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Adds a news post for the QuantEcon tutorial at SciPy 2026, run by Smit Lunagariya.

Computational Methods for Simulation using JAX and NumPy — Tuesday July 14, 2026, 13:30, HSEC 2-110, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Four-hour tutorial using Thomas Schelling's segregation model as the running example, progressing from plain Python classes through NumPy and JAX to GPU parallelization.

Materials: QuantEcon/scipy_tutorial_2026 · published site

The post is dated to the tutorial date (2026-07-14), matching the convention used for the Bank of Portugal and IMF workshop posts, and tagged workshop. Verified with a local bundle exec jekyll build — it renders on /news/ and at its own permalink with the workshop badge.

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Smit Lunagariya delivered "Computational Methods for Simulation using
JAX and NumPy" at SciPy 2026 (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) on
July 14, 2026. Materials are in QuantEcon/scipy_tutorial_2026.

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Pull request overview

Adds a new Jekyll news post announcing/recapping QuantEcon’s SciPy 2026 tutorial, fitting into the site’s _posts/-driven news feed and post pages.

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  • Adds a dated news post (2026-07-14) describing the SciPy 2026 tutorial content and links to materials.
  • Uses existing site conventions for post front matter (layout: post, excerpt, tag: [workshop]) so the workshop badge renders on /news/ and the post page.

tag: [workshop]
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QuantEcon's [Smit Lunagariya](https://smit-create.github.io/intro.html) delivered a four-hour tutorial on **Computational Methods for Simulation using JAX and NumPy** at [SciPy 2026](https://www.scipy2026.scipy.org/), held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, on July 14, 2026.

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QuantEcon's [Smit Lunagariya](https://smit-create.github.io/intro.html) delivered a four-hour tutorial on **Computational Methods for Simulation using JAX and NumPy** at [SciPy 2026](https://www.scipy2026.scipy.org/), held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, on July 14, 2026.
[Smit Lunagariya](https://smit-create.github.io/intro.html), currently a Google Engineer and ex-QuantEcon RA, delivered a four-hour tutorial on **Computational Methods for Simulation using JAX and NumPy** at [SciPy 2026](https://www.scipy2026.scipy.org/), held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, on July 14, 2026.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Smit Lunagariya's profile now describes him as a QuantEcon Ambassador
working as an engineer at Google, matching the SciPy 2026 news post.
His role moves to a new "QuantEcon Ambassadors" section on the team
page; the Lead Developer badge is retained.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Updated Smit's description here and on the team page so the two agree.

News post (_posts/2026-07-14-scipy-2026-tutorial.md) — the opening line now reads "Google Engineer Smit Lunagariya, a QuantEcon Ambassador, delivered a four-hour tutorial…", replacing the original "QuantEcon's Smit Lunagariya". The materials-credits line at the bottom is unchanged — repeating the affiliation there would be redundant.

Team page — "Ambassador" was not used anywhere on the site before this, and _team-members/smit.md still described him as "a QuantEcon lead developer and now works at Google", so this PR now also introduces the role:

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_team-members/smit.md bio Now reads "Smit Lunagariya is a QuantEcon Ambassador and works as an engineer at Google."
_team-members/smit.md role Research AssistantQuantEcon Ambassador
_team-members/smit.md tag Unchanged (Lead Developer) — kept as the badge so his contribution level stays visible
_layouts/team.html New QuantEcon Ambassadors section, placed between "Developers & Research Assistants" and "Design and Marketing"

Because role is what the team layout filters on, Smit moves out of the "Developers & Research Assistants" list and into the new Ambassadors section. Verified with a local bundle exec jekyll build: the Ambassadors section renders with Smit's card and the Lead Developer badge, he is not duplicated in the developers list (which still shows the other seven), and the news post renders correctly on /news/ and at its own permalink.

The Ambassadors section is currently a section of one. If the intent is that Smit stays listed among the developers and only the wording changes, reverting role to Research Assistant and dropping the layout block is enough — the bio text stands on its own.

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@kp992 update this news item. If you would prefer your wording please open a PR and I can adjust.

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