Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (CAJUN) Meeting (23rd of January)

We will welcome Willow Ahrens, who will give a talk. The location will be "Seminar Room G449 (Patil/Kiva)" at the Stata Center at MIT. We will start at 6pm, with the talks+questions taking roughly 1 hour (after which people are welcome to stay and socialise). Food will be provided. Any questions can be asked at the #boston-local channel at the Julia Slack.

Note that there will be a sign-in sheet at the venue, please fill this one in (needed for pizza funding).

Finch: A compiler for sparse tensor map-reduce and much much more! (Willow Ahrens)
Finch is a Julia-to-Julia compiler which adapts array programs to the structure of data automatically with a language of basic loop building blocks called Looplets.It enables new loop optimizations across multiple domains, unifying techniques such as sparse tensors, databases, and lossless compression:
https://github.com/willow-ahrens/Finch.jl
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579990.3580020

This talk will contain:
-the theory behind Finch
-the joys and challenges of writing compilers in Julia
-perhaps a demo or tutorial
-what we’re working on for Finch 1.0.