ComputeFest Program

Workshops
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GUIDE TO EVENTS
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JANUARY @ COMPUTEFEST
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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WORKSHOP WEEK
AWS
R
R ggplot 2
PYTHON
DL 1
MATLAB
DL 2
MATLAB
AWS
VOWPAL
MATLAB
PYTHON
PYTHON
GPU
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PERF/OPT
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GPU
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STUDENT CHALLENGE
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IACS
SYMPOSIUM:
Privacy in a
Networked
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2015 COMPUTEFEST SPONSORS
microsoft.com
mathworks.com
continuum.io
nvidia.com
citadel.com
libertymutual.com
WORKSHOPS
All workshops will take place in the basement
classrooms (downstairs from cafe) of the
Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street
9:00 AM
Onsite Registration
Amazon Web Services
Monday 12
Complimentary continental breakfast 9:30 AM
Scientific and Research Computing on (9:30 am – 12:00 pm)
Angel Pizarro
AWS Solutions Architect, Amazon AWS
Introduction to R
(9:30 am – 12:30 pm)
Ista Zahn,Training & Programming Consultant Institute for Quantitative Social Science
12:00/12:30
Open time – no programming scheduled
(12:00/12:30 – 1:30 pm)
1:30 PM
Scientific and Research Computing on Amazon Web Services (hands-on)
(1:30 – 2:30 pm)
Angel Pizarro
AWS Solutions Architect, Amazon AWS
Vowpal Wabbit
(1:30 – 4:30 pm)
John Langford
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Afternoon coffee
sponsored by Microsoft
Tuesday 13
9:00 AM
Onsite Registration
12:30 PM
Open time – no programming scheduled
Complimentary continental breakfast 9:30 AM
R graphics with ggplot 2
(9:30 am – 12:30 pm)
Ista Zahn,Training & Programming Consultant Institute for Quantitative Social Science
10:00 AM
Introduction to Programming in Python
(10:00 am – 12:30 pm)
Kumar Keshavamurthy, Computational Scientist
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
(12:00/12:30 – 1:30 pm)
1:00 PM
Introduction to MATLAB:
Problem Solving and Programming
(1:00 – 5:00 pm)
Matt Tearle
Training Engineer, MathWorks
Afternoon coffee
sponsored by MathWorks
WORKSHOPS
9:00 AM
Wednesday 14
Onsite Registration
Complimentary continental breakfast sponsored by MathWorks 9:30 AM
Deep Learning with Theano and Pylearn2 – Part 1
(9:30 – 11:30 am)
Verena Kaynig & Ray Jones
Lecturers, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Data Analytics and Machine
(9:30 – 11:30 am)
Adam Filion
Application Engineer, MathWorks
11:30 AM
Learning with MATLAB
Open time – no programming scheduled
(11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
1:30 PM
Scientific Programming in Python
(1:30 – 4:30 pm)
Afternoon coffee
sponsored by
Continuum Analytics
Ian Stokes-Rees
Computational Scientist, Continuum Analytics
9:00 AM
Onsite Registration
Thursday 15
Complimentary continental breakfast sponsored by MathWorks
9:30 AM
Deep Learning with Theano and Pylearn2 – Part
(9:30 – 11:30 am)
Verena Kaynig & Ray Jones
Lecturers, Institute for Applied Computational Science
Tackling Big Data with MATLAB
(9:30 – 11:30 am)
Adam Filion
Application Engineer, MathWorks
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11:30 AM
Open time – no programming scheduled
(11:30 am – 1:30 pm)
1:30 PM
Advanced Python
(1:30 – 4:30 pm)
Ian Stokes-Rees
Computational Scientist, Continuum Analytics
Introduction
to GPU Computing
& Use of Libraries
(1:30 – 5:00 pm)
Jonathan Bentz
Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
Afternoon coffee
sponsored by Continuum
Analytics and NVIDIA
WORKSHOPS
Friday 16
9:00 AM
Onsite Registration
12:00/12:30
Open time – no programming schedule
Complimentary continental breakfast sponsored by NVIDIA 9:30 AM
Performance and Optimizations
(9:30 am – 12:30 pm)
Jonathan Bentz
Solutions Architect, NVIDIA
Mathematica and the Wolfram Language
(9:30 am – 12:00 pm)
Etienne Bernard
Developer, Advanced Research Group, Wolfram Research
(12:00/12:30 – 1:30 pm)
1:30 PM
Deep Machine Learning Frameworks with GPUs
(1:30 – 5:00 pm)
Afternoon coffee
Jonathan Bentz
sponsored by NVIDIA
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Microsoft Research
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Pew Research Center
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Registration required: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/symposium
CONTACT: [email protected]
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