[ANN] SciPy 2009 conference opened up for registration
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down. We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included. This does not mean that we are getting a reduced conference. Quite on the contrary, this year we have two keynote speakers. And what speakers: Peter Norvig and Jon Guyer! Peter Norvig is the director of research at Google and Jon Guyer is a research scientist at NIST, in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group, where he leads a fiPy, a finite element project in Python. The SciPy 2009 Conference ========================== SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference (http://conference.scipy.org), will be held from August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. Each year SciPy attracts leading figures in research and scientific software development with Python from a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines. The focus of the conference is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on scientific or engineering achievements using Python. Call for Papers ================ We welcome contributions from the industry as well as the academic world. Indeed, industrial research and development as well academic research face the challenge of mastering IT tools for exploration, modeling and analysis. We look forward to hearing your recent breakthroughs using Python! Please read the full call for papers (http://conference.scipy.org/call_for_papers). Important Dates ================ * Friday, June 26: Abstracts Due * Saturday, July 4: Announce accepted talks, post schedule * Friday, July 10: Early Registration ends * Tuesday-Wednesday, August 18-19: Tutorials * Thursday-Friday, August 20-21: Conference * Saturday-Sunday, August 22-23: Sprints * Friday, September 4: Papers for proceedings due The SciPy 2009 executive committee ----------------------------------- * Jarrod Millman, UC Berkeley, USA (Conference Chair) * Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA Saclay, France (Program Co-Chair) * Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa * (Program Co-Chair) * Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley, USA (Tutorial Chair)
Please excuse me for incorrect information in my announcement: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price!
This should read that the tutorials are $100, not the sprints. The sprints are actually free, off course. We will be very please to see as many people as possible willing to participate at the sprint in making the SciPy ecosystem thrive. Thanks to Travis Oliphant for pointing out the typo. Gaël Varoquaux
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down.
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included.
This does not mean that we are getting a reduced conference. Quite on the contrary, this year we have two keynote speakers. And what speakers: Peter Norvig and Jon Guyer! Peter Norvig is the director of research at Google and Jon Guyer is a research scientist at NIST, in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group, where he leads a fiPy, a finite element project in Python.
As far as I know, it's actually a finite *volume* solver. Ondrej
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down.
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included.
One more question -- how can I actually register for the conference? I went to: http://conference.scipy.org/ registered and sent the abstract (some time ago already). So today I logged in and clicked "registration": http://conference.scipy.org/to_register which says "To register to the conference, create an account on this site and log in. Go to your profile page, you can submit an abstract or register to the conference.", so I clicked on my profile page: http://conference.scipy.org/profile which shows my abstract, but it says "The conference is not yet open for registration.". So how can I pay the conference fees and register? Thanks, Ondrej
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:10:17PM -0600, Ondrej Certik wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down.
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included.
This does not mean that we are getting a reduced conference. Quite on the contrary, this year we have two keynote speakers. And what speakers: Peter Norvig and Jon Guyer! Peter Norvig is the director of research at Google and Jon Guyer is a research scientist at NIST, in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group, where he leads a fiPy, a finite element project in Python.
As far as I know, it's actually a finite *volume* solver.
Darn, I did it again. Although I know the difference[*], I keep mixing up the words. Thanks for correcting (and making me look ridiculous), Ondrej. Gaël [*] Thanks to my girlfriend ;)
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:20:08PM -0600, Ondrej Certik wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down.
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included.
One more question -- how can I actually register for the conference? I went to:
registered and sent the abstract (some time ago already). So today I logged in and clicked "registration":
which says "To register to the conference, create an account on this site and log in. Go to your profile page, you can submit an abstract or register to the conference.", so I clicked on my profile page:
which shows my abstract, but it says "The conference is not yet open for registration.". So how can I pay the conference fees and register?
Well, well. Looks like I did things too quickly, or too jet-lagged. I had forgotten to pull the setting on the server. That's why we where not observing any registration. Thank you for signaling it, I wonder how many people had tried and failed. Gaël
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 05:20:08PM -0600, Ondrej Certik wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
We are finally opening the registration for the SciPy 2009 conference. It took us time, but the reason is that we made careful budget estimations to bring the registration cost down.
We are very happy to announce that this year registration to the conference will be only $150, sprints $100, and students get half price! We made this effort because we hope it will open up the conference to more people, especially students that often have to finance this trip with little budget. As a consequence, however, catering at noon is not included.
One more question -- how can I actually register for the conference? I went to:
registered and sent the abstract (some time ago already). So today I logged in and clicked "registration":
which says "To register to the conference, create an account on this site and log in. Go to your profile page, you can submit an abstract or register to the conference.", so I clicked on my profile page:
which shows my abstract, but it says "The conference is not yet open for registration.". So how can I pay the conference fees and register?
Well, well. Looks like I did things too quickly, or too jet-lagged. I had forgotten to pull the setting on the server. That's why we where not observing any registration. Thank you for signaling it, I wonder how many people had tried and failed.
I logged in this morning to see about submitting an abstract, and I see the following: "Couldn't connect to registration server. We cannot display your registration information" Below that there are links for changing personal information, registering for the conference, and submitting an abstract, but it is not clear that I should proceed if the registration server is unreachable. Can anyone confirm? Darren
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:56:18AM -0400, Darren Dale wrote:
I logged in this morning to see about submitting an abstract, and I see the following:
"Couldn't connect to registration server. We cannot display your registration information"
Below that there are links for changing personal information, registering for the conference, and submitting an abstract, but it is not clear that I should proceed if the registration server is unreachable. Can anyone confirm?
Thanks for reporting. It should be fixed: an http link had change to an https link. Gaël
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:56:18AM -0400, Darren Dale wrote:
I logged in this morning to see about submitting an abstract, and I see the following:
"Couldn't connect to registration server. We cannot display your registration information"
Below that there are links for changing personal information, registering for the conference, and submitting an abstract, but it is not clear that I should proceed if the registration server is unreachable. Can anyone confirm?
Thanks for reporting. It should be fixed: an http link had change to an https link.
I get an annoying warning in firefox that the security certificate for paying is invalid (only valid for "www.enthought.com", notice the "www"). Here is the address: https://enthought.com/scipy09/?email=ondrej@certik.cz however, if I change the address manually to: https://www.enthought.com/scipy09/?email=ondrej@certik.cz then it just works. Ondrej
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:23:04PM -0600, Ondrej Certik wrote:
I get an annoying warning in firefox that the security certificate for paying is invalid (only valid for "www.enthought.com", notice the "www"). Here is the address:
however, if I change the address manually to:
then it just works.
Thanks for pointing out. I think corrected the problem in the codebase, however, I cannot try this out myself right now. Could you confirm that you are no longer seeing the problem. Cheers, Gaël
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Gael Varoquaux<gael.varoquaux@normalesup.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:23:04PM -0600, Ondrej Certik wrote:
I get an annoying warning in firefox that the security certificate for paying is invalid (only valid for "www.enthought.com", notice the "www"). Here is the address:
however, if I change the address manually to:
then it just works.
Thanks for pointing out. I think corrected the problem in the codebase, however, I cannot try this out myself right now. Could you confirm that you are no longer seeing the problem.
Yes, it's fixed. Thanks! Ondrej
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