All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6).
In-person location: McCormick Place, room W181c
Monday, November 16, 2026
Agenda:
- 9:00 am - Session 1
- 5 minutes: Introduction and overview of day
- 40 minutes: Invited talk + Q&A
- Speaker: Ian Cosden, Director of Research Software Engineering, Princeton University
- 15 minutes: Lightning talks 1
- Embedding ‘Green Skills’ in our Day-to-day Work – Weronika Filinger, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
- Supporting HPC Research Software Engineers Across the UK: The HPC RSE SIG – Tuomas Koskela, University College London (UCL)
- 10:00 am - Break
- 10:30 am - Session 2
- 55 minutes: Lightning talks 2
- Research Software Threat Modeling: Findings from a Community Workshop – George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago
- Research Software Engineering for Accountable Health AI – Samson Cournane, Johns Hopkins University
- Checkpoint-Restart Workflows with Large-Scale Community Compute Testbeds for Research Software Development Pipelines – Venkat Sai Suman Lamba Karanam, Bowling Green State University
- From Hurricanes to Highways: RSEs as Carriers of Method Between Sciences – Mohsen Zand, University of Chicago
- The Teaching Doesn’t Count: RSE-Led Instruction as Workforce Infrastructure – Mohsen Zand, University of Chicago
- Research Software does not maintain itself, every issue is a contribution – Nilesh Jain, Yale University
- Finding RSE From the Outside In – Aanya Bhandari, Columbia University
- Learning by Building: An RSE Journey Across Emerging Technologies – Kazutomo Yoshii, Argonne National Laboratory
- Are RSEs still worth it? – Jasmin Hörter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- 5 minutes: Short break
- 55 minutes: Panel discussion: Meeting RSE Challenges
- Hannah Cohoon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Thomas Flynn, Durham University
- Helen Kershaw, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- 5 minutes: Wrap-up
- 55 minutes: Lightning talks 2
- 12:30 pm - Finish