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ASPP2024: 16b|u-# Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Summer School ======================================================================

https://aspp.school

Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have evolved, only few scientists have been trained to use them. As a result, instead of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this course we will present a selection of advanced programming techniques and best practices which are standard in the industry, but especially tailored to the needs of a programming scientist. Lectures are interactive and allow students to acquire direct hands-on experience with the topics. Students will work in pairs throughout the school and will team up to practice the newly learned skills in a real programming project rCo an entertaining computer game.

We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data analysis. Python is the standard tool for the programming scientist due to clean language design, ease of extensibility, and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific computing and data visualization.

This school is targeted at PhD students, postdocs and more senior researchers from all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language such as Java, JavaScript, C/C++, MATLAB, or R is absolutely required. Basic knowledge of Python and git or another version control system is assumed. Participants without any prior experience with Python or git should work through the proposed introductory material before the course.

We care for diversity and inclusion, and strive for a welcoming atmosphere to programming scientists of all levels. In particular, we have focused on recruiting an international and gender-balanced pool of students.

Date & Location
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25 August rCo 1 September, 2024. Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Application
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You can apply online: https://aspp.school

Application deadline: 23:59 UTC, Wednesday 1 May, 2024.
There will be no deadline extension, so be sure to apply on time. Invitations and notification of rejection will be sent by Sunday 26 May, 2024.

Participation is for free, i.e. no fee is charged! Participants however should take care of travel, living, and accommodation expenses by themselves.

Program
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rCo Large-scale collaborative scientific code development with git and GitHub rCo Best practices in data visualization
rCo Testing and debugging scientific code
rCo Advanced NumPy
rCo Organizing, documenting, and distributing scientific code
rCo Scientific programming patterns in Python
rCo Writing parallel applications in Python
rCo Profiling and speeding up scientific code
rCo Programming in teams

Faculty
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rCo Aitor Morales-Gregorio, Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6), Forschungszentrum J|+lich Germany
rCo Jenni Rinker, Department of Wind and Energy Systems, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby Denmark
rCo Lisa Schwetlick, Laboratory of Psychophysics, EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland rCo Pamela Hathway, YPOG, Berlin/N|+rnberg Germany
rCo Pietro Berkes, NAGRA Kudelski, Lausanne Switzerland
rCo Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universit|nt zu Berlin Germany
rCo Tiziano Zito, innoCampus, Technische Universit|nt Berlin Germany
rCo Verjinia Metodieva, NeuroCure, Charit|- rCo Universit|ntsmedizin Berlin Germany
rCo Zbigniew J-Odrzejewski-Szmek, Red Hat Inc., Warsaw Poland


Organizers
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Head of the organization for ASPP and responsible for the scientific program:

rCo Tiziano Zito, innoCampus, Technische Universit|nt Berlin Germany

Organization team in Heraklion:

rCo Sara Moberg, Department of Biology, Humboldt-Universit|nt zu Berlin Germany rCo Athanasia Papoutsi, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology rCo Hellas, Heraklion Greece
rCo Maria Diamantaki, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology rCo Hellas, Heraklion Greece
rCo Zampeta Kalogeropoulou, Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd., Heraklion Greece

Sponsors
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We are able to hold this year's ASPP school thanks to the financial support of the T|+bingen AI Center. The Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology rCo Hellas is hosting us in Heraklion and is taking care of the local organization.

Website: https://aspp.school
Contact: info@aspp.school

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