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RSLondonSouthEast 2024: Workshop Schedule
Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7 2RH
Full talks are allocated 10 or 15 minutes (plus time for questions), lightning talks are allocated 5 minutes.
Select a talk title to view the abstract, or view all abstracts on the abstracts page.
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Arrival and registration – tea and coffee available |
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome and introduction Ilektra Christidi, UCL & Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London |
| 10:10 – 10:50 |
 Keynote: Lead from within the research technical professionals community
Abstract: The RSE community has traditionally seen itself as a grassroots movement. While there is now support and steering coming from funding agencies and Heads of RSE leading central groups at universities, there is still a (greater than ever) need for leadership from within the community. We are also currently seeing a rapid growth of our community to represent a much wider range of technical professionals and grassroots activities will play an important role in supporting this change. This talk will look at how research software developers, and other digital technical professionals, can actively contribute to developing and shaping the fields of research software, research data and research computing infrastructure. Ultimately, I’ll show how each individual research technical professional, with a bit of Marion is a Senior Research Software Engineering at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) at the University of Cambridge, and currently Interim Engineering Co-Lead of the ICCS RSE team. She has a background in Computer Science and Scientific Computing, and has worked in computational science and research software engineering both in academia and in industry. Marion holds a M.Sc. degree (German Diplom) in Media Informatics from Ulm University, a Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in Scientific Computing from the Technical University of Munich, and has been active in the RSE and HPC communities for several years. |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Sponsor talks: UKRI-EPSRC (Tony Chapman) and The Society of Research Software Engineering (Evelina Gabasova) |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Coffee Break |
| 11:40 – 12:45 | Talks session I Session Chair: Maria Broadbridge, University of Reading A custom transpiler for flexible code generation OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data analysis Lab Management: Strategic integration of technical teams (Lightning talk) Enhancing Community Engagement and Contribution through the R Development Guide |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Poster lightning talks Chair: Jay DesLauriers, Imperial College London A 2-minute lightning talk from each poster presenter Responsible AI assessment and development: centring communities in requirements elicitation Samantha Callaghan, King’s College London & Abdenour Bouich, University of Glasgow Presenting a Workflow of Automating UI software Testing and Reviewing a Commercial Case Study Amalie Shi, Adaptix Integrating XIOS into the neXtSIM-DG next-generation sea ice model Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge The HPC and RSE Experience Programme Adrian D’Alessandro, Imperial College London STEP-UP: A Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London Enhancing Community Engagement and Contribution through the R Development Guide Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, Imperial College London Integrated data management for a highly collaborative and multiomics projects Mike Gavrielides, The Francis Crick Institute |
| 13:00 – 14:15 | Lunch and posters |
| 14:15 – 15:30 | Panel session: Research Technical Professionals Showcase: Highlighting the contribution of technical roles in modern research Chair: Martin O’Reilly, The Alan Turing Institute Panellists: Mahmoud Abdelrazek, UCL Tony Chapman, UKRI-EPSRC Arianna Ciula, King’s College London Gwen Dawes, University of Cambridge Emily Lumley, Imperial College London Each panellist is representing a different area of the developing digital Research Technical Profesional (dRTP) field. The session will begin with four 5-minute lightning talks covering the software, data, computing infrastructure/HPC and research engagement perspectives. |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break: Refreshments and posters |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Talks session II Session Chair: Tom Roberts, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Solar Alchemy: Transforming Magnetic Field Data In Space With Lossless Compression ReCoDE – A Collection of Exemplar Programming Projects for Cognitive Apprenticeship Swarmchestrate – Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum (Lightning talk) Integrated data management for a highly collaborative and multiomics projects (Lightning talk) Environmentally-aware use of GitHub Actions
followed by |
| 17:00-18:30 | Post workshop reception – drinks and networking |