| Tuesday, July 9 | |||
 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Enthought Welcome to SciPy Reception Enthought Offices, 200 West Cesar Chavez, Suite 202 | ||
| Wednesday, July 10 | |||
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 8:15 am - 9:00 am | Welcome to SciPy Breakfast [More Info] Tejas Room | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome Remarks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Keynote: The Invisible Work of Maintaining and Sustaining Open-Source Software [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Stuart Geiger, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Institute for Data Science | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | General | Science Communication through Visualization | Image Processing |
| Git “Hooked” on Images in your Version Control and Up your Documentation Game [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Veronica Hanus | Visualization of Bioinformatics Data with Dash Bio [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Shammamah Hossain, Plotly | Optimizing Python-based Spectroscopic Data Processing on NERSC Supercomputers [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Stephen Bailey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Speaker: Laurie Stephey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Speaker: Rollin Thomas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 10:55 am - 11:25 am | General | Science Communication through Visualization | Image Processing |
| Test Research Code the Easy Way: by Generating Random Inputs with Hypothesis [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Australian National University | Dashboarding with Jupyter Notebooks, Voila and Widgets [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Maarten Breddels Speaker: Martin Renou, QuantStack | starfish: Standardizing Pipelines for Image-based Transcriptomics [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Shannon Axelrod, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | General | Science Communication through Visualization | Image Processing |
| A Geographers Journey into AI: Mapping Urban Trees from Scratch [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Stefanie Lumnitz, The University of British Columbia Speaker: Mahdi Shooshtari, The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium Speaker: Verena Griess, The University of British Columbia | To a Billion and Beyond: How to Visually Explore, Compare and Share Large Quantitative Datasets. [More Info] Room 204 Nezar Abdennur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speaker: Peter Kerpedjiev, Zymergen, Inc. Speaker: Fritz Lekschas, Harvard University | imglyb - Bridging The Chasm Between ImageJ and NumPy [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Philipp Hanslovsky, HHMI Janelia Research Campus |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Break See the Restaurant Tab for Suggestions | ||
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | SciPy Tools Plenary Session [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Data Driven Discoveries | General |
| Data Analysis Tools for the James Webb Space Telescope: a Confluence of Academia, NASA, and Open Source [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Erik Tollerud, Space Telescope Science Institute/Astropy | Zarr - Scalable Storage of Tensor Data for Use in Parallel and Distributed Computing [More Info] Room 204 Alistair Miles, University of Oxford | freud: A Software Suite for High-Throughput Analysis of Nanoscale Simulation Data [More Info] Room 203 Vyas Ramasubramani, University of Michigan Bradley Dice, University of Michigan |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Data Driven Discoveries | General |
| ML.NET in Python with NimbusML [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Markus Weimer, Microsoft Matteo Interlandi, Microsoft Shauheen Zahirazami, Microsoft Gleb Krivosheev, Microsoft | Vaex: Out of Core Dataframes for Python [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Maarten Breddels | Using Nix for Repeatable Python Environments [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Daniel Wheeler, NIST |
| 3:10 pm - 3:25 pm | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 3:25 pm - 3:55 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | General |
| Fast Gradient Boosting Decision Trees with PyGBM and Numba [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Nicolas Hug, Columbia University | Inside NumPy: Preparing for the Next Decade [More Info] Room 204 Ralf Gommers, Quansight Stefan van der Walt, University of California, Berkeley Tyler Reddy, University of California, Berkeley Matti Picus, University of California, Berkely | Optuna: A Define-by-Run Hyperparameter Optimization Framework [More Info] Room 203 Takuya Akiba, Preferred Networks, Inc. Shotaro Sano, Preferred Networks, Inc. Toshihiko Yanase, Preferred Networks, Inc. Takeru Ohta, Preferred Networks, Inc. Masanori Koyama, Preferred Networks, Inc. |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | General |
| Safe Handling Instructions for Probabilistic Classification [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Gordon Chen, Oracle | Inclusive Leadership: Engaging Contributors in the Long-term [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Tania Allard, Microsoft | To Comment or Not to Comment? A Data-drive Look at Conflicting Attitudes towards Commenting [More Info] Room 203 Veronica Hanus Patricia Hanus |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Lightning Talks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Poster Session and Job Fair Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Annual Reception Scholz's Beer Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd (walking distance from AT&T Center) | ||
| Thursday, July 11 | |||
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome Remarks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Keynote: The New Era in NLP [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Rachel Thomas, fast.ai | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Data Driven Discoveries | Image Processing | |
| Generational Changes in Support for Gun Laws: A Case Study in Computational Statistics [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Allen Downey, Olin College | Processing Extremely Large Images: Theory and Practice [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Matthew McCormick, Kitware, Inc. Deepak Chittajallu, Kitware, Inc Christian Mühlfeld, Hannover Medical School Roman Grothausmann, Hannover Medical School Will Schroeder, Kitware, Inc | Xgcm: Analyzing General Circulation Models in Python [More Info] Room 203 Ryan Abernathey , Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Julius Busecke, Princeton University |
| 10:55 am - 11:25 am | Data Driven Discoveries | Image Processing | |
| apricot: Submodular Selection for Data Summarization [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Jacob Schreiber, University of Washington | Real-world Numba: Creating a Skeleton Analysis Library [More Info] Room 204 Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Monash University | How to Track Plastic in the Ocean? The Parcels Lagrangian Ocean Framework [More Info] Room 203 Erik van Sebille, Utrecht University Speaker: Philippe Delandmeter, Utrecht University |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Image Processing | |
| Visual Diagnostics at Scale: More Informed Machine Learning with Large Datasets [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Rebecca Bilbro, scikit-yb | dask-image: A Library for Distributed Image Processing [More Info] Room 204 John Kirkham, NVIDIA | Python in Seismology at the National Earthquake Information Center: APIs and Applications [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Mike Hearne, USGS |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch Buffet Served in the M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Diversity Luncheon [More Info] Tejas Room Speaker: Abigail Cabunoc, Mozilla Foundation | ||
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm | BoF: Python Data Visualization, 2019 Zlotnik Ballroom | BoF: Mechanisms and Governance Issues for Funding Open Source Software in Science Room 204 | BoF: Pangeo: Scaling Science Analytics Using Python Room 203 |
| 1:00 pm -1:55 pm | BoF: How We Found Python [More Info] Room 101 | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | SciPy Tools Plenary Session [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | |
| pyjanitor: Clean APIs for Cleaning Data [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Eric Ma, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research | Supporting Open-source Software for Science [More Info] Room 204 Jeremy Freeman, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Nicholas Sofroniew , Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | PyDDA: A New Pythonic Package for Wind Retrievals [More Info] Room 203 Robert Jackson, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory Timothy Lang, NASA MSFC Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 3:10 pm - 3:40 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | |
| Better and Faster Hyper-parameter Optimization with Dask [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Scott Sievert, University of Wisconsin–Madison Matthew Rocklin, NVIDIA | Getting Lost in Community Building [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Matthew Turk, University of Illinois | Renewable Power Forecast Generation with Dask and Visualization with Bokeh [More Info] Room 203 Antonio Lorenzo, University of Arizona Leland Boeman, University of Arizona William Holmgren, University of Arizona |
| 3:40 pm - 3:55 pm | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 3:55 pm - 4:25 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | |
| Using a Stacking Model Ensemble Approach to Predict Rare Events [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Gene Ferruzza, Valassis Digital Susan Yuhou Xia | Experiences Building Local Communities of Open Source Practices Users through The Carpentries’ Membership Program [More Info] Room 204 Elizabeth Williams, The Carpentries Kari Jordan, The Carpentries | Efficient Atmospheric Analogue Selection with Xarray and Dask [More Info] Room 203 Tyler Wixtrom, Texas Tech University Brian Ancell, Texas Tech University |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | |
| Challenges in Detecting Physiological Changes Using Wearable Sensor Data [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Edward Preble, RTI International Kristin Gilchrist, RTI International Meghan Hegarty-Craver, RTI International Gregory Lewis, Indiana University Bloomington Maria Davila-Hernandez, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carole Robinette, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michelle Hernandez, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Inequality of Underrepresented Groups in Core Project Leadership [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Anthony Scopatz, Quansight, LLC | echopype: Enhancing the Interoperability and Scalability of Ocean Sonar Data Processing for Biological Information [More Info] Room 203 Wu-Jung Lee, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington Valentina Staneva, eScience Institute, University of Washington |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Lightning Talks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | BoF: Developing Female Leaders in Data Science and Enterprise Analytics Zlotnik Ballroom | BoF: PyOpenSci: Building an Open Community to Promote Python Software Best Practices, Review, Discovery and Curation Room 204 | BoF: Using GPUs in the SciPy Ecosystem Room 203 |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | BoF: beaks: Tackle Non-numeric, Complex, Unitized, and Heterogeneous Data Sets [More Info] Room 101 | ||
| 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Happy Hour Sponsored by Invitae Easy Tiger, 709 E 6th St | ||
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Pinballz Arcade [More Info] 8940 Research Blvd. Suite 100 | ||
| Friday, July 12 | |||
| 7:30 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Welcome Remarks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | Keynote: Jupyter: Always Open for Learning and Discovery [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Carol Willing | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 10:20 am - 10:50 am | Data Driven Discoveries | General | General |
| Raiders of the Pottery GAN: Using 3D Generative Adversarial Networks for Data Augmentation in Archaeological Studies [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Celia Cintas, IBM Manuel Lucena Myriam Fuentes Claudio Delrieux, Universidad Nacional del Sur | Refactoring the SciPy Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Computing [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Matthew Rocklin, NVIDIA | Scikit-TDA: Topological Tools for the Python Ecosystem [More Info] Room 203 Nathaniel Saul, Washington State University Speaker: Christopher Tralie, Duke University Speaker: Hendrik Jacob van Veen , Nubank |
| 10:55 am - 11:25 am | Data Driven Discoveries | General | General |
| Model Remodeling with Modern Deep Learning Frameworks [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Ethan Rosenthal , Rosenthal Data, LLC | CuPy: A NumPy-compatible Library for High Performance Computing with GPU [More Info] Room 204 Masayuki Takagi, Preferred Networks, Inc. | Multi-dimensional Linked Data Exploration with Glue [More Info] Room 203 Thomas Robitaille, Aperio Software Ltd. |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | General | General |
| Anatomy of Probabilistic Programming Languages [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Suriyadeepan Ramamoorthy , Saama Technologies | How to Accelerate an Existing Codebase with Numba [More Info] Room 204 Siu Kwan Lam , Anaconda Stanley Seibert, Anaconda | Composing and Decomposing Quantum Chemistry Software: Transitioning a Field From ASCII Text to Relational Data Documents and Schema [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: Lori Burns, Georgia Tech Chemistry Daniel Smith, Molecular Sciences Software Institute (MolSSI) |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch Break See the Restaurant Tab for Suggestions | ||
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm | BoF: Diversity Data at SciPy [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom | BoF:Conda-forge Packaging: What We Are Doing, What Can We Do Better, How to Better Engage Users to Become Maintainers Room 204 | How to Contribute to Open Source [More Info] Room 203 |
| 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm | Financial Machine Learning [More Info] Room 101 | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | SciPy Tools Plenary Session [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 2:35 pm - 3:05 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | ||
| Chainer: A Deep Learning Framework for Fast Research and Applications [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Seiya Tokui, Preferred Networks, Inc. Hiroyuki Vincent Yamazaki, Preferred Networks, Inc. | Turning HPC Systems into Interactive Data Analysis Platforms using Jupyter and Dask [More Info] Room 203 Anderson Banihirwe, National Center for Atmospheric Research Joseph Hamman, National Center for Atmospheric Research Kevin Paul, National Center for Atmospheric Research Speaker: Matthew Rocklin, NVIDIA Julia Kent, National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| 3:10 pm - 3:40 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | Science Communication through Visualization |
| Parameter Estimation Using the Python Package pymcmcstat [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Paul Miles, North Carolina State University Ralph Smith, North Carolina State University | Invisible Work, Incentives, and Burnout in Open Communities: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study [More Info] Room 204 Dorothy Howard, UC San Diego Department of Communication & The Design Lab Stuart Geiger, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Institute for Data Science Lilly Irani, UC San Diego Department of Communication & The Design Lab Alexandra Paxton, University of Connecticut Department of Psychological Sciences Chris Holdgraf, University of California, Berkeley Nelle Varoquaux, University of California, Berkeley | Panel: Turn any Notebook into a Deployable Dashboard [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: James A. Bednar, Solutions Architect, Anaconda, Inc. Speaker: Philipp Rudiger, Software Engineer, Anaconda, Inc. |
| 3:40 pm - 3:55 pm | Break Served in the Tejas Room, M1 Lobby and outside the Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 3:55 pm - 4:25 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | Neuro and Cognitive Science |
| Microscopium: Interactive Exploration of Large Imaging Datasets [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Speaker: Genevieve Buckley | Work Open, Lead Open (#WOLO) for Sustainability [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Mozilla Foundation | Fully Automated Behavioral Experiments on Cultural Transmission Through Crowdsourcing [More Info] Room 203 Jordon Suchow, Stevens Institute of Technology Thomas J.H. Morgan, Arizona State University Vishal H. Lall, University of California, Berkeley Alec P. Mitchell, Jazkarta, Inc. Matthew Wilkes, Jazkarta, Inc. David I. Glick, Jazkarta, Inc. Carlos de la Guardia, Jazkarta, Inc. Jesse M. Snyder, Jazkarta, Inc. Sally E. Kleinfeldt, Jazkarta, Inc. Jessica Hamrick, University of California, Berkeley M Pacer, Pacer Stephan C. Meylan, University of California, Berkeley Thomas L. Griffiths, University of California, Berkeley |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Data Driven Discoveries | Open Source Communities | Neuro and Cognitive Science |
| Skorch - A Union of Scikit-learn and PyTorch [More Info] Zlotnik Ballroom Thomas Fan, Columbia University | Astropy Beyond Astronomy: Infrastructure of an Open Source Ecosystem [More Info] Room 204 Speaker: Brigitta Sipőcz, DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington Speaker: Thomas Robitaille, Aperio Software Ltd. Speaker: Erik Tollerud , Space Telescope Science Institute/Astropy | Building and Replicating Models of Visual Search Behavior with Tensorflow, Nengo, and the Scientific Python Stack [More Info] Room 203 Speaker: David Nicholson, Emory University Astrid Prinz, Emory University |
| 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Lightning Talks Zlotnik Ballroom | ||
| 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm | BoF: SymPy Zlotnik Ballroom | BoF: Training and Skill Building in Open Source Scientific Software Room 204 | |
