Description:

SciPy India didn't happen last year and we're not sure if it will happen this year either. PyCon India feels like the best opportunity to allow the people that belong to this niche to come together. This BoF session is meant bring this community together.

The session will start with a brief (10-15 mins long) presentation that will highlight some of the popular Python packages that are used to solve problems in Science and Technology, inform the audience of existing communities in India and around the world that they can be a part of and guidance as to how they can start. The floor will then be opened up for informal (but moderated) discussions among the participants.

This BoF session is meant for you if

• you are already a practitioner who uses Python to solve Scientific and Technical problems in a specific domain
• you are interested to know more about how Python is used in such settings
• you are interested in transitioning into a role or a company where Python is used in such settings
• you use Python in an academic setting and would like to share your work with your peers in the community

With the rise of deep-tech companies in India, there is a need for a larger set of practitioners who are able to wrangle Python to solve domain-specific problems. This BoF session will hopefully kickstart a small but tight-knit community of practitioners in Hyderabad.

Prerequisites:

N/A

Speaker Info:

I'm Rahul, a Senior Scientific Software Developer at Enthought. A majority of NumPy was written and rewritten by the folks at Enthought and SciPy was born out of the Scientifc Consulting work that Enthought did over a decade. I've been using Python in a professional setting for 8 years now, during which time I've used the Python ecosystem to solve problems in the Oil & Gas domain, in the Pharma and Life Sciences domain, built internal tools and maintained a suite of number of Python packages. I've also spoken at multiple monthly meetups and organized workshops on various topics in Python. Before joining Enthought, as an undergraduate in the Physics department at IIT Madras, I used Python to solve problems in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Two of the Python packages I contributed to and currently maintain were used in the [Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission][1].

Speaker Links:

https://rahulporuri.github.io https://github.com/rahulporuri https://pypi.org/user/rporuri/