2024 Annual Conference - 7th March, University of Warwick, Coventry
Thursday 7th March 2024 sees the third edition of the RSE Midlands conference. This year is hosted by the University of Warwick at the University of Warwick’s beautiful Scarman Conference Centre, and is sponsored by CRiSM (the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology) and by the Society of Research Software Engineering.
This year’s conference is a chance to build community, meet new and old friends, and learn more about the incredible breadth of skills RSEs in the Midlands possess.
Below you will find the arrangements for the day.
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:30 | Arrivals, tea and coffee |
| 10:00 | Talks: Welcome to Warwick |
| - Welcome from organizing committee | |
| - Overview of research computing at Warwick (Matt Ismail, Technical Director of Research Computing) | |
| - The Sulis HPC Platform for Ensemble Computing (David Quigley, Director of the Scientific Computing Research Technology Platform) | |
| 10:30 | Talks: Perspectives of RSE at Warwick |
| - Sulis user case study (Nicholas Hine, Professor, Physics) | |
| - RSE in Bioinformatics & Biological Sciences (Paul Brown, Senior Research Fellow, Bioinformatics RTP/SBIDER) | |
| - RSE in Digital Humanities (Godwin Yeboah, Senior RSE, Digital Humanities Team) | |
| 11:15 | Refreshment break |
| 11:35 | Group discussion: RSEs as part of the research infrastructure |
| - led by Ella Kaye, RSE, Warwick | |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Group photo |
| 13:45 | Talks: RSE Community |
| - The Software Sustainability Institute (Oscar Seip, SSI Community Officer) | |
| - The Society of Research Software Engineering (Heather Turner, EPSRC Fellow, Warwick) | |
| 14:15 | Lightning talks from participants |
| - RSE Midlands Coding Club (Gavin Yearwood, Research Applications Specialist, Birmingham) | |
| - Data engineering for research data collection (Joe Heffer, Senior Research Data Engineer, Sheffield) | |
| - Making your work replicable (James Brusey, Professor Comp Science, Coventry) | |
| - Helping run the centralised RSE service at UoB (James Tyrrell, RSE, Birmingham) | |
| - From industry to academia; crossovers and differences (Iqra Jilani, PGR, AI, Coventry) | |
| - An Unheard Road: Using Mobile Applications to Capture WiFi/Bluetooth Signals on Holyhead Road (Iain Emsley, RSE, Warwick) | |
| 15:00 | Refreshments |
| 15:30 | Panel: Heterogeneous computing |
| - Tom Deakin, University of Bristol (independent expert in heterogeneous compute) | |
| - Paul Graham, Nvidia | |
| - Fouzhan Hosseini, Intel (joining remotely) | |
| 16:15 | Closing remarks |
| 16:30 | Optional social, Scarman bar |
Registration
We’d love to see you at the event - registration is free. Book at https://pretix.eu/rsemidlands/2024/.
We don’t want finances to be a barrier to any attendees, and so the Society of Research Software Engineering has generously offered support with any travel expenses. Speak to us if you would like to take advantage of this help.
Location and travel
Location
The conference will be held in the Scarman Building, Scarman Road, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7SH. The location is easy to find and we provide additional information on How to find Scarman building. You may also be interested in a virtual tour!
Travel
The University provides information for travel to the University of Warwick Conferences locations: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/location
Train
If you are travelling by train, Coventry is on the West Coast Mainline and serviced by regular trains from London Euston, Birmingham (New Street and International) and Leicester. It is easy to get a taxi or bus from Coventry Train Station so you may have to book a taxi in advance if you prefer not to walk.
Please note that Canley and Tile Hill train stations do not have taxi ranks. These stations are served by trains from Birmingham, London, Milton Keynes, Coventry, Northampton and Rugby. You can get a bus to us from close to the stations.
Bus
If you are travelling by train, there are regular buses from the Coventry rail station, Coventry city centre as well as Leamington Spa. You can easily get taxis from these locations.
The 11 and 12 bus routes both serve Warwick Conferences locations (including Scarman) from Coventry. Both buses call at the Rail Station Bridge stop on Warwick Road; this stop is few minutes walk from Coventry station as shown on Google maps.
The U1 and U2 buses serve Warwick Conferences from Leamington Spa. Both services stop at Parish Church Stand B; a seven-minute walk from Leamington Spa station as shown on Google maps.
Car
If you are travelling by car, the postcode for Scarman building is CV4 7SH and it is located within the University of Warwick campus.
Scarman conference centre is located on central campus, which is signposted off Gibbet Hill Road. Both static and interactive central campus are available from the provided links.
Further practical information
Warwick Conferences provide general information for delegates at Scarman events.
Car parks are marked on the PDF campus map, any one coming by car is recommended to park in the Scarman car park (turn off towards the Scarman building and continue past reception to the car park behind the building).
Organising Committee
Our organising committee for this year are Ella Kaye, Pip Grylls, Heather Turner, and Godwin Yeboah.
Sponsors
