Scientific Computing in Rust Monthly #6
Welcome to this month's issue of Scientific Computing in Rust Monthly.
It's a very exciting issue, as we announcing the date for the 2025 Scientific Computing in Rust Workshop: 4-6 June. You can find more details below or at scientificcomputing.rs/2025.
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Crate of the month: serde
Serde is a crate for serialising and deserialsing data, and can be used to convert data to/from various formats including JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV, and Rust's own object notation RON. While not directly a scientific computing crate, it is very useful in scientific applications for reading/writing parameters and results from/to file.
New releases
globalsearch v0.1.0
globalsearch is a global optimisation library that includes an implmentation of the OQNLP (OptQuest/NLP) algorithm from "Scatter Search and Local NLP Solvers: A Multistart Framework for Global Optimization" by Ugray et al. (2007). It combines scatter search metaheuristics with local minimization for global optimization of nonlinear problems.
Events
Scientific Computing in Rust 2025, 4-6 June 2025, held virtually
The 2025 edition of the Scientific Computing in Rust virtual workshop will take place on 4-6 June 2025. Sessions will run between 13:00 and 17:00 BST each day. Registration free, and the workshop will take place virtually so there is no need to book travel or accommodation.
The workshop will feature a mixture of 30 minute talks by invited speakers, 10 minute talks by workshop attendees, and interactive discussion/tutorial sessions. If you would like to propose a 10 minute talk or an interactive tutorial, you can do so via the forms on talk proposal page. The deadline for submissions is Friday 2 May.
More information about the workshop can be found at scientificcomputing.rs/2025.
