# Welcome to the SimPEG Discourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started\ **Created:** [November 8, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-the-simpeg-discourse/7 "2019-11-08T04:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lheagy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/simpeg.discourse.group/lheagy/32/6_2.png) [@lheagy](https://simpeg.discourse.group/u/lheagy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-the-simpeg-discourse/7/1 "2019-11-08T04:45:12Z")
Welcome to the SimPEG discourse! This is a place for the SimPEG community to interact with one another, ask questions, share ideas, find collaborators, ask for help, and provide support to other community members. ## Who is this for? This is meant to be a space for SimPEG users, developers, and newcomers to the community to interact and learn from each other. It’s meant to be a space that’s also searchable and archivable, which will hopefully make it a valuable resource for people to about simulations, inversions, and using Python for geophysics! ## What should we talk about? This is meant to be a general resource for topics related to simulations and inversions in geophysics and using SimPEG. You are welcome to post anything related to these. We have organized the site into a [few categories](http://simpeg.discourse.group/categories) to help focus conversations, but don’t worry if your topic doesn’t clearly fit into one of these categories. We will adapt the site along the way. Here are a few topics you might take a look at for getting started: - [Potential Fields](https://simpeg.discourse.group/c/potential-fields/) - [DC Resistivity and IP](https://simpeg.discourse.group/c/dcip/) - [Electromagnetics](https://simpeg.discourse.group/c/electromagnetics/) - [Flow](https://simpeg.discourse.group/c/flow/) ## More resources Below is a collection of resources on SimPEG, getting started with Python, and a few references on inversion. Please feel free to add to this post if you have other favourite resources you would like to share! ### On SimPEG - [SimPEG website](https://simpeg.xyz) - [Documentation](https://docs.simpeg.xyz) - [GitHub](https://github.com/simpeg) - [Active research using SimPEG](https://github.com/simpeg-research) ### Python - [Software Carpentry](https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/) - [A Whirlwind Tour of Python](https://jakevdp.github.io/WhirlwindTourOfPython/) - [Python Data Science Handbook](https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/) ### A few references on inversion - [Inversion for Applied Geophysics: A Tutorial](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Douglas_Oldenburg/publication/238708196_5_Inversion_for_Applied_Geophysics_A_Tutorial/links/004635282572529927000000.pdf) - [SimPEG Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2015.09.015) and the [SimPEG Electromagnetics Paper](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.06.018) ## Feedback If you have feedback or ideas on how we can improve this to better serve the community, then feel free to post in the [site feedback category](https://simpeg.discourse.group/c/site-feedback/). ---
**Author:** ![lheagy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/simpeg.discourse.group/lheagy/32/6_2.png) [@lheagy](https://simpeg.discourse.group/u/lheagy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-the-simpeg-discourse/7/2 "2019-12-29T20:01:33Z")
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**Author:** ![lheagy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/simpeg.discourse.group/lheagy/32/6_2.png) [@lheagy](https://simpeg.discourse.group/u/lheagy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://simpeg.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-the-simpeg-discourse/7/3 "2019-12-29T20:01:49Z")