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title: 'PlasmaPy Proton Meeting | Monday 2021 March 15 at 09:00 PT / 12:00 ET'
tags: [' proton radiography', diagnostics, ' particle tracker', ' minutes']

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# PlasmaPy Proton Meeting | Monday 2021 March 15 at 09:00 PT / 12:00 ET

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### Video Conference Information
* Instant messaging: [Matrix](https://element.im/app/#/room/#plasmapy:openastronomy.org) and [Gitter](https://gitter.im/PlasmaPy/Lobby)
* [GitHub Minutes Repository](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes)
    * [Proton Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-project/tree/master/minutes/proton_radiography)
* [PlasmaPy on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy) ([pull requests](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/pulls), [issues](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy/issues))
* [PlasmaPy Enhancement Proposals on GitHub](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy-PLEPs)
* [PlasmaPy Google Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=bzVsb3ZkcW0zaWxsam00ZTlrMDd2cmw5bWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ)
* GitHub Project: [Line Integrated Diagnostics/Proton Radiography](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/projects/21)

## Agenda (please feel free to edit or add items)

1. Introductions
2. GitHub Project: [Line Integrated Diagnostics/Proton Radiography](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/projects/21)
3. ...
4. ...
5. Issues
    1. ...
    2. ...
6. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR 974](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/974): Fitting Thomson Scattering Spectra
    2. [PR 979](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/979): Added relativistic boris push
7. Pull requests **MERGED**
    1. [PR 1049](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1049): Proton radiography with mesh grids
    2. [PR 1050](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1050): Catch warnings in `test_proton_radiography`
    3. [PR 1054](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1054): add example notebooks
    4. [PR 1065](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/1065): put proton note book on RTD landing page

## Attendees

* Erik
* Peter

## Action Items

***Erik***
* perform initial review on PR 974
* ponder pickling of Particle...a pickleble `LightParticle`, utilize `@fromm_particle`, ...
* put Proton Radiography into a www.plasmapy.org feature banner

***Peter***
* Extract uncertainty calculation from PR 974 and place in a separate PR

## Minutes

* **Congrats on Proton Radiography making it into the v0.6.0 release!!!**
* Thomson scattering
    * decided to split functionality and uncertainty into separate PRs
    * [PR 974](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/974) fitting functionality
        * Peter will split out the uncertainty portion into a separate PR
        * needs Particle to pickle-able...issue is currently around the use of `defaultdict`
        * How to speed up with `numba`
        * `Thomson_model` and `_Thomson_model` could use an intial review now
    * approach for Thomson going forward
        1. release slow version of Thomson now (cleaned version of PR 974)
        2. over several PRs `numba`-fy functionality need for speed up
        3. along the way try to incorporate uncertainty calculations
