Discussion of Python in High Energy Physics https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/pyhep.html
PyHEP 2020 Workshop, July 11-13 2020, Austin (Texas), USA
Dear colleague,
We are pleased to announce the third PyHEP workshop organised by the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). The PyHEP, "Python in HEP", workshops aim to provide an environment to discuss and promote the usage of Python in the HEP community at large.
PyHEP 2020 will be held in Austin (Texas), USA, on 11-13 July 2020. The workshop will take place in the same city as the SciPy 2020 conference ((https:/www.scipy2020.scipy.org/) on scientific computing in Python, and will slightly overlap in time with it, to facilitate inter-community exchanges. We encourage HEP participation in SciPy.
The workshop will be a forum for the participants and the community at large to discuss developments of Python packages and tools, exchange experiences, and inform the future evolution of community activities. There will be ample time for discussion.
The agenda will be made available on the workshop indico page (https://indico.cern.ch/e/PyHEP2020/) in due time. It is also linked from the PyHEP WG homepage (http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/pyhep.html).
We encourage community members to propose presentations on any topic (email: pyhep2020-organisation@cern.ch). We are particularly interested in participation that diversifies the backgrounds of attendees - non-LHC communities, neutrino experiments, etc.
Registration will open in Spring and we will provide detailed travel and accommodation information at that time. There will be no workshop fees, thanks to our sponsors.
Some partial travel support based on need is available for some USA/UK participants, in particular for students and postdocs. We thank IRIS-HEP, the University of Liverpool and the UK Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) for this. Details on how to apply for these will be provided once registration opens.
Media information:
- You are encouraged to register to the PyHEP WG Gitter channel and/or to the HSF forum to receive further information concerning the organisation of the workshop.
- Workshop updates and information will also be shared on the workshop Twitter in addition to email. Follow the workshop @PyHEPConf (https://twitter.com/PyHEPConf) and #PyHEP2020 (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PyHEP2020&src=hashtag_click).
Looking forward to your participation!
Organising Committee
Eduardo Rodrigues - University of Liverpool (Chair)
Ben Krikler - University of Bristol (Co-chair)
Jim Pivarski - Princeton University (Co-chair)
Chris Tunnell - Rice University
Matthew Feickert - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Onyisi - The University of Texas at Austin
@Ojaswy Are you asking about PyCon or PyHEP? The PyCon abstract-submission must be closed because acceptances had already been announced (like @reikdas's).
As for PyHEP 2020 in July, we haven't said much publicly yet because we're still figuring out the new format, but it will be held as an online workshop. (That much, at least, has been established. How we're going to have online interactions with the same quality as face-to-face interactions is a problem we're still working on.)
About having the "history of Python in HEP" slide after the slide on Awkward Array, I wanted to talk about Awkward Array from the perspective of solving the computing challenges I mention in earlier slides - I mention Awkward Array again on the slide about Pybind11. Do you have any suggestions about where I can put the history of python slide instead?
PyHEP 2020 Workshop, July 13-17 2020 - registration is open!
Dear colleague,
The PyHEP 2020 workshop will be a virtual workshop given the worldwide conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The dates have been adapted and the workshop now runs the week of July 13‒17; it still follows SciPy 2020 (July 6‒12, also virtual).
Registration for the PyHEP 2020 virtual workshop is open, see https://indico.cern.ch/e/PyHEP2020. There are no registration fees.
The agenda is shaping up with tutorials and standard talks. Topics under discussion include data access and manipulation (Uproot/Awkward and related), distributed computing, auto-differentiation, histogramming and fitting, among others. We welcome submissions of abstracts for live tutorials and shorter Jupyter-notebook talks, both of which are intended to target the strengths of live, online communication. Details on how "notebook talks" will be organised will be provided in due time. It is highly likely that we will collect all notebooks together and will promote 1‒2 notebooks to a standard presentation as well.
More details can be found on the Indico page https://indico.cern.ch/e/PyHEP2020 or from the PyHEP WG homepage http://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/activities/pyhep.html.
You can also join the PyHEP WG Gitter channel (https://gitter.im/HSF/PyHEP) and/or the HSF forum (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hsf-forum) to get more information about the workshop and community.
We are directly reachable via pyhep2020-organisation@cern.ch.
Looking forward to your participation!
Organising Committee
Eduardo Rodrigues - University of Liverpool (Chair)
Ben Krikler - University of Bristol (Co-chair)
Jim Pivarski - Princeton University (Co-chair)
Chris Tunnell - Rice University
Matthew Feickert - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Onyisi - The University of Texas at Austin