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title: 'PlasmaPy Proton Meeting | Monday 2020 October 26 at 09:00 PT / 12:00 ET'

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# PlasmaPy Proton Meeting | Monday 2020 October 26 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-meeting-notes)
    * [Proton Sub-directory](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/plasmapy-meeting-notes/tree/master/proton_2020-present)
* [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)

## Attendees

1. Erik Everson
2. Nick Murphy
3. Peter Heuer

## Action Items

1. Progress will likely be slow until APS is passed
2. Next meeting may be postponed due to APS
3. [Erik & Peter] focus on review of [PR #909: Fields and Grids](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909)
4. [Erik & Nick] review & select `numba` vs. `cython` for pkg integration

## 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. [Issue 936: Improvements to ParticleTracker](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/issues/936)
    2. ...
6. Pull requests in progress 
    1. [PR #895: Proton Radiography Module](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/895)
    2. [PR #909: Fields and Grids](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909)

## Minutes

* Suggested pacakges to review for managing fields...`magpylib` and `pyabel`.
* There are 4 major components to this project
    1. Framework for defining generic grids and Fields [PR #909](https://github.com/PlasmaPy/PlasmaPy/pull/909)
    2. Line averaging functionality
        * Takes a volumn of field information and a particle track to calculate the line average values
        * should be to specify any track through the volumn (an analytical path like a straight line or a path generated by the `ParticleTracker`)
    4. Particle Tracker w/ line averaging functionality to use for non-linear calculations
    5. The Proton Radiography Diagnostic, which utilizes all the above points.
* Currentl bottlenecks are the grids/fields framework and the Particle Tracker.
* The grids/fields framework needs to be designed to not only work with the Proton Radiography, but also the particle tracker, simulation functionality, and any functionality that would need grids of data.
