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    <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Fernando Perez"

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    <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Fernando Perez</h3> 

       Fernando Perez received his PhD in Physics from the University of

       Colorado, Boulder, in 2002, working on questions regarding the

       toplogical structure of the QCD vacuum using Lattice Gauge Theory

       techniques. He then worked at the Applied Mathematics department 

       there, focusing on the development of a new family of

       algorithms for the efficient application of linear operators in

       multiple dimensions, with a focus on the uses of such techniques on

       the (bound state) multiparticle Schrodinger Equation. Since early 2008,

       he has worked as a research scientist at the Helen Wills Neuroscience

       Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, on the development

       of new algorithms and tools for neuroimaging. He is actively involved

       in the development of tools for scientific computing using high-level

       languages, in particular Python. He is the creator and lead developer

       of the IPython project for interactive computing

       (http://ipython.scipy.org) and an active contributor to other

       scientific Python projects, as well as a frequent lecturer on these

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    <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>John Hunter</h3> 

      John Hunter received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of

      Chicago for experimental and numerical modeling work on the synchronization

      of neurons to aperiodic stimuli and the non-linear response of synapses

      to aperiodic inputs. His postdoctoral research was in coherence and

      characterization of transient synchronizations in pediatric epilepsy.

      He left academia in 2005 for quantitative finance, and is a Senior

      Quantitative Analyst at TradeLink Securities. An avid python programmer

      and lecturer in scientific computing in python, he is the creator

      and lead developer of the scientific visualization package, matplotlib.

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    <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Perry Greenfield"

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    <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Perry Greenfield</h3> 

      Perry Greenfield received a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. His thesis

      was based on Very Large Array radio observations of the first discovered

      gravitational lens. After a short stint in communications engineering

      at Bell Labs, he ended up at the Space Telescope Science Institute,

      where he has worked for the last 25 years. He was initially responsible

      for calibrating the Faint Object Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope,

      but for the last 15 years has been leading the Science Software

      Branch. He has pioneered the use of Python in astronomy, and his group

      has been heavily involved in Python for the last 12 years. They have

      developed PyRAF, numarray (the precursor to current numpy capabilities),

      PyFITS, and were heavily involved in the development and support of

      matplotlib. His group is now involved in developing the science

      software to support the next large space telescope under construction,

      the James Webb Space Telescope.

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    <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Prabhu Ramachandran"

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       <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Prabhu Ramachandran</h3>

       Dr Prabhu has been a faculty member at the department of Aerospace Engineering, 

       IIT Bombay since 2005.  He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras.  

       His research interests are primarily in particle methods and applied scientific 

       computing.  He has been active in the FOSS community for more than a decade.  

       He co-founded the Indian Linux User Group - Chennai (ILUGC) in 1998 and is the 

       creator and lead developer of the (FOSS-India-award-winning) Mayavi and TVTK 

       Python packages. Prabhu has contributed to the Python wrappers of the 

       Visualization Toolkit (VTK). He is an active member of the SciPy community and 

       a member of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). In 2009, he gave the keynote 

       address at India's first PyCon.  Prabhu currently heads the FOSSEE project 

       (http://fossee.in) which aims to spread the use of Python (and other Free 

       Software) in the curriculum.  

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    <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Stéfan van der Walt</h3> 

        Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher and lecturer in Applied Mathematics

        at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds a BEng (E&E with CS)

        (2005) and MScEng (2005) from the same institution, and recently

        completed his PhD on super-resolution imaging. His current research

        interests include mathematical modeling in neuro-imaging, the discrete

        pulse transform, GPU computing and manifold learning. Stéfan is a

        strong proponent of free and open software for scientific research

        and teaching, and has been part of the NumPy community since 2006.

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    <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Jarrod Millman"

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       <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Jarrod Millman</h3>

       He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active

       contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects.  He is the acting

       managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's

       Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in

       Python (NIPY) project.

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    <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Satrajit Ghosh</h3> 

        Satrajit Ghosh is a research scientist at the Research Laboratory of

        Electronics at MIT and a faculty member of the Speech and Hearing

        Biosciences and Technology program within the Harvard-MIT division

        of Health Sciences and Technology. He has extensive experience with

        neuroimaging, signal processing and software development. He has

        developed state-of-the-art tools for analysis of neuroimaging data

        and is managing the development of a Python-based, opensource,

        multi-institution software project aimed at improving interoperability

        among existing imaging analysis software packages

        (http://nipy.org/nipype/). His current research focus is on

        utilizing pattern classification approaches for diagnosis and

        prediction of neurological disorders. His prior work involves

        real-time synthesis of computer music and sound effects, controlling

        chaotic oscillators, computational modeling of speech acquisition

        and production, and realtime DSP-based speech signal processing. He

        holds a BS(Honors) degree in Computer Science from the National

        University of Singapore and a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems

        from Boston University.</div>

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    <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Asokan Pichai"

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       <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Asokan Pichai</h3>

       Mr. Asokan Pichai is the consultant/project manager for the Python

       group of the FOSSEE project. He is also the principal consultant at

       TalentSprint. He has immense experience in the field of training

       and instructional design. He has been a director at CIBS and has been

       the CEO/CTO of various firms such as MinVesta Infotech Ltd., Arkin

       Systems and Future Focus Infotech.

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