AUTHORS.txt

This code was derived from the first PDFFIT program by Thomas Proffen.
The sources were converted to C++ by Jacques Bloch and then extensively hacked,
extended and purged from most glaring bugs by Chris Farrow and Pavol Juhas.
This code is currently maintained as part of the DiffPy project to create
python modules for structure investigations from diffraction data.

The DiffPy team is located in the Billinge-group at the Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics Department of the Columbia University in New York.
Currently the team consists of

    Simon Billinge
    Pavol Juhas
    Chris Farrow
    Emil Bozin
    Wenduo Zhou
    Peng Tian
    Timur Dykhne

Please see the header of each source file for a detailed list of
contributors.  This is an open-source project and we hope and expect
that the list of contributors will expand with time.  Many thanks to
all current and future contributors!

For more information on the DiffPy project email sb2896@columbia.edu

DiffPy was initiated as part of the Distributed Data Analysis of Neutron
Scattering Experiments (DANSE) project, funded by the National Science
Foundation under grant DMR-0520547.  More information on DANSE can be
found at http://danse.us.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

Acknowledgments:

We are truly grateful to all the people who have contributed, in all
different ways, to this project:  Thomas Proffen, Xiangyun Qiu, Pete
Peterson and Jacques Bloch, previous Billinge-group members whose
contributions to the codes are living well beyond their affiliation with
the group; The hard working DANSE group at Caltech, University of
Maryland, Iowa State and University of Tennessee, especially Brent Fultz
for doggedly putting DANSE all together and Michael Aivazis, and the
indomitable Mike McKerns for their design input and MM's gargantuan
excel spreadsheets; The former members of the Billinge-group members,
especially HyunJeong Kim and Ahmad Masadeh for enthusiastic testing and
feature requests;  Last but not least, our long suffering family members,
and the whole coffee and tea industries at large, without whom none of
this would have been possible.