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RSEConUK 2019

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

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David Yuan

European Bioinformatics Institute
Cloud Bioinformatics Application Architect

https://linkedin.com/in/david-y-yuan/

David Yuan is a Cloud Bioinformatics Application Architect working at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). He is driving cloud-adoption onto both private cloud (OpenStack) and public clouds (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure) at EBI and in various EU projects. He is presenting a case study of porting a Bioinformatics pipeline from IBM Load Sharing Facility (LSF) to Kubernetes clusters onto all four major clouds.

12:30 BST

HPC Champions Workshop - Colocated with RSEConUK2019James Grant • Andy Turner • Josephine Beech-Brandt

14:00 BST

Research Software Alliance (ReSA) drop-in session - Colocated with RSEConUK2019 Murray Learning Centre

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 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

11:30 BST

#1B2 - Reproducible Research - Towards a production-ready solution for reproducible articles 2. Aston Webb C Block Lecture TheatreMaël Plaine

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

#2A2 - Careers and Culture - From Trainee to Director - An Institutional RSE Career Pathway 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallJurgen Mitsch

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

15:00 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

P11 - Cloud-Hosted Training on Remote Desktops 6. The Great HallTimothy Booth 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 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 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 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

19:30 BST

Buffet conference dinner (for all attendees, no ticket needed) sponsored by Oracle 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

#3D1 - Machine Learning - Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallPiero Coronica

10:00 BST

#3D2 - Machine Learning - The Limitations of Machine Learning 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallCamilla Longden

10:30 BST

#3D3 - Machine Learning - Investigating Deep Learning Approaches for Robust Zooplankton Identification 1. Bramall - Elgar Concert HallChris Wood • George Graham • Fiona Reid • Yeow Tong Yeo

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

#4D1 - Cloud Technologies and Case Studies - Case study of porting a pipeline to EMBL-EBI Cloud Portal 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12David Yuan

14:00 BST

#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

14:30 BST

#4D3 - Cloud Technologies and Case Studies - How to build and run an international open-data image repository 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Simon Li

15:00 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

15:30 BST

#5D1 - HPC - Evaluating containerised genomics pipeline on HPC 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Aiman Shaikh

16:00 BST

#5A3 - Teaching - RSE Summit @ Microsoft - Cloudy in Brussels 4. Aston Webb, Room WG12Gerard Gorman • James Grant • Brad Tipp

16:30 BST

#5D3 - HPC - HPC Project Assessment - Stepping into the Unknown 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Cristin Merritt

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

08:30 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

08:45 BST

Posters available to view from 9am to 3pm 10. Mezzanine Floor, (First floor), Bramall Foyer

09:00 BST

#6W4a - Better Code, Faster with Kubernetes in Google Cloud (part 1) 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Andres-Leonardo Martinez-Ortiz

10:30 BST

Refreshments 6. The Great Hall

11:00 BST

#6W4b - Better Code, Faster with Kubernetes in Google Cloud (part 2) 5. Nuffield Building, Room G17Andres-Leonardo Martinez-Ortiz

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