Hands-on Computational Tutorial

Computational hands-on exercises on Tuesday 7 March will be hosted and webcast by the CSC – IT Center for Science, the Finnish national HPC resource. Tutorials will cover the following topics:

Tutorial Team: Filippo Federici Canova, Marc Jäger, Yashasvi Ranawat, Lauri Himanen.

  • part I: materials descriptors
  • part II: unsupervised learning
  • part III: neural networks
  • part IV: kernel regression techniques


Location

All hands-on exercises will take place at the CSC (Keilaranta 14, Espoo) and the ADF (Betonimiehenkuja 5C, 02150 Espoo) at one of the three venues:

  1. CSC Dogmi room: live instruction (webcast), 24 participants, workstations available (Filippo F. Canova)
  2. CSC Debatti room: webcast instruction, 20 participants, own laptop required (Yashasvi Ranawat)
  3. ADF Stage room: webcast instruction, all participants, own laptop required (Marc Jäger)

Setup instructions

Own laptop is essential to getting hands-on experience of the tutorial. All exercises are stored in python3 notebooks. Computing should be executed locally on own laptop, for best learning.

Linux OS is desirable to execute 100% of the exercises, through 75% can be executed with OS X or Windows. Requirements include: python3, jupyter. Download and setup the tutorial on your own laptop by following the installation instructions script.

Please prepare own laptop for the tutorial before Monday 6 May. If you need additional assistance or cannot install the tutorial, please email us or ask us at the registration desk on 6 May.