{"id":119,"date":"2019-02-08T13:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/research-software-engineering\/?p=119"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:59:09","slug":"rslondonsoutheast-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/research-software-engineering\/2019\/02\/08\/rslondonsoutheast-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"RSLondonSouthEast 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rslondon.ac.uk\/\">Research Software London<\/a>&#8216;s first annual workshop took place at the Royal Society on February 8, 2019, bringing together a regional community of research software users and developers from over 20 institutions. It featured a <a href=\"https:\/\/rslondon.ac.uk\/rslondonse-2019\/agenda\/\">diverse schedule<\/a> of talks and discussions about software engineering, community building and both domain-specific and general-purpose tools of relevance to research.<\/p>\n<p>There were four talks from Imperial researchers, including the keynote from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/s.sherwin\">Professor Spencer Sherwin<\/a>, Director of Research Computing. The College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/admin-services\/ict\/self-service\/research-support\/rcs\/\">Research Computing Service<\/a> was also represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/d.alonso-alvarez\">Dr Diego Alonso \u00c1lvarez<\/a>, who presented an introduction to <a href=\"http:\/\/xarray.pydata.org\/en\/stable\/\">xarray<\/a> and described the RSE team&#8217;s work on integrating it into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablegasinstitute.org\/home\/muse-energy-model\/\">MUSE<\/a> energy systems model.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-122 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/research-software-engineering\/files\/2019\/02\/IMG_20190207_1210452-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiallondon-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/dalonsoa_ic_ac_uk\/EYiYYq6CfbRNoPEIX0uI9PwBJbvwYnukgJTB0ZqRHNyaWQ?e=ge8Zff\">Diego&#8217;s slides<\/a> for more information. Other talks and media from the event are available via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rslondonse19\">#rslondonse19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RSLondon, the programme committee and its chair Dr Jeremy Cohen for organising an informative and stimulating day, and to the EPSRC for supporting the event. We&#8217;re looking forward to participating in <a href=\"https:\/\/rslondon.ac.uk\/events\/\">future meetings<\/a> and helping further strengthen the regional RSE community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Software London&#8216;s first annual workshop took place at the Royal Society on February 8, 2019, bringing together a regional community of research software users and developers from over 20 institutions. It featured a diverse schedule of talks and discussions about software engineering, community building and both domain-specific and general-purpose tools of relevance to research. 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