News
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March 2013
  I was awarded the 2012 `Award for the Advancement of Free Software`_ for the
  creation of IPython and my contributions to the Open Source Scientific Python
  ecosystem.  UC Berkeley also put out a `more detailed release`_.

.. _Award for the Advancement of Free Software: http://www.fsf.org/news/2012-free-software-award-winners-announced-2
.. _more detailed release: http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/wresting-new-tricks-python-fernando-perez-wins-2012-award-advancement-free-software


March 2011
  I've finally gathered the `slides for our minisymposium on Python for
  Scientific computing <events/2011_siam_cse>`_ at the SIAM CSE 2011 conference
  (`blog post
  <http://blog.fperez.org/2011/04/python-goes-to-reno-siam-cse-2011.html>`_ and
  `pictures <https://picasaweb.google.com/fdo.perez/SIAMCSE2011InReno#>`_).

March 2011
  The `Sage Days 29`_ workshop was a success on multiple fronts, and in
  particular for IPython we made a `ton of progress`_.

.. _sage days 29: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days29
.. _ton of progress: http://blog.fperez.org/2011/03/ipython-and-scientific-python-go-to.html

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February 2011
  During the `2011 AAAS annual meeting`_ I spoke at a symposium titled `The
  Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge
  Transfer <http://www.stanford.edu/~vcs/AAAS2011/>`_ organized by Columbia's
  `Victoria Stodden`_.  I have put up a short `blog post`_ about the event as
  well as `my slides`_ and an `extended abstract`_.

.. _2011 AAAS annual meeting: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2011/
.. _blog post: http://blog.fperez.org/2011/02/reproducible-research-at-aaas-2011.html
.. _Victoria Stodden: http://stodden.net
.. _my slides: http://fperez.org/talks/1102_aaas_reproducibility_fperez_slides.pdf
.. _extended abstract: http://fperez.org/talks/1102_aaas_reproducibility_fperez_extabs.pdf

February 2011
  I'm thrilled to have been invited to present the keynote at this year's
  EuroScipy_ conference.  I haven't had a chance yet to attend the European
  version of the SciPy conferences, so I'm very much looking forward to it.

.. _euroscipy: http://www.euroscipy.org/conference/euroscipy2011

December 2010
  My recent trip to `Scipy India 2010`_ was a very interesting experience; I'm
  really impressed by the Indian government's vision with their FOSSEE.in_
  project.  Here are the slides_ for my invited talk and some general
  pictures_, but I have yet to write a proper post summarizing things.  Stay
  tuned.

.. _scipy india 2010: http://scipy.in/scipyin/2010
.. _fossee.in: http://fossee.in
.. _slides: talks/1012_scipy_india.pdf
.. _pictures: https://picasaweb.google.com/fdo.perez/IndiaMumbaiAndHyderabad

July 2010
  Our paper `Double dissociation of two cognitive control networks in patients
  with focal brain lesions`__ is out in PNAS_ (PDF_ version).

.. __: http://www.pnas.org/content/107/26/12017.short
.. _pnas: http://www.pnas.org
.. _pdf: papers/doubledis10_net_pnas.pdf


January 2010
  I'm very excited to visit Colombia for a month, to teach an intensive course
  on scientific computing using Python and a practical, modern and hopefully
  useful approach.  I've created a section on `Teaching <teaching>`_ with these
  materials, including a detailed page on the :ref:`planned course
  <scicomp_course>`.

December 2009
  :ref:`Some notes <indefero_dreamhost>` on how to configure InDefero_ on a
  shared hosting account to host your own Git repositories for private
  collaboration (e.g. co-authoring of grants and papers using Git, something
  you may not want to do on a public site).

November 2009, how this site is built
  I've added a :ref:`section <this_site>` with the tools used to build this
  site, which several people have inquired about.
  
November 2009, a discussion with Guido van Rossum
  At our informal Berkeley `Py4Science seminar`_, the November 4
  session was a very interesting discussion with Guido van Rossum, the creator
  of the Python language.  :ref:`Read more... <ucb_py4science_guido>`

.. _py4science seminar: py4science_ucb_

September 2009, PyDy
  At our meeting series, Luke Peterson from UC Davis gave a very interesting
  talk on PyDy_, a project under the SymPy_ umbrella to symbolically describe
  mechanical systems and derive their equations of motion.  (`video link
  <http://www.archive.org/details/ucb_py4science_2009_09_30_Luke_Peterson>`_).

September 2009, decorators
  Some `notes about decorators for controlling execution <decorators.html>`_
  from a September 2009 talk at the Berkeley Py4Science group.

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