Present: Zach, Steve, Roland, Peter, David Bradley, Maria, Ken Sible, Leo Werneck, Liu Haoyang, Miguel Gracia, Sam Cupp, Bill Gabella, Yosef

SPEC benchmark: Steve reports no progress, but says we should do it. Roland wrote a to-do list for this task: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2470 . Some details regarding this to-do list were discussed.
Webserver issues: einsteintoolkit.org was down for ~70 hours (including Dec 5-6 weekend).

Roland: was it a glitch or something systemic?
Steve: glitch. Machine hosting virtual webserver went down -- just needed LSU CCT support to reboot machine. Will work with Roland & Peter to ensure there's more redundancy in the future. After ticket, machine was back within an hour.
Bill: cactuscode.org has problems redirecting to new github.io page. Roland: Only sometimes, and not with Chrome. Firefox indeed doesn't redirect unless www.cactuscode.org is used. Roland: Always use www.cactuscode.org

POWER: Used for waveform extraction on Scri+ -- Maria & Zach are interested in this code. Roland is improving interface, etc.
GRHydro con2prim updates -- Roland: A number of improvements have been reported from various groups.
selfforce1D updates -- Peter: new features are in progress, depending on progress might be a candidate for inclusion
Canuda updates -- Roland has been in touch with authors, privately.

Unanswered mailing list queries: One MPI query (failure) discussed, will need more details to help. Peter said he'd send an email.
Tickets:

#2335 (https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2335/switch-simfactory-to-use-python3 ) Steve: Patch makes SimFactory compatible with Python3. Pull request ready for review. Bill said he'd test it out. Roland has started to review.
Roland: other tickets ready for review, nothing super urgent at the moment.

NRPy+ LaTeX parser update: Ken Sible reports ability to now parse another of the BSSN equations. \gamma and \phi (using W variable) can now be parsed. Continued robustness improvements. Hope to have remaining equations parsed within the week. Bill asked for a progress report on parsing non-tensorial expressions, like those in PN expressions. Ken: we're very close to being ready to parse those expressions.
Tabulated EOS with single TOV star: Some discussion on whether this has been done with GRHydro. Roland pointed out a TOVHot code that may be on stellarcollapse.org (https://svn.einsteintoolkit.org/incoming/TOVSolverHot/); Miguel: RNS thorn may have a parfile with tabEOS as well, could try out (HydroRNSID: test/RNS_a2.par).
Jan 7 meeting: Minute taker: Bill. Chair: Maria

-Zach

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Prof. Zachariah Etienne

Physics & Astronomy Dept.

West Virginia University