Two nationally known scientists will lead a free workshop on using Python programming to make research more organized and efficient.
Gaurav Vaidya and David Yakobovitch will lead the Software Carpentry-focused workshop June 2-3 in ISELF Room 110 at St. Cloud State.
- Register through June 1
Vaidya holds a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a post-doctoral associate at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
A data scientist, Yakobovitch is an artificial intelligence fellow at Fusemachines, a New York City start-up that puts artificial intelligence in everyone’s hands through education, software and services.
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The hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming.
Since 1998, Software Carpentry has been teaching researchers the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain.
Among its nearly 60 funding partners are Stanford University, Cambridge University and the Smithsonian Institution. Software Carpentry lesson materials are freely reusable under the Creative Commons – Attribution license.
Supporting the instructors will by these St. Cloud State faculty members: John Liu, associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Plamen Miltenoff, professor, Learning Resource Services.
The workshop is open to campus, community and Minnesota State system researchers.
There is no fee for the workshop. Coffee will be provided during breaks. On-campus parking will be available.
Meals, transportation and lodging are not provided.
