30–31 May 2024
Aalto University Campus
Europe/Helsinki timezone

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  1. Konstantin Stadler (NTNU - Industrial Ecology Programme)
    Track 1
    Discussion

    The Industrial Ecology Digital Lab (https://www.iedl.no) is a small RSE group (7 people) within NTNUs Industrial Ecology Programme (https://www.ntnu.edu/indecol - with around 70 people, organized into eight Professor groups). One of the main purposes of the lab is to support the development of novel research code. As part of that support, we aspire to lift the general coding competence of the...

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  2. Taha Ahmed
    Track 1
    On-going projects

    This presentation will demonstrate an Ansible playbook that fulfils many day-to-day computing needs of a researcher, and which can be easily extended. This conference will mark the first public release of this playbook, which I developed and used during the course of my own PhD.
    Starting from a server image of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy) the playbook installs and configures the i3 tiling window...

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  3. Thomas Pfau (Aalto University)
    Track 1
    On-going projects

    LLMs have become a tool used by many researchers in a wide variety of tasks and several libraries are available to facilitate access to the most common LLMs. At the same time many workstations used by researchers don't have the capacity to run llms locally and at the same time researchers are hesitant to feed potentially sensitive data to models hosted on external webservices like Azure or...

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  4. Hazim Hussein (Norwegian University of science and technology)
    Track 1
    Demonstration

    In the dynamic landscape of research, efficient project storage and seamless retrieval are essential for driving progress and innovation. However, researchers often face challenges in organizing, accessing, and sharing their projects and associated data effectively. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel web application designed to streamline project management and foster...

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  5. Samantha Wittke
    Track 1
    Talks

    The CodeRefinery project has been invited to participate in the Dagstuhl seminar "Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps" in mid April 2024 (after submission deadline). This submission aims at summarizing the findings of that event and share information relevant to the Nordic-RSE community.
    The main part of the talk will be about the sessions on formal and informal education...

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  6. Dr Tetiana Malykhina (Aalto University, Finland)
    Track 1
    Demonstration

    The study of processes occurring in a matter when ionizing radiation passes through it is important for solving various problems. Examples of such problems are applied and fundamental tasks in physics, chemistry, material science and technology, biology, nuclear medicine and so on.

    Computer modeling makes it possible to perform preliminary computational experiments in cases where real...

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  7. Rohit Goswami
    Track 1
    Talks

    Practical effective usage of HPC resources inevitably ends up in the high throughput regime. No matter how well-optimized a computational chemistry code base may be, most of them (e.g. VASP, GROMACS etc) are geared towards single calculations, while journals require "manifold systems" to prove general results. To this end there has been a steady rise in workflow engines, like AiiDA or PyIron...

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  8. Radovan Bast
    Track 1
    Demonstration

    In this demo I will show how I combine the type safety and performance of the Rust programming language with the convenience of Python.

    This approach can be used to speed up Python code (by porting the bottleneck) or to interface a Rust project with the Python ecosystem.

    I will show how to build and package a Rust project so that it can be imported into a Python project without any extra...

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  9. Radovan Bast
    Track 1
    Talks

    The RSE group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway is now two years old.
    In these two years we have tried a number of approaches for outreach, support, and project management and tracking. We had success stories, but also experienced "growing pains".

    I propose to share our lessons learned from supporting projects across many academic disciplines. What do we know now that we wish we knew...

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  10. Jarno Rantaharju (Aalto University)
    Track 1
    Discussion

    How do you organize a conference as publicly as possible, enabling participants to edit the plan as they go?

    We organized this conference mainly on a private discussion channel. It is not closed, anyone can join, but you need to know about it. In our previous unconferences, participants have done a lot to make the event happen and they most likely could help with this one.

    I will talk...

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  11. Filip Berendt (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    Track 1
    Demonstration

    InfraVis is the national Swedish infrastructure for the visualization and analysis of data from all academic domains. InfraVis supports its users on three levels with varying degrees of depth and effort: from a few hours without user fees to several months with co-funding. In this paper, we document and analyse our approach to support levels to extract lessons learned for the reader....

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  12. Dr Holger Virro (Landscape Geoinformatics Lab, University of Tartu)
    Track 1
    On-going projects

    The Estonian Topographic Database (ETAK) is a collection of geospatial vector data layers managed by the Estonian Land Board. In general, this data is generated by digitizing various man-made (e.g. buildings, roads) and natural (e.g. water bodies) geographic objects from satellite imagery. This process is currently largely manual and very time-consuming, which is why methods for automating at...

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  13. Enrico Glerean, Radovan Bast, Richard Darst (Aalto University)
    Track 1
    Talks

    Software security is a familiar concept to anyone using digital devices, often highlighted by frequent and annoying prompts for urgent software updates. When it comes to research software, security takes greater significance: researchers are often working on confidential projects and handling sensitive research data such as personal data. When it comes to security, researchers, who often...

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  14. Waldir Leoncio Netto (University of Oslo)
    Track 1
    On-going projects

    I'd like to share my 4-year old ongoing effort of translating the BAPS software (Corander, J. and Marttinen, P., 2006) from MATLAB to R. This is a very large undertaking: the complete sofware contains over 41k LOC, the original developers have disbanded and moved on, and the software doesn't even run anymore on modern systems. We have achieved good progress in 400 hours of work over 3 years,...

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  15. Luca Ferranti
    Track 1
    Talks

    Floating point numbers are the backbone and deepest essence of computation. Floating point numbers is how our computer represents and manipulates "real numbers" (wanna know why the quotation mark? come to the talk). Unfortunately, floating point arithmetic is considered too applied by mathematicians and too theoretical by engineers, hence it often neglected in computer science or scientific...

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  16. Samantha Wittke
    Track 1
    Discussion

    This submission aims at providing a space for the community to discuss topics and questions around suggesting the idea of an RSE/ RSE group to employers. Depending on the audience, we will utilize in-person or remote collaboration tools for the discussion and split into smaller groups if necessary.
    The outcome of the discussion would be a blogpost for the Nordic-RSE website with suggestions...

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