[ASA] registrations now open for ANITA2017 + astroinformatics school

[Daniel Price]

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ANITA2017 and Astroinformatics school

*** registrations now open ***

https://asa-anita.github.io/workshop2017/

The 11th Australian National Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (ANITA) annual theory workshop and astroinformatics school will be held 6th-10th February 2017 at University of Tasmania, Hobart

The ANITA workshop will run Thu-Fri 9th-10th Feb, covering all aspects of theoretical and computational astrophysics

The Astroinformatics summer school will be held Mon-Wed 6th-8th Feb, covering:

	• A whole day of Python! Including introduction, numpy, scipy, plotting and interactive python notebooks
	• Introduction to sql databases and mysql
	• Usage of git, github and source control
	• Introduction to cloud computing, deep learning, high performance computing using MPI and GPUs
	• Visualisation techniques

Registration is free*

Contact: Stanislav.Shabala at utas.edu.au

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*a $250 registration fee is requested from non-students wishing to attend the school to help cover costs