Topics

Here, we can keep track of the topics. Put possible future topics in the Suggested Topics table. Topics for which we have a speaker lined up go into Scheduled Topics.

Please don't delete topics that have already been talked about, but instead put them in Previous Topics. This is useful to look up who might be an expert at the USM in some particular topic, or it might help up see what we haven't talked about in a while - perhaps it's worth to revisit that topic!

Scheduled Topics

Date	Title	Speaker
Sep 16th	Command Line AI Agents	Tommy Chi Ho Lau (Univ. Chicago)
Oct 12th	TBA	TBA
Oct 26th	TBA	Nico Schuster
Nov 9th	3D Animations with Blender	Sebastian Stammler (LMU)
Nov 23rd	Computing resources & IT infrastructure at USM and RBG	Fabian Jakub (LMU)
Dec 7th	TBA	TBA
Dec 21st	TBA	TBA
Jan 18th	TBA	TBA
Feb 1st	TBA	TBA

Previous Topics

Date	Topic	Description	Speaker	Material
Jul 20th	Ray-tracing through Cosmological Simulations		Ralf Konietzka (CfA)
Jul 6th	Visualizations	Introducing Manim	Til Birnstiel (LMU)	Website, Recording
Jun 8th	Productivity Tools and General Resources		Speed Dating	Recording
Jun 1st	AI	AI Agents, Done Right.	Giovanni Picogna (LMU)	Website with material, Recording
May 18th	Obsidian, Zotero, Overleaf	A Short Introduction to Obsidian, Zotero, Overleaf	Kim Weiskopf (LMU)	Slides (.pdf), Recording
May 4th	Profiling	Understanding performance using SPACE-Timers	Geray Karademir (LMU)	Slides (.pdf), Recording
Jan 26th	Weights & Biases	Blackbox or black hole? Mastering MLOps with Weights & Biases	Hans Ramsl (Weights & Biases by CoreWeave)	Recording
Jan 12th	Mathematica	Introduction to Wolfram Mathematica	Daniel Karner (LMU)	Recording
Dec 8th	Command Line Tools		Speed Dating	Recording
Nov 17th	SLURM	Submit, Sleep, and Conquer: Getting Started with SLURM	Malte Busmann (LMU)	Slides (.pdf), Recording
Nov 3rd	CuPy & cuDF	How to accelerate Python with GPUs easily	Geray Karademir (LMU)	Slides (.pdf), Notebook (.ipynb), Recording
Oct 20th	GitHub Copilot	Using Copilot in VS Code	Giovanni Picogna	Recording
Jul 28th	Hugo	Build a website with Hugo	Alex Ziampras	Recording
Jul 14th	showyourwork!	Workflow management tool for open science	Giovanni Picogna	Slides (.pdf), Recording
Jun 2nd	InvokeAI	Image Generation with InvokeAI	Sebastian Stammler	Recording
May 19th	VS Code Extensions		Speed Dating	Recording
May 5th, 2025	Scalability	Strong and weak scaling	Geray Karademir	Presentation, Example_Code.py, Recording
Feb 10, 2025	pixi	a faster way to manage packages and environments	Robert Redl & Til Birnstiel	Presentation, Recording
Jan 13, 2025	Dask	Parellelism in Pythin with Dask	Luca Sala	Recording
Dec 9, 2024	LaTeX	Speed Dating	Discussion	Recording
Nov 25, 2024	OpenMP / OpenACC	The Easy Ways to GPU Programming	Giovanni Tedeschi	Slides, Material, Recording
Nov 4, 2024	Z shell	Z shell, and why you should use it instead of bash	Stefan Heigl	Recording
Oct 21, 2024	Computing at LMU	Introduction to the Computing Resources at LMU	Asmita Bhandare & Til Birnstiel	Recording, Collab
Jul 8, 2024	Julia	Introduction to the Julia Programming Langugage	Ludwig Böss	Recording
May 27, 2024	Gaussian Processes	Gaussian Processes: the pocket-knife of statistical modelling	Markus Rau	Recording, Website
May 13, 2024	Sphinx	Building Documentations with Sphinx	Sebastian Stammler	Repository, Recording
May 6, 2024	LRZ GitLab	Continuous Integration at LRZ GitLab	Geray Karademir	Slides (.pdf), Recording
Apr 22, 2024	Meson	Introduction to the Meson Build System	León-Alexander Hühn	Slides (.pdf), Recording
Jan 22, 2024	Quarto	Open-source publishing	Giovanni Picogna	Repository, Recording
Jan 15, 2024	Cartopy / healpy	Map projections	Stefan Heigl	Slides (.html), Recording
Dec 11, 2023	Python modules	Speed Dating	Discussion	Material, Recording
Nov 27, 2023	Mixed-language programming with MPI	MPI	Tommy Chi Ho Lau	Material, Recording
Nov 13, 2023	GNU Guix	Reproducible environments with GNU Guix	Iliya Tikhonenko	Presentation, Recording
Nov 6, 2023	PyTorch	Introduction to PyTorch	Sebastian Stammler	Repository, Recording
Oct 30, 2023	Model fitting using MCMC	Markov chain Monte Carlo	Geray Karademir	Notebook, Recording
Oct 23, 2023	AI Tools in Science	Speed Dating	Discussion	Recording
July 25th, 2023	Your software as a product		Maximilian Imgrund & Wolfgang Mehner (TNG)
July 11th, 2023	glue	Introduction to the glue visualization software	Ralf Konietzka
June 27th, 2023	OpenMP	Shared-memory parallelization with OpenMP	Tommy Chi Ho Lau	Slides (.pdf), Recording
June 13th, 2023	VisIt & ParaView	Introduction to data visualization with VisIt and ParaView	Luca Sala	Recording
May 30th, 2023	AR.js	Augmented Reality on Science Posters	Tommaso Grassi	Slides (.pdf), Recording
May 16th, 2023	Pickle	Reusable calculations using serialisation with pickle	Martin Kerscher	Slides (.pdf), Examples (.zip), Recording
April 18th, 2023	Click	Command line programs with Click	Sebastian Stammler	Documentation, Recording
Feb 7th, 2023	Moodle	Implenting and running courses via LMU Moodle	Nico Hamaus / Jochen Weller	Recording
Jan 24th, 2023	Memoization	How to speed up often called functions	Stefan Heigl	Notebook, Recording
Jan 10th, 2023	Plotly.js	Interactive plots for your website	Ludwig Böss	Recording
Dec 13th, 2022	Machine Learning	PyTorch	Elena Hoemann / Thomas Pfeil	Recording
Nov 29th, 2022	Machine Learning	Introduction	Sebastian Stammler	Repository, Recording
Nov 15th, 2022	Git	Migrating from SVN to Git	Christian Rab	Slides, Recording
Oct 18th, 2022	Julia	Introduction to Julia	Ludwig Böss	Material, Recording
July 26th, 2022	Jax	Gradient-based Bayesian Inference with JAX	Brett Morris	Repository, Recording
July 12th, 2022	ParaView	An Introduction to data visualization with ParaView	Sandro Paetzold	Recording
June 28th, 2022	Euclid	The Euclid ecosystem for software development and data processing	Martin Kümmel	Slides, Recording
June 14th, 2022	Software Licenses	Why your software needs licenses	Sebastian Stammler	Recording
May 31st, 2022	Ctypes/Cython	Speeding up Python	Steffen Hagstotz	Recording
May 17th, 2022	Numba	Speeding up Python	Stephan Vladutescu-Zopp	Notebook, Recording
May 3rd, 2022	Cupy/Torch	Introduction to GPU computing	Eric Pellegrini	Recording
Jan 25, 2022	Python	High Performance Python	Valentin Ziel	Repository, Recording
Jan 11, 2022	Julia	Introduction to Julia	Ludwig Böss	Notebook, Material (.tar), Recording
Dec 14, 2021	SciPy	Introduction to SciPy	Sandro Paetzold	Notebook, Recording
Nov 30, 2021	Agile Working		TNG
Nov 16, 2021	gcc	Profiling with gcc compilers	Vignesh Vaikundaraman	Presentation, Recording
Oct 26, 2021	pytest	Unit Tests and Code Coverage in Python	Sebastian Stammler	Recording, Additional Repository
Oct 12, 2021	JWST	Synthesizing observations for JWST NIRCam	Raphael Franz	Presentation, Material, Recording
Jul 27, 2021	Python	Python's concurrent.futures	Levi Walls	Presentation, Notebook, Recording
Jul 13, 2021	VSCode	Working remotely on the USM systems	Ludwig Böss	Handout, Recording
Jun 15, 2021	Astropy	Introduction to Astropy	Levi Walls	Presentation, Workshop, Recording
Jun 1, 2021	Raspberry Pi	Preparing a Raspberry Pi 4 netboot	Claus Gössl	Presentation, Recording
May 18, 2021	Python Classes	A class on Python classes	Stefan Heigl	Notebook, Recording
May 4, 2021	Differential Equations & Machine Learning	Reducing the computational cost of solving systems of differential equations via machine learning	Tommaso Grassi	Presentation, Recording
Feb 9, 2021	Makefiles	A brief introduction into makefiles	Sebastian Stammler	Tutorial, Recording
Jan 26, 2021	Counting pairs using C++ and openmp		Martin Kerscher	Presentation (.pdf), Material (.tar.gz), Recording
Jan 12, 2021	Building Websites	Building websites using Wordpress	Apostolos Zormpas	Presentation, Recording
Dec 15, 2020	Python Packaging & PyPI		Til Birnstiel	Presentation, Repository, Recording
Dec 1, 2020	GitHub Actions	Continuous integration service	Ludwig Böss	Repository, Recording
Nov 17, 2020	Jenkins	Continuous integration tool	David Hubber	Slides, Recording
Nov 3, 2020	Simframe	Framework for scientific simulations	Sebastian Stammler	Documentation, Notebooks, Recording
Oct 20, 2020	USM Computers	Introduction to the USM Computer Systems	Keith Butler	Slides, Recording
Jul 28, 2020	Julia	Parallelisation and Package develompment in Julia	Ludwig Böss	Repository (Github), Recording
Jul 14, 2020	Docker	Containers for virtual operating systems	Michał Drzał (Sybilla Technologies)	Presentation (pdf), Recording
Jun 30, 2020	Using LRZ Resources	Overview of the Computing Resources at the LRZ	Sebastian Stammler & Til Birnstiel	Repository (Github), Recording
Jun 16, 2020	v_normal x80	A typical development iteration in a nutshell	Alexander Arth & Maximilian Imgrund (TNG)	Presentation (pdf), Recording
Jun 02, 2020	Tmux	Terminal multiplexer & session manager	Manuel Behrendt	Presentation (pdf), Materials (zip), Recording
May 19, 2020	Atom/VSCode	Remotely working with Atom and VSCode	Ludwig Böss	Handout, Recording
May 5, 2020	Python environments	Virtual Environments for Python	Stefan Heigl	Notebook, Recording
Apr 7, 2020	Jupyter Notebooks	Remotely using Jupyter Notebooks	Til Birnstiel	Notebook, Recording
May 7, 2019	Neural Networks	Quickstart to Neural Networks (with Keras)	Matías Gárate	Slides (.pptx), Notebooks
Apr 9, 2019	Flask & Dash	Creating interactive plots for websites	Ludwig Böss
Mar 26, 2019	Parallelizing Code with OpenMP	A short introduction to OpenMP based on source code examples	Johann Weber	slides, code
Mar 12, 2019	Matplotlib	How to make nice plots with matplotlib	Stefan H.	slides
Feb 12, 2019	Julia	A Fresh Approach to Scientific Computing	Manuel B. & Ludwig B.	slides
Jan 29, 2019	Wielding the Power of C++11	-	Martin K.	slides and example code
Dec 4, 2018	Software Engineering Best Practices	Practices/tools helpful in & out of academia	A. Bartl, M. Imgrund (TNG)
Nov 27, 2018	Python3	Cool features and how to get there from Python2	Joerg D.	slides
Nov 6, 2018	Design Patterns in OOP	-	David H.	slides and example code
Sept 25, 2018	OpenACC	-	Antonio R.
July 27, 2018	CUDA	Introduction to GPU programming with CUDA	Korbinian H.	slides and example code
July 3, 2018	Numba	How to (not) speed up python with numba	Sebastian S.	slides and example code
June 19, 2018	Gaspi/GPI	Intro to a new F-/C-library for parallel programming	Oliver Z.	slides and example code
May 8, 2018	Debugging und Unit Testing	Intro to pdbg and pytest	Joerg D.	code and slides
April 24, 2018	Python extending and embedding	Speeding up your Python code with C extensions	Michael W.	code and slides
April 10, 2018	Best Practices in Software Development and Design	Tips, tools and best practices for software developing	Martin	slides and example code
March 13, 2018	git	Learn how to use git and github to organize your project	David	slides
February 27, 2018	ctypes & cython	How to speed up your python code	Steffen	code
January 30, 2018	pandas	introduction to the pandas package	Kerstin	notebook
December 12, 2017	ipython notebooks	ipython notebooks: why and how to use them.	Til	notebook

Suggested Topics

Topic	Description	Speaker
ipyparallel		Til?
Python tidbits	loading functions, recarrays, string formatting, zip, dictionaries, generators,	Kerstin+?
openMP
Online Vizualization		Someone from magneticum.org?
Locally available services	owncloud, gitlab, github-educational account, adobe connect	Kerstin/Til?
python & Lectures	How to use python or notebooks in your lectures or for exercises, or exams.
Interactive visualization	d3, glue or related packages
ipython widgets
computing resources	(queuing systems, LRZ, nice, nohup, ...)
reproducible science	refactoring, and best practices
MPI
HDF5
Makefiles
Input and configuration files
LaTeX related things	whatever people find useful. Examples: exam package
Slack & Flock*