Conference Schedule
Here's the general conference timeline:
- Tuesday, August 14th: Tutorial Day 1
- Wednesday, August 15th: Tutorial Day 2
- Thursday, August 16th: Conference Day 1
- Friday, August 17th: Conference Day 2
- Saturday, August 18th: Sprints
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 |
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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 |
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1:30pm |
Idiomatic Python |
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. |
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Wednesday, August 15
8:00am |
Breakfast |
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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 |
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1:30pm |
SciPy for Signal Processing and Image Processing |
Application of signal processing and image processing libraries to real-world problems. Download the examples from the tutorial here. |
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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 -- |
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8:45am |
Welcome |
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9:00am |
Ivan Krstić |
Keynote |
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9:40am |
Travis Oliphant |
"Python buffer interface" Download slides |
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10:20am |
-- break -- |
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11:00am |
Chris Mueller |
"CorePy: Using Python on IBM's Cell/B.E." |
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11:40am |
Michele Vallisneri |
"Python and the Mock LISA Data Challenges" |
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12:20pm |
-- lunch -- |
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1:40pm |
Peter Wang |
"Interactive Plotting for Fun and Profit" |
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2:20pm |
Chris Lee |
"Pygr: The Python Graph Database Framework for Bioinformatics" |
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3:00pm |
-- break -- |
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3:40pm |
Lightning Talks |
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4:30pm |
Enrico Vesperini, et al. |
"Beowulf Analysis Symbolic INterface-BASIN: a multi-user environment for parallel data analysis and visualization" |
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5:10pm |
-- end of sessions -- |
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6:30pm |
Dinner |
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~8:00pm |
BOFs |
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Friday, August 17
8:00am |
-- breakfast -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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 -- |
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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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