SLiM Workshop in New York City, October 28 - November 1, 2024

[Ben Haller]

Hi folks!  There will be a SLiM Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, NY, October 28 - November 1, 2024.  Apologies for the short notice, this plan just came together.  The host institution is the AMNH, and the workshop host is Apurva Narechania, anare...@amnh.org.  Contact me (bha...@mac.com) if you have questions about the workshop itself; contact Apurva if you have questions about the AMNH, NYC, etc.  Further information for attendees can be found at http://benhaller.com/workshops/workshops_attendees.html.  Please do not apply to the workshop unless you are sufficiently serious that you will actually attend, if accepted.  Please DO NOT make travel arrangements until you have been formally accepted to the workshop.

This workshop is open for registration NOW.  It will be free, and open to participants outside of the host institution.  HOWEVER, registration is required, and a limited number of seats are available.  I expect this workshop to fill quickly, and the timeframe is unusually short, so I would recommend that you register as soon as possible.  The registration form can be found here:

https://forms.gle/cP4DyWXk6PVksxGU9

Some seats will be reserved for one week, until the end of the day August 21, for internal applicants affiliated with the AMNH.  The other seats are first-come-first-served, starting now; and and reserved seats that are left unfilled at the end of the priority period will become first-come-first-served.

The plan is to cover all the major topics in the SLiM manual, starting with lots of introductory material to get beginners up to speed with SLiM and its associated scripting language Eidos, and ending up at advanced topics like non-Wright-Fisher models, tree-sequence recording, continuous-space models, nucleotide-based models, and multispecies models.  We won't cover everything in the manual – that would be overwhelming! – but we'll try to cover all the big topics.  There will also be time for attendees to work on their own models with help from me, and we may also have time to explore some optional side topics that are of particular interest to those attending each workshop.  The workshop will be taught principally using SLiMgui, SLiM's graphical modeling environment.  SLiMgui is cross-platform on macOS, Linux, and Windows.  Every attendee will need their own laptop with SLiM and SLiMgui installed (see the info for attendees page for more information on software and hardware requirements).  Loaner laptops are sometimes available for workshops, for those who do not have one; please let us know (on the registration form) if you will need one.

I hope to offer more workshops next spring/summer in Europe, but they have not yet been announced.  I have no plans for other North America workshops at this time.  If you would like to invite me to give a workshop at your institution, please send me an email (off-list).

Please spread the word so more folks hear about this; feel free to share the link to this post on social media and such.  Thanks!

Cheers,

Benjamin C. Haller
Messer Lab
Cornell University