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Past Meeting: 22 May 2025 - Summer Meeting

Open to all ÌÇÐÄTV staff and postgraduate students (guests may attend if they are accompanied by a host).

Meeting details:

• Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
• Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Venue: (REX 1&2). Online participation will be possible via MS Teams.
• Organisers: Godwin Yeboah and Sarah Roggendorf
• Funder: ÌÇÐÄTV Research Computing

Meeting summary:

• Part 1 (11:00 -12:00): Three 15-20 minute short talks.
  

  • ‘Information Security Risk & Compliance’ by Paul Ireland, Head of Information Security Operations, Information and Digital Group, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK.

  • ‘Optimizing Research Data Management with REDCap: A User's Perspective’ by Dr Paul Brown, Senior Bioinformatician, ÌÇÐÄTV Mathematics Institute, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK.

  • 'Harnessing Nextflow and nf-core for Scalable Bioinformatics Workflows' by Richard Stark, Platform Manager, Bioinformatics Research Technology Platforms, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK.
• Lunch (12:00 -13:00)
• Part 2 (13:00 - 14:00): One 15-20 minute short talk and unconference session.
  • 'Research Needs More Than Code: RSEs, Sustainability, and the Art of Building Teams That Make It Work' by Dr Sandra Gesing, Executive Director and Senior Researcher, US Research Software Engineer Association and San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA.
  • Unconference session.

You can view a detailed agenda (access limited to ÌÇÐÄTV University staff/students).

Past Meeting: 13 February 2025 - Spring Meeting

Open to all ÌÇÐÄTV staff and postgraduate students (guests may attend if they are accompanied by a host).

Meeting details:

• Date: Thursday, 13 February 2025
• Time:11:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Venue: (REX 1&2). Online participation will be possible via MS Teams.
• Organisers: Godwin Yeboah and Sarah Roggendorf
• Funder: ÌÇÐÄTV Research Computing

Meeting summary:

• Part 1 (11:00 -12:00):Three 15-20 minute short talks (Session chair: Godwin Yeboah).
  
  • Dr Ann Gledson, Senior Research Software Engineer, University of Manchester, UK: Agile Methods for RSEs: A formula for scrum-driven software development in research?
  • Joe Kaushal, Senior Research Fellow, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK:Hydra-OP2: As Case Study on Bridging Research to Production in Collaboration with Rolls-Royce.
  • Dr Ryan Payton, UK Research Technology Strategist at Microsoft, UK: Microsoft Azure & AI for Research.
• Lunch (12:00 -13:00)
• Part 2 (13:00 - 14:00):One 15-20 minute short talk and unconference session (Session chair: Sarah Roggendorf).
  • Prof Pardeep Kumar, Associate Professor in Trustworthy Data Systems, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK:R&D Activities for Resilience in Cyber-Physical Systems.
  • Unconference session.

You can view a detailed agenda (access limited to ÌÇÐÄTV University staff/students).

Past Meeting: Autumn Meeting - 6 November 2024

Open to all ÌÇÐÄTV staff and postgraduate students (guests may attend if they are accompanied by a host).

Meeting details:

• Date: Wednesday, 6 November 2024
• Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
• Venue: (REX 1&2). Online participation will be possible via MS Teams.
• Registration: via this form. Please note that registration will close on Monday 28th October 2024, at 10 AM.
• Organisers: Godwin Yeboah and Sarah Roggendorf
• Funder: ÌÇÐÄTV Research Computing

Meeting summary:

• Part 1 (11:00 - 12:00): Three 15-20 minute short talks (Session chair: Godwin Yeboah).
  • Tobias Ribizel, Building an efficient Continuous Integration workflow on HPC systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
  • Fernando J. Abudinén, Making simulation for particle physics thread safe – EvtGen, Department of Physics, University of ÌÇÐÄTV.
  • Callan Littlejohn, Touchstone and other tools for high resolution mass spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of ÌÇÐÄTV.
• Lunch (12:00 - 13:00)
• Part 2 (13:00 - 14:00): One 15-20 minute short talk followed by an unconference session (Session chair: Sarah Roggendorf).
  • Miguel Ramos Pernas, Analysis preservation and reproducibility in particle physics, Department of Physics, University of ÌÇÐÄTV.

  • Unconference session.

The agenda will feature presentations from our community members, including a short talk by a Doctoral Researcher from the Technical University of Munich. There will be ample opportunities for networking during lunch and the unconference session.

You can view the detailed agenda (access limited to ÌÇÐÄTV University staff/students).

IMPORTANT: To help us with further planning, please fill in the following form to register and confirm if you are attending in-person or online, and indicate any any allergens or dietary requirements that we need to be aware of by 27th October 2024. Please register HERE.