We have received a large number of excellent contributions for papers for the SciPy 2008 conference. The program committee has had to make a difficult selection and we are happy to bring to you a preliminary schedule:
Thursday ========= **8:00** Registration/Breakfast **8:55** Welcome (Travis Vaught) **9:10** Keynote (Alex Martelli) **10:00** State of SciPy (Travis Vaught, Jarrod Millman) **10:40** -- Break -- **11:00** Sympy - Python library for symbolic mathematics: introduction and applications (Ondřej Čertik) **11:40** Interval arithmetic: Python implementation and applications (Stefano Taschini) **12:00** Experiences Using Scipy for Computer Vision Research (Damian Eads) **12:20** -- Lunch -- **1:40** The new NumPy documentation framework (Stéfan Van der Walt) **2:00** Matplotlib solves the riddle of the sphinx (Michael Droettboom) **2:40** The SciPy documentation project (Joe Harrington) **3:00** -- Break -- **3:40** Sage: creating a viable free Python-based open source alternatice to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab (William Stein) **4:20** Open space for lightning talks Friday ======== **8:30** Breakfast **9:00** Pysynphot: A Python Re-Implementation of a Legacy App in Astronomy (Perry Greenfield) **9:40** How the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is using Python (Robert Lupton) **10:00** Real-time Astronomical Time-series Classification and Broadcast Pipeline (Dan Starr) **10:20** Analysis and Visualization of Multi-Scale Astrophysical Simulations using Python and NumPy (Matthew Turk) **10:40** -- Break -- **11:00** Exploring network structure, dynamics, and function using NetworkX (Aric Hagberg) **11:40** Mayavi: Making 3D data visualization reusable (Prabhu Ramachandran, Gaël Varoquaux) **12:00** Finite Element Modeling of Contact and Impact Problems Using Python (Ryan Krauss) **12:20** -- Lunch -- **2:00** PyCircuitScape: A Tool for Landscape Ecology (Viral Shah) **2:20** Summarizing Complexity in High Dimensional Spaces (Karl Young) **2:40** UFuncs: A generic function mechanism in Python (Travis Oliphant) **3:20** -- Break -- **3:40** NumPy Optimization: Manual tuning and automated approaches (Evan Patterson) **4:00** Converting Python functions to dynamically-compiled C (Ilan Schnell) **4:20** unPython: Converting Python numerical programs into C (Rahul Garg) **4:40** Implementing the Grammar of Graphics for Python (Robert Kern) **5:00** Ask the experts session. A more detailled booklet including the abstract text will be available soon. We are looking forward to seeing you in Caltech, Gaël Varoquaux, on behalf of the program committee. -- SciPy2008 conference. Program committee Anne Archibald, McGill University Matthew Brett Perry Greenfield, Space Telescope Science Institute Charles Harris Ryan Krauss, Southern Illinois University Gaël Varoquaux Stéfan van der Walt, University of Stellenbosch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
