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19 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 12The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
19 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
24 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 13The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
24 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
25 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: SWIFT: A Modern Highly Parallel Gravity and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics SolverNumerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and algorithms is thus crucial. In this talk, we introduce the fully open-source highly-parallel, versatile, and modular coupled hydrodynamics, gravity, cosmology, and galaxy-formation code Swift. The software package exploits hybrid task-based parallelism, asynchronous communications, and domain-decomposition algorithms based on balancing the workload, rather than the data, to efficiently exploit modern high-performance computing cluster architectures. Gravity is solved for using a fast-multipole-method, optionally coupled to a particle mesh solver in Fourier space to handle periodic volumes. For gas evolution, multiple modern flavours of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics are implemented. Swift also evolves neutrinos using a state-of-the-art particle-based method. Two complementary networks of sub-grid models for galaxy formation as well as extensions to simulate planetary physics are also released as part of the code. An extensive set of output options, including snapshots, light-cones, power spectra, and a coupling to structure finders are also included. We describe the overall code architecture, summarize the consistency and accuracy tests that were performed, and demonstrate the excellent weak-scaling performance of the code using a representative cosmological hydrodynamical problem with ≈300 billion particles. The code is released to the community alongside extensive documentation for both users and developers, a large selection of example test problems, and a suite of tools to aid in the analysis of large simulations run with Swift. Virtual | COCO - 25 Oct 2023 |
25 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: SWIFT: A Modern Highly Parallel Gravity and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics SolverNumerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and algorithms is thus crucial. In this talk, we introduce the fully open-source highly-parallel, versatile, and modular coupled hydrodynamics, gravity, cosmology, and galaxy-formation code Swift. The software package exploits hybrid task-based parallelism, asynchronous communications, and domain-decomposition algorithms based on balancing the workload, rather than the data, to efficiently exploit modern high-performance computing cluster architectures. Gravity is solved for using a fast-multipole-method, optionally coupled to a particle mesh solver in Fourier space to handle periodic volumes. For gas evolution, multiple modern flavours of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics are implemented. Swift also evolves neutrinos using a state-of-the-art particle-based method. Two complementary networks of sub-grid models for galaxy formation as well as extensions to simulate planetary physics are also released as part of the code. An extensive set of output options, including snapshots, light-cones, power spectra, and a coupling to structure finders are also included. We describe the overall code architecture, summarize the consistency and accuracy tests that were performed, and demonstrate the excellent weak-scaling performance of the code using a representative cosmological hydrodynamical problem with ≈300 billion particles. The code is released to the community alongside extensive documentation for both users and developers, a large selection of example test problems, and a suite of tools to aid in the analysis of large simulations run with Swift. Virtual | COCO - 8 Nov 2023 |
26 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 14The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
26 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
27 Oct 2:27 pmPython Programming Exit Test opensThis is the exit test for the 2023 SciNet course "Introduction to Programming with Python". There are 17 questions. To pass, you have to answer 11 correctly. The test shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes to complete, but you can take up to an hour, at anytime up to Friday November 3rd, 2023. | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
30 Oct 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 1/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
31 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 15The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
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1 Nov 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 2/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
2 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 16The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
3 Nov 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 3/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
4 Nov 11:59 pmPython Programming Exit Test closesThis is the exit test for the 2023 SciNet course "Introduction to Programming with Python". There are 17 questions. To pass, you have to answer 11 correctly. The test shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes to complete, but you can take up to an hour, at anytime up to Friday November 3rd, 2023. | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |

