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

[Sarah Martell]

Dear colleagues,

We have additional financial support available for the SciCoder workshops beyond what has already been requested. If you would like to attend one of the workshops but would need support, please apply, and we will continue to process requests on a first-come-first-served basis as long as we have funds available.

Cheers,
Sarah Martell
for the ASA ECR Chapter

On 5/10/18 9:23 am, ASA Early Career Researcher Chapter wrote:
Dear ASA members,

Registrations are now 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/kYGlCL7rK8tAzEE0CBKxMB?domain=trybooking.com
  *   Melbourne, Nov 19 - Nov 23: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aFKLCMwvLQTgnEEpCk4V8K?domain=trybooking.com
  *   Sydney, Dec 3 - Dec 7: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qqveCNLwM9iAgvvYCjdsqS?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/9NQSCOMxNytJBqqDFrjCkV?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<mailto: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/9vSdCP7yOZtOLyyBi6oGur?domain=asa-ecr.org
asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com<mailto:asa.ecr.chapter at gmail.com>



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Sarah Martell
Senior Lecturer
School of Physics, UNSW Sydney
s.martell at unsw.edu.au<mailto:s.martell at unsw.edu.au> / +61 2 9385 6547
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