Conference schedule
UPDATE: Please note change of tutorial rooms below. The introductory tutorials will be held at Moore 070 and the advanced at Beckman (the original plan was the reverse).
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration Desk Open daily in the Beckman Institute Courtyard (map).
Tuesday, August 18
- Introductory: 070 Moore Hall (subbasement, two floors down from street level - map).
- Advanced: Beckman Institute auditorium (map).
Wednesday, August 19
- Introductory: 070 Moore Hall (subbasement, two floors down from street level - map).
- Advanced: Beckman Institute auditorium (map).
Thursday, August 20
The conference talks are held at the Beckman institute (map).
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome (Jarrod Millman & Gael Varoquaux)
9:10 - 9:30 Update on the core projects (Charles Harrison, Fernando Perez, John Hunter, David Cournapeau)
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote: What to demand from a Scientific Computing Language -- Even if you don't care about computing or languages (Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google)
BREAK (10:30 - 11:00)
11:00 - 11:10 nipy.timeseries: Neuroimaging time-series analysis (Ariel Rokem, UC Berkeley)
11:10 - 11:50 Virtual reality: a tool for the highly quantitative study of animal behavior (Andrew Straw, Caltech)
11:50 - 12:10 Parallel Kernels: An Architecture for Distributed Parallel Computing (Nikunj Patel, University of Maryland)
12:10 - 12:20 PaPy: Parallel and distributed data-processing pipelines in Python (Marcin Cieslik, University of Virginia)
12:20 - 12:30 High-Performance Code Generation Using CorePy (Andrew Friedley, Indiana University)
LUNCH (12:30 - 2:30) On your own.
2:30 - 3:00 Panel discussion (Python and Parallel computing, Michael Aivazis, Brian Granger, Nicolas Pinto, moderator: Gaël Varoquaux)
3:00 - 3:10 Sherpa: 1D/2D modeling and fitting in Python (Brian Refsdal, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
3:10 - 3:20 Multiprocess System for Virtual Instruments in Python (Brian D'Urso, University of Pittsburgh)
3:20 - 3:30 ESPResSo++: A Python-controlled, Parallel Simulation Software for Soft Matter Research (Olaf Lenz, Max-Planck-Institute for polymer research, Mainz, Germany)
BREAK (3:30 - 4:00)
4:00 - 4:40 Sympy (Ondrej Certik, University of Nevada, Reno)
4:40 - 4:50 Python implementation of weno interpolation and reconstruction (Adrian Townsend, University of Washington)
4:50 - 5:00 Writing Safer NumPy Extensions in C++ with Templates and TooN (Damian Eads, University of California)
5:00 - 6:00 Lightning Talks
END (6:00)
6:30 Informal reception (Location: Beckman Courtyard, in front of the conference room - map)
7:30 Astronomy BoF:. Gather together at reception to decide where to hold BoF (e.g., possibly combine with dinner)
8:30 - late BoFs.
- Machine Learning/Probabilistic Modeling, Powell Booth, library (upstairs)
- PDE BoF, Powell Booth room 120
Friday, August 21
The conference talks are held at the Beckman institute (map).
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome (Jarrod Millman & Gael Varoquaux)
9:10 - 10:10 Keynote: Modeling of Materials with Python (Jonathan Guyer, NIST)
10:10 - 10:30 Hermes and FEMhub Project (Pavel Solin, University of Nevada, Reno)
BREAK (10:30 - 11:00)
11:00 - 11:20 The PyMca Application and Toolkit (Armando Sole, ESRF, France)
11:20 - 11:30 Implementation of automatic script recording and network control for Mayavi (Prabhu Ramachandran, IIT Bombay, India)
11:30 - 12:10 Fast numerical computations with Cython (Dag Sverre Seljebotn, University of Oslo, Norway)
12:10 - 12:30 Fwrap: The Next-Generation Fortran-to-Python Interface Generator (Kurt Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
LUNCH (12:30 - 2:30) On your own.
1:30-2:30: Documentation BoF, Powell Booth, room 100.
2:30 - 3:00 Panel discussion: State of Python visualization tools (John Hunter, Prabhu Ramachandran, Peter Wang. Moderator: Stefan van der Walt)
3:00 - 3:20 PySAL: A Python Library for Spatial Analysis and Geocomputation (Serge Rey, Arizona State University)
3:20 - 3:30 Neutron Scattering Data Acquisition and Experiment Automation with Python (Piotr Zolnierczuk, Oak Ridge National Lab)
BREAK (3:30 - 4:00)
4:00 - 4:20 Exploring the future of bioinformatics data sharing and mining with Pygr and Worldbase (Chris Lee, UCLA)
4:20 - 4:30 A full software stack for visualizing next-generation sequence information (Titus Brown, Michigan State University)
4:30 - 4:40 Pyclaw - The Evolution of Clawpack into Python (Kyle Mandli, University of Washington)
4:40 - 4:50 NumPy and SciPy Documentation in 2009 and Beyond (Joe Harrington, U. Central Florida)
4:50 - 5:00 Python in science and engineering education in India (Prabhu Ramachandran, IIT Bombay, India)
5:00 - 6:00 Next challenges for Python in Science (moderator: Jarrod Millman)
- 1st panel: The view of the pioneers (John Hunter, Eric Jones, Charles Harrison, Fernando Perez, Prabhu Ramachandran)
- 2nd panel: The view of the young generation (David Cournapeau, Pauli Virtanen, Gael Varoquaux, Stefan van der Walt)
END (6:00)
6:30 - late BoFs
- Organization, Funding, and Future Direction of SciPy, Powell Booth, room 100
- Behavior science, Powell Booth, library
- NumPy: Transition to Python 3, Powell Booth, room 120
- Cython, Keck (opposite to Powell Booth, room 111)