Full Program


All times listed in Mountain Time (MT)

Sep 16 - Sep 27 - Online
Sep 16, 10:00 AM Infosession: "So this is your first conference" - Register Now
Sep 18, 12:00 PM Infosession: "What to do in ABQ" - Register Now
Sep 20, 10:00 AM Infosession: "RSE challenges in industry, government, and academia: Birds of a feather" - Register Now
Sep 27, 10:00 AM Student Program Infosession: "Managing Your Digital Presence as a Research Software Engineer" - Register Now
Oct 7 - Oct 11 - Online
Oct 7, 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM Tutorial: "Globus Compute: Managed Compute Across the Computing Continuum," Kyle Chard, Yadu Babuji, Reid Mello - Register Now
Oct 7, 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM Tutorial: "GitHub Actions for Scientific Data Workflows," Valentina Staneva, Quinn Brencher - Register Now
Oct 8, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Tutorial: "Overview of GIS Open Source Software Ecosystem and Theory," Dennis Milechin - Register Now
Oct 9, 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM Tutorial: "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 - 2:30 PM Tutorial: "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 - 11:30 AM Tutorial: "Research Data Automation with Globus Flows and Globus Compute," Lee Liming - Register Now
Tuesday, Oct 15th
8:00 AM Breakfast / Registration, Ballroom A
8:45 AM Welcome (Lauren Milechin, Miranda Mundt, Ian Cosden), Ballroom A
9:00 AM Keynote: Research Software Engineers: where it started and where it’s going, Simon Hettrick, Ballroom A
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Session 1A: RSE Pedagogy, Charles Ferenbaugh, Hopi/Tewa Session 1B: AI, ML, and Automation, Patrick Diehl, Taos Session 1C: Insights on Research Software Practices and Principles, Derek Wilke, Cochiti
  • A Brief Introduction to HPC Carpentry
  • Lessons Learned While Building an Effective and Equitable Internship Program
  • Student Research Software Engineers: Insights from Macro and Micro Perspectives
  • Creating a Curriculum for Curating Code
  • Experiences in Teaching Prospective Research Software Engineers at the University of Chicago
  • Foundational competencies of an RSE: state of the project and what comes next
  • Leveraging LLMs for Effective Coding
  • Bridging the Valley of Death: From Research to Deployment in AI/ML
  • Enhancing the application of large language models with retrieval-augmented generation for a research community
  • An Empirical Survey of GitHub Repositories at Research Universities
  • Decentralized collaboration for the AutoRA Python package with a functional paradigm and namespace packages
  • User-Centric Science: Unveiling the Power of Design at NCSA
  • Containers, structured programming and encapsulation - what would Djikstra think
  • Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers: How Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Can Partner for Success
  • Analyzing the Security Culture of Research Software Engineers
  • A Mature RSE Capability Examined: Space Analysis and Applications at Johns Hopkins APL
  • Future Beyond Borders: Transforming the Research Software through Internationalization, Localization and Translation
12:00 PM Lunch, Ballroom A
1:00 PM Workshop 1: "Research Data Automation with Globus Flows and Globus Compute," Lee Liming and Steve Turoscy, Hopi/Tewa Workshop 2: "Community discussion: teachingRSE project," Jan Philipp Thiele, Taos Workshop 3: "Emerging as a Team Leader through Cultural Challenges," Elaine M. Raybourn, Angela Herring, and Ryan Shaw, Cochiti
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Workshop 1: "Research Data Automation with Globus Flows and Globus Compute," Lee Liming and Steve Turoscy, Hopi/Tewa Workshop 2: "Community discussion: teachingRSE project," Jan Philipp Thiele, Taos Workshop 3: "Emerging as a Team Leader through Cultural Challenges," Elaine M. Raybourn, Angela Herring, and Ryan Shaw, Cochiti
5:00 PM Poster Session / Happy hour, La Sala
6:30 PM Mentor/Mentee Program Ice Cream Social, Ballroom A
Wednesday, Oct 16th
8:00 AM Breakfast, Ballroom A
9:00 AM Keynote: US-RSE: Together We Grow Strong RSE Careers and a Thriving Community, Sandra Gesing, Ballroom A
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM BoFs 1A: Better Scientific Software Fellowship Community, Hopi/Tewa Working Group Fair, Taos BoFs 1B: RSEs in domain-specific ecosystems, Cochiti
12:00 PM Lunch, Ballroom A, Mentor/Mentee Lunch, followed by student visit to CARC
1:00 PM Session 2A: Software Sustainability and Legacy Code, Anderson Chauphan, Hopi/Tewa Workshop 4: "Establishing RSE Programs - From early stage formalization to mature models," Ian Cosden, Sandra Gesing, and Adam Rubens, Taos Session 2B: Unique Stories in Research Software Experience, Joel Bretheim, Cochiti
  • Software Resurrection: Discovering Programming Pearls by Showing Modernity to Historical Software
  • Towards Sustainable and Discoverable Computational Models: The Engineering Common Model Framework (ECMF) Project at Sandia
  • Fortran at NERSC: A Cycle of Support
  • Preferred Practices Through a Project Template
  • Defining, Measuring, and Enhancing Sustainability in Scientific Software: Insights from CORSA
  • Do good: strategies for leading an inclusive collaborative data science and RSE teams
  • The UCAR SEA: Adapting a legacy employee resource group into an RSE community of practice
  • The Long Tale of NCSA’s RSEs
  • The Creation of an RSE Career Path at Princeton University
  • Long-time listener, first-time caller: My RSE Identity Journey
  • The long and winding road: Building and growing a research engineering team at the UK's national institute for data science and AI
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Session 3: WetWare: Research Software in Chemical and Life Sciences, Pengyin Shan, Hopi/Tewa Workshop 4: "Establishing RSE Programs - From early stage formalization to mature models," Ian Cosden, Sandra Gesing, and Adam Rubens, Taos BoFs 2: Teaching Research Software Engineering, Cochiti
  • Lab Dragon: An electronic Laboratory
  • Using Radicals to Empower Budding Computational Chemists
  • Software testing in a community-driven web-based analysis platform for life science research
  • Honeycomb: a template for reproducible psychophysiological tasks for clinic, laboratory, and home use
  • Developing a Cloud First Personalized Ecological Momentary Assessments Delivery Tool
  • A Rising Tide: One model for improving research software use in the life sciences
6:00 PM Conference Dinner / Award Ceremony, Ballroom A
  • US-RSE Community Awards
  • Better Scientific Software 2024 Fellows and Honorable Mentions - BSSw Fellowship Website
  • US-RSE'25 Announcement
Thursday, Oct 17th
8:00 AM Breakfast, Ballroom A
9:00 AM Sponsor Talks, Ballroom A
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Rapid Access Microtalks (RAM), Ballroom A BoFs 3: Brainstorming Strategies for Cultivating Successful and Collaborative RSE Teams, Hopi/Tewa Session 4: Case Studies in Research Software, Jon Guyer, Cochiti
  • Leveraging CVMFS for Scaling and Optimizing JupyterHub-based Gateways
  • From Core to Atuin: Citing Software All The Way Down The Stack
  • Reproducing notebooks without (too much) effort: a simple but effective automated workflow for US-RSE’24 and beyond using Binder and GitHub Actions
  • Building a composable stack for research cyberinfrastructure
  • Community Resilience Research Using IN-CORE - Case Study with 2011 Tornado Event at Joplin, MO
12:00 PM Lunch, Ballroom A
1:00 PM BoFs 4A: Exploring the Potential Impact of Advancements in Artificial Intelligence on the RSE Profession, Hopi/Tewa BoFs 4B: Mapping Open Source Science, Taos Session 5: RSE in Action!, Abbey Roelofs, Cochiti
  • Harnessing the power of HPC from the comfort of R
  • Population Modeling Workflow in OpenStack Cloud
  • PROBE4RSE: Provenance for Replay OBservation Engine for Research Software Engineers
  • Codefair: Your Personal Assistant for Developing FAIR Software
  • Hawai'i Climate Data Portal API Demo
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM BoFs 5A: Navigating the Remote Landscape: Working Effectively with Stakeholders, Hopi/Tewa BoFs 5B: Sharing lessons learned on the challenges of fielding research software proof-of-concepts / prototypes in Department of Defense (DoD) and other Government environments, Taos Session 6: Reproducible Software Ecosystems, Opeyemi Ajibuwa, Cochiti
  • Importance of Science Gateway Frameworks for Research and Their Benefits for Research Software Engineers
  • Transforming Academic Publishing: A Jupyter Notebook-Based Submission Ecosystem implemented for SEA ISS Conference for Enhanced Open Science and Reproducibility
  • Documenting Research Artifacts for Reproducibility
  • The KBase Narrative: Reproducible, FAIR data access through Jupyter notebooks
  • From bench to desktop: a case study in enabling reproducible data analysis with RainFlow
  • Information Security Engineering and Research Software Engineering: Shared Goals, Shared Approaches, and Shared Success
6:00 PM Event: Nuclear History Museum
  • Transportation Provided for Conference Attendees
  • All RSEs in community welcome