Hi all, The time for the Scipy'09 conference is rapidly approaching, and we would like to both announce the plan for tutorials and solicit feedback from everyone on topics of interest. Broadly speaking, the plan is something along the lines of �what we had last year: one continuous 2-day tutorial �aimed at introductory users, starting from the very basics, and in parallel a set of 'advanced' tutorials, consisting of a series of 2-hour sessions on specific �topics. We will request that the presenters for the advanced tutorials keep the 'tutorial' word very much in mind, so that the sessions really contain hands-on learning work and not simply a 2-hour long slide presentation. �We will �thus require that all the tutorials will be _base_d on tools that the attendees can install at least 2 weeks in advance on all �platforms (no I released it last night software). With that in mind, we'd like feedback from all of you on possible topics for the advanced tutorials. �We have space for 8 slots total, and here are in no particular order some possible topics. �At this point there are no guarantees yet that we can get presentations for these, but we'd like to establish a first list of preferred topics to try and secure the presentations as soon as possible. This is simply a list of candiate topics that various people have informally suggested so far: - Mayavi/TVTK - Advanced topics in matplotlib - Statistics with Scipy - The TimeSeries scikit - Designing scientific interfaces with Traits - Advanced numpy - Sparse Linear Algebra with Scipy - Structured and record arrays in numpy - Cython - Sage - general tutorial - Sage - specific topics, suggestions welcome - Using GPUs with PyCUDA - Testing strategies for scientific codes - Parallel processing and mpi4py - Graph theory with Networkx - Design patterns for efficient iterator-_base_d scientific codes. - Symbolic computing with sympy We'd like to hear from any ideas on other possible topics of interest, and we'll then run a doodle poll �to gather quantitative feedback with the final list of candidates. Many thanks, f