AiiDA at Google Summer of Code 2020#

Thanks to the folks at NumFOCUS, AiiDA is participating in the Google Summer of Code 2020 under the NumFOCUS umbrella for the first time.

March 5th - Call for participation#

In short, this means that students (at the BSc/MSc or Ph.D. level, see eligibility criteria) can apply to work on an interesting AiiDA coding project for 3 months during the summer (May 18th-August 10th) and get reimbursed for their work.

Applications officially start March 16th, but selection will be competitive, and we recommend

Looking forward to your applications! We’ll keep updating this post as we move along. The AiiDA Team P.S. We are committed to help fight the insane gender imbalance in the open source community - that is to say: women are particularly encouraged to apply.

May 5th - GSOC students announced#

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We’re excited to announce that Jason Eu, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Physics at South China University of Technology, China will be participating in this GSOC working on adding asyncio support in plumpy, aiida-core and circus!

Welcome to the team, Jason! You can follow Jason’s progress on his blog.

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