RSLondonSouthEast 2019: Agenda – Research Software London

RSLondonSouthEast 2019 – 1-day workshop, Thursday 7th February 2019

The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

09:15 – 10:00	Arrival and registration – tea, coffee and pastries available
10:00 – 10:10	Welcome
10:10 – 10:40	Keynote Prof. Spencer Sherwin Director, Research Computing Service and Professor of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Imperial College London
10:40 – 11:30	Presentation session I (2 full talks, 3 lightning talks) Session Chair: Catherine Jones, UKRI STFC Full talks (15 minutes including questions): Fortran 2018: What’s New Wadud Miah (Numerical Algorithms Group) Experiences in research translation: from a Matlab prototype to a C++ product Alessandro Faraci, Pablo Lamata (King’s College London) Lightning talks (5 minutes including questions): PyGOM: A Python package for ODE modelling Hannah Williams, Thomas Finnie (Public Health England) Software Framework for Prototyping Imaging Analysis Tools in Heart Failure Research Orod Razeghi, Rashed Karim, Steven Niederer (King’s College London) Zacros: A modern Fortran story Roland Guichard (UCL)
11:30 – 11:40	Break
11:40 – 12:30	Presentation session II (2 full talks, 3 lightning talks) Session Chair: Rashed Karim, King’s College London Full talks (15 minutes including questions): A Modular Application-level Cloud Orchestration Framework James DesLauriers, Gregoire Gesmier, Hai-Van Dang, Gabriele Pierantoni, Gabor Terstyansky, Tamas Kiss (University of Westminster) xarray: A meaningful way of working with high-dimensional scientific data Diego Alonso-Álvarez, Mayeul d’Avezac de Castera (Research Computing Service, Imperial College London) Lightning talks (5 minutes including questions): JSON-LD Schema: A Python module with facilities to deal with JSON-schemas for JSON-LD Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Dominique Batista, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) JSONschema documenter: a tool for documenting and visualising JSON-schemas Dominique Batista, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philippe, Rocca-Serra, Susanna Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) Scalability of Metabolomics Tools in the Cloud Jianliang Gao (Department of Computing, Imperial College London), Noureddin Sadawi (Brunel University), Ibrahim Karaman (Imperial College London), Jake T M Pearce (Imperial College London), Pablo Moreno (EMBL-EBI), Anders Larsson (Uppsala University, Sweden), Marco Capuccini (Uppsala University, Sweden), Paul Elliott (Imperial College London), Jeremy K Nicholson (Imperial College London), Timothy M D Ebbels (Imperial College London), Robert Glen (Imperial College London)
12:30 – 13:40	Lunch and posters
13:40 – 14:20	Presentation session III (2 full talks) Session Chair: Adam Witney, St George’s, University of London Full talks (15 minutes including questions): Enhancing Dementia Screening in Aging Deaf Signers of British Sign Language via Hand Movement Trajectories Xing Liang (Cognitive Computing Research Lab, University of Westminster), Anastassia Angelopoulou (Cognitive Computing Research Lab, University of Westminster), Bencie Woll (Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London); Epaminondas Kapetanios (Cognitive Computing Research Lab, University of Westminster) Understanding rivers using the Space Shuttle, LSDTopoTools and HPC Stuart W. D. Grieve (Queen Mary University of London), Michael B. Singer (Cardiff University), Shiuan-An Chen (University of Bristol), Katerina Michaelides (University of Bristol)
14:20 – 15:00	Discussion session Round table discussion facilitated by Simon Hettrick, Software Sustainability Institute / University of Southampton
15:00 – 15:30	Break Tea and coffee available
15:30 – 16:20	Presentation session IV (2 full talks, 3 lightning talks) Session Chair: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, OeRC, University of Oxford Full talks (15 minutes including questions): Reproducible research and “productionising” research code Richard FitzJohn, Martin Eden, Tini Garske, Alexandra Hill, Wes Hinsley, James Thompson (MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London) Training researchers to become confident with software development – a review of RITS@UCL educational activities Anastasis Georgoulas, David Pérez-Suárez, RSDG Team (University College London) Lightning talks (5 minutes including questions): FAIRsharing – making standards, data repositories and policies FAIR Milo Thurston, Peter McQuilton, Massimiliano Izzo, Allyson Lister, Ramon Granell, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC), University of Oxford) MRtrix3 – a package for analysis of diffusion MRI data J-Donald Tournier, Robert Smith, David Raffelt, Rami Tabbara, Thijs Dhollander, Maximilian Pietsch, Daan Christiaens, Ben Jeurissen, Chun-Hung Yeh, Alan Connelly (King’s College London) Research Software Careers at UCL Jonathan Cooper (UCL)
16:20 – 16:30	Closing comments