The conference will feature a mix of talks, posters, discussion workshops and hands-on tutorials. All together these will provide attendees with the opportunity to learn new skills, discuss the state of research software engineering, network and share knowledge. The conference will take place over two days, the 3rd and 4th September 2018.
(* Rooms or times changed since the paper programme went to print)
Day one — Monday 3rd September
10:30 – 11:00 — Refreshment break in the Great Hall
12:00 – 13:00 — Lunch in the Great Hall
13:00 – 14:30 — Parallel session 1
Track A
Talks
Theme: Community |
From Lab to University: Towards an Institutional RSE Career Pathway (James Smithies; King’s College London) |
Elgar Concert Hall |
| Building Nordic-RSE: Why and How? (by alphabetical order: Radovan Bast, Anne Fouilloux, Bjørn Lindi, Radek Lonka, Sri Harsha Vathsavayi, Thor Wikfeldt; University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences) |
| The Knowledge Makers (Matteo Cancellieri; Open University) |
| Surviving as an Apprentice Developer (Matthew Richards; STFC) |
Track B
Talks
Theme: Software Engineering |
Software Engineering Guidelines – From Theory to Practice (Tobias Schlauch, Carina Haupt; German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
Main Lecture Theatre – C Block |
| SIP: Prototyping the Science Data Processing for the Worlds Largest Radio Telescope (Benjamin Mort; The University of Oxford’s e-Research Centre) |
| A (Long) Tale of Academic Software Development (Dominik Jochym; STFC) * |
| SAL: Modernising Data Access for the JET Tokamak (Alex Meakins, Alys Brett; UK Atomic Energy Authority) |
Track C
Workshop |
Inclusive RSE Hiring Practices (Matthew Johnson, Camilla Longden; Microsoft Research, Cambridge) |
Senate Chamber |
Track D
Workshop |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Parallelism with Python (Declan Valters; University of Edinburgh) |
WG5 |
Track E
Workshop |
Using Singularity for High Performance Computing (Mihai Duta; Diamond Light Source, Andrew Gittings; University of Oxford) |
WG12 |
Track F
Workshop |
Data Vizualisation with Shiny (David Mawdsley, Louise Lever; University of Manchester) |
G33 |
14:30-15:00 — Refreshment break in the Great Hall
15:00 – 16:30 — Parallel session 2
| 16:30 – 17:30 |
UK RSE AGM |
Main Lecture Theatre – C Block |
| 19:00-19:30 |
Drinks Reception |
Great Hall Foyer |
| 19:30-23:00 |
Conference Dinner Sponsored by Microsoft Research |
Great Hall |
Day Two — Tuesday 4th September
10:30 – 11:00 — Refreshment break in the Great Hall
11:00 – 12:30 — Parallel session 3
Track C and Track D will finish earlier than the other tracks and lunch will be available from 12:00 to 13:30 in the Great Hall.
Track A
Talks
Theme: Techniques and Technologies |
Fast Code with Just Enough Effort (Pashmina Cameron; Microsoft Research, Cambridge) |
Main Lecture Theatre – C Block |
| Using Apache Kafka to Build a Modular Text Extraction Platform (Julia Damerow; Arizona State University) |
| Quantitative Analysis of the Quality of Python and R Research Software on Github (Dominique Hansen; Berlin School of Library and Information Science/Humboldt University of Berlin) * |
| Easy, Fast, and Robust Data Analysis with Modern C++ (Corentin Schreiber; University of Oxford ) * |
Track B
Talks
Theme: Best Practice |
Life, Death and Resurrection: Lessons from CASTEP (Phil Hasnip; University of York) * |
Elgar Concert Hall |
| Be Prepared to Be Unpopular: Tips on Shutting Services Down (Catherine Jones; STFC) |
| Dealing with Research Software: Recommendations for Best Practices (Kaja Scheliga; Helmholtz Association) |
| Surviving the Vacuum: a Strategy for Sustaining Software in the Absence of RSE Teams (Stephan Druskat, Thomas Krause; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of German Studies and Linguistics) |
Track C
Talks
Theme: Training and Support |
How RSEs Address the Advanced Computing Facilities Accessibility Gap in Higher Education (Laurence Hurst; Advanced Research Computing, University of Birmingham) |
G33 |
| There Are Not Enough RSEs in the World. Is Community Support the Answer? (Simon Hettrick; The Software Sustainability Institute) |
| RSE Training at DLR 2.0 – What We’ve Learned from 1.0 (Carina Haupt, Michael Meinel; German Aerospace Center (DLR)) |
| Early Lunch Start |
Great Hall |
Track D
Talks
Theme: Community |
The Research Software Engineer Culture Shock (Andrew Williams; University of Bristol) |
WG12 |
| The First Year in the Life of a Research Software Group (Andrew Edmondson; Advanced Research Computing, University of Birmingham) |
| Lessons Learnt from Building the RSE Community in Cardiff University (Ian Harvey, Unai Lopez-Novoa; Cardiff University) |
| Early Lunch Start |
Great Hall |
Track E
Workshop |
Lean Tools for Product Development (Ian Mulvany; Sage Publishing) |
Senate Chamber |
Track F
Workshop |
Machine Learning at Scale on AWS with Amazon Sagemaker & Open Data (Brendan Bouffler; Amazon Web Services) |
WG5 |
Track C and Track D will finish earlier than the other tracks and lunch will be available from 12:00 to 13:30 in the Great Hall.
A poster session will run from 12:50 until 13:30 in the Mezzanine on level 1 outside the Elgar Concert Hall.
12:00 – 13:30 — Lunch in the Great Hall
12:50 – 13:30 — Poster session in the Mezzanine outside the Elgar Concert Hall
13:30 – 15:00 — Parallel session 4
Track A
Talks
Theme: Interfaces and Visualisation |
Interactive Research Data Visualisation by Drag-and-Drop (Matthew Walker; University of Southampton) |
Main Lecture Theatre – C Block |
| The Basics of UI Design (Mark Turner; Newcastle University) |
| The Challenges of Creating an Interactive Big Data Visualisation Platform for Meteorology (Stephen Haddad; Met Office) |
| Building Graphical User Interfaces for HPC (Mark Dawson; Swansea University) |
Track B
Talks
Theme: RSEs in Academic Research |
“YOU HAVE 0 CREDIT – PLEASE INSERT C̶O̶I̶N̶ FILE”: The Citation File Format (Stephan Druskat; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of German Studies and Linguistics) |
Elgar Concert Hall |
| Code is Science: a Manifesto for Open Source Code in Science (Yo Yehudi; University of Cambridge) |
| How Reusable Is Software Mentioned in Open Access Papers? an Empirical Study Using code-cite (Neil Chue Hong, Robin Long, Martin O’Reilly, Naomi Penfold, Isla Staden, Alexander Struck, Shoaib Sufi, Matthew Upson, Andrew Walker, Kirstie Whitaker; Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh) |
| Measuring the Financial Return on Investment of the ARCHER eCSE Programme (Lorna Smith, Chris Johnson, Xu Guo, Neelofer Banglawala, Alan Simpson; EPCC, The University of Edinburgh) |
Track C
Workshop |
Scalable High Performance Computing in the Cloud (Ilias Katsardis; Google) |
WG5 |
Track D
Workshop |
An Introduction to Julia (Valentin Churavy; JuliaLab@CSAIL, Massachussetts Institute of Technology) |
WG12 |
Track E
Workshop |
Implicit None? Does Implicit Bias Affect the Careers of Women RSEs? (Catherine Jones; STFC, Joanna Leng; University of Leeds, Kirsty Pringle; University of Leeds, Tania Allard; Hello Soda) |
Senate Chamber |
Track F
Workshop |
Lightweight Data Management with dtool (Tjelvar Olsson, Matthew Hartley; John Innes Centre) |
G33 |
15:00 – 15:30 — Refreshment break – Great Hall
15:30 – 17:00 — Parallel session 5
Track A
Talks
Theme: Scalable Computing |
The DiRAC Distributed RSE Group: Software from the Smallest to the Largest Scales (Andy Turner, Peter Boyle, Guido Cossu, Mark Filipiak, Alexei Borissov, Sam Cox, Jeffrey Salmond; University of Edinburgh, University of Durham, University of Leicester, University of Cambridge) |
Main Lecture Theatre – C Block |
| “So, We Can Toss the Cluster in a Skip, Right?”: Experiences of Computational Biology in the Clouds (Matthew Hartley; The John Innes Centre) |
| High-Performance Artificial Intelligence: Scaling Machine Learning on Supercomputers (Matthew Archer; University of Cambridge ) |
| Adventuring in the Cloud with Materials Chemistry Simulations (Ardita Shkurti, David Bray; STFC SCD, Richard Anderson; STFC Hartree Centre) |
Track B
Talks
Theme: Techniques and Technologies |
Robot Routing with a Quantum Processor (James Clark; STFC Hartree Centre) |
WG5 |
| Utilising the Robot Operating System to Create a Reproducible Platform for Surgical Device Development (Tom Dowrick; UCL) |
| Harnessing AI for Research (Matthew Johnson; Microsoft Research, Cambridge) |
| UiOHive: a Local Hub-node Organization for Building Competence in IoT (by alphabetical order: John F. Burkhart, Ana Costa Conrado, Simom Filhol, Anne Fouilloux; University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences) |
Track C
Workshop |
Parallelising Your MATLAB Analytics (Rory Adams; Mathworks) |
WG12 |
Track D
Workshop |
A Tried-and-tested Workflow for Software Quality Assurance (Mark Woodbridge, Mayeul d’Avezac; Research Computing Service, Imperial College London) |
G33 |
Track E
Workshop |
Building and Running an RSE group: An Open Discussion on the Challenges (Paul Richmond; University of Sheffield, Simon Hettrick; SSI, University of Southampton)
Find out more about the agenda and panel members |
Elgar Concert Hall |
Track F
Workshop |
Improving Research Workflows by Enabling High-Speed Data Transfers (Tim Chown, Jisc; Chris Walker, QMUL; David Salmon, Jisc; Duncan Rand, Jisc/Imperial College;)
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Senate Chamber |
17:00 – 17:15 — Wrap up and Goodbye – Elgar Concert Hall
