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+Welcome to SciPy India 2011. If you are in IIT Bombay and would like to listen to the talks at the conference without paying a penny, please feel free to drop by the venue. You would be missing the awesome food and tshirt though.
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+The day started with <b>Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran</b> gave an introduction on the conference and a briefing on how it all started in the year 2009. It was followed by keynote by Eric Jones on <i>"What matters in Scientific Software Projects? 10 years of Success and Failure Distilled"</i>. Below are few of the main points of his keynote were about the requirements for a successful project. <br/>
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+<li> Smart People</li>
+<li> Trust and Communication</li>
+<li>Choosing where we have to pioneer</li>
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+Next <b>Ankur Gupta</b> talked about the <i>Multiprocessing module and Gearman</i> and showed live code review of multiprocessing in Python can improve the performance of the program in multiprocessor machines. He also pointed out the logger and debugging modules. 
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+Kunal Puri introduced the PySPH module in his talk on <b>Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Python</b>. He progressed onto explaining the architecture of PySPH and it's underlying modules. The demos on the collision of two elastic balls and a breaking dam showcased the power of this package.
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+Details of other talks will be put up soon.
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