<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jarrod Millman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millman@berkeley.edu">millman@berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM<br>Subject: [SciPy-dev] ANN: SciPy 2009 student sponsorship<br>To: SciPy Developers List <<a href="mailto:scipy-dev@scipy.org">scipy-dev@scipy.org</a>><br><br><br>I am pleased to announce that the Python Software Foundation is<br>
sponsoring 10 students' travel, registration, and accommodation for<br>
the SciPy 2009 conference (Aug. 18-23). The focus of the conference<br>
is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on<br>
scientific or engineering achievements using Python. If you're in<br>
college or a graduate program, please check out the details here:<br>
<a href="http://conference.scipy.org/student-funding" target="_blank">http://conference.scipy.org/student-funding</a><br>
<br>
About the conference<br>
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<br>
SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference, will be held from<br>
August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. The conference<br>
starts with two days of tutorials to the scientific Python tools.<br>
There will be two tracks, one for introduction of the basic tools to<br>
beginners, and one for more advanced tools. The tutorials will be<br>
followed by two days of talks. Both days of talks will begin with a<br>
keynote address. The first day’s keynote will be given by Peter<br>
Norvig, the Director of Research at Google; while, the second keynote<br>
will be delivered by Jon Guyer, a Materials Scientist in the<br>
Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group at NIST. The program committee will<br>
select the remaining talks from submissions to our call for papers.<br>
All selected talks will be included in our conference proceedings<br>
edited by the program committee. After the talks each day we will<br>
provide several rooms for impromptu birds of a feather discussions.<br>
Finally, the last two days of the conference will be used for a number<br>
of coding sprints on the major software projects in our community.<br>
<br>
For the 8th consecutive year, the conference will bring together the<br>
developers and users of the open source software stack for scientific<br>
computing with Python. Attendees have the opportunity to review the<br>
available tools and how they apply to specific problems. By providing<br>
a forum for developers to share their Python expertise with the wider<br>
commercial, academic, and research communities, this conference<br>
fosters collaboration and facilitates the sharing of software<br>
components, techniques, and a vision for high level language use in<br>
scientific computing.<br>
<br>
For further information, please visit the conference homepage:<br>
<a href="http://conference.scipy.org" target="_blank">http://conference.scipy.org</a>.<br>
<br>
Important Dates<br>
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<br>
* Friday, July 3: Abstracts Due<br>
* Friday, July 10: Announce accepted talks, post schedule<br>
* Friday, July 10: Early Registration ends<br>
* Tuesday-Wednesday, August 18-19: Tutorials<br>
* Thursday-Friday, August 20-21: Conference<br>
* Saturday-Sunday, August 22-23: Sprints<br>
* Friday, September 4: Papers for proceedings due<br>
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Executive Committee<br>
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<br>
* Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Chair)<br>
* Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA Saclay, France (Program Co-Chair)<br>
* Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa<br>
(Program Co-Chair)<br>
* Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley, USA (Tutorial Chair)<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards<br>_______________<br>Shivaraj<br>