London Julia User Group

The Power of Multiple Dispatch

Mar 25, 2014 · 6:30 PM
Skills Matter

The Julia Language's suitability for scientific computing derives from a handful of basic and consistent design decisions. Multiple dispatch lies at the core of this, and is probably the most distinguishable feature of the language.

In this talk, Avik Sengupta will provide a quick overview of Julia syntax, and then dive into multiple dispatch to discover how it provides the ability to create fast and expressive numerical code. We will see how multiple dispatch provides a solution to the "expression problem".

Avik has developed Java applications for investment banks for over a decade. Two years ago he discovered Julia, and hasn't looked back since. He is a contributor to the core language and the maintainer of various Julia packages.

As well as RSVPing on this site could you please register for the talk with Skills Matter using the following link:

https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/6224-the-power-of-multiple-dispatch

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Samuel C.

For anyone intersted, I'm giving a lightning about julia at the PyData meetup next Tuesday: http://www.meetup.com/PyData-London-Meetup/events/189541462/

0 · June 27, 2014
Avik S.

Thanks all for listening, and for the great discussions afterwards. The IJulia Notebook is available at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/aviks/53f2adf60704de13eae6 (apologies for some missing images)

0 · March 26, 2014
David G.

Many thanks for a very interesting talk. Apologies if this has mentioned elsewhere, but is it possible to get hold of a copy/link to the IJulia workbook that Avik used?

0 · March 26, 2014
Florian O.

yeah was super interesting! thanks for the talk. find Julia very tempting.

0 · March 26, 2014
louis

Pretty eye opening to see how the language lends itself to writing Julia in Julia. Many thanks to Avik.

1 · March 26, 2014
Samuel C.

I'm half way through building a set of simple examples of Julia : http://www.scolvin.com/juliabyexample/

feedback welcome.

0 · March 25, 2014
Jo-fai C.

Here is a R <-> Julia Dictionary (http://bit.ly/1oOx5Zt) by Gustavo Lacerda. Won't be able to make it to London this time, hope I can attend the next one :)

0 · March 14, 2014
Erkin K.

Definitely this time...

0 · March 10, 2014