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8 <h3>The following speakers are invited.</h3> |
8 <h3>The following speakers are invited.</h3> |
9 <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Travis Oliphant" |
9 <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Fernando Perez" |
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11 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Travis Oliphant (Keynote)</h3> |
11 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Fernando Perez</h3> |
12 He is the architect of NumPy and author of the definitive guide to |
12 Fernando Perez received his PhD in Physics from the University of |
13 NumPy. He was formerly a member of faculty at BYU and is currently |
13 Colorado, Boulder, in 2002 working on questions regarding the |
14 the President of Enthought Inc. (USA).</div> |
14 toplogical structure of the QCD vacuum using Lattice Gauge Theory |
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15 techniques. He then worked at the Applied Mathematics Dept. at the |
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16 same university, focusing on the development of a new family of |
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17 algorithms for the efficient application of linear operators in |
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18 multiple dimensions, with a focus on the uses of such techniques on |
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19 the (bound state) multiparticle Schrodinger Equation. Since early 2008, |
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20 he has worked as a research scientist at the Helen Wills Neuroscience |
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21 Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, on the development |
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22 of new algorithms and tools for neuroimaging. He is actively involved |
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23 in the development of tools for scientific computing using high-level |
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24 languages, in particular Python. He is the original author and leader |
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25 of the IPython project for interactive computing |
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26 (http://ipython.scipy.org) and an active contributor to other |
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27 scientific Python projects as well as a frequent lecturer on these |
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32 <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Satrajit" |
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34 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Satrajit Ghosh</h3> |
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35 Satrajit Ghosh is a research scientist at Research Laboratory of |
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36 Electronics at MIT and a faculty member of the Speech and Hearing |
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37 Biosciences and Technology program within the Harvard-MIT division |
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38 of Health Sciences and Technology. He has extensive experience with |
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39 neuroimaging, signal processing and software development. He has |
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40 developed state-of-the-art tools for analysis of neuroimaging data |
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41 and is managing the development of a Python-based, opensource, |
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42 multi-institution software project aimed at improving interoperability |
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43 among existing imaging analysis software packages |
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44 (http://nipy.org/nipype/). His current research focus is on |
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45 utilizing pattern classification approaches for diagnosis and |
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46 prediction of neurological disorders. His prior work involves |
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47 real-time synthesis of computer music and sound effects, controlling |
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48 chaotic oscillators, computational modeling of speech acquisition |
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49 and production, and realtime DSP-based speech signal processing. He |
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50 holds a BS(Honors) degree in Computer Science from the National |
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51 University of Singapore and a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems |
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18 <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Jarrod Millman" |
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20 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Jarrod Millman</h3> |
60 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Jarrod Millman</h3> |
21 He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active |
61 He is on the SciPy steering committee and an active |
22 contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects. He is the acting |
62 contributor to both the NumPy and SciPy projects. He is the acting |
23 managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's |
63 managing director and the director of computing for UC Berkeley's |
24 Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in |
64 Neuroscience Institute, where he helped found the Neuroimaging in |
25 Python (NIPY) project. |
65 Python (NIPY) project. |
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33 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>David Cournapeau</h3> |
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34 He is one of the lead NumPy and SciPy developers |
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35 and is just received his PhD in Signal Processing at Kyoto University, |
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44 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Christopher Burns</h3> |
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45 He is one of the lead developers on the |
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46 Neuroimaging in Python project (NiPy). He is a software engineer in |
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47 the Computational Infrastructure for Research Laboratories group at UC |
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48 Berkeley's Neuroscience Institute and a regular contributor to the |
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72 and instructional design. He has been a director at CIBS and has been |
88 and instructional design. He has been a director at CIBS and has been |
73 the CEO/CTO of various firms such as MinVesta Infotech Ltd., Arkin |
89 the CEO/CTO of various firms such as MinVesta Infotech Ltd., Arkin |
74 Systems and Future Focus Infotech. |
90 Systems and Future Focus Infotech. |
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96 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>John Hunter</h3> |
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97 John Hunter received his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of |
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98 Chicago for experimental and numerical modeling work on synchronization |
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99 of neurons to aperiodic stimuli and the non-linear response of synapses |
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100 to aperiodic inputs. His postdoctoral research was in coherence and |
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101 characterization of transient synchronizations in pediatric epilepsy. |
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102 He left academia in 2005 for quantitative finance, and is Senior |
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103 Quantitative Analyst at TradeLink Securities. An avid python programmer |
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104 and lecturer in scientific computing in python, he is original author |
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105 and lead developer of the scientific visualization package matplotlib. |
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112 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Perry Greenfield</h3> |
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113 Perry Greenfield received a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. His thesis |
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114 was based on Very Large Array radio observations of the first discovered |
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115 gravitational lens. After a short stint in communications engineering |
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116 at Bell Labs, he ended up at the Space Telescope Science Institute, |
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118 for calibrating the Faint Object Camera for the Hubble Space Telescope, |
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119 but for the last 15 years he has been leading the Science Software |
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120 Branch. He has pioneered the use of Python in astronomy, and his group |
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121 been heavily involved in Python for the last 12 years. They have |
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122 developed PyRAF, numarray (the precursor to current numpy capabilities), |
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123 PyFITS, and been heavily involved in the development and support of |
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124 matplotlib. His group is now heavily involved in developing the science |
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125 software to support the next large space telescope under construction, |
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126 the James Webb Space Telescope. |
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133 <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Stéfan van der Walt</h3> |
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134 Stéfan van der Walt is a researcher and lecturer in Applied Mathematics |
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135 at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He holds a BEng (E&E with CS) |
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136 (2005) and MScEng (2005) from the same institution, and recently |
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137 completed his PhD on super-resolution imaging. His current research |
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138 interests include mathematical modeling in neuro-imaging, the discrete |
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139 pulse transform, GPU computing and manifold learning. Stéfan is a |
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140 strong proponent of free and open software for scientific research |
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141 and teaching, and has been part of the NumPy community since 2006. |
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