DynamicalSystems.jl - Nonlinear dynamics software for everyone

DynamicalSystems.jl is an award-winning software library for nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear timeseries analysis. It was born out of frustration when facing two problems: (1) the lack of a general-purpose accessible software for nonlinear dynamics for using in the lecture hall, and (2) the complete and utter lack of reproducibility of the entire field. DynamicalSystems.jl was designed to address both of these problems, and also offer much more. It is structured in a way of an encyclopaedia on nonlinear dynamics, and was written with clarity of source code as the highest priority. By now, it has seen contributions by dozens of individuals initially unaffiliated with the library. Besides making nonlinear dynamics accessible, this has also enabled brand new kind of research, born on, and done entirely on, GitHub, an open source software collaboration platform. In this presentation I will discuss how DynamicalSystems.jl came to be, why it is the first software to succeed in what it does, and ultimately, how it can make the field of nonlinear dynamics reproducible