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

TimeTitleSpeaker
09:00-09:15Welcome and AgendaTBD
09:15-9:40Makie EcosystemSimon Danisch
10:00-10:15Design of Makie's Layout SystemJulius Krumbiegel
10:15-10:30Coffee break
10:45-11:00Goals for this eventJulius Krumbiegel & Simon Danisch
11:00-11:30MathTeXEngine.jl : reinventing the LaTeX wheel in JuliaBenoît Richard
11:30-12:00Visualization of EEG brain potentialsBenedikt V. Ehinger & Vladimir Mihkeev
12-00:13:00Lunch break
13:00-18:00Hack-a-THON 1Work on MakieCon goals. Discuss your idea/problem or package with Developers. A new Package?
15:30-15:45Coffe-Break
14:00-18:00Hack-a-THON 2Work on MakieCon goals. Discuss your idea/problem or package with Developers. A new Package?

Day 2 – 19.04.2023

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

Day 3 – 20.04.2023

TimeTitleSpeaker
09:00-09:15Agenda-Progress
09:15-10:00Climate models and data analysesGaël Forget
10:00-10:15From Sensor to Insight: Data Visualization for IoT ApplicationsIga Szczesniak
10:15-10:30Visualizing weather radar data with GeoMakieTabea Wilke
10:30-10:45Coffe break
10:45-11:30The design of GeoMakie 2.0Anshul Singhvi
11:30-12:00Final thoughts and achievements