[Users] outreach and visibility of the toolkit

[hwitek]

Hi Eliu, Frank,

thanks a lot for your feedback. This is certainly very helpful.
I think it would be nice to have them linked to the website gallery at 
some point, as eye-catcher for people who are not working within the 
"traditional" NumRel groups.

@Eliu: no, I am not a part of LSC/Virgo.

cheers,
Helvi

On 2017-10-18 18:56, Frank Löffler wrote:
> 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" [1] 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 [2]
> 
>  Frank
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://serviastro.am.ub.edu/twiki/bin/view/ServiAstro/UniversFosc
> [2] https://youtu.be/GKEnayUC_ns
> 
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Dr. Helvi Witek
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Dep. Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica
Universitat de Barcelona
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