Reprohack, joint with the University of Sheffield

  • Reprohack event, 9 March 2021, with a talk from Dr Sarah Gibson (The Alan Turing Institute), on "Sharing Reproducible Computational Environments with Binder".

Hacktoberfest

  • Imperial Hacktoberfest event with talks and hackathon, 14 October 2020, from 2pm, online

Talks and seminars at Imperial

  • Meag Doherty, Director, Research Experience, National Institutes of Health, All of Us Research Program; Fellow, Software Sustainability Institute. "The evolving role of UX/UI in research software". 14 September 2022, 15:00, Room 217/218, Huxley Building.

  • Dr Antoine Cully, Department of Computing. "Learning algorithms to make robots more resilient and creative". 31 July 2020, 15:00, online.
  • Dr Richard FitzJohn, School of Public Health. "Researchers, Research Software Engineers and the importance of interfaces". 16 April 2019, 16:30-17:30, Room G64, School of Medicine Building, Norfolk Place, St Mary's Campus.
  • Dr Edward Smith, Department of Mechanical Engineering "Best Practice in Software Design". 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00, Room 217/218, Huxley Building, Department of Computing.
  • Dr Krishnakumar Gopalakrishnan. "Building and collaborating on your research documents using modern cloud technologies". 11 December 2018, 16:00-18:00 (including Christmas social event) - 342, Huxley Building.
  • Jan Rose, Department of Aeronautics. "Accelerating image-based finite difference methods using GPUs". 29 November 2018, 13:00-13:45, Lecture Theatre 144, Huxley Building.
  • Dr Richard FitzJohn, School of Public Health.  "Using R's crazy introspection to build humane user interfaces". 15 November 2018, 13:45-14:45, Room G65B, School of Medicine Building, Norfolk Place, St Mary's Campus.
  • David MacIver. "Property-based Testing using Hypothesis". 1 November 2018, 13:00-13:45, Huxley Building, Lecture Theatre 144. 

RSE community events

  • RSE Lunchtime Talks (speakers Jeremy Cohen, Diego Alonzo Alvarez, Katerina Michalickova), 18 November 2021.
  • Research Software in Physics. 17 May 2019, 11:00-13:00, Room 120, Sir Alexander Fleming Building.
  • Research Software in Materials. 11 January 2019, 12:15-14:00, G01, Royal School of Mines.

  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Session @ Imperial Research Computing Summer School, 27 September 2018, 14:00-17:00, Room 340-341, Huxley Building. 

    • Sam Cooper, Dyson School of Design Engineering. "Online learning and GUIs for science."

    • RSE @ Imperial updates
    • Lighting talks from Mayeul d'Avezac, Thomas Gibson, Jan Rose, Lucy Whalley, Nathan Green
    • The role of RSEs at Imperial: Careers, Training and Development 
    • Drinks reception and posters from Paul Blakeley, The Research Software Community Committee, Chris Cantwell, Chris Tomlinson, Jeremy Cohen and Katerina Michalickova.

  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Session, 8 March 2018, 16:00-17:30, Room 2017/2018, Huxley Building. 

    • Simon Hettrick, Deputy Director, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Southampton. "What do we know about Research Software Engineers?"
    • Chris Knight, Department of Physics. "Smart Forming: A Python web application for running Matlab simulation models on HPC infrastructure". 
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Session @ HPC Summer School 2017, 20 September 2017, 10:00-12:00, ROOM 121, SAF Building
    • Spencer Sherwin, Mark Woodbridge and Jeremy Cohen. An introduction to RSE at Imperial and the Research Computing Service
    • Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Department of Computing. Docker without Docker: How to run containers on HPC environments without any prerequisites!
    • Ed Smith, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Scientific Python and Continuous Integration for HPC
    • Research Software Engineering Discussion Breakouts
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting, 31 May 2017
    • Mark Woodbridge,  International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. Data Engineering for Vaccine Development.
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting, 22 March 2017, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building 
    • Dr Wadud Miah, Numerical Algorithms Group. Modern Fortran for Computational Science.
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting @ Imperial's HPC Service Summer School, 30 September 2016, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building
    • Victor Eijkhout, Texas Advanced Computing Centre. Parallel Programming for the 21st Century
    • Chris Cantwell, Department of Aeronautics. Spectral/hp element computation on HPC infrastructure
    • Anna Freni-Sterrantino, Small Area Health Statistics Unit. Why do Italians hand gesture? Improving communication in scientific computing
    • Panel discussion: The challenges and importance of good research software development practices for HPC (panel: Simon Burbidge, Imperial HPC Service; Victor Eijkhout; Spencer Sherwin, Department of Aeronautics; David Colling, Department of Physics; Stephen McGough, University of Durham)
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting, 26 May 2016, Lecture theatre 144, Huxley Building 
    • Peter Vincent, Department of Aeronautics. PyFR: Next-Generation High-Order Computational Fluid Dynamics on Modern Hardware Platforms
    • Lightning talks 
      • Ghislain Vaillant - A methodology for library design - introducing Armin Ronacher's beautiful native libraries approach
      • Ally Donaldson - Metamorphic testing
      • Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach - Scala in 2016 - Welcome to the Future [Today]
      • Maxime Noel - Research Software Engineering with Python
      • Francois Piat - The ArrayFire GPU programming library
      • Sarah Stewart - Software management plans
      • Torsten Reimer - Software version control and GitHub Enterprise
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting, 17 February 2016, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building
    • Sarah Stewart, Research Data Support, Central Library.  Research data management.  
    • Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach, Department of Computing. The OpenMOLE workflow engine: exploration of scientific applications at scale using distributed computing.
    • Kai Arulkumaran, Department of Bioengineering. FGLab: Experimental dashboard
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Meeting, 20 January 2016, Room 217-218, Huxley Building 
    • Ghislain Vaillant, Department of Computing. Open source software packaging, distribution and maintenance.
    • Katerina Michalickova, Imperial College HPC Service. HPC and computational methods training
  • Imperial Research Software Engineering Community Kick-off Event, 2 December 2015, Room 217-218, Huxley Building
    • Jeremy Cohen, Department of Computing. Welcome and introduction to the RSE community
    • Torsten Reimer, Scholarly Communications Officer, Research Office. Research data management for developers and scientists
    • Ed Smith, Department of Chemical Engineering. Python for MATLAB users: An introduction to Python for scientific computation.