[ASA] Reminder: registrations open for "SciCoder: The Australian Tour presented by ASTRO 3D"

[Sarah Martell]

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder to please register for the upcoming SciCoder 
workshops in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.

Registrations are open for "SciCoder: The Australian Tour presented by 
ASTRO 3D" for the 3 different workshop locations across Australia. The 
registration fee will be $330 and the attendance is capped at 40 at each 
location. We encourage you to sign up early; depending on the 
attendance, we may open up registrations to the broader Australian 
research community. You can register via the following links:

  * Perth, Oct 29 - Nov 2: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vEGoCvl0PoCGJnvJfQYIPl?domain=trybooking.com
  * Melbourne, Nov 19 - Nov 23: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Gug8CwVLQmi75Eo5tqEt2f?domain=trybooking.com
  * Sydney, Dec 3 - Dec 7: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/iaGtCxnMRvtyp5ZpHY8kBN?domain=trybooking.com


The SciCoder workshop is created and presented by Dr. Demitri Muna who 
has been offering this training since 2010. SciCoder is targeted to 
those who have not had much (or any) formal training in writing software 
but learned it piecemeal in the context of their research. The workshop 
is appropriate for early career researchers (grad students, postdocs) as 
well as anyone who would like focussed training on software development. 
Those who write basic scripts in languages like IDL or Python and would 
like to transition to writing object-oriented code and reusable 
libraries will particularly benefit. Topics covered include (also see 
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/MD4fCyoNVrcgGPYGSRLe9R?domain=scicoder.org

  * Modern programming practices
  * Version control with git and github
  * Unit tests to ensure software continues to work as expected
  * Tools to improve software development environment (command-line,
    regular expressions etc)
  * Database design, the SQL query language, and interacting with
    databases from python
  * Advanced topics include multi-processing, the R language, and a
    special section on Astropy

The SciCoder workshops have been enabled by ASTRO 3D and ADACS, along 
with UniMelb, UNSW, ICRAR, USyd and the Hunstead Gift for Astrophysics, 
OzGrav, CASS, and the ASA. We have limited funds available to support 
suitable attendees. Please email us (asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com) with a 
short description (300 words or less) of how the workshop will be 
particularly beneficial to you, and a justification for the financial 
support request. We will try our best to accommodate as many requests as 
possible to maximize attendance broadly.

*Relevant Deadlines:**
*
1. Registrations stay open till first workshop day (capped at 40 attendees)
2. Review of financial requests start on Monday, Oct 15.

Please feel free to reach out the ASA Early Career Researcher Chapter 
Steering Committee if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Manodeep Sinha,
Chair, ASA ECR Chapter Steering Committee
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/D1fOCzvOWKi3XYKXSosSP3?domain=asa-ecr.org
asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com

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