[pydstool-users] Requesting your brief input to help with an NSF proposal about PyDSTool

[Rob C. <rob...@gm...>]

Dear registered users,

PyDSTool has mostly continued as a personal project in recent years.
If there is sufficient interest, I am planning to enter a more formal
phase of development that involves an open, community-driven model. I
am also planning to solidify prototypical and innovative tools for
model analysis, inference, and optimization, which are part of my
academic research
[http://www.ni.gsu.edu/~rclewley/Research/index.html].

I am preparing a proposal to obtain federal funding from NSF’s
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2-SSE) program
[http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13525/nsf13525.htm]. This would
support new software tools, anchored in the PyDSTool environment, that
focus on the reverse engineering of complex natural systems. As part
of my proposal I should convince NSF that my software either already
has, or is on the verge of having, significant impact in multiple
scientific domains. For my project to grow and become sustainable in
the long term, I need your help.

I am seeking two things right now: 1) interested collaborators to
build a community-driven development team to broaden my project,
improve its design and implementation, and improve its maintenance and
integration with other tools; 2) letters of support from happy users
or enthusiastic potential users of the proposed features in different
application areas.

Please respond to me at rob...@gm... in one of two ways,
depending on your time and interest. Either way, I would like you to
provide information about your position and scientific application
that either has benefited from the use of PyDSTool or the nature of
your potential interest in using the proposed features. Your message
doesn’t need to be long and detailed. You can just email me a
paragraph or two with an authorization to quote you, or, preferably,
provide the same information as a more formal letter in PDF with a
letterhead.

Additionally, the whole future of my academic career now rests on
obtaining federal funding, as that is now a formal criterion for
tenure at my university. My grant is due within 4 weeks, so if you
would like to help I urge you to act soon! If you have more questions,
or wish for further details of my proposal, please contact me about
that too. I will be very grateful for your input.

Thanks for your time,
Rob

-- 
Robert Clewley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience Institute and
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Georgia State University
PO Box 5030
Atlanta, GA 30302, USA

tel: 404-413-6420 fax: 404-413-5446
http://neuroscience.gsu.edu/rclewley.html