# HG changeset patch
# User Primal Pappachan <primal007@gmail.com>
# Date 1322746543 -19800
# Node ID 5610783f66d67f0dad192f91721bc5dd37fc5cee
# Parent  c8068bc1d7c38d7bd324b5756f021ee8c460e947# Parent  bbb9a44c0c140352d0508bb1fc7d2c77b4f08b6f
merged branches

diff -r c8068bc1d7c3 -r 5610783f66d6 project/templates/_menu.html
--- a/project/templates/_menu.html	Wed Nov 30 12:42:05 2011 +0530
+++ b/project/templates/_menu.html	Thu Dec 01 19:05:43 2011 +0530
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@
         <li>
           <a href="/{{ params.scope }}/about/reaching/">Reaching the venue</a>
         </li>
+	<li>
+          <a href="/{{ params.scope }}/about/contact/">Contact us</a>
+        </li>
       </ul>
     </li>
     <!-- <li><a href="/{{ params.scope }}/publicity/">Publicity</a></li>
diff -r c8068bc1d7c3 -r 5610783f66d6 project/templates/about/contact.html
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/project/templates/about/contact.html	Thu Dec 01 19:05:43 2011 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{% extends "base.html" %}
+{% block content %}
+<div class="entry">
+<h1><strong>Contact us</strong></h1>
+<br/>
+For any queries regarding registration, accomodation or any other issues, please feel free to contact any of the following.
+<br/><br/>
+    <li>
+    Anand Raj Ramachandran <br/>
+    Phone No: +919699323506 <br/>
+    Email id: anand@fossee.in <br/>
+    </li>
+    <br/><br/>
+    <li>
+    Parth Buch <br/>
+    Phone No: +919619606610 <br/>
+    Email id: parth@fossee.in <br/>
+    </li>
+    <br/><br/>
+    <li>
+    Primal Pappachan <br/>
+    Phone No: +919920149265 <br/>
+    Email id: primal@fossee.in <br/>
+    </li>
+    <br/><br/>
+</div>
+{% endblock content %}
diff -r c8068bc1d7c3 -r 5610783f66d6 project/templates/about/tutorial.html
diff -r c8068bc1d7c3 -r 5610783f66d6 project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html
--- a/project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html	Wed Nov 30 12:42:05 2011 +0530
+++ b/project/templates/talk/conf_schedule.html	Thu Dec 01 19:05:43 2011 +0530
@@ -24,11 +24,12 @@
 <tr><td class="right">13:55-14:15</td><td class="left">Bala Subrahmanyam Varanasi</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.6">Sentiment Analysis</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">14:15-14:45</td><td class="left">Vishal Kanaujia</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.7">Exploiting the power of multicore for scientific computing in Python</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">14:45-14:55</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Lightning Talks</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:55-15:25</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Tea</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:25-15:55</td><td class="left">Jayneil Dalal</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.8">Building Embedded Systems for Image Processing using Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">15:55-16:25</td><td class="left">Kunal Puri</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.9">Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:25-16:45</td><td class="left">Nivedita Datta</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.10">Encryptedly yours : Python & Cryptography</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:45-17:30</td><td class="left">Gael</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:55-15:25</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Tea Break</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:25-16:10</td><td class="left">Prabhu Ramachandran</td><td class="left"><b>Invited Talk</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:10-16:40</td><td class="left">Jayneil Dalal</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.8">Building Embedded Systems for Image Processing using Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:40-17:10</td><td class="left">Kunal Puri</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.9">Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">17:10-17:30</td><td class="left">Nivedita Datta</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.10">Encryptedly yours : Python & Cryptography</a></td></tr>
+
 </tbody>
 </table>
 
@@ -44,23 +45,22 @@
 <tr><th scope="col" class="right">Time</th><th scope="col" class="left">Speaker</th><th scope="col" class="left">Title</th></tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
-<tr><td class="right">09:00-09:45</td><td class="left">Prabhu Ramachandran</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">09:45-10:05</td><td class="left">Mahendra Naik</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.13">Large amounts of data downloading and processing in python with facebook data as reference</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">10:05-10:15</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Lightning Talks</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">09:00-09:45</td><td class="left">Gael</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.23">Invited Speaker: <b>Machine learning as a tool for Neuroscience</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">09:45-10:15</td><td class="left">Kannan Moudgalya</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">10:15-10:45</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Tea</b></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">10:45-11:05</td><td class="left">Hrishikesh Deshpande</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.14">Higher Order Statistics in Python</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">11:05-11:25</td><td class="left">Shubham Chakraborty</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.15">Combination of Python and Phoenix-M as a low cost substitute for PLC</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">11:25-12:10</td><td class="left">Emmanuelle</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">12:10-13:10</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Lunch</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">13:10-13:55</td><td class="left">Asokan</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">13:55-14:15</td><td class="left">Jaidev Deshpande</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.18">A Python Toolbox for the Hilbert-Huang Transform</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:15-14:45</td><td class="left">Chetan Giridhar</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.19">Diving in to Byte-code optimization in Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:45-14:55</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Lightning  Talks</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">14:55-15:25</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Tea</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">15:25-16:05</td><td class="left">Ole Nielsen</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:05-16:35</td><td class="left">Kunal puri</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.21">GPU Accelerated Computational Fluid Dynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
-<tr><td class="right">16:35-16:45</td><td class="left">Sachin Shinde</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.22">Reverse Engineering and python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">13:10-13:30</td><td class="left">Mahendra Naik</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.13">Large amounts of data downloading and processing in python with facebook data as reference</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">13:30-14:10</td><td class="left">Ole Nielsen</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:10-14:30</td><td class="left">Jaidev Deshpande</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.18">A Python Toolbox for the Hilbert-Huang Transform</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">14:30-15:00</td><td class="left">Chetan Giridhar</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.19">Diving in to Byte-code optimization in Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:00-15:30</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Tea</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">15:30-16:00</td><td class="left">Kunal Puri</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.21">GPU Accelerated Computational Fluid Dynamics with Python</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:00-16:10</td><td class="left">Sachin Shinde</td><td class="left"><a href="#sec2.22">Reverse Engineering and python</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td class="right">16:10-16:40</td><td class="left">Jarrod Millman</td><td class="left"><b>Invited</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="right">16:40-17:00</td><td class="left"></td><td class="left"><b>Lightning Talks</b></td></tr>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 <br/><br/>
@@ -335,4 +335,65 @@
 <p>The paper is about how we can use python for writing tools for reverse engineering and assembly code analysis it will talk about basic and modules those are available for doing reverse engineering. </p>
 <h4>Slides</h4>
 <p>To be uploaded</p>
+
+<h3 id="sec2.23">Gael Varoquaux(Affiliation: INRIA Parietal, Neurospin, Saclay, France): Machine learning as a tool for Neuroscience</h3>
+<h4>Abstract</h4>
+<p>For now two decades, functional brain imaging has provided a tool for
+building models of cognitive processes. However, these models are
+ultimately introduced without a formal data analysis step. Indeed,
+cognition arise from the interplay of many elementary functions. There
+are an exponential amount of competing possible models, that cannot be
+discriminated with a finite amount of data. This data analysis problem is
+common in many experimental science settings, although seldom diagnosed.
+In statistics, it is known as the <b>curse of dimensionality</b>, and can be
+tackled efficiently with machine learning tools.</p>
+<p>
+For these reasons, imaging neuroscience has recently seen a
+multiplication of complex data analysis methods. Yet, machine learning is
+a rapidly-evolving research field, often leading to impenetrable
+publication and challenging algorithms, of which neuroscience data
+analysts only scratch the surface. 
+</p>
+<p>
+I will present our efforts to foster a general-purpose machine-learning
+Python module, <b>scikit-learn</b>, for scientific data analysis. As it aims
+to bridge the gap between machine-learning researchers and end-users, the
+package is focused on ease of use and high-quality documentation while
+maintaining state-of-the-art performance. It is enjoying a growing
+success in research laboratories, but also in communities with strong
+industrial links such as web-analytics or natural language processing. 
+</p>
+<p>
+We combine this module with high-end interactive
+visualization using <b>Mayavi</b> and neuroimaging-specific tools in <b>nipy</b> to
+apply state of the art machine learning techniques to neuroscience:
+learning from the data new models of brain activity, focused on
+predictive or descriptive power. These models can be used to perform
+"brain reading": predicting behavior our thoughts from brain images. This
+is a well-posed <b>supervised learning</b> problem. In <b>unsupervised</b>
+settings, that is in the absence of behavioral observations, we focus on
+learning probabilistic models of the signal. For instance, interaction
+graphs between brain regions at rest reveal structures well-known to be
+recruited in tasks. 
+</p>
+<p>
+Optimal use of the data available from a brain imaging session raises
+computational challenges that are well-known in large data analytics. The
+<b>scipy</b> stack, including <b>Cython</b> and <b>scikit-learn</b>, used with care, can
+provide a high-performance environment, matching dedicated solutions. I
+will highlight how the <b>scikit-learn</b> performs efficient data analysis in
+Python. 
+</p>
+<p>
+The challenges discussed here go beyond neuroscience. Imaging
+neuroscience is a test bed for advanced data analysis in science, as it
+faces the challenge of integrating new data without relying on
+well-established fundamental laws. However, with the data available in
+experimental sciences growing rapidly, high-dimensional statistical
+inference and data processing are becoming key in many other fields.
+Python is set to provide a thriving ecosystem for these tasks, as it
+unites scientific communities and web-based industries.
+</p>
+<h4>Slides</h4>
+<p>To be uploaded</p>
 {% endblock content %}
diff -r c8068bc1d7c3 -r 5610783f66d6 project/urls.py
--- a/project/urls.py	Wed Nov 30 12:42:05 2011 +0530
+++ b/project/urls.py	Thu Dec 01 19:05:43 2011 +0530
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@
     url(r'^%s/about/reaching/$' % (SCOPE_ARG_PATTERN),
         direct_to_template, {"template": "about/reaching.html"},
         name='scipycon_reaching'),
+    url(r'^%s/about/contact/$' % (SCOPE_ARG_PATTERN),
+        direct_to_template, {"template": "about/contact.html"},
+        name='scipycon_contact'),
     url(r'^%s/about/city/$' % (SCOPE_ARG_PATTERN),
         direct_to_template, {"template": "about/city.html"},
         name='scipycon_city'),