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>). In your abstract, please provide details on what Python tools are being employed, and how. The talk and poster submission deadline is March 25th, 2016</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>SciPy 2016 will include 3 major topic tracks and 8 mini-symposia tracks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Major topic tracks include:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Scientific Computing in Python</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Python in Data Science (Big data and not so big data)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- High Performance Computing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Mini-symposia will include the applications of Python in:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Earth and Space Science</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Medicine and Biology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Social Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Special Purpose Databases</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Case Studies in Industry</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Education</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>- Reproducibility<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact us at: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>scipy-organizers@scipy.org</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>-----------------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>**SCIPY 2016 REGISTRATION IS OPEN**</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>-----------------------------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Please register early. SciPy early bird registration until May 22, 2016. Register at</span><a href="http://scipy2016.scipy.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://scipy2016.scipy.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>. Plus, enter our t-shirt design contest to win a free registration. (Send a vector art file to </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>scipy@enthought.com</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'> by March 31 to enter).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Important dates:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>April 1: Talk and Poster Proposals Due</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>May 11: Plotting Contest Submissions Due</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Apr 22: Tutorials Announced</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Apr 22: Financial Aid Submissions Due</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>May 4: Talk and Posters Announced</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>May 22: Early Bird Registration Deadline</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Jul 11-12: SciPy 2016 Tutorials</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Jul 13-15: SciPy 2016 General Conference</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Jul 16-17: SciPy 2016 Sprints</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>We look forward to an exciting conference and hope to see you in Austin in July!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>The Scipy 2016 Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://scipy2016.scipy.org/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC;background:white'>http://scipy2016.scipy.org/</span></a><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>