Congratulations guys on the success at SciPy conference !!! Really thrilled to hear that SymPy is selected as a key project.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This last week was the SciPy conference in Austin, TX. SymPy had > quite a showing this year. Here is a summary. > > # Tutorial > > The conference started out Monday morning with a SymPy tutorial, which > was given by my and Ondrej Certik. The materials for the tutorial are > at http://certik.github.io/scipy-2013-tutorial/html/index.html, and > there are also links to the video. The tutorial was based on the new > tutorial I have written for our official documentation, and which has > been officially merged. > > I think the tutorial was a success. One thing that we did that people > told me that they liked was that, in addition to my introductory > stuff, Ondrej presented some IPython notebooks of things that he has > used SymPy for in his actual research. There were several physicists > in the audience, who were wowed, but even those who weren't I think > got the impression that SymPy really is a tool, not just a toy. > > # Talks > > In addition to the tutorial, there were three talks about SymPy. > > - Matthew Rocklin gave a talk, "Matrix Expressions and BLAS/LAPACK", > about his work using SymPy matrix expressions to generate code for > BLAS/LAPACK. The slides are at > https://github.com/scipy/scipy2013_talks/tree/master/talks/matthew_rocklin > , > and the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVt24G_2VC0. > > - Jason Moore gave a talk about SymPy mechanics and PyDy, entitled > "RigidBody Dynamics with SymPy Mechanics". The slides are at > https://github.com/scipy/scipy2013_talks/tree/master/talks/jason_moore > and the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtt9hexk93o. > > - David Li gave a talk about his work on SymPy Live and SymPy Gamma, > entitled "SymPy Gamma and SymPy Live: Python and Mathematics Online". > The slides are at > https://github.com/scipy/scipy2013_talks/tree/master/talks/david_li > and the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad_D4i-oYjU. > > - Lightning talks. None were about SymPy specifically, but I recommend > you watch them. The videos are at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdezCPT6Qg and > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywHqIEv3xXg. > > Another good talk that I would recommend is Brian Grangers talk > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpPDkZef5I. > > # Sprints > > At the sprints, we did a lot of work on getting SymPy ready for a > 0.7.3 release. We are almost ready (if you want to help, take a look > at https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/2233. > > David Li also worked with Mike McKerns at the sprints to integrate > Dill (https://github.com/uqfoundation/dill) into SymPy Live, which > should fix all the pickling related issues we have with it. > > There were a lot of people talking about SymPy at the conference. I > think we made a good impact at the conference, and people are really > starting to see SymPy as a powerful tool. I also met a lot of people > who were using SymPy, for things that I hadn't even heard of yet (Mike > McKerns is one of those people actually, for his other project > Mystic). We should update our list at > http://docs.sympy.org/0.7.2/outreach.html#projects-using-sympy. > > # Blogs > > Many people who attended the conference wrote blog posts about it. My > post is at http://asmeurersympy.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scipy-2013/. > I gave some more details on my personal feelings of the conference > there. > > One final note, that I thought was interesting, was Thomas Kluyver's > lightning talk. Apparently scipy.org has been redesigned recently. > Instead of just focusing on SciPy the library, it focuses on the core > SciPy stack. They chose six key projects, which they felt were key to > any stack (i.e., any stack that claims to be a scientific Python stack > must contain all of these). The six packages are NumPy, SciPy, > Matplotlib, IPython, SymPy, and Pandas (see http://www.scipy.org/). I > was happy that they put SymPy in there, not just because I like SymPy, > but because I think any scientific stack needs to have a symbolic > component. But I thought it was interesting that they did this without > (to my knowledge) anyone in the SymPy community even knowing about it. > I think that really speaks to SymPy's influence and power. > > I hope to see even more SymPy people at the conference next year. It's > likely that we will be able to fund people again, so if you are > interested come next year, let me and Ondrej know. > > Aaron Meurer > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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