SciSmalltalk: Doing Science with Agility

First Name: Serge
Last Name: Stinckwich
Type: Talk

Abstract:
In this talk, we will present SciSmalltalk, an ongoing open-source
effort in order to have something similar to existing scientific
librairies like NumPy, SciPy for Python or SciRuby for Ruby.
SciSmalltalk already define the following basic functionalities:
complex and quaternions extensions, random number generators, fuzzy
algorithms, Didier Besset's numerical methods, Ordinary Differential
Equation (ODE) Solver.

I will provide a broad overview of the SciSmalltalk library current
state and present future development. As an illustration of
SciSmalltalk, I will also present one application, the KENDRICK
platform to visualize and analyze epidemiological models.

Bio:
Serge was introduced to Smalltalk during his master in 1990 and since
then is a Smalltalk zealot.
Serge is assistant-professor at Paris 6 University and adjunct
researcher at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) in an
international joint research unit called UMMISCO working on computer
science modelling of complex systems.

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