Events for fall 2023
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • SFU / UBC Research Commons workshops • Other local bootcamps and workshops • In-person schools
Webinars
BC DRI + Prairies DRI bi-weekly Research Computing webinars take place every second Tuesday at 11am Pacific / noon Mountain / 1pm Central.
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Sep-19 | Launching 2023 Visualize This contest | Alex Razoumov (SFU) |
| Oct-03 | A map of current machine learning frameworks | Marie-Hélène Burle (SFU) |
| Oct-17 | Image-based approach to large-scale visualization | Alex Razoumov (SFU) |
| Oct-31 | Essentials of High-Performance Computing for new users: A practical example using hydrological models | Marcos Cunha-Cordeiro and Befekadu Woldegiorgis (Univ. of Manitoba) |
| Nov-14 | Emacs as a programming IDE for Python, R, and Julia | Marie-Hélène Burle (SFU) |
| Nov-28 | Text analysis in 3D | Alex Razoumov (SFU) |
| Dec-12 | Version control for data science and machine learning with DVC | Marie-Hélène Burle (SFU) |
Online courses
We offer weekly online sessions on advanced research computing. These sessions take place every Thursday from 10am to noon Pacific and are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses span 3 weeks, although some courses may be shorter or longer.
Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we want to encourage attendance and live interaction, and we are planning to repeat the most popular / introductory sessions throughout the year.
| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Bash command line | Sep-14, Sep-21 | Marie-Hélène Burle, Alex Razoumov |
| Scientific Python | Sep-28, Oct-05 | Alex Razoumov |
| Speeding up computations in R | Oct-12, Oct-26, Nov-02 |
Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Parallel computing in Chapel | Nov-09, Nov-16 | Alex Razoumov |
| Fast computing with JAX | Nov-30, Dec-07 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Introduction to Bash command line | Dec-14, Dec-21 | Marie-Hélène Burle, Alex Razoumov |
SFU / UBC Research Commons workshops
This fall the SFU workshops will be taught in-person, and the UBC workshops will be online via Zoom. To register, click on an event in the 3rd or 4th column. Students, staff and faculty are all welcome to attend.
| TOPIC | SPEAKER | 1st RUN |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Python (basic concepts and data structures) | Marie-Hélène Burle and Alex Razoumov | Friday, Sep-29 at SFU Research Commons |
| Introduction to scientific Python (numpy, pandas, xarrays) | Marie-Hélène Burle and Alex Razoumov | Friday, Oct-20 at SFU Research Commons |
| Python for simple data visualization | Marie-Hélène Burle and Alex Razoumov | Friday, Nov-17 at SFU Research Commons |
| Web scraping with Python | Marie-Hélène Burle and Alex Razoumov | Friday, Dec-01 at SFU Research Commons |
Local bootcamps and workshops
We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities.
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| Starts Sep-22 | Univ. of Alberta Fall Bootcamp | Online |
In-person schools
As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to training at westdri dot ca.