Hands on Intro to Julia

About the talk:

If you've been thinking about trying out Julia but haven't quite gotten around to it, this is your chance. Stefan will give a gentle introduction to the language, show off some of its more interesting features, and take requests for live coding. See how you can write simple Matlab-like code or use multiple dispatch to easily do different things for different kinds of function arguments. Learn how to define your own types and make them work seamlessly with built-ins with minimal hassle. Follow along with your own installation of Julia or use juliabox.org if you don't feel like fussing around with installing all that software.

About Stefan Karpinski:

Stefan is one of the co-creators of Julia, a research engineer at the NYU Center for Data Science, and a co-founder of Julia Computing, Inc. (juliacomputing.com), providing support, training and consulting for Julia.

Pizza will begin at 6:30, the talk starts at 7 and then we will head to a local bar.