CTBP Students, Postdocs, Senior Investigators: Tech Talks are returning for the 2024/2025 academic year!

These are intended to be interactive workshop-style presentations, so we encourage you to attend in person at the Rice University (10th floor of the BRC) or Northeastern University (13th floor of 177 Huntington) nodes of CTBP. The events will be held in a hybrid, workshop format, so please expect to actively participate! Remote participation is available for anyone who may need it.

We have scheduled 6 talks during Fall 2024 and plan to have an additional 5-6 talks during the Spring 2025 semester. If you are interested in participating in tech talks, please sign up here. Talks will be held at 12pm Eastern Time (11am Central Time).

Tech Talks Fall 2024

• October 16 Avoiding embarrassment when reporting timescales in coarse-grained and simplified molecular models, Prof. Paul Whitford (Northeastern Univ)
• October 23 Managing the benefits and perils of open-source software, Dr. Vinícius Contessoto (Rice Univ)
• October 30 Ensuring your science is reproducible with version-controlled software (i.e. GIT), Dr. Antonio Oliveira (Rice Univ)
• November 6 Navigating and developing complex code (using VS code), Dr. Vinícius Contessoto (Rice Univ)
• November 13 Making professional molecular images, Dr. Esteban Dodero-Rojas (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
• November 20 Making publication-worthy figures with Inkscape, Prof. Paul Whitford (Northeastern U)

Tech Talks Fall 2023

• October 4 Advanced visualization with VMD, Esteban Dodero-Rojas (Rice Univ)
• October 11 Introduction to using and creating containers for Docker and Singularity, Prof. Paul Whitford (Northeastern U)
• October 18 Becoming a beginner with Git, Dr. Antonio Oliveira (Rice U)
• October 25 Becoming competent with Git, Dr. Antonio Oliveira (Rice U)
• November 1 HPC and cluster computing best practices, Dr. Vinicius Contessoto (Rice U)
• November 8 Thread-based parallelism with OpenMP, Prof. Paul Whitford (Northeastern U)
• November 15 MPI-based parallelism, Prof. Paul Whitford (Northeastern U)
• November 29 Parallel computing with Python, Dr. Vinicius Contessoto (Rice U)
• December 6 Introduction to Structure-based models, SMOG 2 and OpenSMOG, Prof. Ronaldo Oliveira (Rice U)
• December 13 Advanced techniques with SMOG models, Esteban Dodero-Rojas (Rice U)

Questions? Contact Paul Whitford at Northeastern University.