| Sunday, October 5 |
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Plan to arrive in
Philadelphia on Sunday |
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| 4:30 -
6:00 PM |
Sustainable Horizons Institute - Building Engagement Program
Orientation
Invited participants only
(Reynolds Room) |
| 5:30 - 7:00 PM |
Conference registration
open (Ballroom Foyer) |
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| 6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Welcome Reception:
Open to All (Ballroom Foyer)
Sponsored by Omnibond ProjectEureka™
Light refreshments provided; plan to eat dinner
before or afterwards. |
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| Monday, October 6 |
| 7:30 AM
- 3:30 PM |
Registration table open (Ballroom) |
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| 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast (Hamilton) |
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| 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
Quiet Room open (Boardroom) |
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| 8:30 AM |
Plenary:
Welcome
Keynote: Reed Maxwell:
Accelerating Continental-Scale Groundwater Simulation With a Fusion of
Machine Learning,
Integrated Hydrologic Models and Community Platforms
(Ballroom ABCDE) |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
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| 10:30 AM |
RSEs across Domains
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Learning to Talk with Your Users: User
Experience Research for RSEs |
Improving Scientific Code |
Human and Social Data |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole
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Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom C |
Location: Ballroom DE |
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Developing a Machine Learning-Augmented Solver for the
Hydrologic Model ParFlow |
surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for
Programmable and Reproducible Surveys |
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SPEL - Software Package for E3SM
Land Model: Code Understanding and Functional Unit Testing |
Producing High-fidelity Synthetic
Population Ensembles at Scale |
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LAMMPS: A Case Study For Applying
Modern Software Engineering to an Established Research Software Package |
SyncFlow: A Scalable Platform for
Multimodal Learning Analytics |
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Idiomatic Correctness-Checking via
Julienne in Fortran 2023 |
Undate: computing with uncertain
and partially-unknown dates |
| 12:00 PM |
Main
Lunch (Hamilton)
Additional seating available in Ballroom AB if
needed |
Mentorship Lunch
(Meet in Bromley/Claypoole; eat at reserved tables in Hamilton)
Open to invited participants |
| 1:30 PM |
Better Scientific Software Fellowship
Community |
People and Networks |
Agile Foundations for RSEs: Building an AI
Assistant with Agile |
AI Workflows with ACCESS Pegasus |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom C |
Location: Ballroom DE |
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The True Gravity of Research
Software |
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Understanding Research Software
Engineer (RSE) Roles and Recruiting through the US-RSE Job Board |
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The DataSquad Experiment: Some Lessons for Building RSE
Capacity |
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Accessing your networks: Adapting
interpersonal connections for robust software development and sustainability |
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| 3:00 PM |
Break |
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| 3:15 PM |
Sustainable Models of RSE Support: The
Prospects of Centralization in Institutional Research |
AI Tools |
Introduction to Multi-Animal Pose Tracking
with SLEAP |
Publishing and Finding Research
Software |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom C |
Location: Ballroom DE |
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AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing
Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups |
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Notebooks as the Published Paper,
How Ready are Scientific Communities? |
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Knowledge Graphs as
Infrastructure: Enabling Generative AI Integration Across Research Software |
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Making Research Software Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) with Codefair |
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Beyond Copilot: RSE Team Lessons
Learned in AI-First Development |
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Presenting the Actionable
Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force |
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LLMaven: Large Language Model
based Agentic Verification and Exploration of Natural Inquiry |
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An Empirical Survey of GitHub
Repositories at U.S. R2 and Doctoral/Professional Universities |
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Multilingual Research Software
Translation using AI: Breaking the Communication Barriers |
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| 4:45 PM |
Break |
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| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM |
Poster session
and reception (Hamilton)
Light refreshments provided during the
reception; plan to eat dinner afterwards. |
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| Tuesday, October 7 |
| 7:30 AM
- 3:30 PM |
Registration table open (Ballroom) |
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| 7:30 AM
- 8:30 AM |
Breakfast (Hamilton) |
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| 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
Quiet Room open (Boardroom) |
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| 8:30 AM |
Plenary:
Announcements
Keynote: Myra Cohen: Building Confidence in What We Build: Correctness in Research
Software in the Age of AI
(Ballroom ABCDE) |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
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| 10:30 AM |
The Journal of Open Source Software: Live
demonstration and discussion |
Biology and Health Applications |
Resilient Data Futures - How Do We Save,
Share, and Fund Critical Data Stores Outside Traditional Systems? |
Scientific Data Management |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom C |
Location: Ballroom DE |
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A Reproducible and Scalable
Pipeline for Processing Administrative Health Claims Data |
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Heterogeneous Distributed Data
Management in Academia |
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The Hubverse: Streamlining
Collaborative Infectious Disease Modeling for Public Health Impact |
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Increasing the Accessibility of
Quarto-Based NOAA Fisheries Reports |
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ToolsyBio: A retrieval-augmented
generation system for navigating the bioinformatics software landscape |
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Beyond Specialization: Navigating
the Post-Hadoop Database World |
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Open Free Energy: An Open Source
Ecosystem for Calculating Free Energies |
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dbverse: scalable scientific
analytics with embedded analytical databases |
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Combining TIFF, HDF5, and Zarr
into a Single Image File Format |
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| 12:00 PM |
Main Lunch (Hamilton) |
US-RSE Group Fair: Learn How to Get More
Involved in US-RSE (Ballroom AB)
Bring your lunch and learn about getting
involved with US-RSE working groups and affinity groups. |
| 1:30 PM |
AI in Practice: Managing Research Projects
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence |
Hands-on scalable cloud automation and
platform services for AI using CyVerse |
Software Engineering Practices |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom CDE |
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Efficient Documentation: Best
Practices, Tools, and Opportunities |
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Three Foundational Ideas That
Shaped Software Engineering |
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Technical Debt and Code Migration |
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From Hot Dogs to Human-Centered
Design: Empathy in Software Development |
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User-facing tutorials as code:
reproducible and reliable tutorials with CI/CD |
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| 3:00 PM |
Break |
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| 3:15 PM |
Accelerating Research: Strategies from the
Field |
From First Commit to First Offer: What I
Wish I’d Known |
Real-world Impacts of Generative AI in the
Research Software Engineering and Data Science Workplace |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom CDE |
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| 4:45 PM |
Break |
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| 6:30 PM
- 9:30 PM |
Food, drinks, and DJ at the Moshulu (401
S. Columbus Blvd.)
Sponsored by Dell Technologies and SHI
Please make your own way to the Moshulu (about
0.5 miles from the hotel) and bring your conference badge for entry.
If the walk is inaccessible for you, please let
the conference registration desk know by 3pm.
Soft drinks and one drink ticket are provided; cash bar available for
additional drinks. |
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| Wednesday, October 8 |
| 7:30 AM
- 8:30 AM |
Breakfast (Hamilton) |
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| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
Registration
table open (Ballroom) |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Quiet Room open (Boardroom) |
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| 8:30 AM |
Plenary:
Announcements
US-RSE Updates
US-RSE Awards
Better Scientific Software Fellowship Awards
(Ballroom ABCDE) |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
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| 10:15 AM |
Sponsor panel (Ballroom ABCDE) |
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| 11:00 AM |
Rapid
Access Microtalks (Ballroom ABCDE) |
| 12:15 PM |
Lunch (Hamilton) |
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| 1:30 PM |
Supporting and Managing
RSE Projects |
An Experimentalist Approach to Software
Testing |
Reproducibility and
Sustainability |
HPC |
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Location: Bromley/Claypoole |
Location: Ballroom AB |
Location: Ballroom C |
Location: Ballroom DE |
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Everything, All at Once,
Yesterday: Creating Research Software with Humanities Faculty |
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Sustaining Growth of Scientific
Software with the Software Gardening Almanack |
Optimizing Nextflow-based Software
on Shared HPC Resources: A Case Study with make_lastz_chains |
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Program and Technical Management
on a Product-Driven Research Project |
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Design Thinking for
Implementation: Leveraging Design Systems for Sustainable and Reproducible
Research Software |
HPC Carpentry and Community at NIST |
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory: A Case
Study on Improving Software Support for Research Projects |
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Empirical Evaluation of Container
Security and Reproducibility in Research Software Engineering |
Realizing a Project-Based Resource
API at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility |
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Principles for developing a
personal project management workflow as a Research Software Engineer in an
autonomous or highly independent context |
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TRAIL: Audit Trails for Enhanced
Reproducibility and Observability of Research Computing |
A Hands-On Curriculum for Training in HPC Cluster
Deployment and Management |
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Integrating ATR Software with
University HPC Infrastructure: balancing diverse compute needs |
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| 3:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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