TechSocial Series Archive

A chance to look back at our past TechSocial series and speaker presentations where available

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
January	Andrew Gray (UCL)	ChatGPT “contamination”: estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature	Recording \| Slide deck
March	N/A	Linux Install Party!	Slide deck
April	David Atkinson (UCL CMI)	Medical Imaging Software for VERDICT MRI in prostate cancer	Recording \| Slide deck
June	Oren Penso (Broadcom)	DevSecOps in Practice: Securing the Modern Application Lifecycle	Recording
September	Samuel Coward (UCL CS)	Equality Saturation and Industrial Circuit Design	Recording \| Slide deck
October	Gustav Tschirschnitz (Redbull Racing)	Ship Fast, Break Nothing - Automated Tooling for Engineering Quality at Scale	Recording \| Slide deck
November	Dr. Abhishek Dasgupta (UoO)	Climate Aware Computing	Recording \| Slide deck
Please note: months February, May, & July were held as Teach & Code Socials, with Summer and Winter breaks August & December respectively

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
March	Dongsheng Wang (JP Morgan)	Document AI and Large Language Models
April	Ankur Sinha (UCL)	Open Source Brain and NeuroML: enabling standardised, open neuroscience	Recording \| Slides
June	Nikos Konstantinidis (UCL)	Machine Learning on FPGAs for a 50 Tbps system with microsecond latency, to enable discovery science at CERN's Large Hadron Collider	Recording
August	Jasmin Jahić (University of Cambridge)	Software architecture: between rigid processes and 'somehow I manage' approach	Recording \| Slides
September	Milan Klöwer (University of Oxford)	SpeedyWeather.jl: How to build an atmospheric model towards extensibility and interactivity for machine learning-based climate science	Recording \| Slides
October	Sneha Jha (Imperial College)	History and current state of the research on LLMs	Recording \| Slides
December	Fabian Plum (Imperial College)	Open-source, low-cost macro 3D scanner to create models of insects (scAnt )	Recording
Please note: months July and November were held as Teach & Code Socials

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
June	Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London)	How to install high-performant software on a High Performance Cluster?
January	James Hughes (ARC)	Changing the nature of research: Research Web Development as an integral part of research and RSE identity

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Asaph Zylbertal (UCL)	Using AI to predict zebrafish brain state and behaviour from whole-brain cellular-resolution functional imaging
November	Fernando Perez-Garcia (Microsoft)	TorchIO; using deep learning for medical image analysis in research and industry
October	Erik Tollerud, Matt Turk (VAST)	Satellite Event - Virtual Astronomy Software Talks
September	Mike Croucher (Mathworks)	The Art of Coding without Coding
July	Timo Betcke	From low to high level languages and back
June	Jennifer Gibson	Open research data as an essential component in accelerating discovery	Slides Slides and recording
May	Ross Cooper-Smith, Ray Coetzee	Towards an exabyte-scale unified data platform for research data	Slides Slides
April	Adham Hashibon	Materials Informatics: From Data to Knowledge and back	Recording
March	Honghan Wu	Quantifying Health Inequalities Induced by Data and AI Models	Slides and recording
February	Tom Keel	Approaching meaningful insight into the climate system: my experiences so far	Slides recording
January	Tom Roberts	Developing Fetal MRI and translating new research software into NHS clinical practice	recording

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Tom Dowrick	Synthetic Surgical Data For Machine Learning in Image Guided Surgery	Recording
November	Andela Saric	Modelling Life with Beads and Springs	Recording
October	Sheena Visram, Dean Mohamedally	Touchless Computing Interactions with MotionInput v2.0.	Website and recording
September	Yanlan Mao, Ozan Aksoy, Cristin Merritt, Owain Kenway, Harry Moss, Jamie Quinn and others	How to get started with High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence in your research	Recording
June	Marta Jaros	Performance-cost Optimization of Moldable Scientific Workflows	Slides and recording
May	Ben Hall	BioModelAnalyzer: Using formal verification to understand cancer development	Slides and recording
April	Federico Nanni, Kasra Hosseini, Kaspar Beelen, Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Turing Institute)	Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering working together: some examples of a fruitful collaboration from the Living with Machines project	Slides and recording
March	Adam Tyson	Whole-brain microscopy image analysis	Slides and recording
February	David Stansby	Ingredients for successful domain-specific research software	Slides and recording
January	Stefan Helfrich	KNIME - Visual Workflows for Pushing Data Literacy	Slides and recording

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Anna Krystalli	Putting the R into Reproducible Research	Slides and recording
November	Rich FitzJohn	Research Software Engineering and the COVID-19 pandemic response	Slides and recording
October	Pieter Vermeesch	New software for better geochronology	Slides and recording
July	Jim Cownie	Growing up as a (software) engineer	Slides
June	Tom Deakin	Performance portability across diverse architectures	Slides and recording
May	Joaquin Rapela	Distributing and applying advanced statistical tools to better understand neural and behavioural recordings	Slides
April	Leila Muresan	Software for the nanoscale: Microscopy image analysis at the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre	Slides
February	Mia Ridge, Mahendra Mahey, Harry Moss, Olivia Vane and Filipe Bento	Research software engineering at one of the world’s largest libraries	Slides
January	Joe Greener	Julia: a natural language for computational biology	Slides

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Jay DesLauriers	Building a Cloud Toolkit	Slides
October	Dr Mosè Giordano	Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing	Slides
July	Sarah Stewart	‘With the Software in the Library’ – Best practices for Research Software Management and Citation	Slides
June	Dr Jonathan Cooper	PyBioPharma: cost-effective drug production, and lessons learned	Slides
May	Dr Andrew Edmondson	Software, theology, high performance computing, AI and RSEConUK 2019	Slides
April	Dr Owain Kenway	An overview of Research Computing services and how we provide them	Slides
March	Dr Setrak Balian	Classifier for detecting propaganda videos on the web
Februrary	Dr Sanaz Jabbari	AI Studio	Slides
January	Dr James Smithies	Maximising Research Capacity & Quality in Digital Laboratories: The Philosophy behind King’s Digital Lab	Slides

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Dr David Wright and Robin Richardson	EasyVVUQ: Error bars for everyone	Slides
November	Prof Luca Viganò	Explainable Security	Slides (UCL account required)
October	Dr Tom Dowrick	Software Engineering for Novel Surgical Devices and Technique	Slides
July	Dr Jeremy Cohen	Running Scientific Applications on HPC Infrastructure Using Singularity: A Case Study	Slides
June	Dr Chris Richardson	Interfacing Python to C++: some experiences with the FEniCS Project	Slides
May	Dr Peter Bloomfield	The Machine Intelligence Garage; removing barriers from the AI startup ecosystem	Slides
April	Prof. Anthony Steed	Rise, Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
March	Dr Stewart Martin-Haugh	Throwing away 99.999975% of your data: triggering at the ATLAS experiment	Slides
January	Dr Tomas Petricek	The Gamma: Democratising data science	Slides

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
November	Dr Olivia Guest	Gerrymandering and computational redistricting	Slides
October	Dr Marc Warner	AI in the cloud with SherlockML
July	Dr Jeremy Metz	Image processing in the biological sciences: classical vs machine learning approaches
May	Dr Wadud Miah	Modern Fortran for Computational Science	Slides
April	Dr Daniel Buchan	Deploying your data analysis pipelines as services for others
March	Dr Daniel Hanlon	iRODS
January	Dr Vince Knight	Property based testing in a research setting	Slides Notes

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Dr Jonathan Cooper	Cardiac Electrophysiology Web Lab	Slides
November	Dr Kris De Meyer	Monte-Carlo with Julia in the Cloud	Slides
October	Dr Gabriele Pierantoni	Information Flows: a possible direction for the future of scientific computational infrastructures	Slides
July	Dr Thomas Kluyver	Experiences from the Jupyter development team
June	James Geddes	Cellular: A proposal for less awful models	Slides
May	Prof Tony Hey	The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Science	Slides
April	Dr Tom Doel	Data sharing with GIFT-Cloud	Slides
March	Ms Raquel Alegre	Making sense of geospatial data with CartoDB maps	Slides
February	Dr Jeremy Appleyard	Profiling GPU code	Slides
January	Dr Derek Groen	FabSim: facilitating computational research through automation on large-scale and distributed e-infrastructures.	Slides

Month	Speaker	Title	Presentation (if available)
December	Dr Dan Buchan	Write Less Code	Slides
November	Dr Marzia Rivi	Parallel programming: a brief discussion	Slides
October	Dr Ian Sillitoe	Scalable Web Engineering at UCL	Slides
September	Dr Ulf Schiller	Numerical Approximation, Friend or Foe?	Slides