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Events for fall 2025
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • Other local bootcamps and workshops • In-person schools
Webinars
The 2025 Fall Webinars, hosted by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG), take place every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria, Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary), and noon Central (Winnipeg). Webinar registration opens in early September.
For upcoming webinars, click the linked titles to view details or register. For past sessions, click the titles to access recordings and slides.
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep-16 | Introduction to Fir cluster | Alex Razoumov | |
| Sep-30 | Using LLMs in Emacs | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Oct-14 | Globus-cli for file transfer | Alex Razoumov | |
| Oct-28 | The next generation of Python notebooks | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Nov-18 | Creating interactive online visualizations with Trame | Alex Razoumov | |
| Nov-25 | Deep learning experiments tracking with MLflow | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Dec-09 | Command-line OpenStack | Alex Razoumov |
Online courses
SFU Research Computing offers weekly online sessions on advanced research computing, held every Thursday from 10:00am to noon Pacific Time. These sessions are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses run for two weeks, though some may be shorter or longer. Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we aim to encourage live attendance and interaction. We plan to repeat the most popular and introductory sessions throughout the year.
| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to the Unix shell | Sep-11, Sep-18 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Introduction to HPC | Sep-25, Oct-02, Oct-09 | Alex Razoumov | |
| Introduction to Python | Oct-16 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Scientific visualization | Oct-23 | Alex Razoumov | |
| GPU-accelerated Python | Oct-30 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Working with Apptainer containers | Nov-06, Nov-13 | Alex Razoumov | |
| HPC Python | Nov-20, Nov-27, Dec-04 | Alex Razoumov | |
| Machine learning | Dec-11, Dec-18 | Marie-Hélène Burle & Alex Razoumov |
Upcoming bootcamps and workshops
Workshops from other Western Canadian universities will be added here as they are announced.
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
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