¡Hola Francesc! El Jueves, 3 de Marzo de 2011, Francesc Alted escribió: >... > El curso es gratuito, aunque el asistente ha de correr con los gastos > del viaje y hospedaje. Y aunque en el anuncio oficial se dice que se > orienta a estudiantes de doctorado o post-docs, no es condición > necesaria (como Ricardo Cárdenes puede atestiguar :). >
mmm... parece mas avanzado que al que acudí. ¿Se puede "repetir"? Saludos, Iñigo > El plazo de presentación de candidaturas acaba el 29 de Mayo de 2011, > pero ya daré otro 'toque' cuando falte poco tiempo para que concluya el > plazo, por si hay algún despistado. > > Espero ver a algún colistero por allí! > > Y ahora el anuncio oficial: > > > Advanced Scientific Programming in Python > ========================================= > a Summer School by the G-Node and the School of Psychology, > University of St Andrews > > 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 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 11—16, 2011. St Andrews, UK. > > Preliminary Program > =================== > Day 0 (Sun Sept 11) — Best Programming Practices > - Agile development & Extreme Programming > - Advanced Python: decorators, generators, context managers > - Version control with git > Day 1 (Mon Sept 12) — Software Carpentry > - Object-oriented programming & design patterns > - Test-driven development, unit testing & quality assurance > - Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques > - Programming in teams > Day 2 (Tue Sept 13) — Scientific Tools for Python > - Advanced NumPy > - The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C with Cython > - Best practices in data visualization > Day 3 (Wed Sept 14) — The Quest for Speed > - Writing parallel applications in Python > - Programming project > Day 4 (Thu Sept 15) — Efficient Memory Management > - When parallelization does not help: > the starving CPUs problem > - Data serialization: from pickle to databases > - Programming project > Day 5 (Fri Sept 16) — Practical Software Development > - Programming project > - The Pac-Man 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 May 29, 2011. Notifications of > acceptance will be sent by June 19, 2011. > > 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 in past editions was around 30%. > Prerequisites: You are supposed to know the basics of Python to > participate in the lectures. Please consult the website for a list > of introductory material. > > Faculty > ======= > - Francesc Alted, author of PyTables, Castelló de la Plana, Spain > - Pietro Berkes, Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis > University, USA > - Valentin Haenel, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein > Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany > - Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Faculty of Physics, University of > Warsaw, Poland > - Eilif Muller, The Blue Brain Project, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale > de Lausanne, Switzerland > - Emanuele Olivetti, NeuroInformatics Laboratory, Fondazione Bruno > Kessler and University of Trento, Italy > - Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Bernstein Center for Computational > Neuroscience Berlin, Germany > - Bartosz Teleńczuk, Institute for Theoretical Biology, > Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany > - Bastian Venthur, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein > Focus: Neurotechnology, Germany > - Pauli Virtanen, Institute for Theoretical Physics and > Astrophysics, University of Würzburg, Germany > - Tiziano Zito, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein Center > for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Germany > > Organized by Katharina Maria Zeiner and Manuel Spitschan of the > School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, and by Zbigniew > Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Tiziano Zito for the German Neuroinformatics > Node of the INCF. > > Website: http://python.g-node.org > Contact: python-i...@g-node.org _______________________________________________ Python-es mailing list Python-es@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-es FAQ: http://python-es-faq.wikidot.com/
