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The Trieste Workshop, One Week Later

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Katy Huff and I are back from Trieste, Italy, where we were instructors in the Advanced School for Scientific Computer at the ICTP. This was a different sort of workshop in many ways. First of all, it was 2 weeks long and the students were from all over the globe. Countries represented include Russia, Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, Albania, Iran, Palestine, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, South Africa, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Argentina, Ecuador, and Colombia. The level of effort they showed was astounding: between our exercises and the project they brought from home, many students were in the computer labs until 11:00 at night.

Happy People

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Our workshop at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste has ended, and judging from the participants' smiles, it went well:

Thanks once again to Tommy Guy and Katy Huff for teaching, to Stefano Cozzini for inviting them, and to everyone who took part for all their hard work.

Inscight from Trieste

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

In the latest Inscight podcast, the inimitable Katy Huff talks to several of the participants in the bootcamp she and Tommy Guy are leading at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. It's great to hear so many people from all over the world learning so much.

Trieste, Italy Workshop - Week 1

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Last Sunday, Tommy Guy and Katy Huff flew to Trieste, a small city in northeastern Italy, to assist in teaching an Advanced School on Scientific Software Development at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

Stefano Cozzini, Graziano Giuliani, and Antun Balaz invited us to help them teach this two week workshop which is one in a series of workshops focused on high performance computing for scientific applications. The ICTP mission is to extend access to advanced scientific tools and education to scientists from developing countries. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-graduate scientists gathered in Italy from nations all over South America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Hello from Trieste!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Day 1 of the Trieste bootcamp was a success! Katy and I covered the Bash shell and git. It was encouraging to see students in the lab after dinner working on their shell exercises. In general, the students are very enthusiastic. Later we'll try to list their home countries. So far, I've met people from Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, Romania, Italy, Pakistan, Iran, India, and China. Their fields range from astronomy to nuclear physics to climate science.