Topics of this issue:

Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC:

Attend training in the Nordics:

Training overview:

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Training course: “Tensor flow and Deep Learning”, HPC2N, Umeå, 8-9 May, 2019

This two day course begins with an introduction to Tensorflow and continues with some basic knowledge about Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and how to use GAN advanced deep learning in practice for various applications. Later, we will introduce the recent advanced deep learning models (e.g., Transformer, ELMo, BERT) in NLP (natural language processing).

The course consists of lectures and hands-on exercises. Please bring a laptop.

Participation is free. 

Instructors: Lili Jiang, Xuan-Son Vu, Michele Persiani.

Time and date: 8-9 May, 2019. 9:00-16:30 both days.

Location: N280 (Naturvetarhuset), Umeå University. 

For more information and registration, go to the course website: https://www.hpc2n.umu.se/events/courses/deep-learning-spring-2019

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Seasonal School: HPC for Life Sciences, 10 - 13 June 2019, Stockholm

Molecular modelling and simulations are integral part of biomolecular research. Yet, there is insufficient expertise on efficient usage of HPC resources among the user community.  We are bringing the core developers of GROMACS, NAMD, AMBER and VMD - some of the most popular and well-known applications in the field. Over the 4 days of the event, the school program will allow participants to get a comprehensive understanding of the  usage of the different codes; their scalability and performance, as well as ways to avoid potential issues; and learn the best practices about using them on HPC systems. Extensive hands-on sessions will cover more than half of time during the school. 

The school is jointly organised by PRACE and BioExcel and supported by SNIC.

For more information and registration see: https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/868/   Registration will open on 1st March 2019. 

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Training seminar: “Making your research data fit for a future of open science and open data” in Lund, 25 April 2019, 12:30 - 14:00

Researchers are getting more and more demands on sharing their data.  Demands are coming from funders, publishers, authorities, other researchers etc.  How to share data?  The FAIR Data Principles are supposed to guide researchers in how to share data in order to be F=findable, A=accessible, I=interoperable, R=re-usable.

The seminar will be an introduction to the FAIR Data Principles, which has grown in importance during the last years, among research communities, funders, research infrastructures. The seminar will also bring up practical tips and examples on what you can do as a researcher to make your data FAIR.

The seminar is offered in collaboration with the University Library of Lund University and will be held in English.  The speaker is Maria Johnsson from the University Library.

For more information and registration visit: http://www.lunarc.lu.se/training/making-your-research-data-fit-for-a-future-of-open-science-and-open-data-25-april-2019/

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Training seminar: “C3SE Introductory Seminar” in Gothenburg, 8 May 2019, 15:15 - 17:00

The seminar describes how to work on the systems and introduces the provided toolset.  Work management and best practices are also discussed.  The event is intended for all new users, to get a comprehensive overview on the systems and how to get started with using them. 

For more information and registration see: https://www.c3se.chalmers.se/

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Training opportunities in Sweden, recommended by SNIC

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Training courses in OpenFOAM at foundation and advanced level, Stockholm, 8 - 11 April, 2019

As part of an industry collaboration with the ESI-Group, PDC is offering two training courses on OpenFOAM.  One is at foundation level, the other is at an advanced level.  

For information on the course and possibly discounted course fees, consult the following pages.

Foundation level course: https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/calendar/openfoam-training-foundation-level-1.873028?date=2019-04-08&orgdate=2019-02-07&length=1&orglength=0

Advanced level course: https://www.pdc.kth.se/about/calendar/openfoam-training-advanced-level-1.873036?date=2019-04-10&orgdate=2019-01-24&length=1&orglength=0

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PDC summer school 2019: “Introduction to High Performance Computing”, Stockholm, 19-30 August 2019

Save the dates!

The PDC summer school provides the skills needed to use high-performance computing (HPC) resources, and includes an introduction to a range of topics, such as: 

- HPC programming languages, libraries and tools 

- modern computer architectures 

- parallel algorithms, and 

- optimizing serial and parallel programs. 

Case studies in various scientific disciplines will be used to help illustrate these topics. The course consists of both lectures and guided hands-on lab sessions. 

For more information about the PDC summer school 2019, please visit

https://agenda.albanova.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=6743. 

Please note that there are a limited number of places available in the summer school, so be sure to register early! Course registration opens on April 8, and closes on May 31, 2019.

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Attend training in the Nordics:

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CodeRefinery Training workshop: "Writing Reproducible and Sustainable Research Code”, Helsinki, Finland, 27-29 May 2019

A three-day CodeRefinery workshop on best practices for writing research code will be held in Helsinki, Finland, on 27-29 May. The workshop is for students and researchers who write code in any programming or scripting language, at any level of complexity, but it does not teach specific languages nor how to use the Linux/Unix terminal shell. Instead the focus is on using modern tools and workflows to make coding easier and more structured, reproducible and collaborative. 

Further information and registration details can be found on the course website:

https://coderefinery.org/workshops/2019-05-27-helsinki/ 

There is a limited number of seats available for the workshop, so make sure to register early!

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NeIC Nordic Training Calendar:

The NeIC Nordic Training Calendar gives an overview on eScience related training throughout the Nordics.  Have a look at https://neic.no/training/#neic-training-calendar for an overview on training in Nordic partner countries that is typically accessible to Swedish academic research.  The page also provides direct links to training portals of the national e-Science provides in the Nordics.

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SNIC training webpage

In addition to these news letters we also provide a SNIC training webpage: http://docs.snic.se/wiki/Training 

This webpage currently gives an overview on all courses currently planed.  It provides links to more information and the actual registration.  The webpage also includes training which is expected to be mostly of interest to individual SNIC centres.  Information will be added to this page as it becomes available.