Speakers
Monday 19th June - Launch Event
Cristin Merrit
Chief Marketing Officer, Alces Flight
Sustainable High Performance Computing (HPC) through Open-Source
HPC is one of the most time, cost, and energy intensive forms of computing today. However, it is also one that is rising rapidly in popularity thanks to the progress being made in the speed and ease of collection of computational data. With the advent of new technologies such as AI and ML being regularly utilised in the HPC, the question becomes this: How can we sustain positive momentum in HPC and not cause more problems than we can solve? Cristin Merritt, CMO of Alces Flight, will walk through how York’s partnership with Alces addresses sustainability - and how the OpenFlightHPC open-source project facilitates an economy of scale within the Viking HPC Cluster, enabling the team to look holistically at solving many of the complex challenges that dominate the supercomputing space.
When? - Monday 19th June - Launch Event - Find tickets here.
Emma Rand
Senior Lecturer, Biology
You Can Make an R Package Too!
When? - Monday 19th June - Launch Event - Find tickets here.
Tuesday 20th June - Selection Box 1
Dr. Alastair Droop
Data Science Lab Head, Biology Technology Facility
An Introduction to Rust for Scientific Computing
I will discuss the Rust Programming language with emphasis on its application in scientific computing.
When? - Tuesday 20th June - Selection Box 1 - Find tickets here.
Dr. Vincent Hughes
Senior Lecturer, Language and Linguistic Science
Interpretable AI: What Are Speaker Recognition Systems Capturing?
I discuss what properties of the voice automatic speaker recognition systems are capturing and consider the implications for their use as forensic evidence.
When? - Tuesday 20th June - Selection Box 1 - Find tickets here.
Wednesday 21st June - ONLINE
The Role of Wikidata Within the Research Lifecycle
White Rose Libraries, ONLINE event.
This is a White Rose Libraries co-hosted event at the University of York library based around advocacy for the use of Wikidata within the research lifecycle. We are bringing together researchers and professionals from across the three institutions and Wikimedia UK to showcase the use of Wikidata, a free linked database of secondary data that can be read and edited by both humans and machines, in their research. The event will start with a presentation from Martin Poulter, a trainer and adviser to academics, librarians, and other experts on how to work with open projects such as Wikidata and Wikipedia. He will be addressing the strengths of Wikidata for Digital Humanities. We will also be hosting two members of Wikimedia UK: Dr. Richard Nevell, Programme Manager and Connected Heritage Programme Lead, and Dr. Lucy Hinnie, Digital Skills Wikimedian. Dr Fran Allfrey, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, will be talking to us about Medieval Wiki: learnings from editing wikidata with medieval scholars. The Medieval Wiki project page is here. Finally, Ruth Elder, Collections Management Spcialist at the University of York, will give us an insight into the collaborative work with adding information to Wikidata from their respective university libraries’s theses repository.
Dr. Martin Poulter
Economics Network ICT Manager, University of Bristol; “Wikimedian in Residence”, Khalili Foundation
Dr. Lucy Hinnie
Digital Skills Wikimedian, Wikimedia UK
Dr. Richard Nevell
Programme Manager and Connected Heritage Programme Lead, Wikimedia UK
Dr. Fran Allfrey
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Archaeology
Ruth Elder
Collections Management Specialist, Library, Archives and Learning Services
When? - Wednesday 21st June - The Role of Wikidata Within the Research Lifecycle - Find tickets here.
Wednesday 21st June - Selection Box 2
Dr. Brennen Fagan
Research Associate, Mathematics
History, Mathematics, and Data
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” With modern computing power and techniques, how far can we take “rhyming” to better our understanding of history?
When? - Wednesday 21st June - Selection Box 2 - Find tickets here.
Dr. Sandy MacDonald
Bioinformatics Technical Specialist, Biology Technology Facility
Citizen Science Analysis of Environmental Data
A brief overview of my Raspberry Pi-powered environmental data collection and analysis.
When? - Wednesday 21st June - Selection Box 2 - Find tickets here.
Thursday 22nd June - Selection Box 3
Monday 26th June - Selection Box 4
Dr. Philip Garnett
Senior Lecturer, Management; Society And Ethics Pillar Lead, Institute for Safe Autonomy
The Ethics of Home Environment Monitoring
We have a pilot project starting at the Institute for Safe Autonomy looking at internal environment monitoring of social housing. This talk will discuss the challenges and opportunities, both ethical and technical.
When? - Monday 26th June - Selection Box 4 - Find tickets here.
Dr. David Shaw
Research Associate, Environment and Geography
Atmospheric Chemistry, The Challenges of Working With Experimentalists
Getting useful data from experiment to model in atmospheric chemistry, from experimental design to data formatting and analysis.
When? - Monday 26th June - Selection Box 4 - Find tickets here.
Tuesday 27th June - Selection Box 5
Dr. Jessica Hargreaves
Lecturer in Data Science, Mathematics
How to Visualise Football Data Using R
A “code-along” tutorial on creating: shot; pass and possession maps in R. (Suitable for all who have used R before.)
When? - Tuesday 27th June - Selection Box 5 - Find tickets here.
Prof. Matt Probert
Professor, Physics
Machine-learned Acceleration for Molecular Dynamics Calculations
I will discuss our experience to date using on-the-fly fitting and evaluation of a Machine Learning interatomic potential, as a way of significantly accelerating first principles molecular dynamics calculations of materials, without loss of accuracy compared to the underlying first principles method. This is in contrast to the more established approach of carefully fitting an ML potential to a wide body of data calculated using a first principles method, and then using that in a calculation of the dynamics.
When? - Tuesday 27th June - Selection Box 5 - Find tickets here.
Prof. Tom Stoneham
Head Of Department, Philosophy
‘Here’s My Number, So Call Me, Maybe’: Why Your Contacts List is an Ethical Issue
We all know our phones are treasure troves of personal data. One aspect of this is the Contacts list. In this talk I explore some ethical issues that arise from the ordinary practice of giving, receiving and storing contact information.
When? - Tuesday 27th June - Selection Box 5 - Find tickets here.
Tuesday 27th June
How Can RSEs Enhance Your Research?
Dr. Emma Barnes
Head of Research IT, IT Services
Dr. Philip Harrison
Research Software Engineer Team Lead
Dr. Stuart Lacy
Research Software Engineer
When? - Tuesday 27th June - “How can RSEs enhance your research?” - Find tickets here.
Thursday 29th June - Selection Box 6
Dr. Cyclia Bolibaugh
Lecturer, Education
Towards a Data Commons in Language Research
Colleagues in the life sciences have accelerated and democratised research by creating interactive, community-governed software platforms that enable the integration, reuse and analysis of large-scale data. Could the language learning research community achieve something similar? In this talk I’ll report the findings from an ongoing evaluation of the FAIR-ness, completeness and reusability of datasets that have been archived in the IRIS (Instruments and data for research in language studies) repository with a view to identifying challenges and opportunities ahead.
When? - Thursday 29th June - Selection Box 6 - Find tickets here.
Dr. Malak Olamaie
Senior lecturer in Bayesian Data Science, York St. John University
When? - Thursday 29th June - Selection Box 6 - Find tickets here.
Monika Gonka
PhD Student, Biology
When? - Thursday 29th June - Selection Box 6 - Find tickets here.
Friday 30th June - Selection Box 7
Prof. Kevin Cowtan
Professor, Chemistry
What Does the “Mean” in “Global Mean Temperature” Actually Mean?
This one weird trick from the 1970s could have avoided the false pause in global warming.
When? - Friday 30th June - Selection Box 7 - Find tickets here.
Siobhan Dunlop
Teaching and Learning Advisor, Library, Archives and Learning Services
Hello Coding World: Creating Resources for Introductory Coding
The Digital Inclusion, Skills and Creativity team within Library, Archives and Learning Services at the University of York have a range of introductory coding resources and workshops. In this talk we’ll discuss the process of creating introductory coding resources that are open and approachable to everyone, and explore what is available, whether someone is looking for data analysis or making video games.
When? - Friday 30th June - Selection Box 7 - Find tickets here.
Chris Coates
Head of Engineering, HPC at Logicalis UK&I
Shared Teaching Environments for Fun and Profit
A fun look at spin-up research environments. Bring a laptop!
When? - Friday 30th June - Selection Box 7 - Find tickets here.