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RSEConUK 2019

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

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Andrew Gait

University of Manchester
Research Software Engineer
Manchester, United Kingdom

https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Andrew.Gait/

19:00 BST

Pre-Conference summer buffet and drink reception hosted by Google The High Field Pub

08:00 BST

Registration (Foyer) 6. The Great Hall

09:00 BST

Welcome and Introduction 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Edmondson • Claire Wyatt

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

#1D1 - Legacy Software - A case study in optimisation of legacy software 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Michele Mesiti

11:30 BST

#1D2 - Legacy Software - Refactor, Rewrite or Retire 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Thomas Stainer

12:00 BST

#1A3 - Engagement and Outreach - Developing and using a cluster of Raspberry Pis for outreach 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallEd Bennett

12:30 BST

Lunch sponsored by Digital Science 6. The Great Hall

13:30 BST

#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

14:00 BST

#2B2 - Useful Tools and Libraries - Do you want to change the world (wide web)? 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture Theatre

14:30 BST

#2B3 - Useful Tools and Libraries - GeoPandas - pepped-up Pandas for geospatial Python powers 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreDeclan Valters • John Stevenson

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 S. 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

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 P19 - NAG and the RSE community 6. The Great HallMichael Croucher P6 - Developing online software for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction 6. The Great HallAndrew Lee

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

08:30 BST

Registration (Foyer) 6. The Great Hall

09:00 BST

Welcome 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Edmondson • Claire Wyatt

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

#3B1 - HPC and Novel Clusters - Getting Started on an Arm HPC System 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Phil Ridley

10:00 BST

#3B2 - HPC and Novel Clusters - Zero to Cluster in 20 Minutes: There and Back Again 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Matt Williams

10:30 BST

#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

#4B1 - Training, Teaching and Code Review - Nbfancy: Generating and delivering better training material 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallJack Betteridge • James Grant

14:00 BST

#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

#4B3 - Training, Teaching and Code Review - Reviewing Code with GitHub 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallAndrew Williams

15:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

15:30 BST

#5C1 - Tools and Case Studies - Autograd: A cool software trick for avoiding maths 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallPashmina Cameron

16:00 BST

#5C2 - Tools and Case Studies - Air Quality & Python: Developing Online Analysis Tools 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallDouglas Finch

16:30 BST

#5C3 - Tools and Case Studies - From Paper to Tech - an RSE Project on Patient Safety in Leicester Hospitals 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallTeri Forey #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

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

21:45 BST

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

09:00 BST

#6W3a - Build a BinderHub for hosting Reproducible Software in the Cloud (part 1) 3. Dome Lecture Theatre (access via stairs only)Sarah Gibson

10:30 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

11:00 BST

#6W3b - Build a BinderHub for hosting Reproducible Software in the Cloud (part 2) 3. Dome Lecture Theatre (access via stairs only)Sarah Gibson

12:30 BST

Lunch and notices 6. The Great Hall

13:30 BST

#6W7a - Be an RSE Superhero with VS Code and Azure Pipelines (part 1) 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Matthew Johnson • Tania Allard

15:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

15:30 BST

#6W8b - Using Arm HPC Systems and Software Ecosystem 3. Dome Lecture Theatre (access via stairs only)Phil Ridley