ROOT Users' Workshop

Session

Invited Talks

Sep 10, 2018, 9:45 AM

Academy of Sciences and Arts (Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine)

66. Thoughts and ideas of a previous actor and now project's observer about ROOT's future

Rene Brun (CERN)

9/10/18, 9:45 AM

I would like to present some thoughts and ideas may be useful for the future based on one side on my previous experience as an actor and now observer of the project since a few years, and on the other side on many comments/suggestions received from many users.

68. Particle physics MasterClasses and future developments

Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

9/10/18, 10:05 AM

The International project physicsmasterclasses.org brings the excitement of cutting-edge particle-physics research into the classroom including hands-on experience with real experimental data. In 2018 about 15 000 students, 15 to 19 years of age, participated in this popular event over 6 weeks in 52 countries, hosted by 225 institutes. The existing LHC masterclasses are used in many other...

69. Making C++ Easier, Faster, and Safer

Chandler Carruth (Google)

9/11/18, 9:00 AM

C++ remains one of the best languages for writing performance sensitive software. However, it has proven to pose significant challenges for developers, especially when a single codebase is evolved over a long period of time. We have taken an extremely large, complex C++ codebase at Google from being a huge risk and liability, into something that is sustainable, with both productive and...

70. UI5: SAP's (open source) JavaScript UI library and its evolution

Peter Muessig (SAP SE)

9/11/18, 10:00 AM

UI5 is SAP’s JavaScript UI library to build enterprise-ready web controls and applications, being responsive to all devices and running on almost any browser of your choice. It comes in two flavors, OpenUI5 with an open-source codebase available under the Apache 2.0 license and SAPUI5 extending the OpenUI5 codebase with SAP specific features. Driven by SAP’s demanding environment, UI5 worked...

74. Jupyter is Going Native! C++ as a First-Class Citizen of the Ecosystem

Sylvain Corlay

9/12/18, 11:20 AM

The language-agnostic architecture of Project Jupyter enables the rich features of the Jupyter front-end for a large number of programming languages beyond Python, including Julia and R. However, despite the importance of the C++ scientific computing stack, adoption of Jupyter has remained limited in this community because of the compiled nature of the programming language.

In this...