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)

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 (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)	Student-Mentor Lunch (Location TBD) Open to invited participants
1:30 PM	Agile Foundations for RSEs: Building an AI Assistant with Agile	Better Scientific Software Fellowship Community	People and Networks	Resilient Data Futures - How Do We Save, Share, and Fund Critical Data Stores Outside Traditional Systems?
	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	Publishing and Finding Research Software	AI Tools	Introduction to Multi-Animal Pose Tracking with SLEAP
	Location: Bromley/Claypoole	Location: Ballroom AB	Location: Ballroom C	Location: Ballroom DE
		Notebooks as the Published Paper, How Ready are Scientific Communities?	AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
		Making Research Software Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) with Codefair	Knowledge Graphs as Infrastructure: Enabling Generative AI Integration Across Research Software
		Presenting the Actionable Guidelines for FAIR Research Software Task Force	Beyond Copilot: RSE Team Lessons Learned in AI-First Development
		An Empirical Survey of GitHub Repositories at U.S. R2 and Doctoral/Professional Universities	LLMaven: Large Language Model based Agentic Verification and Exploration of Natural Inquiry
			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)

Tuesday, October 7
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: Announcements Keynote: Myra Cohen (Ballroom ABCDE)
10:00 AM	Break
10:30 AM	The Journal of Open Source Software: Live demonstration and discussion	AI Workflows with ACCESS Pegasus	Biology and Health Applications	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	Software Engineering Practices	AI in Practice: Managing Research Projects Incorporating Artificial Intelligence	TBD
	Location: Bromley/Claypoole	Location: Ballroom AB	Location: Ballroom C	Location: Ballroom DE
		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	TBD
	Location: Bromley/Claypoole	Location: Ballroom AB	Location: Ballroom C	Location: Ballroom DE
4:45 PM	Break
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM	Evening dinner (Moshulu)

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 - 3:00 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)
10:45 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	HPC Carpentry and Community at NIST
		Principles for developing a personal project management workflow as a Research Software Engineer in an autonomous or highly independent context	Reproducibility in Context: Usability, Portability, and the Limits of Pass/Fail Thinking	Realizing a Project-Based Resource API at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
		Program and Technical Management on a Product-Driven Research Project	Design Thinking for Implementation: Leveraging Design Systems for Sustainable and Reproducible Research Software	A Hands-On Curriculum for Training in HPC Cluster Deployment and Management
		MIT Lincoln Laboratory: A Case Study on Improving Software Support for Research Projects	Empirical Evaluation of Container Security and Reproducibility in Research Software Engineering	Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure: balancing diverse compute needs
			TRAIL: Audit Trails for Enhanced Reproducibility and Observability of Research Computing	Optimizing Nextflow-based Software on Shared HPC Resources: A Case Study with make_lastz_chains

3:00 PM	Adjourn