Tutorials

Two days of tutorials to the scientific Python tools will precede the conference. There will be two tracks, one for introduction of the basic tools to beginners, and one for more advanced tools.

After polling the community for preferred topics, the results are in.

We are currently contacting speakers, so far the following tutorials are confirmed:

• Advanced topics in matplotlib: John Hunter
• Advanced numpy: Stefan van der Walt and David Cournapeau.
• Mayavi/TVTK: Prabhu Ramachandran and Gaël Varoquaux.
• Designing scientific interfaces with Traits: Enthought.
• Cython: Dag Sverre Seljebotn.
• Symbolic computing with sympy: Ondrej Certik
  • basic introduction to sympy
  • how to use sympy in the terminal and Sage (SPD) notebook
  • how to download, how to work with git, create and prepare patches, switch branches, contribute to sympy (or any other git project)
  • how to use sympy with other libraries (scipy, numpy), how to hook things into ipython
  • how to create custom printers (e.g. special pretty printer, code generation etc.)
  • how to run sympy on the google app engine
  • numeric evaluation (to any precision) of integrals, sums and other expressions
  • how to traverse the sympy expression and do transformation on it
  • symbolic equations solving

And we are waiting for confirmation on these two:

• Statistics with Scipy
• Using GPUs with PyCUDA