Connectionists: 1ˢᵗ Advanced Scientific Programming in Python - Latin America in Mexico City, Mexico, 26 June – 1 July, 2023

[Jakob Jordan]

ASPP-LatAm: 1st Advanced Scientific Programming in Python - Latin America
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a Summer School by the ASPP faculty, the National Autonomous University 
of Mexico
and the Secretarı́a de Educación, Ciencia, Tecnologı́a e Innovación de 
la Ciudad de
México.

https://latam.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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26 June – 1 July, 2023. Mexico City, Mexico.

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

Application deadline: 23:59 UTC, Sunday March 12, 2023.

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

Tentative Faculty
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• Aitor Morales-Gregorio, Theoretical Neuroanatomy, Institute of 
Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
• Carlos Cernuda, Data Analysis & Cybersecurity, Faculty of Engineering, 
Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain.
• 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.
• Pamela Hathway, GfK, Nuremberg, Germany.
• Pietro Berkes, NAGRA Kudelski, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Rike-Benjamin Schuppner, Institute for Theoretical Biology, 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany.
• Seetha Krishnan,  Department of Neurobiology and Institute for 
Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
• Tiziano Zito, Department of Informatics, Technische Universität 
Berlin, Germany.
• Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Red Hat Inc., Warsaw Poland.

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

• Carlos Echeverria Serur, Department of Psychology, 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Organization team in Mexico:

• Cristina Muzquiz Fragoso, DGTIC, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
• Miguel Angel Villanueva Velez, DGTIC, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de 
Mexico
• Patricia Garces Natera, DGTIC, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

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