RSE South West - 23 July 2025

The University of Bristol hosted an RSE South West event on Monday 23 June 2025. Complementing the annual RSE conference, it was a day to showcase interesting topics, share knowledge and build networks. It was also useful to those in the South West of the UK / GW4 who are not part of a larger RSE group.

Download the slides: https://rse-south-west.github.io/meet...

Agenda:
0:00:00 Welcome and introductions, James Thomas
0:07:35 A few questions on RSECon25, Rachel Tunnicliffe
0:16:41 Keynote speaker: RSE Communities: What, How & Why? Fliss Guest
0:50:08 Q&A
1:11:46 Session 1: Groups and facilities, Rita Rasteiro
1:12:06 Discussion: How can Universities / or Scientific centres support RSEs to deliver and share better research software? Polly Eccleston
1:31:48 Lightning talk: Research IT Facility at the University of Bristol, Serena Cooper
1:40:27 Lightning talk: Developing & Deploying Conceptual Design Tools for Factory Planning, Lewis Gilbert
1:45:50 Lightning talk: The Isambard supercomputers, Matt Williams
1:52:26 Q&A
1:59:30 Lunch
2:07:30 Session 2: Applications, Léo Gorman
2:09:23 Talk: Mapping the March: an RSE’s adventures in time and space, Mike Jones
2:26:20 Q&A
2:31:49 Lightning talk: How do you host translated content within a Django application? Benjamin O’Driscoll
2:37:36 Lightning talk: Support for the Python array API standard in SciPy, Jake Bowhay
2:43:57 Lightning talk: Make make great again, James Frost
2:50:25 Q&A
3:00:16 Discussion: The future of RSE South West events, RSE groups and how they’re organised, and RSE best practices, Rachel Tunnicliffe
3:32:53 Closing remarks, James Thomas