[yapc] Modeling Physical Systems with Modern Object Oriented Perl

[YAPC::NA Director]

Joel Berger will give a talk at YAPC::NA_2012 described as:
     Many scientists use Fortran for their numeric modeling. Some of my
     fellow Ph.D. candidates have done all of their work in Mathematica.
     Closer to home, L<PDL> provides Perl with some really nice numerical
     array handling power. Still, all of these tools left me looking for
     something higher level.
     In this talk I will present some of the modeling paradigms I have
     been using in my research. These simulations model physical systems
     as Perl objects (rapid designing of classes via L<MooseX::Declare>).
     Dynamics are closures which genereated by some objects and influence
     others. Using this paradigm, simulations are written quickly and are
     tremendously flexible and extensible.
     For the majority of the talk, I will use a Perl-level fixed time-step
     differential equations solver. At the end, I will introduce (ever so
     briefly) my L<Math::GSLx::ODEIV2> module, which I use to solve
     systems of differential equations which are made of closures over
     these object/closure systems.
     I hope this talk will show that high-level languages can be used to
     model physical systems and make it feel very natural to the Perl
     programmer.
[From the YAPC::NA_Blog.]
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