Schedule

When to attend

  • For the Finnish-RSE meetup, attend lunch on 2 Feb to lunch or dinner on 3 Feb.

  • For the SciComp team meetup, attend 3 Feb until lunch on Feb 4.

  • The overlapping day is events of interest to both groups.

  • You are of course welcome to attend more, if you would like.

Schedule

Timetable

Monday (2 February)

Palaver
Main room 		Klondyke
Parallel room 		Other
11:30 Arrival and registration
Registration and lunch info
12:00 Lunch (included)
2nd floor, Metso restaurant (not Reima student restaurant)
13:00 RSE meetup intro
Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst
13:30 Sharing GIS Tools Across Disciplines: Hard Choices, opportunities, and Trade-offs
Kamyar Hasanzadeh

TargetCAT: When a Script Refuses to Stay Small
Ina Pöhner, Rafael Lopes Almeida
14:30 Break
With coffee & small snacks
15:00 Discussion session
Topic TBD
16:00 Laptop session
Luca Ferranti
17:00 End of day
Rooms remain available
18:00 Dinner
Fat Lizard (own expense, confirm participation by afternoon coffee break)

Tuesday (3 February)

Palaver
Main room 		Klondyke
Parallel room 		Other
09:30 Keynote - The RSE community in the United Kingdom
Jeremy Cohen
10:30 Break
With coffee & small snacks
10:45 Towards FAIR file formats: a case example with Origin & Python
Julia Niskanen

Realization: it's SymPy
Frankie Robertson
11:45 RSE meetup wrapup
Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst
12:00 Lunch (self-paid)
2nd floor, Metso restaurant (not Reima student restaurant)
13:00 SciComp team meetup intro
Richard Darst, Samantha Wittke
13:10 Cool things and problems
Darst facilitates, everyone may present
13:45 Role of SciComp and RSEs
Heikki Manila
14:30 Break
With coffee & small snacks
14:45 Unconference: How can we get users to ask for help? Unconference: Everything, everywhere, all at once
If "AI" can mean anything, how do we support "AI"? [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gHIibVQdsvu1YoKDVtzleL1MZCvsWuXTqASLeeLRXCU/edit)
15:45 Hardest legal questions
Maria Rehbinder
16:30 (session)
Further discussion
17:00 End of day
Rooms remain available
18:00 Dinner
Itsuyaka, Tapiola (own expense, confirm participation by afternoon coffee break)

Wednesday (4 February)

Palaver
Main room 		Klondyke
Parallel room 		Other
09:30 Unconference: VSCode and AI agents on HPC?
Should we embrace, accept, prohibit, or ...?
10:00 Panel discussion: Scientific computing experience
10:45 Break
With only small snacks
11:00 Unconference: hallway track
Further discussion with the panelists

Unconference: OpenCompose on OnDemand
Demonstration of the job composer

Unconference: keeping the community going
We'd like to meet again in a year, now what?
11:45 Concluding remarks
12:00 Lunch (self-paid)
2nd floor, Metso restaurant (not Reima student restaurant)
13:00 Local team funding discussion
(if there is any interest - no plans yet)