5-day workshop on reproducible computational research

Join us for an intensive 5-day workshop on computational reproducibility and scientific computing organized by the MCML. Each day runs from 9:00 AM to approximately 5:00 PM, starting with lecture-style sessions in the morning. After a lunch break, most afternoons will be dedicated to hands-on tutorials, where you can apply the concepts learned in the morning sessions. This workshop is designed to provide a balanced mix of theoretical background and practical skills, ensuring you gain a thorough understanding of key topics, including writing reproducible manuscripts for small-scale data analysis projects, high-performance computing (HPC) for large-scale projects, packaging and software development.

Details of the workshop 

Who: Anybody interested, primary target group are junior MCML PhD students
(Max. 50 participants, please see prerequisites)

Where: Munich, in-person, Location: Richard-Wagner-Str 10, 80333 Munich, Room D 105

What: Topics include reproducible manuscripts, HPC, Packaging, CI/CD, both for R and Python users

How: Lecture-style morning sessions, hands-on tutorials in the afternoons

When: We-Fr, 24.09. - 26.09. &
Mo-Tu, 29.09. - 30.09.
If it is organizationally feasible, we will try to enable participation on individual days.

Prerequisites

Participants must be able to program in R or Python and use Git. 

In general, we consider MCML PhD students to fulfill the requirements.

If you are a student of the Department of Statistics at the LMU and an R user, you should have finished the Introduction to Statistical Software ("StatSoft") and Programming with Statistical Software ("ProgR") courses. We refer other users of R to this list.

Python users should have a level of programming skills that is equivalent to the topics covered in this course: Data Science with Python

You must bring your own laptop! Depending on the practicals you wish to participate in, we expect you to have a suitable version of Python and/or R and other dependencies installed. We will give a more detailed list of requirements before the workshop.

Participation / Registration

Participation is open to all members of LMU and TUM as well as students and researchers from other institutions.
Seats will be given on a first-register, first-serve basis. Half of the seats are reserved for members of the MCML. 

Please register for the workshop by 05.09.2025 by filling in this form.