Events

  • Intro to GPU & CUDA Programming

    1180 Duderstadt Center 2281 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop is an introduction to GPU programing for scientific and engineering applications. The basics of GPU architecture will be presented. Parallel programing strategies will be discussed followed by actual programing examples. Please bring a laptop if would like to try the examples during the session, but it is not necessary, since the examples will […]

    Parallel Processing with Python

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    Modern computers have a CPU with multiple cores (usually between 4-8). Come learn how to take advantage of them to parallelize and speed up your code. We’ll show you how to structure your code so you can parallelize it in 5 lines or less. We will also cover some theory, a few practical considerations along […]

  • Open Source GIS Tools

    Angell Hall, Classroom A

    This workshop will provide a fast paced introduction to open source GIS tools, especially QGIS (but also R). We will explore QGIS’s power and functionalities for manipulating and analyzing vector GIS data. The workshop will be especially useful for students and researchers who use ArcGIS, but would like to learn about open source GIS tools. […]

  • Intro to Natural Language Processing with Python

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    This workshop will provide a quick overview of natural language processing using Python. We’ll cover the basics. Segmenting text into tokens, assigning part-of-speech, assigning dependency labels, detecting and labeling named-entities. We’ll also cover sentiment analysis, topic modelling and maybe some visualizations. The workshop will be conducted in Python and is intended for users with basic […]