2023 Flatiron Wide Autumn Meeting
FWAM (“Flatiron-wide Autumn Meeting”, previously “Flatiron-wide Algorithms and Mathematics”) is a two-day internal conference with the goal of introducing and reviewing scientific and computational tools of broad and significant usefulness to Flatiron researchers across all centers of the institute. This year’s theme is “Software Development Best Practices”, divided into four broad topics:
- GPU programming and automatic differentiation
- Programming languages and interoperability
- Open-source software management
- Visualization and interactive graphics
2023 Committee
Dan Fortunato, Chair
Center for Computational Mathematics
Jason Kaye
Center for Computational Quantum Physics
Sophie Beck
Center for Computational Quantum Physics
Alex Williams
Center for Computational Neuroscience
Sarah Harvey
Center for Computational Neuroscience
Kaze Wong
Center for Computational Astrophysics
Natalie Sauerwald
Center for Computational Biology
Scott Weady
Center for Computational Biology
Alex Barnett
Center for Computational Mathematics
Geraud Krawezik
Scientific Computing Core
Lehman Garrison
Scientific Computing Core
Aaron Wong
Informatics
October 19 2023
Time | Topic | Speaker |
9:50 AM-10:00 AM | Welcome | |
10:00 AM-11:30 AM | [GPU+AD] Introduction to GPU Programming | Emanuel Scoullos, Data Scientist, NVIDIA |
11:30 AM-11:50 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:50 AM-12:50 PM | [GPU+AD] Reverse mode automatic differentiation: Unraveling expression graphs & library magic | Steve Bronder, Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute, CCM |
12:50 AM-2:00 PM | Lunch | |
2:00 PM-3:00 PM | [Prog] Introduction to foreign function interfaces | Brian Ward, Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute, CCM |
3:00 PM-3:30 PM | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM | Chris Edelmaier, Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute, CCB |
3:30 PM-4:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
4:00 PM-5:00 PM | [Prog] Modern C++ for scientific software | [Prog] Modern C++ for scientific software |
5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Reception |
October 20, 2023
Time | Topic | Speaker |
9:30 AM-10:30 AM | [OSS] Rosetta and Masala: Developing general platforms for biomolecular modelling | Vikram Mulligan, Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, CCB |
10:30 AM-11:00 AM | [OSS] Between two micro-climates: Scientific software in academia and industry | Katharine Hyatt, Applied Scientist, Amazon |
11:00 AM-11:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:30 AM-12:00 PM | [OSS] Nonuniform FFTs at Flatiron: Lessons from a small scientific production code | Alex Barnett, Group Leader Numerical Algorithms, Flatiron Institute, CCM |
12:00 PM-1:00 PM | [OSS] Panel and Q&A: Case studies on long-tern software management | Barry Smith, Senior Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, CMM, with Miles Stoudenmire, Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, CCQ, and Marsha Berger, Group Leader, Flatiron Institute, CCM |
1:00 PM-2:10 PM | Lunch | |
2:10 PM-2:40 PM | [OSS] Introduction to JOSS and showyourwork | Sophie Beck, Associate Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, CCQ and Kaze Wong, Flatiron Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute, CCA |
2:40 PM-3:40 PM | [Vis] WebGl and WebAssembly: Viewing (bigger) data in the browser | Evan Molinelli, Software Engineer, Simons Foundation |
3:40 PM-4:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
4:00 PM-4:30 PM | [Vis] H5Gizmos: A web-based infrastructure for special purpose interactive visualizations | Aaron Watter, Senior Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute, SCC |
4:30 PM-5:00 PM | [Vis] Collaborative scientific visualization in the browser with Figurl | Jeremy Magland, Senior Data Scientist, Flatiron Institute, CCM |