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RSLondonSouthEast 2020 – 1-day workshop, Thursday 6th February 2020
On the evening of Wednesday 5th February 2020 a linked event on open software sharing will take place in collaboration with Open Research London at the Institute of Physics. Drinks will be available from 6pm and talks will begin at 6.30pm. You can find out more and register for the ORL event here.
RSLondonSouthEast 2020
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Full talks are allocated 20 minutes (including time for questions), lightning talks are allocated 5 minutes.
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Arrival and registration – tea, coffee and pastries available |
| 09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London |
| 09:35 – 10:10 | Morning Keynote James Hetherington Incoming Director of e-Infrastructure, UK Research and Innovation Data & Computers & Code & People: four infrastructural challenges for computational science and digital scholarship In this talk, Dr James Hetherington, incoming Director of e-Infrastructure at UK Research and Innovation, will highlight present and upcoming challenges for the software, skills, data facilities, clouds and supercomputers that underpin digital research in the UK, and consider how the RSE community can help address them. |
| 10:10 – 11:00 | Talks session I 2 full talks, 2 lightning talks Session Chair: Ilektra Christidi, UCL Challenges of Managing Research Compute Platforms at The Turing (Full talk) Multiple horses for multiple courses – reliably interfacing programming languages (Lightning talk) Documentation: Not an API catalogue (Lightning talk) Inclusivity in tech? The label “women in tech” and its effect on the RSE community (Full talk) |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Break |
| 11:30 – 12:25 | Talks session II 2 full talks, 3 lightning talks Session Chair: Adam Witney, St George’s, University of London Continuous Integration for Research Software (Full talk) SciGateway & DataGateway: the portals to facilities science and facilities data (Full talk) A generic cloud-agnostic platform to support the execution of deadline-constrained workloads (Lightning talk) Creating scalable, reproducible bioinformatics pipelines with Snakemake and Anaconda (Lightning talk) SHARPy: from a research code to an open-source software tool for the simulation of very flexible aircraft (Lightning talk) |
| 12:25 – 12:45 | Sarah King, UKRI EPSRC |
| 12:45 – 13:00 |
Poster lightning talks
Session Chair: Simon Hettrick, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Southampton The poster session is sponsored by the Society of Research Software Engineering |
| 13:00 – 13:50 | Lunch and posters |
| 13:50 – 14:25 | Afternoon Keynote Camilla Longden Microsoft Research Engineering the Future At Microsoft Research in Cambridge, we truly aspire to transform the world through deep research. Machine learning is one of the most exciting research fields, and I’ll talk to you about how we’re using machine learning to truly transform the world – from datacentre storage to cancer treatment. Session Chair: Iain Barrass, Queen Mary University of London |
| 14:25 – 15:15 | Discussion session
Facilitated round table discussions on a series of research software topics Update: A blog post and full report on the discussion session are now available. |
| 15:15 – 15:35 | Break |
| 15:35 – 16:40 | Talks session III 3 full talks, 1 lightning talk Session Chair: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, UKRI STFC Designing and building ‘Colouring London’ to collect and visualise open building data (Full talk) A trip to the operating room: combined imaging for guiding brain surgery (Full talk) SNAPPY Libraries for Surgical Navigation (Full talk) Development of the OptimUS library for high-intensity ultrasound propagation (Lightning talk) |
| 16:40 – 16:50 | Closing comments |