ComputeFest 2012
For a second year, IACS and partner organizations will offer skill- and knowledge-building activities for graduate and undergraduate students and the Harvard community during January
Thanks to all who attended ComputeFest 2012, and especially to our partners: SEAS Academic Computing, MathWorks and Wolfram Research.
Tuesday, January 10
Graduate student teams begin work on the IACS Computational Challenge, which will focus on an optimization problem in disaster relief.
Friday, January 13
- 9:15 am-noon: The Future of Computation in Science: a mini-symposium
- Challenge teams submit their problem approaches for critiques by distinguished members of the IACS Advisory Board.
Tuesday, January 17
- 9:30-11 a.m.: Computational Science Ventures: Dean Kamen
- 1:30-4:30 p.m.: Introduction to Matlab
Wednesday, January 18
- 9:30 a.m.-noon: Matlab for Data Acquisition, Instrument Control and Analysis
- 12:15-1:45 pm: Matlab BOF peer-help sessions
- 2-3:30 pm: Computational Science Ventures: Maria Lopez-Bresnahan
Thursday, January 19
- 9:30 a.m.-noon: Parallel Computing with Matlab
- 12:15-1:45 pm: Matlab BOF peer-help sessions
- 2-3:30 pm: Computational Science Ventures: Luke Burns
Friday, January 20
- 9:30 a.m.-noon: Mathematica Workshop
- 9:30 a.m.-noon: Workshops on R and Python
- 12:15-1:45 pm: Mathematica, R and Python BOF peer-help sessions
- 2-3:30 pm: Computational Science Ventures: Stephen Wolfram
- 3:45 pm Final presentations by Challenge teams
