Events for fall 2025
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • Other local bootcamps and workshops • In-person schools
Webinars
The 2025 Fall Webinars, hosted by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG), take place every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria, Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary), and noon Central (Winnipeg). Webinar registration opens in early September.
For upcoming webinars, click the linked titles to view details or register. For past sessions, click the titles to access recordings and slides.
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Sep-16 | Introduction to the Fir cluster | Alex Razoumov |
| Oct-07 | AI pair programming & LLMs chats in Emacs | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Oct-14 | Globus-cli for file transfer | Alex Razoumov |
| Oct-28 | The next generation of Python notebooks | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Nov-18 | Creating interactive online visualizations with Trame | Alex Razoumov |
| Nov-25 | Deep learning experiment tracking with MLflow | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Dec-09 | Command-line OpenStack | Alex Razoumov |
Online courses
SFU Research Computing hosts weekly online sessions on advanced research computing every Thursday from 10:00am to noon Pacific Time. These sessions are open to all academic researchers in Canada. Most courses span two weeks, though some may be shorter or longer. Sessions are not recorded to encourage live participation and interaction. Popular and introductory sessions are repeated throughout the year.
| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to the Unix shell | Sep-11, Sep-18 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Introduction to HPC | Sep-25, Oct-02, Oct-09 | Alex Razoumov |
| Introduction to Python | Oct-16 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Scientific visualization | Oct-23 | Alex Razoumov |
| Getting started with Git | Oct-30 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Working with Apptainer containers | Nov-06, Nov-13 | Alex Razoumov |
| HPC Python | Nov-20, Nov-27, Dec-04 | Alex Razoumov |
| Deep learning with the JAX AI stack | Dec-11, Dec-18 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
Upcoming bootcamps and workshops
Workshops from other Western Canadian universities will be added here as they are announced.
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| Starts Sep-19 | Univ. of Alberta Fall Research Computing Bootcamp | Online |
As always, we welcome suggestions for additional training topics and events. Please email your ideas to training at westdri dot ca.