Talks
Some talks and presentations, in reverse chronological order:
Python: a view from the floating-point side March 2001, a talk presented at the Sage Days 29 workshop, on the use of
python for numerical work, with some historical personal background.
William Stein recorded the talk and posted it online, as well as posting
some pictures from the last day (for those who have asked, the anecdote
about how I unplugged Colombia from the internet when I was a physics
undergrad is from 0:11:20 to 0:14:12):
VIDEO
Reproducible software vs. reproducible research February 2011, a talk presented at the panel titled The Digitization of
Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer , during
the 2011 annual meeting of the AAAS. An extended abstract is available
that spells out some of the ideas I presented in the talk; I hope to
complete this writeup into something a little more formal soon.
IPython: beyond the simple shell December 2010, invited talk at the SciPy India 2010 conference. A longer
overview of the IPython project, from its start to the recent developments.
IPython: a quick overview October 2010, short summary of the state of the IPython project.
Python: performance and parallelism November 2010, guest lecture delivered for UC Berkeley’s CSE: Science
Research Computing with Python (CCN 06180) graduate course.
The state of IPython August 2009, a short update on the project, delivered as a lightning talk
at the SciPy‘09 conference .
Data Arrays: Name that axis! August 2009, a short talk about an idea I am working on, to add named axis
support to NumPy nd-arrays (another SciPy‘09 lightning talk). The code for
this project is available on github .
Python and parallel computing: an overview April 2009, delivered at the UC Berkeley ParLab .
Python & Scientific Computing: Leading the charge for open source, high-level tools November 2008, presented at the Bay Area Python Interest Group meeting held
at Google’s Mountain View campus.
An overview of Python’s role in scientific computing today July 2008, presented at the annual SIAM meeting in San Diego (see my blog
for details on our minisymposium there).
Some reflections on modern algorithms research October 2007, NSF headquarters, CDI program launch meeting, Washington DC.
Python for scientific computing, an introductory overview August 2007, NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Boulder, CO.
Physics, mathematics and computers (Better algorithms + better tools: better science) May 2007, University of California, Berkeley.
Physics, algorithms and computers (A short tour of a few things I’ve done) April 2007, TL, Chicago.
Adaptive application of Green’s functions (Fast algorithms for integral transforms) April 2007, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
IPython: getting the most out of working interactively in Python February 2007, PyCon‘07, Addison, Texas (talk presented by my colleague and
friend Brian Granger).
Multiwavelets, gaussians and Green’s functions: a new kind of fast algorithms for PDEs September 2006, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
Python for scientific algorithm development August 2006, SciPy‘06, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
Multiwavelets, Gaussians and Green’s functions April 2006, SANUM‘06, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Interactive scientific computing environments February 2006, Sage Days, University of California, San Diego.
Python in scientific computing (an illustration with multiwavelets for PDEs) November 2004, Colorado School of Mines, Golden.
Green’s functions in many dimensions and multiwavelets (Python for a new class of fast algorithms) September 2004, SciPy‘04, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
Interactive work in Python (IPython’s present and future) September 2004, SciPy‘04, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
IPython: an enhanced interactive Python September 2003, SciPy‘03, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
Instanton correlations in the finite temperature QCD vacuum November 2002, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Speeding up Python with C/C++ April 2002, Front Range Python Users Group, Boulder, CO.
Particles, fields and computers: the building blocks of nature and their numerical study December 2000, Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
Instanton molecules in finite temperature QCD? April 2000, University of Colorado, Boulder.
A semi-classical approach for Lyapunov exponents of a quantum mechanical system June 1998, University of Colorado, Boulder.
