I think we should exclude living people from our list of names. Otherwise, "Tsingou" would be an ideal candidate name.
We could name the release "Maniac", in honour of the computer mentioned in the paper, so that we can still refer to this story. They call it "unprogrammable" there -- that property still holds for modern machines...
-erik
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:59 PM, David Rideout dprideout@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Do you really want to name the release after a living person? Might some form of permission be required? Just wondering...
David
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Frank Loeffler knarf@cct.lsu.edu 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.
Frank
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