Archive for December, 2009

20 Dec

The SciPy 2009 proceedings are online

We are finally announcing the online edition of SciPy proceedings:
http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2009/
This year, we tried to raise the bar in terms of article quality. This involved having a more strict review process, and we must thank a lot all the reviewers. I have the feeling it did improve the quality of the final papers. Actually, I must [...]

14 Dec

Announcing EuroScipy 2010

The 3rd European meeting on Python in Science
Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, July 8-11 2010
We are happy to announce the 3rd EuroScipy meeting, in Paris, July 2010.
The EuroSciPy meeting is a cross-disciplinary gathering focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research. This event strives to bring together both users and developers [...]

08 Dec

General relativity, quantum physics, freely-falling planes and Bayesian statistics

We’re famous: the work that concluded my PhD is now picked up by the press http://www.physorg.com/news179481148.html
I hadn’t realized before reading this journalist’s version of the story, but we have all the proper buzz words:

general relativity
quantum physics
freely-falling planes
Bayesian statistics.

This kind of stuff makes great headlines, but the way we are judged on this “success” is [...]