Report of the Workshop on Program Synthesis for Scientific Computing
This report provides a landscape analysis and future roadmap for researchers and practitioners interested in applying program synthesis techniques to scientific computing challenges.
This report reviews the current state of program synthesis research as it applies to scientific computing, highlighting existing successes and identifying future opportunities. It summarizes discussions from the Workshop on Program Synthesis for Scientific Computing held in August 2020.
Program synthesis is an active research field in academia, national labs, and industry. Yet, work directly applicable to scientific computing, while having some impressive successes, has been limited. This report reviews the relevant areas of program synthesis work for scientific computing, discusses successes to date, and outlines opportunities for future work. This report is the result of the Workshop on Program Synthesis for Scientific Computing was held virtually on August 4-5 2020 (https://prog-synth-science.github.io/2020/).