Research Software London: Upcoming Events
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| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 17th December 2024, 15:00-17:00 | STEP-UP / RSLondon / Imperial research technical professionals get-together | In person at South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London. Register here if you’d like to join us for this event. |
Other Research Software Engineering Events
The following RSE-related events that are not run by Research Software London may be of interest to members of the community:
| Date | Event | Location and info |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 8th January 2025, 16:00-18:00 | January 2025 ARC Tech Social: ChatGPT “contamination”: estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature, , University of Cambridge. |
In person at 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6LJ. See the event page for further details and registration. |
Past research software-related events:
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 11th December 2024, 16:00-18:00 | December 2024 ARC Tech Social: Open-source, low-cost macro 3D scanner to create models of insects (scAnt), Fabian Plum, Imperial College London. | This was an in-person event. See the event page for further details. |
| Wednesday 14th August 2024, 16:00-18:00 | August 2024 ARC Tech Social: Software architecture: between rigid process and “somehow I manage” approach, Jasmin Jahić, University of Cambridge. | This was an in-person event. See the event page for further details. |
| Tuesday 16th July 2024, 10:00-17:00 | RSLondonSouthEast2024 – the 5th annual RSLondon community workshop | Imperial College London, UK. |
| Wednesday 5th June 2024, 16:00-18:00 | June 2024 ARC Tech Social: Machine Learning on FPGAs for a 50 Tbps system with microsecond latency, to enable discovery science at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, Nikos Konstantinidis, UCL. | This was an in-person event. See the event page for further details. |
| Wednesday 8th May 2024, 15:00-17:00 | May 2024 ARC Teach and Code Social: Tech meets Teach and Code Social, James Wilson, UCL and Ben Waugh, UCL. | This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at 40 Bernard Street, room 203 or online. See the event page for further information and registration. |
| Monday 17th July 2023, 10:00-17:00 | RSLondonSouthEast 2023 – the 4th annual RSLondon community workshop | Workshop registration is open (please register by 2nd July 2023). If you’d be interested to display a poster at the workshop, please contact us |
| Friday 9th June 2023, 12:30-16:30 | The future of research software training | This RSLondon event will be hosted by the Alan Turing Institute. This will be a hybrid event – join us in person for lunch from 12:30 with the main agenda beginning at 13:30. Register here. |
| Tuesday 6th June 2023, 13:00-14:00 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 8: README files. | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for the slides/podcast from this and previous sessions. |
| Wednesday 21st June 2023, 16:00-18:00 | June 2023 ARC Tech Social: How to install high-performant software on a High Performance Cluster?, Jörg Saßmannshausen, Imperial College London. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 10th May 2023, 13:00-14:30 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 7: Intermediate/Advanced Git Version Control. | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for the slides/podcast from this and previous sessions. |
| Tuesday 17th January 2023, 13:00-14:00 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 4: Continuous Integration | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for details of past sessions. Listen to the companion podcast episode for this session. |
| Wednesday 14th December 2022, 16:00-19:00 | December 2022 ARC (Christmas) Tech Social: Using AI to predict zebrafish brain state and behaviour from whole-brain cellular-resolution functional imaging, Asaph Zylbertal, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Tuesday 13th December 2022, 13:00-14:00 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 3: Testing Your Python Code. | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for details of past sessions. Listen to the companion podcast episode for this session. |
| Monday 12th December 2022, 08:30-18:30 | Somatic Evolution and Tumour Microenvironment (SETM) hybrid symposium 2022 | Online, or on-site at The Francis Crick Institute, London An opportunity for technology specialists already working in the biomedical domain, or from other areas, to learn about the SETM field and potential use cases for the application of research software expertise. Further details and registration. |
| Monday 28th Nov – Friday 2nd December 2022 (Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri mornings) | RSLondon Software Carpentry – Python: A core research computing skills workshop providing an introduction to using the Unix Shell, Git version control and programming in Python. | This workshop was held online. |
| Tuesday 15th November 2022, 14:00-15:00 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 2: Collaboration and Code Review via GitHub. | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for details of past sessions. Listen to the companion podcast episode for this session. |
| Wednesday 19th October 2022, 13:30-18:00 | Imperial RS Community Hacktoberfest 2022 talks and hackathon | Introductory event from 13:30-14:30 for anyone new to contributing to open source via GitHub; project lightning talks and hackathon from 14:30. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. |
| Wednesday 19th October 2022, 16:00-18:00 | October 2022 ARC Tech Social: Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (Satellite Event), Erik Tollerud, Institution and Matt Turk, University of Illinois. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Tuesday 18th October 2022, 13:00-14:00 | Byte-sized RSE – Session 1: Open Source Licensing. | See the Byte-sized RSE web page for details of past sessions. Listen to the companion podcast episode for this session. |
| Wednesday 28th September 2022, 16:00-18:00 | September 2022 ARC Tech Social: The Art of Coding without Coding, Mike Croucher, MathWorks. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 14th September 2022 | Imperial RS Community Seminar – The evolving role of UX/UI in research software Meag Doherty, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health Registration and further details. |
South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London |
| Tuesday 6th-Thursday 8th September 2022 | RSECon22: The 6th Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering | Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, UK |
| Tuesday 26th-Wednesday 27th July 2022 | Reproducible computational environments using containers: Introduction to Docker and Singularity Save the date. Full details and registration coming soon. This course will take place in person and is being run in collaboration with EPCC, University of Edinburgh and ARCHER2 |
Seminar and Learning Centre, Sherfield Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus |
| Wednesday 13th July 2022, 16:30-18:30 | July 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: From low to high level languages and back, Prof. Timo Betcke, Department of Mathematics, UCL. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Monday 4th July 2022 | RSLondonSouthEast 2022. After a break of more than two years the in-person RSLondonSouthEast workshop is back! RSLondonSouthEast 2022 – full details and registration info Workshop registration is now open. |
South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London |
| Wednesday 15th June 2022, 17:00-18:30 | June 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Open research data as an essential component in accelerating discovery in the digitally networked environment, Jennifer Gibson, DataDryad. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Thursday 26th May 2022 | Making the Magic Happen! Careers in research data, software and infrastructure, 10:00-12:45; 14:00-15:30. The workshop will include a keynote from Prof. Neil Ferguson, Imperial College London. See the Eventbrite page for further details and registration. | Online through Zoom. |
| Wednesday 18th May 2022, 17:00-18:30 | May 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Towards an exabyte-scale unified data platform for research data, VAST Data, UCL. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Monday 9th – Thursday 12th May 2022 | RSLondon Software Carpentry – Python: A core research computing skills workshop providing an introduction to using the Unix Shell, Git version control and programming in Python. Registration opens on the 19th April via the workshop webpage. |
Online through Zoom. |
| Tuesday 26th April 2022, 17:00-18:30 | April 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Recent advances in Materials Informatics: From Data to Knowledge and back, Adham Hashibon, UCL. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person or online. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Tuesday 22nd March 2022, 16:00-17:30 | DiveRSE Launch Event – DiveRSE is a new international talk series focusing on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) within the research software community. The launch keynote “Normalizing inclusion by embracing difference” will be given by Dr Mary Ann Leung, Founder and President of the Sustainable Horizons Institute. | Online (via Zoom). For full details, including how to register, see the event page. |
| Thursday 31st March 2022, 17:00-18:30 | March 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Quantifying Health Inequalities Induced by Data and AI Models, Honghan Wu, Institute of Health Informatics, UCL. | This was a hybrid event with the option to join in person again for the first time in over 2 years. See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 15:00-16:00 | February 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Approaching meaningful insight into the climate system: my experiences so far, Tom Keel, UCL. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Thursday 27th January 2022, 14:00-15:15 | January 2022 KQ Codes Tech Social: Developing Fetal MRI and translating new research software into NHS clinical practice, Tom Roberts, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, UCL. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 19th – Thursday 20th January 2022, 10:00-16:00 | Training workshop: Reproducible computational environments using containers: Introduction to Docker and Singularity. Full course details and registration are available via the course web page. | This course took place online. |
| Wednesday 15th December 2021, 15:00 | December 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Synthetic Surgical Data For Machine Learning in Image Guided Surgery, Tom Dowrick, UCL. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 8th – Friday 10th December 2021 | RSLondon Software Carpentry – Python: A core research computing skills workshop providing an introduction to using the Unix Shell, Git version control and programming in Python. Full details and registration are available via the course web page. | Online through Zoom. |
| Thursday 18th November 2021, 14:00 | November 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Modelling Life with Beads and Springs, Andela Saric, UCL. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Thursday 21st October 2021, 15:30 | October 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Touchless Computing Interactions on MotionInput 2.0, Sheena Visram and Dean Mohamedally UCL / GOSH. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Thursday 23rd September 2021, 12.15pm | September 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: HPC and AI Panel Discussion: How to get started with High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence in your research. | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Monday 6th September – Thursday 30th September, 2021 | SeptembRSE: The virtual RSE conference | In 2021, SeptembRSE will replace the regular UK-based annual RSE conference with a series of online events throughout the month of September. Conference registration is now open. |
| Wednesday 23rd June 2021, 14:00-16:00 | RSLondon Research Software Drop-in Session | Join us with your questions about Python or R programming, use of the Git source code management software, or the bash shell. This has been setup as a follow-up to our recent RSLondon Software Carpentry workshops but is open to all. Contact Jeremy Cohen to express your interest in attending and to receive the link to join the session. |
| Wednesday 16th June 2021, 3.00pm | June 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Performance-Cost Optimization of Moldable Scientific Workflows with k-Dispatch, Marta Jaros, UCL Biomedical Ultrasound Group and Brno University of Technology | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Thurs/Fri 20th/21st May and two half days in week of 24th May 2021 | RSLondon Software Carpentry Workshop – Python syllabus | This Software Carpentry workshop will provide basic training in use of the Bash shell and Git software version control system and an introduction to programming in Python. |
| Thurs/Fri 20th/21st May and three half days in week of 24th May 2021 | RSLondon Software Carpentry Workshop – R syllabus | This Software Carpentry workshop will provide basic training in use of the Bash shell and Git software version control system and an introduction to programming in R. |
| Wednesday 19th May 2021, 3.00pm | May 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: BioModelAnalyzer: Using formal verification to understand cancer development, Ben Hall, UCL (Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering) | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 21st April 2021, 3.00pm | April 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering working together: some examples of a fruitful collaboration from the Living with Machines project, Kasra Hosseini, Federico Nanni, Kaspar von Beelen and Mariona Coll Ardanuy, The Alan Turing Institute | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 24th March 2021, 3.00pm | March 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Whole-brain microscopy image analysis, Adam Tyson, UCL |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 24th February 2021, 3.00pm | February 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: Ingredients for successful domain specific research software, David Stansby, UCL |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 27th January 2021, 3.00pm | Janaury 2021 KQ Codes Tech Social: KNIME – Visual Workflows for Pushing Data Literacy, Stefan Helfrich, KNIME |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 16th December 2020, 3.00pm | December 2020 KQ Codes Tech Social: Putting the R into Reproducible Research, Anna Krystalli, University of Sheffield |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Tues 8th and Weds 9th December 2020 | Reproducible computational environments using containers – Introduction to Docker and Singularity | This training course, run in collaboration with ARCHER2 and PRACE, will provide an introduction to containers, looking at Docker and Singularity. There is a specific allocation of spaces for the RSLondon community. Please highlight that you’re an RSLondon attendee in the “Reason for participation” box when registering. |
| 25th-27th November 2020 | RSLondon Software Carpentry workshop – Unix Shell, Git and Python | Following on from our very successful first RSLondon Software Carpentry workshop organised between Queen Mary, Imperial and UCL in summer 2019, we’ll be running another of these workshops in November 2020. The workshop run over 3 days with a full day on Wednesday 25th Nov and two afternoons on 26th/27th Nov. Registration for this event is now closed. |
| Wednesday 18th November 2020, 3.00pm | November 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Research Software Engineering and the COVID-19 pandemic response, Rich FitzJohn, Imperial College London |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 21st October 2020, 3.00pm | October 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: New software for better geochronology, Pieter Vermeesch, Earth Sciences, UCL |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 14th October 2020, from 2.00pm | Imperial College Research Software Community Hacktoberfest 2020 event | This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). Further details are available on the event web page. |
| Wednesday 15th July 2020, 3.00pm | July 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Growing up as a (software) engineer, Jim Cownie, University of Bristol |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 17th June 2020, 3.00pm | June 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Performance portability across diverse architectures, Tom Deakin, University of Bristol |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 20th May 2020, 3.00pm | May 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Joaquin Rapela, UCL |
This event was held online (via Microsoft Teams). See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| Wednesday 22nd April 2020, 3.00pm | April 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Software for the nanoscale – Leila Muresan, University of Cambridge |
Online (via Microsoft Teams), you can join the event via this link. (Use Chrome or Edge to join via a browser or install the Teams app.) See the UCL Tech Socials page for further details. |
| 19th February 2020, 5.00-6.30pm | February 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Research software engineering at one of the world’s largest libraries, Mia Ridge et al., The British Library | Sir David Davies LT G08 (talk) and Foyer G02 (post talk), Roberts Engineering Building, UCL, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE |
| Wednesday 5th February 2020, 18:00-20:30 | The importance and challenges of sharing research software.Open Research London event, in collaboration with RSLondonSouthEast 2020 | Institute of Physics, 37 Caledonian Road, London N1 9BU |
| Thursday 6th February 2020, 09:30-17:00 | RSLondonSouthEast 2020 | The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG |
| 15th January 2020, 5.00-6.30pm | January 2020 KQ Codes TechSocial: Julia: a natural language for computational biology, Joe Greener, UCL | Sir David Davies LT G08 (talk) and Foyer G02 (post talk), Roberts Engineering Building, UCL, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE |
| 9th-10th January 2020 | Research Software Reactor: DevOps for better software and reproducible research | The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB |
| 11th December 2019, 5.00-6.30pm | December KQ Codes TechSocial: Jay DesLauriers, University of Westminster | Sir David Davies LT G08 (talk) and Foyer G02 (post talk), Roberts Engineering Building, UCL, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE |
| 27th November 2019, 5.00-6.30pm | November KQ Codes TechSocial: Daniel Hulme, Satalia | Room B20 (talk) and B06 (post talk), Drayton House, 30 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AX (UCL) |
| 4th December 2019, 10.00am-5.00pm | Software Graph Hackathon | The British Library Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB |
| 16th October 2019, 5.00-6.30pm | October KQ Codes TechSocial: Mosè Giordano, UCL | Room B20 (talk) and B06 (post talk), Drayton House, 30 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AX (UCL) |
| 10th October 2019, 4.00-8.00pm | Imperial College RSE: Hacktoberfest 2019 Event | SALC5, Seminar and Learning Centre, Level 5, Sherfield Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus |
| 17th-19th September 2019 | 4th Conference of Research Software Engineers (RSE19) | Birmingham, UK |
| 17th July 2019, 5.00-6.30pm | July KQ Codes TechSocial: Sarah Stewart, The British Library | B17 LT, 1-19 Torrington Place (UCL), London WC1E 7HB |
| 9th-10th July 2019 | Research Software London Software Carpentry Workshop | Queen Mary University of London |
| 19th June 2019 | June KQ Codes TechSocial: PyBioPharma: cost-effective drug production, and lessons learned. Jonathan Coooper, UCL | B17 LT, 1-19 Torrington Place (UCL), London WC1E 7HB |
| 13th-14th May 2019 | Software Citation Workshop | The British Library, London, UK |
| 15th May 2019 | May KQ Codes TechSocial: Software, theology, high performance computing, AI and RSEConUK 2019 | B17 LT, 1-19 Torrington Place (UCL), London WC1E 7HB |
| Tuesday 16th April 2019, 16:30 | Imperial College Research Software Community Seminar: Researchers, Research Software Engineers and the importance of interfaces, Richard FitzJohn | G64, School of Medicine Building, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London. |
| Wednesday 3rd April 2019, 12:00-14:00 | RSLondon Lunchtime Seminar: Full details and registration available via Eventbrite | University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW |
| 1st-3rd April 2019 | Collaborations Workshop 2019 (CW19) | Loughborough, UK |
| Wednesday 27th February 2019, 16:15-18:00 | IC Research Software Community / RSLondon Talk: Best Practice in Software Design, Edward Smith | 217/218, Huxley Building, Department of Computing, 180 Queen’s Gate, Imperial College London |
| Wednesday 20th February 2019 | February KQ Codes Technical Social | UCL, London, UK |
| Thursday 7th February 2019, 10:00-16:30 | RSLondonSouthEast2019 | The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG |
| Wednesday 16th January 2019 | January KQ Codes Technical Social | UCL, London, UK |
| 29th October 2018 | 9th International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE6.1) | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Thursday 18th October 2018, 16:00-18:00 | Research Software London Launch | Imperial College London |
| 24th-27th September 2018 | Imperial College Research Computing Summer School 2018 27th Sep: RSE Session (Call for submissions) |
London, UK |
| 3rd-4th September 2018 | RSE Conference 2018 | Birmingham, UK |