We are excited to announce that the first "Scientific Computing with Python" conference in India (http://scipy.in) will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

The theme of the conference will be "Scientific Python in Action" with respect to application and teaching. We are pleased to have Travis Oliphant, the creator and lead developer of numpy as the keynote speaker.

Here is a rough schedule of the conference:

Sat. Dec. 12 (conference)
Sun. Dec. 13 (conference)
Mon. Dec. 14 (tutorials)
Tues. Dec. 15 (tutorials)
Wed. Dec. 16 (sprint)
Thu. Dec. 17 (sprint)

The tutorial sessions will have two tracks, one specifically for teachers and one for the general public.

There are no registration fees.

Please register at:

http://scipy.in

The call for papers will be announced soon.

This conference is organized by the FOSSEE project funded by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development's National Mission on Education (NME) through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) jointly with SPACE-Kerala.

Welcome to FOSSEE -- Free and Open source Software for Science and Engineering Education.

Project Goal
The goal of this project is to enable the students and faculty of Science and Engineering colleges/institutes/universities across India to use open source software tools for all their computational needs, thereby improving the quality of instruction and learning.

Duration
April 2009 -- May 2012

About the Project
This project is based at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB).

It is funded by MHRD as part of the National Mission on Education through ICT with the thrust area being "Adaptation and deployment of open source simulation packages equivalent to MATLAB, ORCAD etc."

The Principal Investigator is Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay.

The three major components to this project each spearheaded by different Investigators are:

• Python for scientific computing -- Prof. Prabhu Ramachandran
• Scilab -- Prof. Mani Bhushan, Prof. Madhu Belur and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya.
• Multimedia authoring tool -- Prof. G. Sivakumar