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Conference Schedule

Here's the general conference timeline:

Meals (bagels/muffins, lunch and snacks) will be provided for the tutorial days. Breakfast, lunch and snacks Thursday & Friday and a very nice dinner Thursday night are provided for all registrants.

Tutorial Schedule

Tutorials will be held at 306 Firestone. Near the south side on the Campus Map.

Tuesday, August 14

Time

Tutorial

Speaker

Description

8:00am

Sign-in and Breakfast

8:30am

Scientific Computing using IPython/!NumPy/!SciPy/matplotlib/etc.

Fernando Perez & Brian Granger

Introduction to extreme productivity with a powerful tool stack

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Idiomatic Python

Titus Brown

A more general exploration of advanced features of Python: building your own types, making use of advanced builtin features, etc. See http://ivory.idyll.org/articles/advanced-swc/ for an outline.

Wednesday, August 15

8:00am

Breakfast

8:30am

Wrapping Code with Python

Bill Spotz & Eric Jones

Comparative study of extension module development and code wrapping using weave, f2py, pyrex, ctypes and SWIG. The notes/examples are available for Download.

12:00pm

Lunch

1:30pm

SciPy for Signal Processing and Image Processing

Travis E. Oliphant

Application of signal processing and image processing libraries to real-world problems. Download the examples from the tutorial here.

Schedule of Talks:

The Conference will be held in the Beckman Institute large meeting room. It is just West of the large round Beckman Auditorium. (see Campus Map).

Thursday, August 16

8:15am

-- breakfast --

8:45am

Welcome

9:00am

Ivan Krstić

Keynote

9:40am

Travis Oliphant

"Python buffer interface" Download slides

10:20am

-- break --

11:00am

Chris Mueller

"CorePy: Using Python on IBM's Cell/B.E."

11:40am

Michele Vallisneri

"Python and the Mock LISA Data Challenges"

12:20pm

-- lunch --

1:40pm

Peter Wang

"Interactive Plotting for Fun and Profit"

2:20pm

Chris Lee

"Pygr: The Python Graph Database Framework for Bioinformatics"

3:00pm

-- break --

3:40pm

Lightning Talks

4:30pm

Enrico Vesperini, et al.

"Beowulf Analysis Symbolic INterface-BASIN: a multi-user environment for parallel data analysis and visualization"

5:10pm

-- end of sessions --

6:30pm

Dinner

~8:00pm

BOFs

Friday, August 17

8:00am

-- breakfast --

8:30am

Terence Yeoh

"Evolving Wavelets using Scipy: Analysis of Controlled Plasma Transients"

9:10am

Titus Brown

"The Cartwheel Project: Python tools for regulatory genomics"

9:50am

James Taylor

"The Galaxy platform for accessible and reproducible scientific research"

10:30am

-- break --

11:00am

Gregory Benson and Alexey S. Fedosov

"River: A Foundation for the Rapid Development of Reliable Parallel Programming Systems" Slides

11:40am

Christfried Webers

"Elefant (Efficient Learning, Large-scale, Inference, and Optimization Toolkit)" Slides

12:20pm

-- lunch --

1:40pm

Ondrej Certik

"Using Python for electronic structure calculations, nonlinear solvers, FEM and symbolic manipulation" presentation.pdf

2:20pm

Eric Jones

"The Block Canvas and Contexts: A rapid approach to developing scientific workflows"

3:00pm

-- break --

3:40pm

Bill Smith

"Building a Protein Name Thesaurus"

4:20pm

Sargis Dallakyan

"Volume Rendering with Python Molecular Viewer"

5:00pm

-- end of day --

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