MakieCon 2023

We're happy to announce our first MakieCon! The conference will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, from the 18th of April to 20th of April.

If you want to join, please fill out the application form.

Deadline January 10th

We need to limit the applicants to around 30, so be quick to sign up if you want to come.

Topics

  • High performance computing and interactive visualizations with GPUs

  • Work on new features like recipes and better interactive APIs

  • Exposure of the julia ecosystem to scientists/potential users in the climate science domain.

  • Get acquainted with the language as well as the current development of visualizations tools to help communicate our science better

Confirmed Attendees

Simon Danisch, Julius Krumbiegel, Pietro Vertechi, Frederic Freyer, Frederik Banning, Anshul Singhvi, George Datseris, etc. Benedikt V. Ehinger, Michael Grabbe Borregaard, Hans Wuerfel, Fabian Greimel, Florian Atteneder

Preliminary Agenda

Day 1 – 18.04.2023

Time Title Speaker
09:00-09:15 Welcome and Agenda TBD
09:15-9:40 Makie Ecosystem Simon Danisch
10:00-10:15 Design of Makie's Layout System Julius Krumbiegel
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:45-11:00 Goals for this event Julius Krumbiegel & Simon Danisch
11:00-11:30 MathTeXEngine.jl : reinventing the LaTeX wheel in Julia Benoît Richard
11:30-12:00 Visualization of EEG brain potentials Benedikt V. Ehinger & Vladimir Mihkeev
12-00:13:00 Lunch break
13:00-18:00 Hack-a-THON 1 Work on MakieCon goals. Discuss your idea/problem or package with Developers. A new Package?
15:30-15:45 Coffe-Break
14:00-18:00 Hack-a-THON 2 Work on MakieCon goals. Discuss your idea/problem or package with Developers. A new Package?

Day 2 – 19.04.2023

Time Title Speaker
09:00-09:10 Agenda-Progress
09:10-09:30 Science without viz is like the dark without a torch Markus Reichstein
09:30-10:15 Pipelines for Fast and Accurate Visualization of Arbitrarily Large Datasets James A. Bednar
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:15 Building data visualizations interactively with Algebra of Graphics Pietro Vertechi
11:15-12:00 Visualizing Tabular Data Bogumił Kamiński
12-00:13:00 Lunch break
13-00-14-00 Visual Break [Using Makie to visualize Earth Observations Data] Lazaro Alonso
14:00-19:00 Hack-a-THON 3 Work on MakieCon goals. Discuss your idea/problem or package with Developers. A new Package?
15:30-15:45 Coffe-Break

Day 3 – 20.04.2023

Time Title Speaker
09:00-09:15 Agenda-Progress
09:15-10:00 Climate models and data analyses Gaël Forget
10:00-10:15 From Sensor to Insight: Data Visualization for IoT Applications Iga Szczesniak
10:15-10:30 Visualizing weather radar data with GeoMakie Tabea Wilke
10:30-10:45 Coffe break
10:45-11:30 The design of GeoMakie 2.0 Anshul Singhvi
11:30-12:00 Final thoughts and achievements