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+# Content
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+subheadline: "all training"
+title: "Events for winter/spring 2025"
+teaser: ""
+categories:
+  - events
+tags:
+  - events
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+# Styling
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+image:
+    title: juliaSet.png
+    thumb: juliaSet.png
+    homepage:
+    caption: Julia set rendered with Chapel's Image library
+    caption_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set
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+---
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+<!-- deployment status https://github.com/WestGrid/trainingMaterials/actions -->
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+To receive future news and emails about our training events, please [subscribe here](/contact).
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+[Table of Contents](#table-of-contents):
+&nbsp;
+[<em>Webinars</em>](#webinars)
+• [<em>Online courses</em>](#online-courses)
+• [<em>Other local bootcamps and workshops</em>](#bootcamps)
+<!-- • [<em>Humanities and social sciences training</em>](#dh) -->
+• [<em>In-person schools</em>](#schools)
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+## Webinars
+
+<!-- BC DRI + Prairies DRI bi-weekly Research Computing webinars take place every second Tuesday at 10am Pacific / -->
+<!-- 11pm Mountain / noon Central. -->
+
+The 2025 winter/spring webinars are jointly presented by SFU's Research Computing Group (RCG) and UBC's
+Advanced Research Computing (ARC). These webinars are held every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria,
+Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary), and noon Central (Saskatoon, Winnipeg).
+
+<!-- Webinar registration will open in early September. -->
+
+<!-- For *upcoming webinars*, click the linked title to see more details or to register. For *past -->
+<!-- sessions*, click on the title to view recordings and slides. -->
+
+<!-- | Oct-01 | [GPU computing with Chapel](link){:target="_blank"} | Alex Razoumov (SFU) | -->
+<!-- Roman: let's consider setting 4 webinars in March and April time frame. -->
+<!-- February 17-21 UBC midterm break -->
+<!-- May-27 DRI Connect -->
+
+| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
+| ------------- | --------------- | ----------------- |
+| Jan-14 | High-level parallel stencil computations on CPUs and GPUs in Julia | Alex Razoumov | <!-- ParallelStencil.jl -->
+| Jan-28 | Modern shell utilities | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| Feb-11 | Running parallel Ray workflows across multiple cluster nodes | Alex Razoumov |
+| Feb-25 | Bayesian modelling with JAX | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| Mar-11 | TBA | UBC speaker |
+| Mar-25 | TBA | UBC speaker |
+| Apr-08 | TBA | UBC speaker |
+| Apr-22 | TBA | UBC speaker |
+| May-06 | TBD | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| May-20 | Introduction to Fir cluster | Alex Razoumov |
+
+<!-- Other topics to fill in: -->
+<!-- - (Alex) How to create a GPU container on Arbutus cloud -->
+<!-- - (Alex) Second look at in-situ visualization -->
+<!-- - (Alex) Adam's distributed /localscratch storage with GekkoFS -->
+<!-- maybe invite Jillian? -->
+
+<!-- Marie: Bayesian library built on JAX. One of https://github.com/blackjax-devs/blackjax or -->
+<!-- https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc. Or alternatively https://github.com/google-deepmind/distrax. I'll have lots -->
+<!-- of work to do, but I think that it is a good topic. -->
+
+<!-- Marie: I'd like to do another webinar on Unix shell modern tools. I know we did 2 of these but that was years -->
+<!-- ago and there are new ones I would like to include. We will be teaching a few of these tomorrow too, but we -->
+<!-- will have very little time and probably fairly low attendance. -->
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+<a name="courses"></a>
+## Online courses
+
+SFU Research Computing offers weekly online sessions on advanced research computing. These sessions take place
+every Thursday from 10am to noon Pacific and are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses
+span 2 weeks, although some courses may be shorter or longer.
+
+Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we want to encourage attendance and live interaction, and
+we are planning to repeat the most popular / introductory sessions throughout the year.
+
+<!-- | [Beginner's introduction to Emacs](link){:target="_blank"} | Sep-26, Oct-03 | Marie-Hélène Burle | -->
+<!-- Alex to look at regression from scratch in JAX + Flax -->
+<!-- Feb-20 (UBC midterm break) Marie ia away -->
+<!-- May-29 DRI Connect -->
+
+| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR |
+| ------------- | --------------- | ----------------- |
+| Introductory bash | Jan-16, Jan-23 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| Introduction to HPC | Jan-30, Feb-06, Feb-13 | Alex Razoumov | <!-- Marie teaches agriculture at Duncan on Feb 6-7 -->
+| Parallel R | Feb-27, Mar-06 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| Short visualization course (TBD) | Mar-13 | Alex Razoumov |
+| Parallel Julia | Mar-20, Mar-27  | Alex Razoumov |
+| ML course on an interesting complete problem with model training | Apr-03, Apr-10, Apr-17 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
+| HPC Python | Apr-24, May-01, May-08 | Alex Razoumov | <!-- week 2 on Ray Core, week 3 on Ray Data -->
+| Parallel Chapel | May-15, May-22 | Alex Razoumov |
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+<a name="bootcamps"></a>
+## Other local bootcamps and workshops
+
+We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities.
+
+| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
+
+<!-- | Starts Sep-20 | [Univ. of Alberta Fall Bootcamp](https://www.ualberta.ca/en/information-services-and-technology/news/2024/fall-research-computing-bootcamp-2024.html){:target="_blank"} | Online | -->
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+<a name="schools"></a>
+## In-person schools
+
+Typically at the end of a term we organize a longer, in-person research computing school at SFU that is open
+to all students, postdocs, faculty and staff. We will add more information here.
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+---
+
+<br>
+As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to `training at
+westdri dot ca`.
+
+<!-- [text](link){:target="_blank"} -->