Full Program

Join us for engaging research presentations, two keynote speakers, and networking opportunities including our inaugural job fair. We’ll feature a poster session, our rapid-access micro talks, early career events, and a US-RSE Working Group panel discussion; with complimentary daily lunch and community-building activities throughout.

Pending sponsorship, we’re also planning a conference dinner and decision-maker panel. Interested in sponsoring? See our sponsorship page for details.

All times are US Pacific (PDT).

NOTE: The program is not final and is subject to change.

NOTE: Sessions with 3 talks end earlier.

Planning your schedule with an AI assistant

With four parallel tracks, picking between sessions takes a while. The whole program is published as plain text for AI assistants, so you can hand it to whichever one you use and ask it to build you a personal schedule.

Point your assistant at one of these:

  • llms.txt — every session and talk with times, rooms, presenters, what each session conflicts with, and links to the abstracts. Start here; it is the smaller file.
  • llms-full.txt — the same schedule with the full abstract text inlined, for matching sessions against your research interests.

For example: “Fetch https://us-rse.org/usrse26/program/llms-full.txt and build me a schedule for all three days. I work on HPC performance tooling and I care most about anything on testing and reproducibility. Flag any conflicts and tell me what I’d be giving up.”

Both files are regenerated whenever the schedule changes, so they stay current with this page. The program is still subject to change, so re-fetch closer to the conference rather than relying on a plan made months ahead.

Monday, October 19 (Draft — subject to change)

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    Registration — Prefunction

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    Welcome and Plenary Session — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

    Plenary

    1. Keynote Fernando Pérez

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    Morning Break (Sponsorship available)

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    Case Studies Demonstrating RSE Impacts Part I — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

    Talks · Chair: Primus Chimdia Kabuo

    1. Talk Automating Data-Driven Alternative Text in Quarto-based NOAA Fisheries Reports
    2. Talk A Modular Threaded Software Application for Axion Detection with DMRadio
    3. Talk Poisonous Books: Rule Based Physics Pipeline and Agentic LLMs for Detecting and Analyzing Toxic Pigments in Victorian Bookbindings
    4. Talk Building Modern Tools for Computational Science in Flutter to Track the American Chestnut

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    Afternoon Break (Sponsorship available)

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    AI + Software Quality — Willow Glen Room

    Talks · Chair: Md Hasan Shahriar Simanto

    1. Talk Software Sustainability Toolkit: Measuring and Improving Sustainable Research Software at Scale
    2. Paper Measuring What Matters in the Age of AI: The Research Software Metrics Landscape
    3. Talk Back to Basics: Design-First Development in the Age of AI Coding Assistants
    4. Talk Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think: Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software

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    Poster Reception — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

Tuesday, October 20 (Draft — subject to change)

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    Registration — Prefunction

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    Plenary II — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

    Plenary

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    Morning Break (Sponsorship available)

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    Lunch Break (Sponsorship available) — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

    Working Group Fair

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    Working Group Fair (Presentations during lunch) — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

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    Afternoon Break (Sponsorship available)

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    Case Studies Demonstrating RSE Impacts Part II — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

    Talks · Chair: Tori Robinson

    1. Paper Josh: Efficient, Portable, and Scalable Cross-Disciplinary Vegetation Modeling via Domain-Specific Language
    2. Paper Take it on the road: How RCD Helps Field Researchers Report Culvert Condition even when Offline
    3. Paper Escaping the Enclave: Format-Faithful Synthetic Data for Open, Reproducible Medicare Claims Pipelines
    4. Talk Automated Data Reduction for Neutron Scattering Experiments: Current Capabilities and Future Directions

    Workflows — Willow Glen Room

    Talks · Chair: Lance Parsons

    1. Talk Cloud-Native Graphical and Programmatic Cross-Database Access to Experiment Metadata with Trino, Superset and Ibis
    2. Talk Custom Containers for Continuous Integration via Spack: Decoupling Environment Configuration from Test Execution
    3. Talk OSC-IS: Research Software Infrastructure for Scientific Artifact Preservation, Provenance, and Reproducible Collaboration
    4. Paper Fabla: An Open-Source Voice-First EMA Platform for Clinical Research

Wednesday, October 21 (Draft — subject to change)

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    Registration — Prefunction

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    Plenary III & Sponsor Talks — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

    Plenary

    Announcements, US-RSE Updates, US-RSE Awards, BSSw Fellowship Awards

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    Morning Break (Sponsorship available)

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    Lunch Break (Sponsorship available) — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

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    Transition Break

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    Rapid Access Microtalks (RAM), Closing Remarks — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

    Plenary · Chair: Cordero Core, Jennifer Gregory