OSSci Meetup: July 6 in Chicago, IL

Tim Bonnemann
Open-Source Science (OSSci)
2 min readJun 30, 2023
Screenshot Chicago Python User Group (ChiPy) website
ChiPy website

Update 07/06: Two more talks added to the lineup!

The Open-Source Science (OSSci) team will be in Chicago, IL next week for IEEE SERVICES and the inaugural IEEE Symposium on Open Source Science.

As usual, we want to take the opportunity to connect with the local open source in science community. To that end, we are co-hosting a meetup together with the Chicago Python User Group (ChiPy) and PyData Chicago:

Accelerating Science with Open Source
Thursday, July 6, 2023
6–9pm
Sully’s House, 1501 N Dayton St
https://www.meetup.com/_chipy_/events/294379860/

We have two talks lined up so far and are working on finding you a few more:

  • Repeatable repeats w/ rpeat (Jeff Ryan, Creator rpeat/Owner Lemnica)
  • QMCPy: Accelerating Computational Sciences through an Open-Source (Quasi) Monte Carlo Framework (Sou-Cheng Choi, Research Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology; Principal Data Scientist, SAS Institute Inc.)
  • SGX3: Accelerated Services and Community Interactions Supporting Open-Source Science (Sandra Gesing, Scientific Outreach and DEI Lead in the Discovery Partner Institute University of Illinois Chicago; Visiting Research Professor in the HUBzero team University of California, San Diego)
  • Building tools to support FAIR ML research at Globus Labs (Will Engler, Senior Research Software Engineer at Globus Labs | University of Chicago | Argonne National Lab)

Please join us if you’re in the area.

If you know people or organizations who should know about this event, please kindly share this information with them.

We still have 2–3 speaking slots available (lightning talks, around 5–8 minutes each). Please get in touch if you or someone you know would like to present. Interested in any angles that explore how open source can drive and accelerate scientific research (or the challenges making it happen).

Hope to see you there!

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Tim Bonnemann
Open-Source Science (OSSci)

Intersection of community & participation. Currently @IBMResearch. Wannabe trailrunner.