Friday is our open day. Were inviting a wider audience to come along to learn more about Python and Django, and to find out what you can do with them.
Whether youre a registered conference attendee or not, please do take advantage of our tutorials and demonstrations. They are all free and open to everyone whod like to learn more.
These sessions are aimed particularly at:
- school science pupils & teachers
- scientists, researchers & students
- software developers
- people in local government & business organisations
Talks
All open day talks will take place in the Wallace Lecture theatre, 0.13.
Python in science
Python is used throughout science.
These talks, all suitable for a general audience, highlight some of the ways in which Python is being used in scientific research at Cardiff University.
- ProtocolNavigator: Python for biological scientists
ProtocolNavigator is a tool to help cell biologists generate, document and exchange their experimental data in order to improve the reproducibility of their experiments.
- Supercomputing made easy
Thomas Green from ARCCA discusses the advanced research computing techniques that are being used across the sciences and even in the arts and humanities.
- A matter of life & death: studying hospital admission policies using game theory &Python
Whats the best way to manage scarce resources, such as hospital critical care units? Izabela Komenda explains why game theory can give us some better answers.
- Rise of the robotic telescope
Astronomers once had to sit on cold, isolated mountain tops to observe the cosmos. No longer – robots do it for us now, and Edward Gomez programs them!
- There’s a Python in my physics
Python finds useful applications throughout physics. Eva Gonzalez Contreras demonstrates how she uses Python in her research into sound and acoustics.
- Pythons & ladders
James Campbell started programming in September 2013 as a first-year undergraduate in Mathematics. In this talk hell demonstrate how to represent a board game mathematically, and analyse it computationally with Python.
- Baby you can drive my car (with a bit of Python)
Tharshan Muthulingam demonstrates his experiments with using Python to drive a radio-controlled car.