| 12 Sep 2019 |
 Ben Alterman | L3 means physical quantities (n, v, T, etc) | 20:57:18 |
 @namurphy:matrix.org | Oh, nice! I may have a chance to visit Delaware soon since Tulasi is there for the time being, so I would then have a chance to talk to Ben there. | 20:57:21 |
| Ben Alterman | I'm sure he'd be up to chatting. You can probably just drop him an e-mail. | 20:58:14 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | He was at the CfA for a while. I hadn't realized until recently that he had gone to Delaware. | 20:59:00 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | Oh...we should let him know about PyHC too. If he's involves with PSP though, then early November might be busy for him. | 20:59:36 |
| Ben Alterman | He was at SSL in Berkeley for a while. | 20:59:40 |
| Ben Alterman | Now he's at UDel working towards tenure. | 20:59:59 |
 @dstansby:matrix.org | nah, November will be busy for those of us who don't have the right contacts to get the PSP data now 😉 | 21:00:47 |
| Ben Alterman | If you're still looking for folks to do python in helio stuff for the grants, I bet he'd have an interest there too. | 21:00:53 |
| @dstansby:matrix.org | but seriously, this is a good suggestion 👍️ | 21:01:26 |
| Ben Alterman | Yeah | 21:02:14 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | Oh! And it's worth thinking about the different use cases for distribution functions. In situ data, PIC simulations, dispersion relation solvers, etc. | 21:02:39 |
| Ben Alterman | I'm happy e-mail him and cc folks who want to chat about it. | 21:02:46 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | ...and the different data sources. | 21:02:51 |
| Ben Alterman | yeah | 21:02:59 |
| Ben Alterman | Ben's thought TONS about this. | 21:03:02 |
| @dstansby:matrix.org | that would be great | 21:03:09 |
| Ben Alterman | His thesis was on Wind/FC fitting algorithms. | 21:03:12 |
| Ben Alterman | Janus/FC deals with them in python heavily. | 21:03:22 |
| Ben Alterman | He's got a bunch of experience here. | 21:03:30 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | That'd be great! I'm often horrible at conversing over email, but it he could join in on a PyHC telecon or go to one of our meetings, that would be wonderful | 21:03:41 |
| Ben Alterman | He's teaching this semester, so I don't know what his schedule is like. | 21:04:10 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | Ah, understood | 21:04:31 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | One of the things we're planning on doing soon-ish for PlasmaPy is implementing a dispersion relation solver. That would depend on distribution function data structures. | 21:06:29 |
| Ben Alterman | yeah | 21:07:02 |
| Ben Alterman | why don't I e-mail him and CC you | 21:07:09 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | Awesome! | 21:07:20 |
| Ben Alterman | dstansby: Would you like me to include you as well? | 21:07:56 |
| @dstansby:matrix.org | yes please! | 21:08:01 |
| @namurphy:matrix.org | Feel free to link him to this room and the PyHC matrix room too; I'm better at discussing things here | 21:09:07 |
