[yt-users] ANN: SciPy 2014 Conference, July 6th - 12th, Austin, TX!

[Matthew Turk]

Hello All!

I am pleased to announce that SciPy 2014, the thirteenth annual
Scientific Computing with Python conference, will be held this July
6th-12th in Austin, Texas. SciPy is a community dedicated to the
advancement of scientific computing through open source Python
software for mathematics, science, and engineering. The annual SciPy
Conference allows participants from all types of organizations to
showcase their latest projects, learn from skilled users and
developers, and collaborate on code development.

For more information please visit our website:
https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2014/

This year the conference has been extended to include an additional
day of presentations. During the presentation days SciPy is proud to
host the following event and talk types:

Keynotes
Expert Panels
Short Talks
Poster Presentations
Birds of a Feather Sessions

The full program will consist of two days of tutorials by followed by
three days of presentations, and concludes with two days of developer
sprints on projects of interest to attendees. This year, we are
excited to present a job fair for the first time!

Specialized Tracks

This year we are happy to announce two specialized tracks that run in
parallel to the general conference:

Scientific Computing in Education

Thanks to efforts such as Software Carpentry, the Hacker Within and
grassroots Python Bootcamps, teaching scientific computing as a
discipline is becoming more widely accepted and recognized as a
crucial task in developing scientific literacy. This special track
will focus on efforts to promote and develop scientific computing
education, as well as related topics such as reproducibility and best
practices for scientific computing.

Geospatial Data in Science

Python has become a core component of organiziing, understanding, and
visualizing geospatial data. This track will focus on libraries, tools
and techniques for processing Geospatial data of all types and for all
purposes -- from low-volume to high-volume, local and global.

Domain-specific Mini-symposia

Introduced in 2012, mini-symposia are held to discuss scientific
computing applied to a specific scientific domain/industry during a
half afternoon after the general conference. Their goal is to promote
industry specific libraries and tools, and gather people with similar
interests for discussions.

Mini-symposia on the following topics will take place this year:

Astronomy and astrophysics
Bioinformatics
Geophysics
Vision, Visualization, and Imaging
Computational Social Science and Digital Humanities
Engineering

Tutorials

Multiple interactive half-day tutorials will be taught by community
experts. The tutorials provide conceptual and practical coverage of
tools that have broad interest at both an introductory or advanced
level. This year, a third track will be added, which target
specifically programmers with no prior knowledge of scientific python.

Developer Sprints

A hackathon environment is setup for attendees to work on the core
SciPy packages or their own personal projects. Theconference is an
opportunity for developers that are usually physically separated to
come together and engage in highly productive sessions. It is also an
occasion for new community members to introduce themselves and receive
tips from community experts. This year, some of the sprints will be
scheduled and announced ahead of the conference.

Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Sessions

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are self-organized discussions that run
parallel to the main conference. The BOFs sessions cover primary,
tangential, or unrelated topics in an interactive, discussion setting.
This year, some of the BOF sessions will be scheduled and announced
ahead of the conference.

Important Dates

March 14th: Presentation abstracts, poster, tutorial submission
deadline. Application for sponsorship deadline.
April 17th: Speakers selected
April 22nd: Sponsorship acceptance deadline
May 1st: Speaker schedule announced
May 6th, or 150 registrants: Early-bird registration ends
July 6-12th: 2 days of tutorials, 3 days of conference, 2 days of sprints

We look forward to a very exciting conference and hope to see you all
in Austin this summer!

The SciPy2014 Organizers