Working Workshops as opposed to “talking workshops” are meetings where the participants collaborate in small groups to develop new software code or to conduct computational experiments addressing a particular problem.

The 2018 Working Workshop took place in Houston on August 8-11. It was hosted by the University of Houston and organized by Karl Schleicher. The topic of the workshop was Python and Julia programming languages, as well as their interfaces to Madagascar.

The workshop attracted 16 participants (students, academic staff, and industry professionals) from 12 different organizations. Software projects included such topics as machine learning, 3D plotting, parallel processing, wave equation modeling, and well log analysis.