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RSEConUK 2019

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

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08:30 BST

Registration (Foyer) 6. The Great Hall

09:00 BST

Welcome 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Edmondson • Claire Wyatt Posters available to view from 9am to 5pm 10. Mezzanine Floor, (First floor), Bramall Foyer

09:10 BST

Lightning talks for DAY 3 Workshops 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallRoland Guichard • Andrew Laidlaw • Tania Allard • Phil Ridley • Diego Alonso Álvarez • Sarah Gibson • Angela Herring • Fergus Cooper • Andres-Leonardo Martinez-Ortiz • Mubashar Sapru

09:30 BST

#3A1 - Citation and Software Discovery - How to learn which software is developed in your institution? 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Alexander Konovalov #3C1 - Design Methodologies and Project Planning - Cheap, fast, or secure? When research projects meet real-world participants 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreEmma Tonkin • Gregory J. L. Tourte #3D1 - Machine Learning - Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallPiero Coronica #3B1 - HPC and Novel Clusters - Getting Started on an Arm HPC System 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Phil Ridley

10:00 BST

#3A2 - Citation and Software Discovery - Building a network of connected research 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Robin Dasler #3C2 - Design Methodologies and Project Planning - Retrofiting research software engineering practices to active research tools 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreGregory J. L. Tourte #3D2 - Machine Learning - The Limitations of Machine Learning 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallCamilla Longden #3B2 - HPC and Novel Clusters - Zero to Cluster in 20 Minutes: There and Back Again 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Matt Williams

10:30 BST

#3A3 - Citation and Software Discovery - How to make software fit in the research citation graph 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Stephan Druskat #3C3 - Design Methodologies and Project Planning - Got agility? A lightweight technique for Productivity Sustainability Improvement Planning (PSIP) 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreElaine M. Raybourn • Rinku Gupta • Reed Milewicz #3D3 - Machine Learning - Investigating Deep Learning Approaches for Robust Zooplankton Identification 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallChris Wood • George Graham • Fiona Reid • Yeow Tong Yeo #3B3 - HPC and Novel Clusters - Running simulations on a massively-parallel low-power machine 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Andrew Gait

11:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

11:30 BST

Keynote: Bad Science/Wrong Number 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallBen Goldacre

12:30 BST

Lunch and poster prize awards 6. The Great Hall

13:30 BST

#4A1 - Community and Collaboration - Research Software Engineering in Jordan - The MaDiH (مديح) Project 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreJames Smithies • Fadi Bala'awi • Pascal Flohr • Sahar Idwan • Carol Palmer • Shaher Rababeh • Andrea Zerbini #4D1 - Cloud Technologies and Case Studies - Case study of porting a pipeline to EMBL-EBI Cloud Portal 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12David Yuan #4B1 - Training, Teaching and Code Review - Nbfancy: Generating and delivering better training material 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallJack Betteridge • James Grant #4C1 - Institutional Support for RSEs - Supporting RSEs at the Science and Engineering South universities and across the UK 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Simon Hettrick • Alys Brett • Jonathan Cooper • Clare Gryce • Susan Littleson • Professor David Price • John Robinson

14:00 BST

#4A2 - Community and Collaboration - The Setup of an Institute for Scientific Software, connecting Applied Computing and Data Intensive Sciences 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreStefan Roiser #4D2 - Cloud Technologies and Case Studies - Empowering domain experts with DARE, a new cloud-based platform and working environment 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Rosa Filgueira #4B2 - Training, Teaching and Code Review - Submitty - an open source tool to automate marking 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallDavid Pérez-Suárez • Anastasis Georgoulas

14:30 BST

#4A3 - Community and Collaboration - Analytics and Insights about Cultivating the Software Engineering Community at DLR 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreCarina Haupt • Tobias Schlauch #4D3 - Cloud Technologies and Case Studies - How to build and run an international open-data image repository 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Simon Li #4B3 - Training, Teaching and Code Review - Reviewing Code with GitHub 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Williams #4C2 - Building a high performance network for HPC in the Cloud 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Brendan Bouffler

15:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

15:30 BST

#5A2 - Teaching - Where do research software engineers come from? A new minor programme in CS at Lancaster University 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Paul Dempster #5C1 - Tools and Case Studies - Autograd: A cool software trick for avoiding maths 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallPashmina Cameron #5D1 - HPC - Evaluating containerised genomics pipeline on HPC 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Aiman Shaikh #5B1 - Testing - Testing the waters (and everything else) - QuESTing for a testing platform 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreJacob Wilkins

16:00 BST

#5A3 - Teaching - RSE Summit @ Microsoft - Cloudy in Brussels 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Gerard Gorman • James Grant • Brad Tipp #5C2 - Tools and Case Studies - Air Quality & Python: Developing Online Analysis Tools 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallDouglas Finch #5D2 - HPC - Pursuing and supporting reproducible workflows for all with Cylc 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Sadie Bartholomew • oliver sanders #5B2 - Testing - Improving Hardware Testing for the Large Pixel Detector Using Jupyter 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreMatthew Richards

16:30 BST

#5A4 - Testing - R Packages on ARM 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Chris Edsall #5C3 - Tools and Case Studies - From Paper to Tech - an RSE Project on Patient Safety in Leicester Hospitals 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallTeri Forey #5D3 - HPC - HPC Project Assessment - Stepping into the Unknown 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Cristin Merritt #5B3 - Testing - Visualising Uncertainty 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreMike Simpson

17:00 BST

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

19:00 BST

Drinks Reception, pre conference dinner (Foyer) 6. The Great Hall

19:30 BST

IBM address, sponsor of the conference dinner 6. The Great HallJohn McNamara Conference dinner sponsored by IBM (attendees with a confirmed place can attend) 6. The Great Hall

21:45 BST

Introducing the after-dinner speaker sponsored by Amazon Web Services 6. The Great HallBrendan Bouffler After dinner speaker 6. The Great HallDr Maggie Aderin-Pocock