Full Program (alternate view)

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  • The schedule below is an outline and it is still evolving. Times and room assignments may shift. Further details will be added in the coming days and weeks.
  • This alternate version of the program exists because some conference attendees do not have access to Google resources. It is intended to be an exact copy of the primary version of the program, however, it is updated less frequently. The most up-to-date program is the primary version and it depends on Google resources.

Sunday, October 5
  Plan to arrive in Philadelphia on Sunday  
4:30 - 6:00 PM Sustainable Horizons Institute - Building Engagement Program Orientation
Invited participants only
(Bromley/Claypoole)
5:30 - 7:00 PM Conference registration open (Ballroom Foyer)    
6:00 - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception: Open to All (Ballroom Foyer)
Sponsored by Omnibond ProjectEureka™
Light refreshments provided; plan to eat dinner afterwards.
   
Monday, October 6
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM Registration table open (Ballroom)    
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast buffet (Hamilton)    
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Quiet Room open (Boardroom)    
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      
10:30 AM RSEs across Domains
Learning to Talk with Your Users: User Experience Research for RSEs Improving Scientific Code Human and Social Data
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole
 Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom C Location: Ballroom DE
  Developing a Machine Learning-Augmented Solver for the Hydrologic Model ParFlow surveydown: An Open-Source, Markdown-Based Platform for Programmable and Reproducible Surveys
  SPEL - Software Package for E3SM Land Model: Code Understanding and Functional Unit Testing Producing High-fidelity Synthetic Population Ensembles at Scale
  LAMMPS: A Case Study For Applying Modern Software Engineering to an Established Research Software Package SyncFlow: A Scalable Platform for Multimodal Learning Analytics
  Idiomatic Correctness-Checking via Julienne in Fortran 2023 Undate: computing with uncertain and partially-unknown dates
12:00 PM Main Lunch (Hamilton) Mentorship Lunch (Location TBD)
Open to invited participants		  
1:30 PM Agile Foundations for RSEs: Building an AI Assistant with Agile People and Networks  Better Scientific Software Fellowship Community AI Workflows with ACCESS Pegasus
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom C Location: Ballroom DE
  The True Gravity of Research Software  
  Understanding Research Software Engineer (RSE) Roles and Recruiting through the US-RSE Job Board  
  Building RSE Capacity with the Experiential DataSquad Model  
  Accessing your networks: Adapting interpersonal connections for robust software development and sustainability  
3:00 PM Break      
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
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom C Location: Ballroom DE
  AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups Notebooks as the Published Paper, How Ready are Scientific Communities?
  Knowledge Graphs as Infrastructure: Enabling Generative AI Integration Across Research Software Making Research Software Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) with Codefair
  Beyond Copilot: RSE Team Lessons Learned in AI-First Development Presenting the Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force
  LLMaven: Large Language Model based Agentic Verification and Exploration of Natural Inquiry An Empirical Survey of GitHub Repositories at U.S. R2 and Doctoral/Professional Universities
  Multilingual Research Software Translation using AI: Breaking the Communication Barriers  
4:45 PM Break      
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Poster session and reception (Hamilton)
Light refreshments provided during the reception; plan to eat dinner afterwards.
   
Tuesday, October 7
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM Registration table open (Ballroom)  
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast buffet (Ballroom Foyer)    
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Quiet Room open (Boardroom)    
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      
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
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom C Location: Ballroom DE
  A Reproducible and Scalable Pipeline for Processing Administrative Health Claims Data Heterogeneous Distributed Data Management in Academia
  The Hubverse: Streamlining Collaborative Infectious Disease Modeling for Public Health Impact Increasing the Accessibility of Quarto-Based NOAA Fisheries Reports
  ToolsyBio: A retrieval-augmented generation system for navigating the bioinformatics software landscape Beyond Specialization: Navigating the Post-Hadoop Database World
  Open Free Energy: An Open Source Ecosystem for Calculating Free Energies dbverse: scalable scientific analytics with embedded analytical databases
  Combining TIFF, HDF5, and Zarr into a Single Image File Format  
   
12:00 PM Main Lunch (Hamilton) US-RSE Group Fair: Learn How to Get More Involved in US-RSE (Bromley/Claypoole)
Bring your lunch and come learn about US-RSE working groups, affinity groups, and other
ways to get more involved in US-RSE
1:30 PM Hands-on scalable cloud automation and platform services for AI using CyVerse AI in Practice: Managing Research Projects Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Practices  
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom CDE  
  Efficient Documentation: Best Practices, Tools, and Opportunities  
  Three Foundational Ideas That Shaped Software Engineering  
  Technical Debt and Code Migration  
  From Hot Dogs to Human-Centered Design: Empathy in Software Development  
  User-facing tutorials as code: reproducible and reliable tutorials with CI/CD  
   
3:00 PM Break      
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  
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom CDE  
4:45 PM Break      
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 registration desk know by 3pm.
Soda, juice, and one drink ticket are provided; cash bar available for additional drinks.
   
Wednesday, October 8
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast buffet (Hamilton)      
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration table open (Ballroom)
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Quiet Room open (Boardroom)      
8:30 AM Plenary:
Announcements
US-RSE Updates
US-RSE Awards
Better Scientific Software Fellowship Awards
(Ballroom ABCDE)
10:00 AM Break      
10:15 AM Sponsor panel  (Ballroom ABCDE)    
11:00 AM Rapid Access Microtalks (Ballroom ABCDE)
12:15 PM Lunch (Hamilton)      
1:30 PM An Experimentalist Approach to Software Testing Supporting and Managing
RSE Projects		 Reproducibility and Sustainability HPC
  Location: Bromley/Claypoole Location: Ballroom AB Location: Ballroom C Location: Ballroom DE
  Everything, All at Once, Yesterday: Creating Research Software with Humanities Faculty 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
  Program and Technical Management on a Product-Driven Research Project Design Thinking for Implementation: Leveraging Design Systems for Sustainable and Reproducible Research Software HPC Carpentry and Community at NIST
  MIT Lincoln Laboratory: A Case Study on Improving Software Support for Research Projects Empirical Evaluation of Container Security and Reproducibility in Research Software Engineering Realizing a Project-Based Resource API at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
  Principles for developing a personal project management workflow as a Research Software Engineer in an autonomous or highly independent context TRAIL: Audit Trails for Enhanced Reproducibility and Observability of Research Computing A Hands-On Curriculum for Training in HPC Cluster Deployment and Management
  Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure: balancing diverse compute needs
   
3:00 PM Adjourn