Mini-Courses, Tutorials and Workshops  

Registration is required at the Training site.

1.  Introduction to Programming Using Python by Matthew Cahn
There are four different sections. Participants sign up for one of the sections; each section meets twice.
Section I — Two Mondays, Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, 3:00-4:30pm
Section II — Two Tuesdays, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 3:00-4:30pm
Section III — Two Wednesdays, Sept. 28 and Oct. 5, 3:00-4:30pm
Section IV — Two Thursdays, Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, 3:00-4:30pm
Venue: Lewis Thomas Laboratory Room 005

2.  Performance Tuning & Optimization for Beginners: A Practical Tutorial on How to Make Your Code Run Faster by Ian Cosden
Wednesday, October, 12, 10:30-2:30pm, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, 407 Jadwin Hall

3.  Continuous Integration in Scientific Software Development with Git and Jenkins by David Luet
Thursday, October 13, 10:30am-12:00pm, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, 407 Jadwin Hall

4.  Python Programming Techniques by Eliot Feibush
Wednesday, October 19, 2:00-3:30pm, Digital Learning Lab, 130 Lewis Library

5. Fundamentals of Performance Tuning for Python Applications by Alexey Svyatkovskiy
Tuesday, October 25, 10:00-4:00pm, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, 407 Jadwin Hall

6.  Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark by Alexey Svyatkovskiy
Friday, October 21, 10:00-4:30pm (Beginners), Frist MPR C
Thursday, October 27, 10:00-4:30pm (Advanced), Frist MPR B

7. Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI and OpenMP in C/C++ by Ian Cosden
Tuesday & Wednesday, November 1 & 2, 10:00-4:00pm, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, 407 Jadwin Hall

8. Introduction to Debugging with the Allinea DDT Advanced Debugger by Stephane Ethier
Tuesday, December 6, 2:00-4:00pm, Visualization Lab, 346 Lewis Library

9. Scientific Visualization by Eliot Feibush
Wednesday, December 7, 2:00-3:30pm, Digital Learning Lab,  130 Lewis Library

10. Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshops by William Guthe and Wangyal Shawa

The classes will be held in 225 Lewis Library Electronic Classroom from 1:30 to 3:00pm.

11.   Advanced Networking, Date & Location TBD

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Other Events

• Princeton Speaks MATLAB
Wednesday, September 28, 4:30 - 7:30pm, 120 Lewis Science Library, Washington Road & Ivy Lane

• Research Computing Day
Friday, October 14, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Maeder Hall Auditorium, Andlinger Center
                                                                                                                             

Graduate Certificate in Computational and Information Science  (The information session in October will be announced soon.)

Online application is on-going throughout the year.

More details are available at http://www.princeton.edu/researchcomputing/education/graduate-certificate-CIS/.

Outreach

1. Help Sessions
• Research Computing Weekly Help Session - Tuesdays, 10:00-11:00am, 245 Lewis Library
• Visualization & Research Computing Weekly Help Session - Thursdays, 2:00-3:00pm, 245 Lewis Library

2. High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) Tours

• Monday, September 26, 4:00-5:30pm
• Thursday, October 20, 4:00-5:30pm

Please contact alrubins@princeton.edu to register.

3. Scientific Computing/Supercomputing Administrators Meeting (SCAM) 
First Tuesdays, 2:00-3:00pm

4. User Groups
• Python user group (Princetonpy) – The schedule for the bi-monthly presentations will be announced soon.
• MATLAB – Additional information on upcoming events will be available soon.

5. High Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) Tours

• Monday, September 26^th, 4:00-5:30pm

• Thursday, October 20^th, 4:00-5:30pm

Two tours will be offered.  A van will take you over to 151 Forrestal Road for the one-hour long tour and then drop back on campus.  Each tour will be limited to 10 people.  Please assemble in front of the Lewis Science Library (Washington Road and Ivy Lane) promptly at the time of each tour. Please contact Andrea Rubinstein at alrubins@princeton.edu to register.

More information on other PICSciE-Research Computing events is available at www.princeton.edu/researchcomputing.

To subscribe to upcoming PICSciE-Research Computing events and workshops, click here.

Ma. Florevel (Floe) Fusin-Wischusen
Princeton Institute for Computational Science & Engineering (PICSciE)
335 Peter B. Lewis Library
(609) 258-8071
www.princeton.edu/researchcomputing