Rowan Cockett
Rowan is on the Executable Books team where he develops MyST Markdown (https://myst-tools.org) in the context of scientific writing. Rowan is also the CEO and cofounder of Curvenote, which is an interactive, online writing platform for science, engineering & research teams, with dedicated integrations to Jupyter. Rowan has a Ph.D. in computational geophysics from the University of British Columbia (UBC). While at UBC, Rowan helped start SimPEG, a large-scale simulation and parameter estimation package for geophysical processes (electromagnetics, fluid-flow, gravity, etc.), which is used in industry, national labs, and universities globally. He has won multiple awards for innovative dissemination of research and open-educational resources, including a geoscience modelling application, Visible Geology, that has been used by more than a million geoscience students to interactively explore conceptual geologic models.
Curvenote
Git*hub|lab –rowanc1
Twitter handle –rowancockett
Session
Imagine a world where there are tools allowing any researcher to easily produce high quality scientific websites. Where it's trivial to include rich interactive figures that connect to Jupyter servers or run in-browser with WASM & pyodide, all from a local folder of markdown files and Jupyter notebooks.
We introduce MyST Markdown (https://mystmd.org/), a set of open-source, community-driven tools designed for open scientific communication.
It's a powerful authoring framework that supports blogs, online books, scientific papers, preprints, reports and journals articles. It includes thebe a minimal connector library for Jupyter, and thebe-lite that bundles a JupyterLite server with pyodide into any web page for in-browser python. It also provides publication-ready tex and pdf generation from the same content base, minimising the rework of publishing to the web and traditional services.