Re: SIAM event at OctConf 2017?

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Francesco Faccio
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 2017-02-21 16:46 GMT+01:00 Carnë Draug <address@hidden>:
>>
>> On 7 February 2017 at 13:17, Francesco Faccio
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I'm involved in many activities with SIAM [1] (Society for Industrial
>> > and
>> > Applied Mathematics) and I think that it could be nice to organize a
>> > short
>> > event during OctConf with the EPFL Student Chapter of SIAM [2]. A SIAM
>> > Student Chapter is an association of students and faculty members which
>> > organizes cultural activities such as conferences, courses, summer
>> > schools,
>> > programming competitions, in order to promote applied mathematics and it
>> > is
>> > founded by SIAM.
>> >
>> > This could take place during one (and a half) of the slots available and
>> > it
>> > could consist of a short introduction of what is SIAM and what a SIAM
>> > Chapter does (10 min) plus a couple of talks of PhD or Master students
>> > which
>> > use Octave in their research (20 min + 20 min).
>> >
>> > Since Lousanne is pretty close to Geneva, in the worst  possible case
>> > they
>> > would need only some funds to cover the travel costs (but SIAM and EPFL
>> > should cover some costs).
>> >
>> > Note that this could be a starting point also for a collaboration in the
>> > other direction: SIAM organizes a lot of big conferences and meetings
>> > every
>> > year and it would be interesting to send some people representing Octave
>> > at
>> > those events.
>> >
>> > If you think that this could be an interesting event for the community
>> > during OctConf, I will contact them to see whether they are available.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Francesco Faccio
>> >
>> > [1] http://www.siam.org/
>> > [2] https://epflsiam.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Hi Francesco
>>
>> Is this no longer going to happen?
>>
>> Carnë
>
>
> Hi Carnë, all,
>
> unfortunately they mostly use Matlab and R and they don't have experience
> with Octave.
> They will notify their members of the OctConf, so that those interested will
> have the opportunity to participate, but I don't know if we can do something
> more.
>
> Maybe we could ask them to present their work in Matlab and then discuss
> whether it could be done using Octave.
> If this can be interested for someone, I will try to organize it.
>
> Francesco
>

Yes, discussions like this are always illustrating. It is also good
for devs to see how matlab is used.