Program and Schedule

Monday, April 13th - BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Session Time Speaker Title
- 8:30am - Registration and Continental Breakfast (no onsite registration available)
Introduction
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium, 
chaired by Julianne Blomer)
9:15am Jim Hurrell Welcoming Remarks
9:30am Fernando Perez Project Jupyter: a language-independent architecture for open computing and data science
- 10:30am - COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
Data Analysis Session
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium,
chaired by Julianne Blomer)
11:00am Sheri Mickelson
Alice Bertini
Light-weight Parallel Python Tools Within the CESM Workflow
11:30am Hannah Keller Python Base Scientific Data Analysis Web Application
noon - BUFFET LUNCH - 1h30m (in the FL2 Cafeteria Atrium)
1:30pm Amit Chourasia Sharing computational results via SeedMe platform
Modeling Session
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium,
chaired by Nathan Wilhelmi)
2:00pm Katherine Dykes Python for Wind Energy
2:30pm Gerry Wiener Quality Controlling Wind Power Data for Data Mining Applications
3:00pm - COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
3:30pm David Gagne Utilizing Scientific Python Tools for the Application of
Data Science Techniques to High Impact Weather Prediction
4:00pm William Dai Development of a Multi-physics Code with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
- 4:30pm - ADJOURN

Tuesday, April 14th - BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Session Time Speaker Title
- 8:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast (no onsite registration available)
Tools and Web Session
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium, 
chaired by Joe VanAndel)
8:30am Soo Rin Park Development of a Python GUI Interface to a YAML Configuration File for Propagation
of Largely Identical Database Records between Field Project Entries
9:00am Guido Cervone
Mark Coletti
A Python QGIS plugin for tweeter analysis during emergencies
9:30am Walter Moreira Composing and deploying a cluster of Docker containers
10:00am Joe Stubbs Docker for Scientific Applications
10:30am - COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes
11:00am Robert McLay User Environment Tracking and Problem Detection with XALT
11:30am Gary Granger Software Deployment in the Field (Technical Debt and Data-Ops)
noon - GROUP PHOTO
12:30pm - BUFFET LUNCH - 1h (in the FL2 Cafeteria Atrium)
1:30pm Todd Evans TACC Stats: A Comprehensive and Transparent Resource Usage Monitoring Tool for HPC Systems
2:00pm Youngsung Kim KGEN: Fortran Kernel Generator
- 2:30pm - COFFEE BREAK - 30 minutes

Performance Session
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium,
chaired by Si Liu)

3:00pm Jonathan Helmus Profiling Python code to improve memory usage and execution time
3:30pm Matthew Rocklin Out-of-core Computations with Blaze
4:00pm Liqiang Wang Enabling Multi-pipeline Data Transfer in HDFS for Big Data Applications
- 4:30pm - ADJOURN

Wednesday, April 15th - HANDS-ON TUTORIALS - BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Coffee served throughout the day; breaks, up to the instructors

Track Time Instructor Title
- 8:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast (no onsite registration available)
Software Carpentry
(room FL2-1002)
8:30am-12:30pm

Jonah Duckles
Chris Hamm

Software Carpentry part 1
1:30pm-3:30pm

Data Carpentry
(room FL2-1003)

8:30am-12:30pm Leah Wasser
Mariela Perignon
Data Carpentry part 1
1:30pm-3:30pm
HPC
(room FL2-1001)
8:30am-12:30pm Beau Paisley Development Tools for Results: Allinea's unified tools for debugging and profiling HPC codes
1:30pm-3:30pm
Python
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium)
8:30am-10:30am Johnny Lin Dynamic data structures and first-class citizens: Python features that can
make data analysis more flexible and powerful
10:30am-12:30pm Dynamic data structures and first-class citizens: Python features that can
make modeling more flexible and powerful
1:30pm-2:30pm Sean Fisk Packaging Python Projects
2:30pm-3:30pm Dorota Jarecka Introduction to testing scientific codes with py.test
MSI/EPSCoR Diversity Students only
(EOL Atrium)
Everyone else please go to FL2 Cafeteria Atrium at 12:30pm
noon-1:30pm - MSI/EPSCoR Diversity Student Luncheon
Joint - All tracks ( (in the FL2 Cafeteria Atrium) 3:30pm-5:00pm facilitator OpenSpace dedicated time

Thursday, April 16th - HANDS-ON TUTORIALS - BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Coffee served throughout the day; breaks, up to the instructors

Track Time Instructor Title
- 8:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast (no onsite registration available)
Software Carpentry
(room FL2-1002)
8:30am-12:30pm Jonah Duckles
Chris Hamm
Software Carpentry part 2
1:30pm-4:30pm
Data Carpentry
(room FL2-1003)
8:30am-12:30pm Leah Wasser
Mariela Perignon
Data Carpentry part 2
1:30pm-4:30pm
HPC
(room FL2-1001)
8:30am-12:30pm John Linford Python Performance Evaulation with the TAU Performance System
Python
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium)
8:30am-10:30am Johnny Lin Basics of NetCDF File I/O in Python

10:30am-12:30pm

David Brown, Wei Huang,
Mary Haley, Rick Brownrigg
The PyNIO multi-format scientific data I/O module
joint HPC/Pyton
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium)
1:30pm-4:30pm Ritu Arora and Si Liu Parallel I/O - for Reading and Writing Large Files in Parallel

Friday, April 17th - HANDS-ON TUTORIALS - BUFFET LUNCH PROVIDED from 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Coffee served throughout the day; breaks, up to the instructors

Track Time Instructor Title
- 8:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast (no onsite registration available)
Software Carpentry
(room FL2-1002)
8:30am-12:30pm Jonah Duckles
Chris Hamm
Software Carpentry part 3
joint HPC/Pyton
(FL2-1022 Large Auditorium)
8:30am-12:30pm Antonio Gomez-Iglesias Python in HPC
1:30pm-4:30pm Ramalingam Saravanan Data analysis and visualization using the Python notebook interface