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<h2 id="sec-1">Day 1 </h2>
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<tr><td class="right">09:30-10:30</td><td class="left">Perry Greenfield</td><td class="left"><b>Keynote</b>: <a href="#sec-3_1">How Python Slithered into Astronomy</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">10:30-10:45</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Tea Break</td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">10:45-11:30</td><td class="left">Fernando Perez</td><td class="left"><b>Special Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_2">IPython : Beyond the Simple Shell</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">11:30-12:00</td><td class="left">Asim Mittal</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_1">Interactive interfaces and Gesture recognition using Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">12:00-12:20</td><td class="left">Jayesh Gandhi</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_14">Microcontroller experiment and its simulation using Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">12:20-12:50</td><td class="left">Vaidhy Mayilrangam</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_17">Natural Language Processing Using Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">12:50-13:20</td><td class="left">Georges Khaznadar</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_10">Live media for training in experimental sciences</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">13:20-14:20</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Lunch</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:20-14:30</td><td class="left">Shubham Chakraborty</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_11">Use of Python and Phoenix-M interface in Robotics</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:30-14:40</td><td class="left">Erroju Rama Krishna</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_8">Simplified and effective Network Simulation using ns-3</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:40-14:50</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">More Lightning Talks</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:50-15:20</td><td class="left">Asokan Pichai</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_3">Teaching Programming with Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">15:20-15:40</td><td class="left">Hemanth Chandran</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_19">Performance Evaluation of HYBRID MAC for 802.11ad: Next Generation Multi-Gbps Wi-Fi using SimPy</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">15:40-16:00</td><td class="left">Karthikeyan selvaraj</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_9">PyCenter</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:00-16:15</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Tea Break</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:15-16:45</td><td class="left">Satrajit Ghosh</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_6">Nipype: Opensource platform for unified and replicable interaction with existing neuroimaging tools</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:45-17:05</td><td class="left">Nek Sharan</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_7">Parallel Computation of Axisymmetric Jets</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">17:05-17:25</td><td class="left">pankaj pandey</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_20">PySPH: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">11:30-11:50</td><td class="left">Farhat Habib</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_1">Python as a Platform for Scientific Computing Literacy for 10+2 Students: Weighing the Balance</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">11:50-12:10</td><td class="left">Jayesh Gandhi</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_14">Microcontroller experiment and its simulation using Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">12:10-12:40</td><td class="left">Vaidhy Mayilrangam</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_17">Natural Language Processing Using Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">12:40-13:10</td><td class="left">Georges Khaznadar</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_10">Live media for training in experimental sciences</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">13:10-14:10</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Lunch</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:10-14:20</td><td class="left">Shubham Chakraborty</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_11">Use of Python and Phoenix-M interface in Robotics</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:20-14:30</td><td class="left">Erroju Rama Krishna</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_8">Simplified and effective Network Simulation using ns-3</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:30-14:40</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">More Lightning Talks</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:40-15:10</td><td class="left">Asokan Pichai</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_3">Teaching Programming with Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:10-15:30</td><td class="left">Hemanth Chandran</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_19">Performance Evaluation of HYBRID MAC for 802.11ad: Next Generation Multi-Gbps Wi-Fi using SimPy</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:30-15:50</td><td class="left">Karthikeyan selvaraj</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_9">PyCenter</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:50-16:10</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Tea Break</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:10-16:40</td><td class="left">Satrajit Ghosh</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_6">Nipype: Opensource platform for unified and replicable interaction with existing neuroimaging tools</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:40-17:00</td><td class="left">Nek Sharan</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_7">Parallel Computation of Axisymmetric Jets</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">17:00-17:20</td><td class="left">pankaj pandey</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_20">PySPH: Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="right">15:15-15:35</td><td class="left">Puneeth Chaganti</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_21">Pictures, Songs and Python</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">15:35-15:55</td><td class="left">Hrishikesh Deshpande</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_5">Wavelet based denoising of ECG using Python</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">15:55-16:10</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left">Tea-Break</td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:10-16:40</td><td class="left">Jarrod Millman</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b>: <a href="#sec-3_8">Building an open development community for neuroimaging analysis</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:10-16:40</td><td class="left">Jarrod Millman</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">16:40-17:00</td><td class="left">Ramakrishna Reddy Yekulla</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_13">Building and Packaging your Scientific Python Application For Linux Distributions</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">17:00-17:20</td><td class="left">Yogesh Karpate</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_16">Automatic Proteomic Finger Printing using Scipy</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="right">17:20-17:40</td><td class="left">Manjusha Joshi</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec-4_15">SAGE for Scientific computing and Education enhancement</a></td></tr>
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-<h3 id="sec-3_8">Building an open development community for neuroimaging analysis </h3>
-
-
-<p>Jarrod Millman
-</p>
-
-
-
-<h4 id="sec-3_8_1">Talk/Paper Abstract </h4>
-
-
-<p>Programming is becoming increasingly important to scientific activity.
-As its importance grows, the need for better software tools becomes more
-and more central to scientific practice. However, many fields of science
-rely on badly written, poorly documented, and insufficiently tested
-codebases. Moreover, scientific software packages often implement only the
-approaches and algorithms needed or promoted by the specific lab where the
-software was written.
-
-In this talk, I will illustrate this situation by discussing some of the
-weaknesses of the software ecosystem for neuroimaging analysis circa 2004.
-I will then describe how several of my colleagues and I are attempting
-to rectify this situation with a project called Neuroimaging in Python
-(<a href="http://nipy.org">http://nipy.org</a>). Specifically, I will
-discuss the approach we've taken (e.g., using Python) and the lessons
-we've learned.
-</p>
-
-
-
-
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-
<h2 id="sec-4">Submitted Talks </h2>
@@ -358,10 +319,10 @@
-<h3 id="sec-4_1">Interactive interfaces and Gesture recognition using Python </h3>
+<h3 id="sec-4_1">Python as a Platform for Scientific Computing Literacy for 10+2 Students: Weighing the Balance </h3>
-<p>Asim Mittal
+<p>Farhat Habib
</p>
@@ -369,27 +330,31 @@
<h4 id="sec-4_1_1">Talk/Paper Abstract </h4>
-<p>Gesture recognition has caught on in a big way, but methods of
-integrating it with intuitive control still remain largely
-expensive and closed source.
-</p>
-<p>
-This talk aims at combining the IR tracking ability of the
-Nintendo Wiimote along with a little scientific computing in
-Python (Linux) to create a means of intuitively controlling
-applications and the operating system, using gestures drawn in 2D
-space using your fingers.
-</p>
-<p>
-This talk is an extension of the work that I have done from my
-talk at PyCon India.
-</p>
-<p>
-You can find out more about my work and ongoing research on my
-blog: <a href="http://baniyakiduniya.blogspot.com">http://baniyakiduniya.blogspot.com</a>
+<p>The use of Python as a language for introducing computing is
+becoming increasingly widespread. Here we report out findings
+from two years of running an introduction to computing course
+with Python as the programming language, and building upon it,
+using SciPy as a scientific computing language in a course on
+scientific computing.
</p>
-
+<p>
+The course is designed as a general computing course for
+introducing computing to first year undergraduate students of
+science. We find that a large majority of our incoming students
+have no prior exposure to programming and none of the students
+had any exposure to Python. Thus, the design of the course is
+such that it allows everybody to be brought up to speed with
+general programming concepts. Later, the students will later
+specialize in varied topics from Biology to pure Mathematics,
+thus, the course emphasizes general computing concepts over
+specialized techniques. At a second course in Scien- tific
+Computing numerical methods are introduced with the aid of
+Scipy. The introduction to computing course has been taught
+twice in Fall 2009 and 2010 to batches of around 100 students
+each. In this paper we report our experience with teaching
+Python and student and faculty feedback related to the course.
+</p>
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