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: For technical sessions consisting of only three talks, to be fair to all conference authors, every talk will still receive the standard twenty minute slot (15min talk + 5min Q&A). Attendees of such sessions are welcome to engage in extended discussion during the remaining time.

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Monday, October 19

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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 - Sponsored by SHI — San Jose Marriott

    US-RSE Office Hours

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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 — San Jose Marriott

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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 Encore: 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

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    Women in RSE — San Jose Marriott

    Meet in Marriott Lobby

Tuesday, October 20

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    Registration — Prefunction

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    Morning Break - Sponsored by Box — San Jose Marriott

    US-RSE Office Hours
    Group photo directly following plenary

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    Job Fair — Market Street

    Workshop

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    Lunch Break — San Jose Marriott

    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 — San Jose Marriott

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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

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    Pre-dinner "Happy Hour" — Prefunction

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    Dinner — San Jose Marriott

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    Board Game Night — Market Street

    Enjoy some board games and puzzles from the committee’s personal collections in the Market Street room after dinner. Marriott will be providing a cash bar for attendees to purchase drinks and snacks throughout the evening.

Wednesday, October 21

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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 — San Jose Marriott

    US-RSE Office Hours

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    Lunch Break — San Jose Marriott

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    Transition Break — San Jose Marriott

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

    Plenary · Chair: Cordero Core, Jennifer Gregory

    Rapid Access Microtalks (RAM) are an opportunity organized in-person at the conference to present a 5-minute rapid-fire talk on any topic of their choice. This session offers conference participants a platform that encourages spontaneity and creativity at the time of the event itself.

    Propose Stop by the registration area on Monday to propose a talk for the community to vote on (instructions will be provided).

    Vote All attendees receive stickers to vote on their favorite proposals.

    Present Accepted microtalks will be given 5 minutes to present during the closing session.