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RSEConUK 2019

The Fourth Conference of Research Software Engineering was held at the University of Birmingham.

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08:00 BST

Registration (Foyer) 6. The Great Hall

09:00 BST

Welcome and Introduction 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Edmondson • Claire Wyatt Posters available to view from 9am to 3pm 10. Mezzanine Floor, (First floor), Bramall Foyer

09:30 BST

Keynote: Internet of Things, AI, and what lies beyond... 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndy Stanford-Clark

10:30 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

11:00 BST

#1A1 - Engagement and Outreach - Public engagement and RSEs - A vital role? 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallKirsty Pringle #1D1 - Legacy Software - A case study in optimisation of legacy software 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Michele Mesiti #1B1 - Reproducible Research - Reproducible Research Compendia with rrtools 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreAnna Krystalli #1C1 - Mentoring and Inclusivity - Concrete ways to build an inclusive workplace 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Pashmina Cameron • Camilla Longden • Michael Croucher • Miranda Mowbray • Tania Allard • Andrew Fitzgibbon

11:30 BST

#1A2 - Engagement and Outreach - BEAR Software – Coaching - Teaching Researchers to Fish 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallSimon Branford #1D2 - Legacy Software - Refactor, Rewrite or Retire 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Thomas Stainer #1B2 - Reproducible Research - Towards a production-ready solution for reproducible articles 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreMaël Plaine

11:45 BST

#1C2 - Mentoring and Inclusivity - RSE mentoring scheme: a discussion 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran • Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh • Anna (Ania) Brown • Alys Brett • Alexander Konovalov • Jonathan Cooper • Paul Richmond

12:00 BST

#1A3 - Engagement and Outreach - Developing and using a cluster of Raspberry Pis for outreach 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallEd Bennett #1D3 - Legacy Software - Launching Java Applications into the Future 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Ben Soares #1B3 - Reproducible Research - Interoperable software for reproducible research 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreLester Hedges

12:30 BST

Lunch sponsored by Digital Science 6. The Great Hall

13:30 BST

#2A1 - Careers and Culture - (Research Software) Engineering is not Research (Software Engineering) 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallGraham Lee #2D1 - Revitalising Legacy Languages - Teaching an old dog new tricks - object-oriented programming in Fortran 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Chris MacMackin #2B1 - Useful Tools and Libraries - A beginner's guide to Kivy: a multi-touch GUI library for Python 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreSam Cox #2C1 - Policy and Culture - Software development best practices - Why aren’t we implementing them? 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Anna Krystalli • Stephan Druskat • Carsten Thiel • Tobias Schlauch • Lucy Whalley • Radovan Bast

14:00 BST

#2A2 - Careers and Culture - From Trainee to Director - An Institutional RSE Career Pathway 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallJurgen Mitsch #2D2 - Revitalising Legacy Languages - Wasm! and the JavaScript is gone. What is WebAssembly and what can it offer research software? 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Drew Silcock #2B2 - Useful Tools and Libraries - Do you want to change the world (wide web)? 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture Theatre

14:15 BST

#2C2 - Policy and Culture - Creating Impact from research - an opportunity for RSE career development 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17David Gavaghan • Kirsty Pringle • Paul Richmond • Mihaela Duta • Louise Brown

14:30 BST

#2A3 - Careers and Culture - "It works on my machine" - working as a research software engineer in a multi-partner international research project 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallRomain Michalec #2D3 - Revitalising Legacy Languages - Developing Fortran using Python and Literate Programming 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Paul Bartholomew #2B3 - Useful Tools and Libraries - GeoPandas - pepped-up Pandas for geospatial Python powers 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreDeclan Valters • John Stevenson

15:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

15:30 BST

Lightning Talks for Posters 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallTeri Forey • Aiman Shaikh • Kirsty Pringle • Ed Bennett • Anna Krystalli • Anna (Ania) Brown • Simon Hartley • Eli Chadwick • Andrew Lee • Jeremy Cohen • mark_woodbridge.75y7tky • Daouda Sawadogo • Timothy Booth • Tim Powell • Benjamin Mort • Giannis Savva • Matthaios Alexandrakis • Michael Croucher • James Dingle

16:30 BST

Society of Research Software Engineering Address 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallSociety trustees • Alys Brett

16:50 BST

RSE Worldwide: Sharing across borders 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallJohan Philips • Nick May • Neil Chue Hong • Daniel Katz • Jay DesLauriers • Stephan Druskat • Brad Tipp • Sarah Gibson • Niels Drost

18:25 BST

Poster Session with drinks and nibbles 6. The Great HallTeri Forey

18:30 BST

P1 - N8 CIR: Building a collaborative network of RSEs across 8 northern universities 6. The Great HallKirsty Pringle P10 - DYNAMO: Dynamic Analysis Modelling and Optimisation of GDI engines 6. The Great HallAiman Shaikh P11 - Cloud-Hosted Training on Remote Desktops 6. The Great HallTimothy Booth P12 - Virtual Wind Tunnel 6. The Great HallTim Powell P13 - A journey towards Agile at scale: experiences from the SKA 6. The Great HallBenjamin Mort P14 - Implementation and performance comparison of queuing algorithms for use in Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations 6. The Great HallGiannis Savva • Michail Stamatakis P15 - Code Review tools beyond pull requests, in academia 6. The Great HallMatthaios Alexandrakis P17 - pkgreviewr: supporting rOpenSci package reviews through guidance, automation and templating 6. The Great HallAnna Krystalli P18 - Using modern technologies to keep pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation Satellite Data. 6. The Great HallJames Dingle P19 - NAG and the RSE community 6. The Great HallMichael Croucher P2 - RoboTA - an Automated Feedback and Assessment Tool 6. The Great Hall P3 - RSE Enabling High Performance Computing 6. The Great HallAnna (Ania) Brown P4 - Supporting CaStLeS in the Cloud: Research Software Engineering Challenges in the Medical and Life Sciences 6. The Great HallSimon Hartley P5 - SLURM Plugin: A Jenkins plugin for submitting jobs to SLURM systems 6. The Great HallEli Chadwick P6 - Developing online software for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction 6. The Great HallAndrew Lee P7 - Supporting research software at Imperial College London 6. The Great HallJeremy Cohen • mark_woodbridge.75y7tky P8 - SOMBRERO: A high-performance parallel benchmark from computational particle physics 6. The Great HallEd Bennett P9 - An Innovative Way to Empower Reading Notes: SN4RE 6. The Great HallDaouda Sawadogo

19:25 BST

Conference Photo 6. The Great Hall

19:30 BST

Buffet conference dinner (for all attendees, no ticket needed) sponsored by Oracle 6. The Great Hall