Scientific Computing with Python Webinar --- August 28, 2009
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The SciPy Conference 2009 held at Caltech attracted approximately 140 attendees and featured tutorials, keynotes, and various talks on scientific computing topics. Key speakers included Peter Norvig and Jonathon Guyer, covering topics like finite volume PDE solvers and visualization techniques. Additionally, sessions on Cython, HPC, and scientific Python educational initiatives were discussed, along with announcements of upcoming conferences and funding for educational projects.
Scientific Computing with Python Webinar --- August 28, 2009
- 1. SciPy Conference 2009: In Review August 28, 2009
- 2. Cal Tech Pasadena, California Thanks to Michael Avaizis of CACR Total Attendance ~ 140 Tutorials ~ 90 Conference ~ 140 Sprints ~ 30-40
- 3. Keynote 1: Peter Norvig, Director of Research
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- 7. How he came to Python
- 9. Keynote 2: Jonathon Guyer, Material Scientist
- 10. FiPy – Finite Volume PDE Solver
- 11. Simulation Images Cahn-Hilliard Phase Field
- 13. NumPy Tutorial Stefan Van Der Walt and David Cournapeau
- 16. Declarative Way with NumPy
- 18. Neighborhood Iterator (for C)
- 19. Stats Tutorial: Robert Kern Monty, meet Carlos. Generate 10000 noisy datasets from the same parameters. Use curve_fit() on each dataset and store the fitted parameters. Look at the mean and covariance of the parameters.
- 21. Matplotlib John Hunter Darren Dale Andrew Straw Ryan May Michael Droettboom
- 22. Spines Axes Toolkit 3D Plots
- 23. Mayavi Prabhu Ramachandran and Gael Varoquaux
- 27. Cython Dag Sverre Seljebotn (Core cython maintainter) Kurt W. Smith: fwrap Google Summer of Code 2009
- 28. Cython for scientific computation Parallel execution within cython: nogil context manager for conventional thread approach Message passing approach: mpi4py can be used within cython Ongoing work on fwrap (Kurt W. Smith): fortran support using cython as a “glue” Support more recent fortran dialects than f2py (F9x) Generated extension module is Py3k compatible, and does not need fwrap (only need to distribute C sources) Wrappers can be used within cython as well
- 29. HPC Talks PyCUDA (Nicolas Pinto) CorePy (Andrew Friedley) HPC Panel (Nicolas Pinto, Michael Avaizis, Brian Granger) EC2 Tools (Nicolas Pinto)
- 30. Overheard Huge IPython Refactor for GUIs Traits in IPython, Matplotlib, SymPy? Draft Documentation for NumPy docstrings nearly complete More questions/comments on parallel programming (but not a lot more answers)…
- 31. Eric’s Favorite Talk: Virtual Reality (for a fly…) Andrew Straw Fly
- 34. Prabhu’s News
- 35. Overview $1 Billion to improve higher education in India Open Source is a central focus Python/NumPy/SciPy is funded project Primary focus on Documentation and Educational Material $200,000 funding this year SciPy India Conference in December
- 37. Scientific Python Classes Sept 21-25 Austin Oct 19-22 Silicon Valley Nov 9-12 Chicago Dec 7-11 Austin
- 38. Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php