Knowledge Quarter TechSocial | Wed. 16th Oct. 2019 | Mosè Giordano from UCL

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Wednesday 16th July 2019: Mosè Giordano from University College London

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Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing

Abstract

Julia is a relatively new programming language, mainly designed for numerical computing, which is gaining more and more attention in the scientific community because of the speed and the high productivity it provides. This talk will go through some of Julia's main features, presenting also the largest present and future scientific applications written in this language.

About the speaker(s)

Mosè Giordano is a research software developer at UCL. He has been contributing to free and open source software for almost a decade, and started using Julia for scientific computing more than three years ago during his PhD in Astrophysics.

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