AUSTIN, Texas, June 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Enthought, as Institutional Sponsor, today announced the SciPy 2017 Conference will be held July 10-16, 2017 in Austin, Texas. At this 16th annual installment of the conference, scientists, engineers, data scientists and researchers will participate in tutorials, talks and developer sprints designed to foster the continued rapid growth of the scientific Python ecosystem. This year's attendees hail from over 25 countries and represent academia, government, national research laboratories, and industries such as aerospace, biotechnology, finance, oil and gas and more.
"Since 2001, the SciPy Conference has been a highly anticipated annual event for the scientific and analytic computing community," states Dr. Eric Jones, CEO at Enthought and SciPy Conference co-founder. "Over the last 16 years we've witnessed Python emerge as the de facto open source programming language for science, engineering and analytics with widespread adoption in research and industry. The powerful tools and libraries the SciPy community has developed are used by millions of people to advance scientific inquest and innovation every day."
Special topical themes for this year's conference are "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications" and the "Scientific Python (SciPy) Tool Stack."
In addition to the special conference themes, there will also be over 100 talk and poster paper speakers/presenters covering eight mini-symposia tracks including: Astronomy; Biology, Biophysics, and Biostatistics; Computational Science and Numerical Techniques; Data Science; Earth, Ocean, and Geo Sciences; Materials Science and Engineering; Neuroscience; and Open Data and Reproducibility.
New for 2017 is a sold-out "Teen Track," a two-day curriculum designed to inspire the scientists of tomorrow. From July 10-11, high school students will learn about the Python language and how developers solve real world scientific problems using Python and its scientific libraries.
Conference and tutorial registration is open at https://scipy2017.scipy.org.
About the SciPy Conference
SciPy 2017, the sixteenth annual Scientific Computing with Python conference, will be held July 10-16, 2017 in Austin, Texas. SciPy is a community dedicated to the advancement of scientific computing through open source Python software for mathematics, science and engineering. The annual SciPy Conference allows participants from all types of organizations to showcase their latest projects, learn from skilled users and developers and collaborate on code development. For more information or to register, visit https://scipy2017.scipy.org.
About Enthought
Enthought is a global leader in scientific and analytic software, consulting and training solutions serving a customer base comprised of some of the most respected names in the oil and gas, manufacturing, financial services, aerospace, military, government, biotechnology, consumer products and technology industries.The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom and Pune, India. For more information visit www.enthought.com and connect with Enthought on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and YouTube.
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