Last month many members of the RSE Group and other Princeton colleagues attended USRSE’25, the third annual conference from US-RSE. Hosted this year in Philadelphia, the conference theme was “Code, Practices, and People.” Princeton University (authors in bold) contributions included:
- Accelerating Research: Strategies from the Field – Jen Rosiere Reynolds, Lance Parsons, Gail Rosenbaum, Joost Wagenaar, and Sarah Stevens (BoF)
- Sustainable Models of RSE Support: The Prospects of Centralization in Institutional Research – Eric Manning, Lori Bougher, Colin Swaney, and Sangyoon Park (BoF)
- Undate: computing with uncertain and partially-unknown dates – Rebecca S. Koeser (notebook)
- Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure: balancing diverse compute needs – Christine Roughan and Rebecca S. Koeser (paper)
- INnovative Training Enabled by a Research Software Engineering Community of Trainers (INTERSECT) – Jeffrey Carver and Ian Cosden (poster)
- Building Scientific Python Packages – Henry Schreiner (poster)
- Community Code Review in the Digital Humanities – Julia Damerow, Rebecca S. Koeser, Jeffrey C. Carver, and Malte Vogl (poster)
- Surveying the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Landscape – Rebecca S. Koeser and Julia Damerow (poster)
- Ten Simple Rules for Catalyzing Collaborations and Building Bridges between Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers – Nasir Eisty, Jeffrey Carver, Johanna Cohoon, Ian Cosden, Carole Goble, and Samuel Grayson (poster)
- Developing a Machine Learning-Augmented Solver for the Hydrologic Model ParFlow – Georgios Artavanis, Laura Condon, Andrew Bennett, and Reed Maxwell (talk)
- Everything, All at Once, Yesterday: Creating Research Software with Humanities Faculty – Jeri Wieringa and Mary Naydan (talk)
- What happened to Curt’s arm? – Curt Hillegas (RAM)
- Agile Foundations for RSEs: Building an AI Assistant with Agile – Tisha Charles and David Luet (workshop)
Additionally, Princeton University Professor Reed Maxwell delivered the first keynote address on Accelerating Continental-Scale Groundwater Simulation With a Fusion of Machine Learning, Integrated Hydrologic Models and Community Platforms. His keynote highlighted three of his lab’s software projects centered around hydrologic data, simulations, and visualizations, and he noted contributions to those projects from five current and past RSE Group members (Vineet Bansal, Calla Chenault, Georgios Artavanis, Amy Defnet, and Bill Hasling). Professor Maxwell stated that not only RSE contributions to software, but additionally that “RSEs enable digital education and outreach content.”
All in all, it was inspiring to convene with RSEs from all over the country. We already look forward to next year’s conference to be hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area!