Date:
27.05.2025- 25.06.2025
Location:
Hybrid: Online talks and in person.
Language:
English
Organized by:
KCL + IZ D2MCM
Register here:
Not required for talk series.
Contact:
iz-d2mcm.contact@hu-berlin.de
Research Software Engineering Network
Dear RSE enthusiasts,
the RSE in-person event in June is organized in collaboration with the King’s College London e-Research Group, the King’s Digital Lab, the IC Digitality and Digital Methods Campus Mitte, and partners at the HUB.
We invite everybody to join our open events:
- 24.6. 2-4 pm discussion round RSE in the Humanities (UL6, 2070A)
- 25.6. 3-4 pm talk on Static-first approach to web dev by Miguel Vieira (hybrid mode) as part of our Talks Series Research Software Skills (see below)
If you are interested in joining our internal meetings, contact Jost Migenda (jost.migenda@kcl.ac.uk) and Carolin Odebrecht (iz-d2mcm.contact@hu-berlin.de).
Talks Series Research Software Skills
This series is organised in collaboration with the (King’s College London e-Research group) and (King’s Digital Lab), the IC Digitality and Digital Methods at Campus Mitte and cooperation partners at HUB. All events are run under the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct. If you’d like to run a session on a topic that we’ve not yet covered, need to report a CoC issue or have any other questions related to the series, you can get in touch with Jost Migenda (jost.migenda@kcl.ac.uk) and Carolin Odebrecht (iz-d2mcm.contact@hu-berlin.de).
The talks address a general interested audience: beginners, interested scholars as well as experienced RSE!
| Date | Title | Contributor | Access/Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27.05.2025, 13:00 BST / 14:00 MESZ |
Seven Steps Towards Reproducible (Computational) Research | Liz Ing-Simmons | Reproducibility, the ability for others to consistently reach the same conclusions using the same methods and data, is essential for robust and trustworthy research. Reproducibility of computational research is a simple premise in theory, but can be difficult to achieve in practice. This talk will outline seven steps towards reproducible research, and discuss tools and approaches that researchers can use in each of these steps, including version control, automated testing, and workflow managers. Access: Access via MS Teams |
| 13.06.2025, 10:00 BST / 11:00 MESZ |
Managing Teams and Tasks using GitLab/GitHub | Carolin Odebrecht | How do we use management features such as boards, issues and labels to organise interdisciplinary teams aiming to collaboratively work on data or software using GitLab/GitHub? Using the management features needs to be aligned with the management approach and workflows of the team, which is often also influenced by discipline-specific requirements. We will discuss project management methods, GitLab/GitHub features to enhance collaboration in data/software projects and teams. Access: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66343315722 |
| 25.06.2025, 2 pm BST / 3 pm MESZ |
Static-first approach to web dev | Geoffroy Noël | King’s Digital Lab develops the digital resources at the heart of many research projects. Most of these resources are web-based and hosted on KCL infrastructure. Over the years our RSE team has gradually standardised its development stack. And recently we have transitioned our default architecture from monolithic client-server to static sites. In this talk we’ll explain what we mean by “static first”, why we took that direction and where we are on that path. Access: Access via MS Teams |
| 03.07.2025, 2 pm BST / 3 pm MESZ |
Software Discovery, Publication and Citation | Alexander Struck, Stephan Druskat | Research software is (slowly) being recognized as a research output. Therefore, it should be published, cited and be findable for potential reuse. But the landscape, infrastructure and processes are rather heterogeneous. The two talks will introduce the topics, showcase state-of-the-art approaches and ongoing work to improve software publication, citation and discovery. Access: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/63847315496?pwd=lG9O9l3QLGdUez2mkuyPWSFZQMI6hD.1 Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/15696706 |
| 10.07.2025, 2 pm BST / 3 pm MESZ |
Make Your Python Code Faster | Jost Migenda | Do you often find yourself staring at your screen, waiting for your Python code to finish running? In this talk, I will show how to use Python’s built-in features more efficiently to speed up your code & make it more readable at the same time; how to use NumPy, Pandas and other software from the scientific Python ecosystem to parallelise computations and speed up workloads by an order of magnitude; and other tips and tricks. Access: Access via MS Teams |
RSE Networking Event in June 24-25 2025
| Day/Location | Slots | Task | Audience | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.06. 2070A (UL6) | 9:30-10:30 am | Welcome and Planning | RSE group (limited audience) | |
| Flexible Working in Groups | RSE group (limited audience) | |||
| ca. 12-1 pm | Lunch | RSE group (limited audience) | ||
| Flexible Working in Groups | RSE group (limited audience) | |||
| 2-4 pm | Discussion round RSE in Humanities Guests: Malte Dreyer (Director Computing Centre HUB) Torsten Hiltmann (Digital History HUB) Thomas Krause (Software Developer HUB) |
Open for everybody! | ||
| 6 pm | Dinner | t.b.a. | ||
| 25.06. Room 1066e (UL6) | 9:30-10am | Planning | RSE group (limited audience) | |
| Flexible Working in Groups | RSE group (limited audience) | |||
| 12-1 pm | Circle U application with International Office | RSE group (limited audience) | ||
| 1-2 pm | Lunch | RSE group (limited audience) | ||
| Flexible Working in Groups | ||||
| 3-4 pm | Talk Static-first approach to web dev by Miguel Vieira | Open for everybody! | ||
| 6 pm | Dinner | RSE group (limited audience) |