Talks
Some talks and presentations, in reverse chronological order:
- The state of IPython
- August 2009, a short update on the project, delivered as a lightning talk
at the SciPy‘09 conference.
- Data Arrays: Name that axis!
- August 2009, a short talk about an idea I am working on, to add named axis
support to NumPy nd-arrays (another SciPy‘09 lightning talk). The code for
this project is available on github.
- Python and parallel computing: an overview
- April 2009, delivered at the UC Berkeley ParLab.
- Python & Scientific Computing: Leading the charge for open source, high-level tools
- November 2008, presented at the Bay Area Python Interest Group meeting held
at Google’s Mountain View campus.
- An overview of Python’s role in scientific computing today
- July 2008, presented at the annual SIAM meeting in San Diego (see my blog
for details on our minisymposium there).
- Some reflections on modern algorithms research
- October 2007, NSF headquarters, CDI program launch meeting, Washington DC.
- Python for scientific computing, an introductory overview
- August 2007, NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Boulder, CO.
- Physics, mathematics and computers (Better algorithms + better tools: better science)
- May 2007, University of California, Berkeley.
- Physics, algorithms and computers (A short tour of a few things I’ve done)
- April 2007, TL, Chicago.
- Adaptive application of Green’s functions (Fast algorithms for integral transforms)
- April 2007, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
- IPython: getting the most out of working interactively in Python
- February 2007, PyCon‘07, Addison, Texas (talk presented by my colleague and
friend Brian Granger).
- Multiwavelets, gaussians and Green’s functions: a new kind of fast algorithms for PDEs
- September 2006, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
- Python for scientific algorithm development
- August 2006, SciPy‘06, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- Multiwavelets, Gaussians and Green’s functions
- April 2006, SANUM‘06, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- Interactive scientific computing environments
- February 2006, Sage Days, University of California, San Diego.
- Python in scientific computing (an illustration with multiwavelets for PDEs)
- November 2004, Colorado School of Mines, Golden.
- Green’s functions in many dimensions and multiwavelets (Python for a new class of fast algorithms)
- September 2004, SciPy‘04, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- Interactive work in Python (IPython’s present and future)
- September 2004, SciPy‘04, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- IPython: an enhanced interactive Python
- September 2003, SciPy‘03, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
- Instanton correlations in the finite temperature QCD vacuum
- November 2002, University of Colorado, Boulder.
- Speeding up Python with C/C++
- April 2002, Front Range Python Users Group, Boulder, CO.
- Particles, fields and computers: the building blocks of nature and their numerical study
- December 2000, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
- Instanton molecules in finite temperature QCD?
- April 2000, University of Colorado, Boulder.
- A semi-classical approach for Lyapunov exponents of a quantum mechanical system
- June 1998, University of Colorado, Boulder.