SciPy 2006 Schedule

The following schedule is for the two conference days, Thursday and Friday. Please see also the Sprints (Monday and Tuesday) and Tutorials (Wednesday) that will be earlier in the week.

The Conference will be held in the Beckman Institute Auditorium as noted on the map.

Thursday, August 17, 2006

8:00	Registration/Breakfast snacks (provided)
8:30	Welcome
8:45	Keynote	Guido van Rossum
9:45	Break
10:00	Understanding NumPy: How to Use dtype Objects	Travis Oliphant
10:30	Extending NumPy: a comparison of SWIG, f2py, weave, Pyrex, and ctypes	Travis Oliphant
11:00	Python for Modern Scientific Algorithm Development -- (PDF slides)	Fernando Perez
11:30	Building a Distributed Component Framework	Michael Aivazis
12:00	-- Lunch (provided) --
1:30	The Enthought Tool Suite for Scientific Applications (PDF slides)	Eric Jones
2:00	Synthetic Programming with Python	Chris Mueller
2:30	3D visualization with TVTK and MayaVi2 -- (PDF slides)	Prabhu Ramachandran
3:00	Realtime Computing with Python	Andrew Straw
3:30	Lightning Talks
4:30	-- Break --
5:00	SAGE:Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation Notes	William Stein
5:30	Mathematica-like Plotting in SAGE Notes	Alex Clemesha
6:00	BioHub Presentation	Diane Trout
6:30	Software Carpentry	Greg Wilson
7:30	-- Dinner (provided) --

Friday, August 18, 2006

8:00	Registration/Breakfast snacks (provided)
9:00	AutoLigand for AutoDock	Rodney Harris
9:30	GpuPy: Using GPUs to Accelerate NumPy	Benjamin Eitzen
10:00	Boost Graph Library	Douglas Gregor
10:30	-- Break --
11:00	Fast Multipole Algorithm	Idesbald Van den Bosch
11:30	OOF -- Object-Oriented Finite Elements at NIST	Andrew Reid
12:00	Parallel PDE Solvers in Python	Bill Spotz
12:30	-- Lunch (provided) --
2:00	Python Imaging Tools for Reconstructing Magnetic Resonance Images	Mike Trumpis
2:30	PyRoot	Wim Lavrijsen
3:00	Python Interface to QScimpl presentation	Eric Dobbs
3:30	-- Break --
4:00	Python Web and Grid Service Tools	Keith Jackson
4:30	GENESIS SciFlo: Scientific Knowledge Creation on the Grid using a Semantically-Enabled Dataflow Execution Environment	Brian Wilson
5:00	Seeing Through the MIST: Richer Reconfigurable Interactive Systems	Tripp Lilley