Re: [Rdkit-devel] [Rdkit-discuss] [Announcement] 7th RDKit UGM in Cambridge UK

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

The optional training events will have separate registration pages (or
maybe just one). I will post the link for those "soon" (hopefully in the
next week).

-greg


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Paul Czodrowski <
Pau...@me...> wrote:

> Great idea about the optional training on the day before.
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> However, I could not see any link (on the eventbrite page) regarding this
> event. There was an option for the dinner & reception, but no training..
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> Or is the “main UGM registration” a different place than the evenbrite
> page?
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> Paul
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> *Von:* Greg Landrum [mailto:gre...@gm...]
> *Gesendet:* Samstag, 7. April 2018 07:14
> *An:* RDKit Discuss <rdk...@li...>; RDKit
> Developers List <rdk...@li...>
> *Cc:* Andreas Bender, PhD <ab...@ca...>
> *Betreff:* [Rdkit-devel] [Announcement] 7th RDKit UGM in Cambridge UK
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> Dear all,
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> This year's RDKit User Group Meeting will take place from 19-21 September
> in Cambridge, UK and is being hosted by Andreas Bender at Cambridge
> University.
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> Registration for the RDKit UGM is free:
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> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7th-rdkit-ugm-2018-tickets-44883066460
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> We will once again mostly stick to what has become a tried and true format:
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> Days 1 and 2: Talks, lightning talks, roundtable(s), discussion, poster
> sessions, and talktorials. For those who haven’t attended before,
> talktorials are somewhere between a talk and a tutorial, they cover
> something interesting done with the RDKit and include the code used to do
> the work. During the presentation you'll give an overview of what you did
> and also show the pieces of the code that are central to the work. The idea
> is to mix the science up with the tutorial aspects.
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> Day 3 will be a hackathon: those who choose to stay will spend an intense
> day working in small groups to produce useful artifacts: new bits of code,
> KNIME nodes, KNIME workflows, tutorials, documentation, IPython notebooks,
> etc. We will once again try to structure this a bit by collecting a bunch
> of ideas for things to work on in advance. Two years ago we also did
> extended tutorials on Day 3; if there are volunteers to do tutorials and
> people interested in attending them, we'll repeat that this year as well.
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> As an experiment this year there will be an optional training day on
> Tuesday the 18th. Andrew Dalke (Dalke Scientific) will offer a course on
> Python and the RDKit and Daria Goldmann (KNIME) will offer a course on
> KNIME and the RDKit. Space for both of these is limited, so we'll do
> separate registrations for them (links will be included on the main UGM
> registration page). Many thanks to Andrew for coming up with the idea to do
> this!
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> There will also be, of course, social activities. This year we have the
> special opportunity to have the dinner on the 19th in the Old Library of
> Pembroke College. I can't wait for that. :-)
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> A more detailed announcement with additional information about place,
> hotels and logistics will follow soon.
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> We are looking for people who are willing to do presentations, talktorials
> or posters on the first two days. If you're interested in contributing,
> please send Greg and Andreas an email.
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> Lightning talks don't need to be arranged too far in advance; we will
> start collecting the list of people interested in doing those shortly
> before the event.
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> Best Regards,
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> Greg and Andreas
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