Scientific Computing

We would like to invite you to 'Scientific Computing' (PuPPy SIG) meetup. Our format is to meet informally and discuss how we use Python for scientific computing (not strictly). Galvanize is hosting us! Thanks Galvanize!

Speakers (UPDATED): We have two speakers!!!

Speaker 1: Meredith Fore
Topic:
'Quantum Monte Carlo: Rolling the dice but the dice are molecules'
About the talk:
Monte Carlo methods have proven to be especially robust when applied to quantum systems, which are inherently probabilistic. Diffusion Monte Carlo, a particular flavor of Quantum Monte Carlo, can tell us a lot about molecular vibrations when typical models break down. This talk will feature CH5+, the problem child of vibrational spectroscopy. There will also be algorithms, stats, and some fun, basic quantum mechanics.
About the speaker:
Meredith Fore is a PhD student in physics at UW. She got her B.S. in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She's a passionate practitioner of sleeping a lot. Horseback riding has been a hobby of hers since she was 7 years old, and she recently started learning dressage. She wants to write about science for a living when she grows up.

Speaker 2: Brendan Herger
Topic:
Modeling for fraud & class imbalance
About the talk:
A survey of common and advance techniques for modeling fraudulent / adversarial domains.
About the speaker:
Brendan Herger enjoys bridging the gap between data science and engineering, to build and deploy data products.
He brings a unique combination of machine learning, deep learning, and software engineering skills. In his previous work at Capital One and startups, he has built authorization fraud, insider threat, and legal discovery automation platforms. In each of these cases he’s lead a team of data scientists and data engineers to enable and elevate his client’s business workflow (and capture some amazing data).
When he’s not knee deep in a code base, Brendan can be found traveling, sharing his collection of Japanese teas, and playing board games with his partner, Seb.

Stay in touch with us (PuPPy):
Join us on slack - http://slack.pspython.com/. Remember to consider joining #scientific_computing channel once you join us on slack.

Material covered in this meetup:
Checkout our Github Page @https://github.com/PuPPy-Python/Scientific_Computing for slides presented during talks at our meetup.

cheers,
Sai Nudurupati,
Kurt Maurer,
Amanda Manaster