Speakers

Fernando Perez

- 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 - topics.

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John Hunter

- 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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Jarrod Millman

+ 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. +

Perry Greenfield

- 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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Mateusz Paprocki

+ Mateusz Paprocki is a software developer and a researcher in the field + of computer science. He graduated last spring from Technical University + of Wroclaw in Poland. Mateusz is an active Open Source Python scientific + software developer. His major contribution to the community is his work on + SymPy, a pure Python symbolic mathematics system. +

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Eric Jones

+ Eric has a broad background in engineering and software development and leads + Enthought's product engineering and software design. Prior to co-founding Enthought, + Eric worked with numerical electromagnetics and genetic optimization in the + Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University. He has taught numerous courses + on the use of Python for scientific computing and serves as a member of the Python + Software Foundation. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University in electrical + engineering and a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from Baylor University. +

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Stéfan van der Walt

- 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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Jarrod Millman

- 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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Satrajit Ghosh

- 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.

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