MITACS on The Carpentries

Tutorials Start This Week

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

After a lot of hard work from Dominique and Jon, we're kicking off warmup tutorials for Software Carpentry this week. 65 students from Psychology, Linguistics, Chemical Engineering, and a couple of other departments will get three weeks of review on basic programming, then start the regular material in January. Our thanks to MITACS, the MathWorks, SciNet, and DCS for their support.

Job Opening: MITACS Scientific Coordinator

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

MITACS (which provided funding for this summer's offering of the course, and which funds a lot of other mathematically-oriented work in Canada) has an opening for a scientific coordinator. Details are in the job posting; specific responsibilities include:

Promote MITACS programs within the scientific community and provide a point of contact for feedback and questions
Ensure quality, fairness and timeliness of scientific peer-review processes
Program management tasks such as:
- Establish program strategy and action plans for new MITACS programs
- Develop and monitor program budgets
- Coordinate with other MITACS staff on program implementation and ongoing monitoring of program effectiveness
- Work closely with the Communications and Government Relations Department on program promotion and feedback
- Provide regular status updates, reports and program evaluation
Other duties as assigned from time to time

If you'd like to help shape the development of mathematics and science in Canada, this might be the job for you...

Software Carpentry in Toronto July 13-31 2009

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Thanks to a grant from MITACS, the University of Toronto will offer the Software Carpentry course as a condensed three-week bootcamp this summer from July 13-31, 2009. This course is an accelerated introduction to software development aimed at graduate students in science and engineering; its goal is to give them the tools and skills they need to use computers more effectively in their research. 16 spaces are available to students registered in full-time graduate programs in Canada; the fee for the course is $500, but grants of up to $1500 for students from outside the Greater Toronto Area are available to help offset travel and accommodation costs. If you wish to attend the course, or would like more information on content, schedule, prerequisites, eligibility, or other details, please contact Greg Wilson by email at {{site.contact}}. Please also subscribe to the new Software Carpentry blog at http://software-carpentry.org/blog/ for updates.