# HG changeset patch
# User kadambari
# Date 1288346833 -19800
# Node ID 851b3fe8f30cc887f86b84116b9fe42f666d54bc
# Parent  ec36f03fdca44872b45c654dd804828742e9cc2c
reviewed and updated the speaker profiles.

diff -r ec36f03fdca4 -r 851b3fe8f30c project/templates/talk/speakers.html
--- a/project/templates/talk/speakers.html	Thu Oct 21 17:41:06 2010 +0530
+++ b/project/templates/talk/speakers.html	Fri Oct 29 15:37:13 2010 +0530
@@ -5,15 +5,14 @@
     <h2><a name="date">Speakers</a></h2>
   </div>
   <div class="entry">
-    <h3>The following speakers are invited.</h3>
     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Fernando Perez"
         src="/static/img/fperez.jpg" height=220 width=179 /></div>
     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Fernando Perez</h3> 
        Fernando Perez received his PhD in Physics from the University of
-       Colorado, Boulder, in 2002 working on questions regarding the
+       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 Dept. at the
-       same university, focusing on the development of a new family of
+       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,
@@ -21,25 +20,25 @@
        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 original author and leader
+       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
+       scientific Python projects, as well as a frequent lecturer on these
        topics.</div>
     <br /></div>
     <div style="clear: both;"/>
 
     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"></div>
     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>John Hunter</h3> 
-      John Hunter received his Ph.D. in neurobiology at the University of
-      Chicago for experimental and numerical modeling work on synchronization
+      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 Senior
+      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 original author
-      and lead developer of the scientific visualization package matplotlib.
+      and lecturer in scientific computing in python, he is the creator
+      and lead developer of the scientific visualization package, matplotlib.
     </div>
     <br /></div>
     <div style="clear: both;"/>
@@ -51,14 +50,14 @@
       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 initially was responsible
+      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 he has been leading the Science Software
+      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
-      been heavily involved in Python for the last 12 years. They have
+      has been heavily involved in Python for the last 12 years. They have
       developed PyRAF, numarray (the precursor to current numpy capabilities),
-      PyFITS, and been heavily involved in the development and support of
-      matplotlib. His group is now heavily involved in developing the science
+      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.
     </div>
@@ -108,7 +107,7 @@
     <div id="speaker"><div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Satrajit"
         src="/static/img/satrajit.jpg" height=155 width=200 /></div>
     <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Satrajit Ghosh</h3> 
-        Satrajit Ghosh is a research scientist at Research Laboratory of
+        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
@@ -134,9 +133,9 @@
     <div id="speakerphoto"><img alt="Asokan Pichai"
         src="/static/img/pasokan.jpg" height=119 width=200 /></div>
        <div id="speakerinfo"><h3>Asokan Pichai</h3>
-       Mr. Asokan Pichai is the consultant/Project manager for the Python
+       Mr. Asokan Pichai is the consultant/project manager for the Python
        group of the FOSSEE project. He is also the principal consultant at
-       Merquri consulting. He has immense experience in the field of training
+       TalentSprint. He has immense experience in the field of training
        and instructional design. He has been a director at CIBS and has been
        the CEO/CTO of various firms such as MinVesta Infotech Ltd., Arkin
        Systems and Future Focus Infotech.
@@ -145,4 +144,4 @@
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   </div>
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