US-RSE September 2024 Newsletter

September 2024

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Published: Sep 24, 2024

In this monthly newsletter, we share recent, current, and planned activities of the US-RSE Association, and related news that we think is of interest to US-RSE members. Newsletters are also available on our website alongside the growing resources and information on the US-RSE Association. To receive our newsletter, join US-RSE.

In this issue:

1. US-RSE Conference 2024 (USRSE’24)

Check out the camera-ready version of the accepted papers and notebooks!

View our Full Program - All times listed are in Mountain Time (MT)!

Conference Registration

Conference Date

October 15-17, 2024, Albuquerque, NM

US-RSE 2024 Special Session

This workshop is tailored for early career research software engineers who are eager to establish and enhance their digital footprint.

Join us at the Nuclear History Museum in Albuquerque, NM!

🎉 Join us for a special visit to the Nuclear History Museum after US-RSE’24 on Oct 17, 6-9PM MT, courtesy of projectEureka by Omnibond! Open to all RSEs and allies. Free entry, food trucks available. Family and friends welcome. RSVP here: https://forms.gle/fBfpYUBktopFLc3C8.

US-RSE 2024 Tutorials

Tutorials will be online only and conducted virtually the week prior to the conference https://us-rse.org/usrse24/program/tutorials/.

  • Oct 7, 11:00 AM Globus Compute: Managed Compute Across the Computing Continuum, Kyle Chard, Yadu Babuji, Reid Mello - Register Now
  • Oct 7, 3:00 PM GitHub Actions for Scientific Data Workflows, Valentina Staneva, Quinn Brencher - Register Now
  • Oct 8, 11:00 AM Overview of GIS Open Source Software Ecosystem and Theory, Dennis Milechin - Register Now
  • Oct 9, 11:00 AM Rapid Prototyping for a Usable React-based Web Application with STRUDEL, Cody O’Donnell, Rajshree Deshmukh, Lavanya Ramakrishnan - Register Now
  • Oct 10, 11:00 AM Leveraging Django Views and Permissions at Object-Level: The gist of an envisioned solution for managing agricultural datasets, Diego Menéndez, Danying Shao - Register Now
  • Oct 11, 8:00 AM Research Data Automation with Globus Flows and Globus Compute, Lee Liming - Register Now

US-RSE 2024 Keynote Speakers

2. Community and Travel Funds program

Part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for US-RSE has been delegated for the Community and Travel Funds program. Members of US-RSE can apply for funds for community or individual purposes for event costs, get-togethers, travel funding, and more.

Next Application Deadline September 30, 2024

2024 HDF5 User Group Meeting (HUG) – The HDF Group

Summary

We extend our heartfelt thanks to the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) for their generous support with enabling 20 students and early career professionals to attend the 2024 HDF5 User Group Meeting (HUG), thus fostering greater collaboration and knowledge sharing within the community. HUG is the premier HDF community event at which HDF users and contributors catch up on the latest research, community projects, success stories, outstanding issues, and new use cases and requirements.

Data sharing and providing efficient and equitable access to scientific and engineering data across platforms, now and into the future, are at the heart of The HDF Group’s mission. Research software engineering is an integral part of fulfilling that mission, and many if not most HDF users, developers, and contributors are research software engineers in some capacity. Because of US-RSE’s presence at HUG, we were able to highlight this natural alliance, and we look forward to engaging with and participating in the RSE community.

Chemists Who Code – Isaac Spackman

Chemists Who Code

Summary

US-RSE funding was used to provide refreshments to graduate and undergraduate students at ‘Chemists Who Code’ monthly meetings. These meetings at Colorado School of Mines are designed to assist graduate students with developing software to improve the reproducibility and efficiency of their work, and promote the use of programming and awareness of programming careers within the Chemistry field.

3. Community News

Community Calls

October Community Call

Call for Presenters: If you are interested in presenting, please get in touch with Julia Damerow and Abbey Roelofs in the #communitycalls channel or by messaging them directly.

Due to conference planning activities, we will not have a community call in October.

September Community Call (Past)

The September Community Call was on GPU Frameworks.

RSE Empowerment in National Labs

The RSE Empowerment in National Labs working group is looking for US-RSE members to present in our “RSEs in the National Labs” series for our monthly calls in 2025! The goal of this series is to provide US-RSE members with a venue to hear about the diversity of experience working at the various US sponsored research institutions. If you are interested in presenting you experience, please reach out to the working group chairs.

The next RSE Empowerment in National Labs community call will be Thursday, October 24 at 3pm ET/ 2pm CT/ 1pm MT / 12pm PT and is open to all US-RSE members. We will have a post-US-RSE conference report back from the co-chairs and provide an opportunity for US-RSE members to discuss what they learned. We will also hold a discussion on our plans for 2025 including setting up for our next co-chair nominations. You can find a link to the call in the bookmarks section of the #national-labs Slack channel.

Local Meetups

Are you hosting a local meetup for RSEs? Have you hosted one in the past year? We would love to hear more about your experience. Please email sophia@us-rse.org or message me on Slack.

4. Interesting Events and Opportunities

💥Get Your Magical US-RSE Unicorn - Edition 2024!

Would you like to support US-RSE and get a magical unicorn? Our magical unicorn - Edition 2024 is here! https://give.communityin.org/02OaKa?ref=ab_5CNhbc

💥A Survey on Refactoring Practices in the Development of Scientific Software

The FORCOLAB at the University of Toronto (UofT)is conducting a research study on understanding the refactoring practices and challenges in open-source scientific software. The main objective is to better support refactoring tasks during scientific software development. Please share your refactoring experiences in open-source scientific software by completing this survey.

💥Survey on Software Environments for Heliophysics

For RSEs in helio/solar physics– IHDEA (International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance) has formed a working group to define common heliophysics tools/software in python which the community may one day be able to use and base their software off of. They are collecting some initial feedback about the kinds of software folks in the community are using using this short survey:https://forms.gle/DumtthpGytnhWpCk6.

💥Center for Open-Source Research Software Stewardship and Advancement (CORSA)

The DOE-funded CORSA project has been collecting guidance, documents, examples, templates for open-source software projects, such as on governance, roadmaps, contributing, code of conduct, DEI, licenses, etc. Please feel free to add additional items, as PRs or new issues.

💥Survey on Generative AI for Scientific Software Development

Dr. Elle O’Brien at the University of Michigan will be conducting studies about how scientists are using generative AI tools as part of their scientific software development.

💥Survey to understand mentorship needs

Dr. Reed Milewicz from Sandia National Laboratories is conducting a survey on mentorship. The survey takes 10-15 minutes to complete.

💥Survey to understand how RSEs consider cybersecurity when writing software

Calling all research software engineers! We’re exploring how security is perceived in our community, and we want to hear from you. Whether you think about security every day or rarely think about security, your insights are invaluable to us. To participate, you will complete a survey that takes 20-30 minutes.

If you are willing to participate in this study, please click here.

💥Survey to better understand code review practices of RSEs

Dr. Jeffrey Carver, Dr. Nasir Eisty, and Md Ariful Malik of the University of Alabama are conducting a study to understand the practices, impacts and barriers of code review techniques for RSEs.

If you are willing to participate in this study, please click here.

Upcoming Events

💡US-RSE will have a booth at the Supercomputing Conference in November

After the successes with our booths in the last years at SC, we will have again a booth at SC24, November 17-22, 2024 in Atlanta, GA. We are looking for volunteers to take over some booth times (1-2 hours). You can sign up here if you are interested.

💡US-RSE will have a booth at the AGU Fall Meeting in December

US-RSE will have the first time a booth at the AGU Fall Meeting from December 9-13, 2024 in Washington, DC. We are looking for volunteers to take over some booth times (3-4 hours). We can offer up to three free booth registrations for AGU. Please email Sandra Gesing at sandra@us-rse.org if you are interested in a booth registration.

💡Applications Open for the 2025 BSSw Fellowship Program

The BSSw Fellowship Program provides recognition and funding for leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software who foster practices, processes, and tools to improve scientific software productivity and sustainability. BSSw Fellows are selected annually based on an application process that includes the proposal of a funded activity which promotes better scientific software through a publicly available artifact.

Complete the Application

  • Apply Now
  • Application deadline: Monday, September 30, 2024; this is a firm deadline that will not be extended.

💡Science Gateways Center of Excellence (SGX3) events

Gateways 2024 Conference – annual science gateways and cyberinfrastructure conference in Bozeman, MT, from October 8-10, 2024 Gateways 2024 is an opportunity for users, developers, and providers to showcase their science gateways, accommodating teaching, empowering and engaging research, and providing technologies to various communities. It will also offer diverse options for sharing and publishing work and networking in the community. The format includes tutorial sessions, presentations, panels, posters, demos, and a BYOP: Bring Your Own Portal. Being that Bozeman is in the big sky country, we want to focus on expanding the horizons of science gateways to include new communities and fields.

💡IHDEA and DASH Hybrid Meeting

Calling all software developers and scientists who are interested in algorithms, software and data systems related to space physics, heliophysics, geospace and related sciences! Come see what your colleagues are working on!

The European Space Agency (ESA) is pleased to host the venue of the upcoming DASH (Data Analysis and Software in Heliophysics) and IHDEA (International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance) annual meetings in its premises at European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), near Madrid Spain from 14 to 18 October 2024. This will be an hybrid meeting.

💡The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

HICSS-58 (The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences) will take place on the Big Island from Jan 7 - 10, 2025.

Interesting Minitracks: Software Sustainability: Research on Usability, Maintainability and Reproducibility Impact of AI on Software Engineering

💡Second Virtual Workshop on Multi-Project CI/CD

The Multi-ProjectDevOps project was founded to establish best practices for decreasing the time needed to deploy multiple high-quality scientific software packages, particularly when the packages share common requirements. Key to these best practices are maintaining continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflows. Since the managed packages share common requirements the CI/CD workflows will too. We define a multi-project CI/CD workflow as a CI/CD workflow that can be reused for multiple projects. The purpose of this workshop is to share best practices, lessons learned, and solutions for multi-project CI/CD.

Registration is free. To sign up please fill out this Google form.

💡Open Source Software for Fusion Energy (OSSFE) Conference

The Open Source Software for Fusion Energy (OSSFE) Conference is a first-of-its-kind event dedicated to the development, use, and advancement of open-source software in the fusion energy community. Whether you’re an experienced researcher, developer, or new to the field, OSSFE offers a collaborative platform to share insights, tools, and innovations that push the boundaries of fusion energy research.

5. Interesting Reads, Videos, or Podcasts

6. Steering Committee Update

While the Steering Committee newsletter updates took a break over the summer, the Steering Committee definitely did not! We had a busy and productive summer with many areas of focus.

  • Yearly Budget: We finalized the 2024-2025 fiscal year budget. This involved many conversations about processes and precedents as the Steering Committee and Executive Director learned how best to work together, but resulted in what we are optimistic will be a sustainable budget and good communication practices for the future.
  • US-RSE’25 Planning: We identified a second General Chair to share in the responsibility of organizing the US-RSE’25 conference and starting working out the financial and administrative logistics of having conference chairs who are separate from the Steering Committee (a first for our conference). We also discussed issues relating to US-RSE’24, including travel award details, program logistics and collaboration with outside organizations, and non-standard sponsorship opportunities outside those listed on our website.
  • Organizational Membership: We spent considerable time with our Executive Director finalizing the details and presentation of our organizational membership program. This program is expected to launch before the end of the year and will be a way for organizations to increase their involvement with US-RSE while receiving some perks, as well as a way for US-RSE to raise funds for ongoing programs. In addition to prioritizing these larger areas of focus, we covered a number of smaller topics, including Executive Director attendance at conferences, our next round of Community Funds awards, and the upcoming Steering Committee annual elections.

7. Get Involved

New guidance was recently released on how to create new Affinity Groups and Working Groups. If you see an unmet need in the US-RSE community, we encourage you to create your own group!

As always, we thank everyone who is already contributing for their help in shaping and growing the organization.

US-RSE Working Groups:

8. Recent Job Postings

These opportunities were recently posted to the RSE Opportunities page:

  1. Research Software Developer: National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Posted: Sep 23, 2024
  2. Quantum Architect, Simulation & Software: PsiQuantum, Palo Alto, CA or remote Posted: Sep 21, 2024
  3. Engineering Scientist: Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, Texas Posted: Sep 20, 2024
  4. Research Software Engineer II: Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Posted: Sep 18, 2024
  5. Computer Systems Engineer: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA Posted: Sep 11, 2024
  6. Senior Full-Stack Geospatial Developer: Eagle Rock Analytics, Sacramento, CA / Remote Posted: Sep 10, 2024
  7. Research Scientist II/Senior: Georgia Institute of Technology, Remote Eligible Posted: Sep 10, 2024
  8. Scientific Web Applications Developer (senior, 8+ years exp): NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Posted: Aug 29, 2024
  9. Scientific Web Applications Developer (junior, 3-7 years exp): NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Posted: Aug 29, 2024
  10. Associate Data Scientist II: National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF-NCAR), Boulder, CO (hybrid) Posted: Aug 28, 2024
  11. Research Software Engineer: NSLS-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Posted: Aug 26, 2024
  12. Research Software Engineer: University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Posted: Aug 09, 2024
  13. Computational Research Scientist II - Bone/Musculoskeletal Biomechanics: Henry M Jackson Foundation, Frederick, MD Posted: Jul 30, 2024
  14. Computational Research Scientist I - Bone/Musculoskeletal Biomechanics: Henry M Jackson Foundation, Frederick, MD Posted: Jul 30, 2024
  15. Computational Research Scientist III - Toxicology: Henry M Jackson Foundation, Frederick, MD Posted: Jul 30, 2024
  16. Computational Research Scientist II - Toxicology: Henry M Jackson Foundation, Frederick, MD Posted: Jul 30, 2024
  17. Lead Research Software Engineer: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Posted: Jul 22, 2024
  18. Software Engineer: Stanford University, Stanford, CA or Remote Posted: Jul 19, 2024
  19. Research Software Engineer: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Posted: Jul 12, 2024
  20. Chief Technology Officer and Director for Software: NOIRLab AURA, Tucson, AZ, USA La Serena, Chile Hilo, HI, USA Posted: Jul 11, 2024
  21. Software Engineering Manager: Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (Hybrid- and Remote-eligible) Posted: Jun 26, 2024
  22. Full-stack Software Engineer: Manifest Technologies, New Haven, CT / Remote Posted: Jun 24, 2024
  1. Director of Research Computing: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH/Hybrid Posted: Sep 10, 2024
  2. Senior HPC Specialist: New York University, New York, NY (mostly remote - more than 60% of time) Posted: Sep 05, 2024

Other Job Boards

The following boards might also be of interest.

  1. Research Software Engineering Opportunities in other associations/societies
  2. Software Carpentries Job Opportunities
  3. Academic Data Science Alliance Jobs
  4. High Performance Computing (HPC) Jobs from hpc.social

Please read our job posting policy first, then fill out this Google form to request additions to the job board.

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