Invitation to teach at AIMS

[pipedream]

Hi

I am the IT Manager at www.aims.ac.za in Cape Town, South
Africa,
where Marshall Hampton (biopython spkg) recently taught a course. We
teach
some of the best students across Africa in a 4th or 5th year
postgraduate
diploma preparing them for a masters in research. I have a
little
involvement in the academic programme, especially where open
source
scientific computing comes
in.

The programme has three phases, "skills courses", "review
courses",
and "essay phase". Our skills phase include courses
called
"Mathematical problem solving", "Mathematical methods",
and
"Software development using python". They have
similarities
and overlap with William Stein's 480b course (below)
which
I noticed on sage-edu recently, http://wiki.wstein.org/09/480b
The courses were historically based on scipy and maxima,
and
are now starting to include
SAGE.

The programme is divided into three-week slots with 30
contact
hours, and a lot of practical computational work
historically
in scipy and maxima, now including more SAGE. The
python
course is increased to 6 weeks. There is some
flexibility
in the dates and topics of the first few courses mentioned
above
AIMS provides several tutors to assist lecturers in
tutorials
and grading and so
on.

If you are interested, please
visit
http://www.aims.ac.za/english/courseguidelines.php

I'd be happy to answer any queries you have or
give
you more information if you were interested now or
in
the future. I am sometimes on #sage-devel as
'pipedream'.

regards,
Jan

[Marshall Hampton]

Hey, that's great that the python course will be longer. I think
that's a good idea.

While Jan can answer a lot of questions, I am also happy to answer
from the perspective of someone who has taught a "review" course. It
was a very interesting and rewarding experience. I would apply to do
it again next year but I am coming up for tenure and the timing is not
so good, but I definitely hope to teach at AIMS again. Feel free to
email me off-list: mhampton at d dot umn dot edu.

Marshall Hampton

On Apr 15, 5:07 am, pipedream <jan.groenew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>

> I am the IT Manager atwww.aims.ac.zain Cape Town, South

> Africa,
> where Marshall Hampton (biopython spkg) recently taught a course. We
> teach
> some of the best students across Africa in a 4th or 5th year
> postgraduate
> diploma preparing them for a masters in research. I have a
> little
> involvement in the academic programme, especially where open
> source
> scientific computing comes
> in.
>
> The programme has three phases, "skills courses", "review
> courses",
> and "essay phase". Our skills phase include courses
> called
> "Mathematical problem solving", "Mathematical methods",
> and
> "Software development using python". They have
> similarities
> and overlap with William Stein's 480b course (below)
> which

> I noticed on sage-edu recently,http://wiki.wstein.org/09/480b

> The courses were historically based on scipy and maxima,
> and
> are now starting to include
> SAGE.
>
> The programme is divided into three-week slots with 30
> contact
> hours, and a lot of practical computational work
> historically
> in scipy and maxima, now including more SAGE. The
> python
> course is increased to 6 weeks. There is some
> flexibility
> in the dates and topics of the first few courses mentioned
> above
> AIMS provides several tutors to assist lecturers in
> tutorials
> and grading and so
> on.
>
> If you are interested, please

> visithttp://www.aims.ac.za/english/courseguidelines.php