Connectionists: 14ᵗʰ Advanced Scientific Programming in Python in Bilbao Spain, 5–11 September, 2022

[Jakob Jordan]

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