RSEConUK 2019: Lightning Talks for Posters

Welcome to the Fourth Conference of Research Software Engineering, held at the University of Birmingham. For directions to and during the event, see the campus maps page.

In the Aston Webb Building near to the registration/reception desk, a cloakroom is available in room G30 along with a quiet room in G31.

Lightning Talks for Posters

A TWO minute lightning talk for each poster:

N8 CIR: Building a collaborative network of RSEs across 8 northern universities: Kirsty Pringle
RoboTA - an Automated Feedback and Assessment Tool: Peter Crowther
RSE Enabling High Performance Computing: Anna Brown
Supporting CaStLeS in the Cloud: Research Software Engineering Challenges in the Medical and Life Sciences: Simon Hartley
SLURM Plugin: A Jenkins plugin for submitting jobs to SLURM systems: Eli Chadwick
Developing online software for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Prediction: Andrew Lee
Supporting research software at Imperial College London: Jeremy Cohen, Mark Woodbridge
SOMBRERO: A high-performance parallel benchmark from computational particle physics: Ed Bennett
An Innovative Way to Empower Reading Notes: SN4RE: Daouda Sawadogo
DYNAMO: Dynamic Analysis Modelling and Optimisation of GDI engines: Aiman Shaikh
Cloud-Hosted Training on Remote Desktops: Timothy Booth
Virtual Wind Tunnel: Tim Powell
A journey towards Agile at scale: experiences from the SKA: Benjamin Mort
Implementation and performance comparison of queuing algorithms for use in Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations: Giannis D. Savva, Michail Stamatakis
Code Review tools beyond pull requests, in academia: Matthaios Alexandrakis
Research vs POWER9: Keith Evans
pkgreviewr: supporting rOpenSci package reviews through guidance, automation and templating: Anna Krystalli
Using modern technologies to keep pace with the rapidly increasing volume of Earth Observation Satellite Data: James Dingle
NAG and the RSE community: Mike Croucher

Moderators

Teri Forey

Research Software Engineer, University of Leicester

Speakers

Aiman Shaikh

RSE, STFC

Keith Evans

Senior Research Software Engineer, University of Birmingham

Kirsty Pringle

Model Domain Exper, Center for Environmental Modelling and Computation, University of Leeds

I am an atmospheric scientist and RSE, specialising in helping people use weather and climate models for research into climate change and atmospheric pollution. I work with a domain-specific technical support group called the Centre for Environmental Modelling And Computation (https://www.cemac.leeds.ac.uk... Read More →

Ed Bennett

Research Software Engineer, Swansea Academy of Advanced Computing, Swansea University

Anna Krystalli

Research Software Engineer, University of Sheffield

Anna (Ania) Brown

RSE, University of Oxford

Peter Crowther

Research Software Engineer, University of Manchester

Simon Hartley

University of Birmingham

Talk to me about Computational Biology, Programming and Robots

Eli Chadwick

Scientific Computing Graduate, Science and Technology Facilities Council

Andrew Lee

Research Associate, The University of Cambridge

I work in cancer genetic epidemiology, building models to predict a person's risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer.

Jeremy Cohen

Mark Woodbridge

Daouda Sawadogo

Researcher&Soft Architect, SN4RE

Timothy Booth

Developer and Bioinformatician, Edinburgh Genomics

Tim Powell

Research Software Engineer, STFC Hartree Centre

I am an RSE working at STFC's supercomputing centre, the Hartree Centre.I am interested in automated workflows, coud computing, HPC, best practices, and industry collaboration.