From rmay at ucar.edu Thu Mar 3 18:57:20 2016 From: rmay at ucar.edu (Ryan May) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:57:20 -0700 Subject: [Scipy-organizers] SciPy 2016 Dates & Call for Proposals In-Reply-To: <11175.1455310890.188528322756be482aa818c9.45577417@etouches.com> References: <11175.1455310890.188528322756be482aa818c9.45577417@etouches.com> Message-ID: FYI, this message has an April 4th deadline for talks, but http://scipy2016.scipy.org says March 25th. Ryan On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:01 PM, SciPy 2016 Organizers < scipy-organizers at scipy.org> wrote: > > > Mark Your Calendar for SciPy 2016! July 11-17, 2016 | Austin, Texas > The 15th annual SciPy Conference > > gets bigger and better each year, and 2016 is on track to be no exception. Register > now > > and mark your calendars for: > > - *SciPy 2016 Tutorials:* July 11-12, 2016 > - *SciPy 2016 Conference:* July 13-15, 2016 > - *SciPy 2016 Sprints: *July 16-17, 2016 > > Graphically Inclined? > > Enter our conference t-shirt design contest. The selected winner will get > a free conference registration! Vector art submissions should be sent to > scipy at enthought.com by March 31, 2016. > > Call for Proposals is Open NOW: Submit Tutorial and Talk / Poster Ideas > > Have you been working on something new and interesting? If you have > software of interest to the SciPy community, tools or techniques for more > effective computing, or an example of how scientific Python was applied to > solve a research problem, we want to hear from you. Submit your talk or > poster proposal > by > April 4, 2016, or > tutorial > proposal > > by March 21, 2016. See more below, or visit the SciPy 2016 website > > for full details. > > > 2016 SciPy Conference Themes & Domain / Industry Mini-Symposia > *Python in Data Science* > Given its flexibility and power, Python has become a central component of > the data science tool set as reflected in a number of actively developed > packages in the areas of knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning > and natural language processing, among others. This special track will > bring together researchers, developers, and industry analysts to focus on > efforts to promote and develop Python for data science. > > *High Performance Computing* > Whether your algorithm is distributed, threaded, memory intensive > or latency bound, Python is making headway into the problem. This > track will discuss performance driven designs in Python such as > parallel applications, new architectures, tips and tricks to make > traditional applications execute more efficiently. > > *Domain / Industry Mini-symposia* The goal is to gather people with > similar interests for talks and discussions to promote domain-specific > libraries and tools. > > - Earth and Space Science > - Engineering > - Medicine and Biology > - Social Sciences > - Special Purpose Databases > - Case Studies in Industry > - Education > - Reproducibility > > Volunteer Committee Fill out the form here > to > tell us about your interest in volunteering with SciPy 2016 or to learn > more about the available opportunities and we'll be in touch. > We're Looking for Sponsors Know a company that wants to contribute to the > growth of the SciPy community and code base or that wants to make great > recruiting contacts at the conference? Share the sponsorship prospectus > > . > > -------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please click here. > > -- Ryan May, Ph.D. Software Engineer UCAR/Unidata Boulder, CO From hanusdx at gmail.com Wed Mar 23 19:59:17 2016 From: hanusdx at gmail.com (Deborah Hanus) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:59:17 +0000 Subject: [Scipy-organizers] Talk proposal clarification Message-ID: Hi SciPy Organizers, I am submitting two talk proposals, and I was a little bit confused by your length guidelines for the abstract/talk descriptions. I wrote my proposals based on the guidelines in the proposal submission web form, which says that the abstract should be no more than 500 words, and the detailed description has no maximum. However, then I saw the instructions outside of the portal, saying that the detailed description should be 200-500 words. Can you please clarify what an appropriate length for the abstract and detailed description is? Is it what is in the form or on the talks page? My abstracts are currently 150-200 words and my detailed descriptions are about ~600 words, and I'm trying determine how much I need to cut them down. Thank you, Deborah From avi at aviadas.com Thu Mar 24 22:15:21 2016 From: avi at aviadas.com (Avi Das) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 02:15:21 +0000 Subject: [Scipy-organizers] SciPy 2016 Talk Deadline Ext 4/1, Registration Open, Plotting Contest In-Reply-To: <29329.1458842873.114260838056f42cf9ba4ef7.47233437@etouches.com> References: <29329.1458842873.114260838056f42cf9ba4ef7.47233437@etouches.com> Message-ID: The submission link has not been working for me so :( Proposal: Python for mobile automation and reliability Description: Are you part of a team responsible for mobile automation and reliability? End to end automated testing and communicating effectively are important when your project depends on multiple teams spread across functional domains. At Braintree/PayPal, we built a framework to reliably ship developer products such as One Touch. In this talk, we will go over using BDD with Behave to describe test scenarios that speaks to both product and engineering, using Appium for mobile automation, and Elasicsearch and Kibana for storage and visualization of test results. You will see how the breadth of packages available on PyPI, the flexibility and ease of Python helped a team of developers whose core competencies were not in Python to collaborate on a common ground. Only beginner Python knowledge is necessary. Avi On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 1:07 PM SciPy 2016 Organizers < scipy-organizers at scipy.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > FINAL Talk and Poster Submission Extension: Due April 1 > Please note that the SciPy2016 conference website will be down for > scheduled maintenance on March 26th. You will not be able to submit a > proposal on March 26th. > > *Visit the SciPy 2016 website > for > full details or click here to submit a proposal > .* Choose > a topic in one of the 3 main conference tracks: > > - Scientific Computing in Python (General track) > - Python in Data Science > - HPC > > *And/or submit for one of the 8 domain-specific mini-symposia:* > > - Earth and Space Science > - Engineering > - Medicine and Biology > - Social Sciences > - Special Purpose Databases > - Case Studies in Industry > - Education > - Reproducibility > > > > > > > > > > > > Submit a Talk or Poster Proposal Here > > Registration Open for Conference & Tutorials > > *Visit the SciPy 2016 registration page > . *Enter > our conference t-shirt design contest. The selected winner will get a free > conference registration! Submissions should be sent to scipy at enthought.com > by March 31, 2016. > Reminder: Tutorial Proposals Due March 25 > Selected Tutorials will be announced on April 22nd! > > > Submit a Tutorial Proposal Here > > Plotting Contest Announced: Open for Entries > > In memory of John Hunter > , > creator of matplotlib > , > we are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual SciPy John Hunter Excellence > in Plotting Competition. This open competition aims to highlight the > importance of quality plotting to scientific progress and showcase > the > capabilities of the current generation of plotting software. Participants > are invited to submit scientific plots to be judged by a panel. The Hunter > family is graciously sponsoring cash prizes for the contest and the winning > entries will be announced and displayed at the conference. Full > requirements and submission details here. > > Calendar and Important Deadlines > > - *Currently Open: *Sprint submissions, BoF submissions, financial > scholarship applications, talk submissions, registration > - *March 25, 2016*: Talk and Poster > submission > deadline > - *Apr 22, 2016:* Financial scholarship > application > deadline > - *Apr 22, 2016:*Tutorial speakers and schedule announced > - *May 2, 2016:* General conference speakers announced > - *May 11, 2016: *Plotting contest > submissions > due > - *May 22, 2016*: Early-bird registration > > ends > - *Jun 3, 2016:* BoF and Sprint submission deadline (for > pre-scheduling and inclusion in program) > > Follow @SciPy on Twitter > > , Facebook > > & Google+ > for > highlights from previous SciPy conferences and all of the latest 2016 > updates. > > Sponsor Thank Yous We gratefully recognize our SciPy conference sponsors, > whose contributions ensure the accessibility of the conference and growth > of the important work being done by the scientific Python community. > > > > > *This week's sponsor highlight is silver sponsor, Mu Sigma:* > Mu Sigma is a category-defining Decision Sciences and Big Data analytics > company helping enterprises institutionalize data-driven decision-making. > Mu Sigma's unique interdisciplinary approach and cross-industry learning > drive innovation in solving high-impact business problems across marketing, > risk and supply chain. With over 3500 decision scientists and experience > across 10 industry verticals, Mu Sigma has been consistently validated as > the preferred Decision Sciences and analytics partner. Mu Sigma provides an > integrated decision support ecosystem of products, services and > cross-industry best practice processes transforming the way decisions are > enabled in enterprises for more than 140 Fortune 500 clients. Visit > www.mu-sigma.com > > . > > ------------------------------ > Know a company that might want to sponsor SciPy 2016 or provide > scholarship funding? Share the > sponsorship > prospectus > > -------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please click here > > From avirshup at gmail.com Sat Mar 26 00:57:45 2016 From: avirshup at gmail.com (Aaron Virshup) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:57:45 -0700 Subject: [Scipy-organizers] Tutorial submission site down Message-ID: <15E126CF-CA41-4A90-9BBA-194393DF5517@gmail.com> Hi, I just got the final sign-off from my co-authors for our tutorial proposal for SciPy 2016. Unfortunately, it looks like the submission website just went down for maintenance. Is there any way I can still submit our tutorial proposal? Thanks, Aaron From bitsjamadagni at gmail.com Tue Mar 29 11:36:53 2016 From: bitsjamadagni at gmail.com (Amit Jamadagni) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:36:53 +0800 Subject: [Scipy-organizers] Regarding the proposal topic and use of other python libraries Message-ID: Hello Scipy organizers, I would like to present some of my work in Condensed Matter Physics which involves a lot of Group Theory computations performed using SageMath. It would be really helpful to know if use of SageMath for Physics based computations be acceptable as a topic for proposal. Hoping to hear from the you. Thanking you, Amit.