PYTHON 2012 - Summer School Advanced Scientific Programming in Python

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Deadline: May 01, 2012 | Date: September 02, 2012-September 07, 2012

Venue/Country: Kiel, Germany

Updated: 2012-02-04 22:29:33 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

a Summer School by the G-Node and the Institute of Experimental and

Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and

debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have

evolved, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, instead

of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing

deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this course we will

present a selection of advanced programming techniques,

incorporating theoretical lectures and practical exercises tailored

to the needs of a programming scientist. New skills will be tested

in a real programming project: we will team up to develop an

entertaining scientific computer game.

We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python

works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more

importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data

analysis. We show how clean language design, ease of extensibility,

and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific

computing and data visualization are driving Python to become a

standard tool for the programming scientist.

This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from

all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language

such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or Mathematica is absolutely required.

Basic knowledge of Python is assumed. Participants without any prior

experience with Python should work through the proposed introductory

materials before the course.

Date and Location

September 2?7, 2012. Kiel, Germany.

Preliminary Program

Day 0 (Sun Sept 2) ? Best Programming Practices

- Best Practices, Development Methodologies and the Zen of Python

- Version control with git

- Object-oriented programming & design patterns

Day 1 (Mon Sept 3) ? Software Carpentry

- Test-driven development, unit testing & quality assurance

- Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques

- Best practices in data visualization

- Programming in teams

Day 2 (Tue Sept 4) ? Scientific Tools for Python

- Advanced NumPy

- The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C with Cython

- Advanced Python I: idioms, useful built-in data structures,

generators

Day 3 (Wed Sept 5) ? The Quest for Speed

- Writing parallel applications in Python

- Programming project

Day 4 (Thu Sept 6) ? Efficient Memory Management

- When parallelization does not help:

the starving CPUs problem

- Advanced Python II: decorators and context managers

- Programming project

Day 5 (Fri Sept 7) ? Practical Software Development

- Programming project

- The Pelita Tournament

Every evening we will have the tutors' consultation hour: Tutors

will answer your questions and give suggestions for your own

projects.

Applications

You can apply on-line at http://python.g-node.org

Applications must be submitted before 23:59 UTC, May 1, 2012.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 1, 2012.

No fee is charged but participants should take care of travel,

living, and accommodation expenses. Candidates will be selected on

the basis of their profile. Places are limited: acceptance rate last

time was around 20%. Prerequisites: You are supposed to know the

basics of Python to participate in the lectures. You are encouraged

to go through the introductory material available on the website.

Faculty

- Francesc Alted, Continuum Analytics Inc., USA

- Pietro Berkes, Enthought Inc., UK

- Valentin Haenel, Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique

Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

- Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Faculty of Physics, University of

Warsaw, Poland

- Eilif Muller, Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale

de Lausanne, Switzerland

- Emanuele Olivetti, NeuroInformatics Laboratory, Fondazione Bruno

Kessler and University of Trento, Italy

- Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Technologit GbR, Germany

- Bartosz Teleńczuk, Unité de Neurosciences Information et

Complexité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

- Stéfan van der Walt, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,

University of California Berkeley, USA

- Bastian Venthur, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein

Focus Neurotechnology, Germany

- Niko Wilbert, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Germany

- Tiziano Zito, Institute for Theoretical Biology,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Organized by Christian T. Steigies and Christian Drews of the

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics,

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , and by Zbigniew

Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Tiziano Zito for the German Neuroinformatics

Node of the INCF.

Website: http://python.g-node.org

Contact: python-infog-node.org