[Fsf-delhi] [X-Post] Reminder - SciPy India 2010 Last 2 Days for Talk Abstracts

[Anoop Jacob Thomas]

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SciPy 2010 Call for Papers & Participation
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The second SciPy India Conference (scipy.in) will be held from
December 13th to 18th, 2010 at IIIT-Hyderabad
(http://www.iiit.ac.in/).

Scipy.in is a conference providing opportunities to spread the use of
the Python programming language in the Scientific Computing community
in India. It provides a unique opportunity to interact with the "Who's
who" of the Python for Scientific Computing fraternity and learn,
understand, participate and contribute what is happening in the realms
of Scientific Computing using Python. Attendees of the conference and
participants of the sprints planned will be able to access and review
the tools available, apart from learning domain-specific applications
and how the tools apply to a plethora of application problems.

One of the goals of the conference is to combine education,
engineering and science with computing through the medium of Python
and thereby extrapolate on how powerful Scientific Computing is in
various fields and among different communities.

At this conference, novel applications and breakthroughs made in the
pursuit of science using Python are presented.  Attended by leading
figures from both academia and industry, it is an excellent
opportunity to experience the cutting edge of scientific software
development.

The conference is followed by three days of tutorials and code
sprints, during which community experts provide training on several
scientific Python packages.

We invite you to take part by submitting a talk abstract or register
as a participant on the conference website at: http://scipy.in

Talk/Paper Submission
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We solicit talks and accompanying papers (either formal academic or
magazine-style articles) that discuss topics regarding scientific
computing using Python, including applications, teaching, development
and research.  Papers are included in the peer-reviewed conference
proceedings, published online.

Please note that submissions primarily aimed at the promotion of a
commercial product or service will not be considered.

Important Dates
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Wednesday, Nov. 10: Abstracts Due
Monday, Nov. 15: Schedule announced
Sunday, Dec. 05: Proceedings paper submission due
Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 13-14: Conference
Wednesday-Friday, Dec. 15-17: Tutorials/Sprints
Saturday, Dec. 18: Sprints

The invited speakers
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* Fernando Perez -- PhD from University of Colorado.  Currently at the
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California,
Berkeley.  Original author and leader of the IPython project for
interactive computing (http://ipython.scipy.org), and member of the
Python Software Foundation.

* John Hunter -- Ph.D. from University of Chicago.  Currently at
Tradelink, Inc. Chicago.  Original author and lead developer of the
scientific visualization package matplotlib.

* Perry Greenfield -- PhD, MIT. Currently at Space Telescope Science
Institute, Maryland, USA.  Has pioneered the use of Python in
astronomy. He and his group have developed PyRAF, numarray (the
precursor to current numpy capabilities), PyFITS and involved with the
development of matplotlib.

* Prabhu Ramachandran -- PhD, IIT Madras.  Currently a faculty member
at IIT Bombay.  He is the co-founder of the Indian Linux User Group -
Chennai (ILUGC) and is the creator and lead developer of the
(FOSS-India-award-winning) Mayavi and TVTK Python packages
(http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi). Currently heads the
FOSSEE (http://fossee.in) project.

* Stéfan van der Walt -- PhD, Stellenbosch University, SA. Currently a
researcher and lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Stellenbosch
University.  One of the developers of the NumPy and SciPy packages.

* Jarrod Millman -- Member of the SciPy steering committee and an
active contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects. He is the
acting managing director and the director of computing for UC
Berkeley's Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the
Neuroimaging in Python (NiPy) project.


* Satrajit Ghosh -- PhD Boston University.  Currently a faculty member
of the Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology program,
Harvard-MIT. He is managing the development of the NiPy project
(http://nipy.org/nipype/).

* Asokan Pichai -- Head - Software Engineering at TalentSprint.
Consultant/Project manager for the Python group of the FOSSEE project.
He has immense experience in the field of training and instructional
design.

Organizers
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* Jarrod Millman, Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Co-Chair)
* Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT
Bombay, India (Conference Co-Chair)
* FOSSEE Team
* EnhanceEdu Team

About Python
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open source,
extensible programming language. It combines clarity and readability,
making it an extremely powerful language that can be used for various
applications and problems.

Python is simple and easy to learn and apply. It offers an interactive
environment in which to explore procedural, functional and object
oriented approaches to problem solving. Its high level data
structures, extensive documentation and clear syntax make it an ideal
first language, while the large number of existing libraries make it
suitable to tackle almost any programming tasks. Its simplicity makes
it easy to adapt to multiple educational domains.

Python has several libraries that enable numeric and symbolic
computing. It also interfaces well with native codes in C,C++ and
FORTRAN and has excellent libraries for plotting/visualization. Python
also provides libraries for general purpose computing including
generating user interfaces and web development. These, coupled with
it's interactive interpreter, make Python an excellent language for
Scientific Computing.

All these features when combined with their wide-ranging applications
make Python a perfect fit for use in Education, Industry and
Scientific Computing.

Registration Fees
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Registration, accommodation and food are offered at highly subsidized
rates for teachers and students, while registration and food will be
offered to all conference participants at subsidized rates. Details
about the fees can be found at:
http://scipy.in/scipyin/2010/about/fees/

Publicity
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The posters can be downloaded from the website :
http://scipy.in/scipyin/2010/publicity/

Contact
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Feel free to email the organizers at info at scipy.in

--
Anoop Jacob Thomas
FOSSEE, IIT Bombay.