Tonight we’ll be hearing from:
- Cristian Bourceanu on "Aetherus: Monte-Carlo radiative transfer with photon history tracking of interactions for materials and surfaces". From Cristian:
"Monte-Carlo simulations are ubiquous in producing simulated results for problems that are challenging to solve numerically or analytically, but they can be described in terms of statistics. Aetherus is the first known multispectral time-resolved Monte-Carlo simulation, making extensive use of the Rust ecosystem: serde, rayon, nalegbra with SIMD speed-up. The big challenge is to analyse the results, for which we have added a novel events tracking method, using an encoding inspired from RISC-V 32-bit instruction encoding. This enables to group signals together based on various criteria and understand the effects underlying the detected photons histogram. A Domain Specific Language (DSL) was developed with chumsky to faciliate filtering based on an intuitive script."
"I am a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, investigating Multispectral LIDAR. Previously worked as a RISC-V CPU design engineer at Codasip and a firmware engineer at Hypervolt. Now trying to bring some of this knowledge together."
- Second talk to be announced ...
This time we'll be trying out hosting provided by the Edinburgh Community Rooms project at Patersons Land (no slant against our previous company hosts, who are still much appreciated, it's just good to mix things up occasionally 😀).
Plan for the evening:
- 18:30: doors open
- 19:00 → 20:00: talks + q/a
- 20:00: move for drinks 🍻 to Holyrood 9A, where we have a table booked (this is nearby Patersons Land)