A chance to look back at our past TechSocial series and speaker presentations where available
- 2023
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) June Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London) How to install high-performant software on a High Performance Cluster? January James Hughes (ARC) Changing the nature of research: Research Web Development as an integral part of research and RSE identity
- 2022
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December Asaph Zylbertal (UCL) Using AI to predict zebrafish brain state and behaviour from whole-brain cellular-resolution functional imaging November Fernando Perez-Garcia (Microsoft) TorchIO; using deep learning for medical image analysis in research and industry October
Erik Tollerud, Matt Turk (VAST) Satellite Event - Virtual Astronomy Software Talks September Mike Croucher (Mathworks) The Art of Coding without Coding July Timo Betcke From low to high level languages and back June Jennifer Gibson Open research data as an essential component in accelerating discovery and recording May Ross Cooper-Smith, Ray Coetzee Towards an exabyte-scale unified data platform for research data April Adham Hashibon Materials Informatics: From Data to Knowledge and back Recording March Honghan Wu Quantifying Health Inequalities Induced by Data and AI Models Slides and recording
February Tom Keel Approaching meaningful insight into the climate system: my experiences so far January Tom Roberts Developing Fetal MRI and translating new research software into NHS clinical practice
- 2021
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December Tom Dowrick Synthetic Surgical Data For Machine Learning in Image Guided Surgery Recording November Andela Saric Modelling Life with Beads and Springs Recording October Sheena Visram, Dean Mohamedally Touchless Computing Interactions with MotionInput v2.0. Website and recording September Yanlan Mao, Ozan Aksoy, Cristin Merritt, Owain Kenway, Harry Moss, Jamie Quinn and others How to get started with High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence in your research Recording June Marta Jaros Performance-cost Optimization of Moldable Scientific Workflows May Ben Hall BioModelAnalyzer: Using formal verification to understand cancer development Slides and recording
April Federico Nanni, Kasra Hosseini, Kaspar Beelen, Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Turing Institute) Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering working together: some examples of a fruitful collaboration from the Living with Machines project Slides and recording
March Adam Tyson Whole-brain microscopy image analysis Slides and recording
February David Stansby Ingredients for successful domain-specific research software Slides and recording
January Stefan Helfrich KNIME - Visual Workflows for Pushing Data Literacy Slides and recording
- 2020
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December
Anna Krystalli Putting the R into Reproducible Research Slides and recording
November Rich FitzJohn Research Software Engineering and the COVID-19 pandemic response Slides and recording
October Pieter Vermeesch New software for better geochronology Slides and recording
July Jim Cownie Growing up as a (software) engineer Slides
June Tom Deakin Performance portability across diverse architectures May Joaquin Rapela Distributing and applying advanced statistical tools to better understand neural and behavioural recordings Slides
April Leila Muresan Software for the nanoscale: Microscopy image analysis at the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre Slides
February Mia Ridge, Mahendra Mahey, Harry Moss, Olivia Vane and Filipe Bento Research software engineering at one of the world’s largest libraries Slides January Joe Greener Julia: a natural language for computational biology Slides
- 2019
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December Jay DesLauriers Building a Cloud Toolkit Slides
October Dr Mosè Giordano Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing Slides
July Sarah Stewart ‘With the Software in the Library’ – Best practices for Research Software Management and Citation Slides June Dr Jonathan Cooper PyBioPharma: cost-effective drug production, and lessons learned Slides
May Dr Andrew Edmondson Software, theology, high performance computing, AI and RSEConUK 2019 Slides
April Dr Owain Kenway An overview of Research Computing services and how we provide them Slides
March Dr Setrak Balian Classifier for detecting propaganda videos on the web Februrary Dr Sanaz Jabbari AI Studio Slides
January Dr James Smithies Maximising Research Capacity & Quality in Digital Laboratories: The Philosophy behind King’s Digital Lab Slides
- 2018
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December Dr David Wright and Robin Richardson EasyVVUQ: Error bars for everyone Slides
November Prof Luca Viganò Explainable Security Slides (UCL account required) October Dr Tom Dowrick Software Engineering for Novel Surgical Devices and Technique Slides
July Dr Jeremy Cohen Running Scientific Applications on HPC Infrastructure Using Singularity: A Case Study Slides
June Dr Chris Richardson Interfacing Python to C++: some experiences with the FEniCS Project Slides May Dr Peter Bloomfield The Machine Intelligence Garage; removing barriers from the AI startup ecosystem Slides April Prof. Anthony Steed Rise, Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality March Dr Stewart Martin-Haugh Throwing away 99.999975% of your data: triggering at the ATLAS experiment Slides January Dr Tomas Petricek The Gamma: Democratising data science Slides
- 2017
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) November Dr Olivia Guest Gerrymandering and computational redistricting Slides October Dr Marc Warner AI in the cloud with SherlockML July Dr Jeremy Metz Image processing in the biological sciences: classical vs machine learning approaches May Dr Wadud Miah Modern Fortran for Computational Science Slides April Dr Daniel Buchan Deploying your data analysis pipelines as services for others March Dr Daniel Hanlon iRODS January Dr Vince Knight Property based testing in a research setting
- 2016
Month Speaker Title Presentation (if available) December Dr Jonathan Cooper Cardiac Electrophysiology Web Lab Slides November Dr Kris De Meyer Monte-Carlo with Julia in the Cloud Slides October Dr Gabriele Pierantoni Information Flows: a possible direction for the future of scientific computational infrastructures Slides July Dr Thomas Kluyver Experiences from the Jupyter development team June James Geddes Cellular: A proposal for less awful models Slides May Prof Tony Hey The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Science Slides April Dr Tom Doel Data sharing with GIFT-Cloud Slides March Ms Raquel Alegre Making sense of geospatial data with CartoDB maps Slides February Dr Jeremy Appleyard Profiling GPU code Slides January Dr Derek Groen FabSim: facilitating computational research through automation on large-scale and distributed e-infrastructures. Slides