SciPy 2024

ARC Collaborations Hour

Patrick J. Roddy

UCL Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

2024-08-20

Conference

Flight

Tacoma

Reasons you might have heard of it:

  • Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse
  • Toyota Tacoma
  • 10 Things I Hate About You
  • Sea-Tac Airport
  • Mount Rainier
  • Dale Chihuly

Tutorials

Talks

  • Each day started with a keynote followed by updates from many NumFOCUS libraries, and ended with lightning talks
  • A mixture of talks and birds of a feather sessions
  • Everything well timed, with enough breaks
  • Talks were a mix of a library demonstration or someone’s experience with a particular tool
  • Free stash
  • Sponsor standards in the lobby throughout the day

Sprints

  • Weekend
  • Maintainers from many NumFOCUS libraries
  • Worked on NumPy
  • Many people left by then
  • Did not get as much out of it as hoped
  • Euros + Copa America finals
  • Fatigue

Photos

Holiday: Olympic National Park

National Forest

Hurricane Ridge

Port Angeles

Waterfalls

Beaches

Forks

Hoh Rainforest

Holiday: Seattle

Poo Poo Point

Museum of Flight

Baseball

Tall Buildings

Museum of Glass

Pike Place Market

Conclusions

  • Thanks for the opportunity
  • Solo conferencing forces you to talk to people
  • SciPy community are friendly
  • Conference was well organised (timings of talks and so on)
  • Made some Connections >
  • Share your post conference plans with fellow attendees, they might join you
  • Jet lag is not fun
  • Holidays are great
  • Would highly recommend Washington state

https://paddyroddy.github.io/talks