Thursday 15th September 2016
Slides from most talks are available on the abstracts page.
Morning: Main Talks
| Time | Room | |
|---|---|---|
| 10.00am-10.45am | Main Hall | Arrival, refreshments and registration |
| 10.45am-11.15am | Garratt 1+2 | Welcome, and History and Growth of UK-RSE. Robert Haines and Simon Hettrick, University of Manchester, University of Southampton |
| 11.15am-12.00noon | Garratt 1+2 | Keynote: Engineering the Future: Research Software Engineering at Microsoft Matthew Johnson, Leader of Agile Projects Team, Microsoft Research, Cambridge |
| 12.00noon-12.30pm | Garratt 1+2 | Not everyone can use git: Research Software Engineers’ recommendations for scientist-centred software support (and what researchers think of them). Caroline Jay, Rawan Sanyour, Robert Haines, University of Manchester |
| 12.30pm-1.00pm | Main Hall | Conference photo |
| 1.00pm-2.00pm | Main Hall | Lunch |
Afternoon : Workshops (Five parallel sessions. Please choose at registration which of workshops A1-A5, and which of workshops B1-B5 you’d prefer to attend)
| Time | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2.00pm-3.15pm | Workshop A1, Dalton/Joule | Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016 - Vectorization Advisor: Understanding vectorization and how it impacts performance. |
| Workshop A2, Garratt 2 | Using Docker for Research Software development & deployment. Mark Fernandes, Institute of Food Research |
|
| Workshop A3, Lovell | Engineering your Application for Peak Performance with TAU and MVAPICH2. Sameer Shende, Khaled Hamidouche, and Hari Subramoni, University of Oregon (Sameer), The Ohio State University (Khaled, Hari) |
|
| Workshop A4, Whitworth | Simple, high-speed, high-volume data transport of large datasets over the Internet using GridFTP. Mark Basham, Diamond Light Source |
|
| Workshop A5, Garratt 1 | Discussion: Surveying the UK Research Software Landscape. Andy Turner, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) |
|
| 3.15pm-3.45pm | Main Hall | Refreshments break |
| 3.45pm-5.00pm | Workshop B1, Lovell | Why Cloud Computing is the RSE’s Best Friend. Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research |
| Workshop B2, Garratt 2 | Data Visualization: Truthiness Hurts. Louise Lever, University of Manchester |
|
| Workshop B3, Dalton/Joule | Continuous Integration for research software development. Alin Marin Elena, Daresbury Laboratory, STFC |
|
| Workshop B4, Whitworth | Object orientation in GNU Octave / MATLAB and architectural patterns. Alberto M Biancardi, University of Sheffield |
|
| Workshop B5, Garratt 1 | Discussion: The Role of the Research Software Engineer. UK-RSE |
Evening : AGM and Conference Dinner
| Time | Room | |
|---|---|---|
| 5.00pm-6.30pm | Garratt 1+2 | UK-RSE Annual General Meeting. Any conference attendee or member of UK-RSE is allowed to attend this extra event. For more details, including how to attend via Skype, please click here |
| 7.00pm-9.00pm | BlackDog | Conference Dinner. This is included for free with registration. For more information please click here |
Click here to see Friday’s programme