Oct 24 – 26, 2018
160 5th Ave.
America/New_York timezone

Contribution List

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  1. Nick Carriero (FI SCC)
    10/24/18, 8:50 AM
  2. Jeff Oishi, Keaton Burns
    10/24/18, 9:00 AM

    Dedalus is an open-source library for solving partial differential equations using global spectral methods. These methods are well-suited to solving smooth PDEs, such as those describing fluid flows at low Mach-numbers, with very high accuracy. Dedalus is written in Python for ease-of-use and wraps C libraries such as FFTW and MPI for performance on large-scale HPC systems. The code has been...

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  3. Kathleen Chen
    10/24/18, 11:00 AM

    To enable the application of deep learning in biology, we developed Selene, a PyTorch-based library for fast and easy development, training, and application of deep learning model architectures to sequence-level (e.g. DNA, RNA) datasets. In this presentation, I will discuss how we designed Selene to support sequence-based deep learning across a broad range of biological questions and made the...

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  4. Nils Wentzell
    10/24/18, 11:15 AM

    Scientific algorithms for the solution of the correlated many-body problem and beyond are rapidly growing in complexity. This development shows also in their respective numerical implementations, leading to growing number of library dependencies, toolchain dependencies as well as inter-dependencies with other scientific applications. This often makes a proper setup on workstations, but in...

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  5. Wen Yan
    10/24/18, 11:30 AM

    Running FFTs, possibly with different sizes and types, from multiple threads is becoming necessary to improve both the program flexibility and execution efficiency, with an increasing number of CPU cores on a typical SMP machine. However, the native interface in FFTW and Intel MKL does not fully support this use scenario due to thread safety issues. To address this issue, SafeFFT is designed...

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  6. Doug Renfrew, Julia Koehler Leman, Vikram Mulligan
    10/24/18, 1:00 PM

    Rosetta is one of the largest software suites for macromolecular modeling with 3 million lines of code and many state-of-the-art protocols. It is developed by the RosettaCommons, a community of developers from 60 laboratories worldwide. Since the mid 1990’s, Rosetta has been primarily developed in an academic environment by scientists with backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physiology,...

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  7. Aaron Watters
    10/24/18, 3:00 PM

    This talk will discuss Jupyter widgets

    • What is Jupyter and how do widgets fit into Jupyter?
    • Some examples of different kinds of widgets.
    • Example user stories for using widgets.
    • Simple examples of creating and composing widgets.
    • How to create interactive diagrams with widgets.
    • How to encapsulate external Javascript Libraries in widgets.
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  8. Olivier Parcollet (CCQ)
    10/25/18, 9:00 AM

    After a general introduction to the challenges of the quantum many-body problem, and to some directions of research developed at CCQ, I will present the TRIQS project. On the technical side, I will discuss several general topics, including Python/C++ communication, hdf5, modern C++ and the associated tools to increase code quality.

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  9. Rodrigo Luger
    10/25/18, 11:15 AM

    I will discuss the ongoing development of the open-source STARRY code for computation of fast light curves for stellar and exoplanet science. I will focus mainly on computational aspects, including (1) obtaining model derivatives via autodifferentiation for use in gradient-based inference schemes such as Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, (2) developing simultaneous C++, Julia, and Python interfaces to...

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  10. Andrea Giovannucci, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis
    10/25/18, 11:30 AM

    CaImAn is an open-source software framework for the analysis of brain imaging data. We will share our experience interacting with the CaImAn user-base, mostly composed of neuroscience researchers. Properly managing the interaction with users is essential to the success of scientific software, because of the received feedback, the potential contributions to the code-base, and the community...

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  11. James Jun
    10/25/18, 11:45 AM

    Software engineering focus:

    Robust performance under physical drift over time
    Validation using simulated and biophysical ground-truth datasets
    Realtime performance up to 1000 channels using parallel computing hardware (GPU, CPU)

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  12. Adrian Price-Whelan, Kelle Cruz
    10/25/18, 2:00 PM

    The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop an interoperable ecosystem of open-source tools to enable astronomical research and education from the Python programming language. At its core is the Astropy package, a Python package that provides much of the base functionality needed by researchers and developers of more specialized packages. The Astropy project and package have now...

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  13. Giuseppe Carleo
    10/25/18, 4:15 PM

    I will discuss the open-source project NetKet (https://www.netket.org/), and the challenges in designing a software flexible enough for research purposes while keeping the pace of large-scale machine learning software developed by industry. I will also discuss the strategies that we have put in place to stimulate external collaborations to the project.

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  14. Dylan Simon, Shy Genel
    10/25/18, 4:30 PM

    As envisioned by the galaxy formation group, our goal is to provide tools to discover, share, and access cosmological and other astrophysical simulations through web-based platforms, enabling efficient analysis of large datasets by distributed users. Currently in the planning and prototyping phase, this will ultimately involve creating ways to query object catalogs, access portions of raw...

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  15. Pat Gunn
    10/25/18, 5:00 PM
  16. Aaron Wong, Julien Funk
    10/26/18, 9:00 AM

    HumanBase (hb.flatironinstitute.org) is a comprehensive resource for biomedical researchers interested in exploring expression, function, regulation and interactions of human genes, particularly in the context of specific tissues/cell-types and human disease. Data-driven integrative analyses underlying HumanBase are especially powerful because they reach beyond existing “biological knowledge”...

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  17. Hao Shi
    10/26/18, 11:15 AM

    I will present a quantum Monte Carlo software for the strongly-correlated many-electron systems. The software focuses on ab initio simulations for realistic materials and quantum chemistry systems. I will also talk about massively parallel design in the software.

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  18. Jeremy Magland
    10/26/18, 11:30 AM

    Spike sorting is an crucial component of most neurophysiology pipelines that precedes downstream analysis of neural firing data. With a dozen or so spike sorting software packages in the mix, there is little to no consensus on which algorithm is most suitable, depending on the experimental setup. This is due to a number of factors including lack of realistic ground truth recordings, no clear...

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  19. David Stein
    10/26/18, 11:45 AM

    The solution of certain elliptic partial differential equations (Laplace, Stokes, Helmholtz, etc.) provides one of the primary building blocks necessary for the study of a wide range of physical problems. For simple domains, the solution of these equations is trivial. On complex domains, this is not the case, and many researchers have depended on methods that are slow, inaccurate, or both....

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  20. Miles Stoudenmire
    10/26/18, 1:30 PM

    ITensor is a library for creating high-performance codes for tensor network algorithms. ITensor facilitates rapid prototyping as well as long-term maintainability. After reviewing many-body quantum physics from a tensor mathematics perspective, I will introduce ITensor and what distinguishes it from most other tensor libraries. Then I will discuss good and less good design decisions made...

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  21. Adrian Price-Whelan, Kelle Cruz
  22. Jeff Oishi, Keaton Burns
  23. Wen Yan
  24. Kathleen Chen
  25. Doug Renfrew, Julia Koehler-Leman, Vikram Mulligan
  26. Olivier PARCOLLET (CCQ)
  27. Guiseppe Carleo
  28. Nils Wentzell
  29. Andrea Giovannucci, Eftychios Pnevmatikakis
  30. James Jun

    Software engineering focus
    Robust performance under physical drift over time
    Validation using simulated and biophysical ground-truth datasets
    Realtime performance up to 1000 channels using parallel computing hardware (GPU, CPU

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  31. Dylan Simon, Shy Genel
  32. Greg Bryant
  33. David Stein
  34. Wen Yan
  35. James Jun
  36. Jeremy Magland
  37. Dylan Simon, Nils Wentzell
  38. Guiseppe Carleo
  39. Aaron Wong
  40. Miles Stoudenmire
  41. Aaron Watters
  42. Pat Gunn
  43. Kathleen Chen, Nick Carriero (FI SCC)