.. _about:

About us
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History
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Since the beginning of 2005, a partnership of three companies has been working
on building together a tool designed to perform uncertainty treatment and
reliability analysis.

- 2005: Conception, setup of the compilation infrastructure, setup of the development environment, first base classes.
- 2006: Development of the C++ library
- 2007: 6 releases (0.9.0-0.11.2) First release the 10th of May, website
- 2008: 4 releases (0.11.3-0.12.3) More distributions, more wrapping facilities
- 2009: 2 releases (0.13.0, 0.13.1) Multithreaded wrappers, new algorithms, polynomial chaos expansion
- 2010: 1 release (0.13.2) Windows port, modularization of the Python bindings, parallelization
- 2011: 2 releases (0.14.0, 0.15.0) TBB and CMake support, sparse chaos, Numpy compatibility
- 2012: 1 releases (1.0) Stochastic processes
- 2013: (1.1, 1.2) Bayesian updating, new matplotlib viewer
- 2014: (1.3, 1.4) Kriging, native windows support
- 2015: (1.5, 1.6) Vectorial kriging, HMat support
- 2016: (1.7, 1.8) Karhunen-Loeve process decomposition, NLopt bindings
- 2017: (1.9, 1.10) Canonical format low-rank tensor approximation, field functions
- 2018: (1.11, 1.12) Domains arithmetic, asymptotic Sobol' estimators, new simulation algorithms
- 2019: (1.13, 1.14) Calibration, new optimization algorithms, system events
- 2020: (1.15, 1.16) hmat AcaRandom compression, Spectra iterative SVD, examples gallery, C++11, XML/H5 storage
- 2021: (1.17, 1.18) Karhunen-Loeve validation, new covariance models
- 2022: (1.19, 1.20) HSIC indices, iterative statistics, field chaos/sensitivity
- 2023: (1.21, 1.22) Cross-Entropy simulation algorithms, Uniform/TruncatedOverMesh distributions
- 2024: (1.23, 1.24) New GP API, conditional PCE, rank-based Sobol', point-conditional distribution, GEV/GPD services, Cuba integration

People
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- Anne Dutfoy
- Antoine Dumas
- Aurelie Ladier
- Denis Barbier
- Felipe Aguirre Martinez
- Guillaume Garcia
- Ivan Dutka-Malen
- Joseph Mure
- Julien Floquet
- Julien Pelamatti
- Julien Schueller
- Kamal Abboud
- Kieran Delamotte
- Loic Brevault
- Mathieu Balesdent
- Mathieu Couplet
- Mathieu Lapointe
- Mathieu Souchaud
- Michael Baudin
- Pierre Caclin
- Regis Lebrun
- Remi Lafage
- Romuald Conty
- Sofiane Haddad
- Vincent Chabridon
- Vincent Dubourg

Meetings
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Each year a users day event is planned at the beginning of the summer allowing users to
exchange on their use of the library and keep up with the new features.
User days have been organized annually at EDF Lab Saclay (France) in June.
Presentations can be found `here <https://github.com/openturns/presentation/>`_ .

Citing OpenTURNS
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If you use OpenTURNS in a scientific publication, we would appreciate citations to the following paper:

.. code-block:: bash

    @Inbook{Baudin2016,
    author="Baudin, Micha{\"e}l
    and Dutfoy, Anne
    and Iooss, Bertrand
    and Popelin, Anne-Laure",
    editor="Ghanem, Roger
    and Higdon, David
    and Owhadi, Houman",
    title="OpenTURNS: An Industrial Software for Uncertainty Quantification in Simulation",
    bookTitle="Handbook of Uncertainty Quantification",
    year="2016",
    publisher="Springer International Publishing",
    address="Cham",
    pages="1--38",
    isbn="978-3-319-11259-6",
    doi="10.1007/978-3-319-11259-6_64-1",
    url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11259-6_64-1"
    }


Funding
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`Airbus Group <http://www.airbus.com/>`_ funds work since the beginning.

`EDF Research and Development <https://www.edf.fr/>`_ funds work since the beginning.

`IMACS <http://imacs.polytechnique.fr/>`_ joined the partnership in 2014.

`ONERA <http://www.onera.fr/>`_ joined the partnership in 2019.

`Phimeca Engineering <http://www.phimeca.com/>`_ funds work since the beginning.
