Speaker
L. Moneta
(CERN)
Description
The main objective of the MathLib project is to give expertise and support to the LHC
experiments on mathematical and statistical computational methods. The aim
is to provide a coherent set of mathematical libraries. Users of this set of
libraries are developers of experiment reconstruction and simulation software,
of analysis tools frameworks, such as ROOT, and physicists performing data analysis.
After having performed a detailed evaluation of the existing functionality present in
GSL,a general purpose mathematical library, and in more HEP specific libraries such
as CLHEP, CERNLIB and ROOT, a new object oriented library has been started to be
developed. The new library incorporates or uses most of the functions and algorithms
of the already existing libraries. Examples of these functions and algorithms are
mathematical special functions, linear algebra, minimization and any other required
numerical algorithms.Wrappers to these are written in C++ and integrated in a
coherent object oriented framework. Interfaces to the Python interactive environment
are as well provided.
An overview of the project activities will be presented, describing in detail the
current functionality of the library and its design. Furthermore, the object oriented
implementation of Minuit, a fitting and minimization framework, will be covered in
the presentation.
Primary author
L. Moneta
(CERN)
