[Neuroinfo] 14ᵗʰ Advanced Scientific Programming in Python in Bilbao Spain, 5–11 September, 2022

[Tiziano Zito]

ASPP2022: 14ᵗʰ Advanced Scientific Programming in Python
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a Summer School by the ASPP faculty and the Faculty of Engineering of the Mondragon University, Bilbao

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 devised to be
interactive and to give the students enough time to acquire direct hands-on
experience with the materials. Students will work in pairs throughout the school
and will team up to practice the newly learned skills in a real programming
project — 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. We show how clean language
design, ease of extensibility, and the great wealth of open source libraries for
scientific computing and data visualization are driving Python to become
a standard tool for the programming scientist.

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

We are striving hard to get a pool of students which is international and
gender-balanced.

Date & Location
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5–11 September, 2022. Bilbao, Spain.

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

Application deadline: 23:59 UTC, Sunday 1 May, 2022.

There will be no deadline extension, so be sure to apply on time. Be sure to
read the FAQ before applying: https://aspp.school/wiki/faq

Participation is for free, i.e. no fee is charged! Participants however
should take care of travel, living, and accommodation expenses by themselves. 
We are in the process of securing some funds for supporting students
with accommodation and living costs. 

Program
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• Version control with git and how to contribute to open source projects with GitHub
• Best practices in data visualization
• Testing and debugging scientific code
• Advanced NumPy
• Organizing, documenting, and distributing scientific code
• Advanced scientific Python: context managers and generators
• Writing parallel applications in Python
• Profiling and speeding up scientific code with Cython and numba
• Programming in teams

Faculty
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• Jakob Jordan, Department of Physiology, University of Bern Switzerland
• Jenni Rinker, Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde Denmark
• Lisa Schwetlick, Experimental and Biological Psychology, Universität Potsdam Germany
• Nicolas Rougier, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Bordeaux France
• Pamela Hathway, GfK, Nuremberg Germany
• Pietro Berkes, NAGRA Kudelski, Lausanne Switzerland
• Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany
• Tiziano Zito, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany
• Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Red Hat Inc., Warsaw Poland

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

• Tiziano Zito, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany

Organization team in Bilbao:

• Aitor Morales-Gregorio, Theoretical Neuroanatomy, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Carlos Cernuda, Data Analysis & Cybersecurity, Faculty of Engineering, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Bilbao Spain

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