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Thursday 15th September 2016

Slides from most talks are available on the abstracts page.

Morning: Main Talks

| Time | Room | | :------------- | :------------- | ----- | | 10.00am-10.45am | Main Hall | Arrival, refreshments and registration | | 10.45am-11.15am | Garratt 1+2 | Welcome, and History and Growth of UK-RSE.
Robert Haines and Simon Hettrick, University of Manchester, University of Southampton | | 11.15am-12.00noon | Garratt 1+2 | Keynote: Engineering the Future: Research Software Engineering at Microsoft
Matthew Johnson, Leader of Agile Projects Team, Microsoft Research, Cambridge | | 12.00noon-12.30pm | Garratt 1+2 | Not everyone can use git: Research Software Engineers’ recommendations for scientist-centred software support (and what researchers think of them).
Caroline Jay, Rawan Sanyour, Robert Haines, University of Manchester | | 12.30pm-1.00pm | Main Hall | Conference photo | | 1.00pm-2.00pm | Main Hall | Lunch |

Afternoon : Workshops (Five parallel sessions. Please choose at registration which of workshops A1-A5, and which of workshops B1-B5 you'd prefer to attend)

| Time | | | :------------- | :------------- | ----- | | 2.00pm-3.15pm | Workshop A1, Dalton/Joule | Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016 - Vectorization Advisor: Understanding vectorization and how it impacts performance. | | | Workshop A2, Garratt 2 | Using Docker for Research Software development & deployment.
Mark Fernandes, Institute of Food Research | | | Workshop A3, Lovell | Engineering your Application for Peak Performance with TAU and MVAPICH2.
Sameer Shende, Khaled Hamidouche, and Hari Subramoni, University of Oregon (Sameer), The Ohio State University (Khaled, Hari) | | | Workshop A4, Whitworth | Simple, high-speed, high-volume data transport of large datasets over the Internet using GridFTP.
Mark Basham, Diamond Light Source | | | Workshop A5, Garratt 1 | Discussion: Surveying the UK Research Software Landscape.
Andy Turner, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) | | | | | :------------- | :------------- | ----- | | 3.15pm-3.45pm | Main Hall | Refreshments break | | | | | :------------- | :------------- | ----- | | 3.45pm-5.00pm | Workshop B1, Lovell | Why Cloud Computing is the RSE’s Best Friend.
Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research | | | Workshop B2, Garratt 2 | Data Visualization: Truthiness Hurts.
Louise Lever, University of Manchester | | | Workshop B3, Dalton/Joule | Continuous Integration for research software development.
Alin Marin Elena, Daresbury Laboratory, STFC | | | Workshop B4, Whitworth | Object orientation in GNU Octave / MATLAB and architectural patterns.
Alberto M Biancardi, University of Sheffield | | | Workshop B5, Garratt 1 | Discussion: The Role of the Research Software Engineer.
UK-RSE |

Evening : AGM and Conference Dinner

| Time | Room | | :------------- | :------------- | ----- | | 5.00pm-6.30pm | Garratt 1+2 |UK-RSE Annual General Meeting.
Any conference attendee or member of UK-RSE is allowed to attend this extra event. For more details, including how to attend via Skype, please click here | | 7.00pm-9.00pm | BlackDog | Conference Dinner.
This is included for free with registration. For more information please click here |

Click here to see Friday's programme