BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Advanced School on Scientific Software Development: Concepts and T ools DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120220T070000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120302T170000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261014T031642Z UID:indico-event-236@indico.ipb.ac.rs DESCRIPTION:During the last decade\, the standards of writing scientific s oftware and numerical libraries have been steadily improving. This result ed in a large number of available packages for scientific computing in ma ny different research areas. Young researchers and PhD students are now able to perform cutting-edge research just using such publicly available software. However\, young scientists often need to enhance some software components\, to add some new features to the existing software packages\ , or to write completely new scientific code\, re-using some of the exis ting elements\, or completely from scratch. This usually seems as a diffi cult task to young researchers\, and often the effort to produce high qua lity scientific software is overestimated. Young scientists\, not formall y trained in software engineering techniques\, are not aware of important tools and often do not use good software designing and programming pract ices\, thus lowering considerably their efficiency in either using scient ific software packages or performing scientific software development. The School is organized to address this and eliminate/alleviate identified o bstacles for young researchers to be more easily involved in the software development\, with specific focus on developing countries. The goal of t his School is to fill the identified gap in the training related to the s oftware development\, and to provide young scientists with the basic skil ls necessary to efficiently write their own scientific codes\, optimize\, port and benchmark them properly\, and to employ the right computational infrastructure effectively. The School will be organized in two weeks. T he first week will be dedicated to scientific software engineering concep ts/tools\, with the emphasis on topics such as: software life cycle\, wri ting and managing scientific software\, compiling\, debugging\, and re-us ing the code etc. Theoretical lectures will be combined with the practica l exercises in computer laboratories where students will practice the con cepts discussed during the lectures on their own scientific software proj ect. The second week will be then entirely dedicated to complete personal and/or group projects. Students will work actively on their own specifi c software and computational problems that should be attached to the appl ication\, according to below template ("Research project questionnaire - case to work on during the School"). A preliminary good knowledge of Linu x OS is required. HOW TO APPLY FOR PARTICIPATION: The online applica tion form can be accessed at below link. Once in the website\, comprehens ive instructions will guide you step-by-step\, on how to fill out and sub mit online the application. During the registration process\, APPLICANTS WILL BE ASKED TO UPLOAD THEIR OWN PROPOSAL FOR A SHORT RESEARCH PROJECT TO WORK ON DURING THE SCHOOL. SUCH A PROPOSAL SHOULD BE PREPARED ACCORDIN G TO THE TEMPLATE AVAILABLE BELOW ("Research project questionnaire - case to work on during the School"). PLEASE DOWNLOAD SUCH FILE AND COMPLETE I T BEFORE GOING THROUGH THE ONLINE APPLICATION PROCEDURE. Since selection of candidates will be done mainly on the basis of scientific relevance an d excellence of research projects submitted\, the quality and the feasib ility of such projects are essential. Therefore\, applications without re search projects will not be considered. DEADLINES FOR REQUESTING PARTICIP ATION: - 15 November 2011 (if financial support and/or visa are needed) - 10 January 2012 (if neither financial support nor visa are needed)\n\nhttp s://events.saifa.rs/event/236/ LOCATION:Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)\, Trieste\, Italy URL:https://events.saifa.rs/event/236/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR