2025-10-03 –, Robert Faure Amphitheater
Language: English
This talk presents a research project turned product: a space mission simulator suite with Julia at its core. I'll highlight how the Julia language and ecosystem were essential to this effort, and how they offer a significant advantage over alternatives. I'll share an experience report about using Julia in production. I'll argue that Julia's potential for scientific tooling can be an edge in commercializing research — with proper attention to interoperability, tooling, and streamlined user experience.
Julia has earned recognition in scientific computing for its performance and expressiveness, with commercial adoption gaining momentum. This talk chronicles our experience transforming a space mission simulator stack from research prototype to product.
I'll introduce the problems we're trying to solve and our architectural approach, then demonstrate why Julia proved essential to our success. The presentation will highlight Julia's distinct advantages, including: rapid prototyping capabilities, accessibility for research engineers, interfaces for domain experts, performance, parallel computing support, language interoperability, and a powerful composable ecosystem for scientific computing.
The talk addresses practical aspects of using Julia in production and remaining challenges. I'll conclude by making the case that Julia offers significant potential for companies developing science-based products.
