ub.edu>:
>Dear all,
>
>let me pick up on our discussion on the visibility of the Einstein
>Toolkit
>within the LIGO/VIRGO Scientific collaboration, our scientific
>community in
>general and the public that we had during the workshop last week.
>
>In the end of the week we are opening our traveling exhibition
>"Unraveling
>the dark universe"
><http://serviastro.am.ub.edu/twiki/bin/view/ServiAstro/UniversFosc>
>and, as
>probably many of you these days, we will have a number of outreach
>talks
>about gravitational waves. In this context I was looking for animations
>produced with the toolkit, in addition to the BBH material that I
>already
>had from the SXS collaboration, to give more credit to it.
>
>I noticed a few things that we could improve
>- update the gallery on the website. At the moment the only animation
>of an
>event is that by Barry for GW150914. It would be nice to have more of a
>collection for the other events, and in particular for GW170817. As
>first
>step we could collect links to the youtube channels of different
>groups.
>- that brings me to a second suggestion: should we bundle those
>animations,
>e.g., in a ET youtube channel? At the moment, a quick search leads to
>filmed talks and lectures (which is important, too, of course), but try
>the
>same for SXS and you'll get a list of animations by the collaboration.
>A
>first step to give more visibility to the toolkit could be to add the
>logo
>to the credits.
>
>This is essentially to spark some discussion, and if there is interest,
>we
>can follow up on it in one of the next calls.
>
>cheers,
>Helvi
>
>===========================================
>Dr. Helvi Witek
>Marie-Curie Research Fellow
>Dep. Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica & ICCUB
>Universitat de Barcelona
>===========================================

Speaking of completely open (repeatable) binary neutron star merger simulations and the Einstein toolkit: https://youtu.be/GKEnayUC_ns

Frank
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