April roundup – where has the eScience Center been this month?
The theme for this month has mostly been knowledge sharing. Here’s a roundup of where we’ve been in April.
A full house at our inaugural National Research Software Day!
On 23 April, we organized National Research Software Day, a day filled with engaging talks, unconference sessions, beautiful artwork and so much more! Co-organized with LCRDM, this day brought together research support staff, research software engineers, researchers, policymakers and community leaders. Thanks to everyone who came to our event!
Listen to us on the latest JOSSCast episode
Recently, Research Software Engineer Giulia Crocioni had the pleasure to speak with Afron Smith and Abby Cabunoc Mayes, hosts of the podcast JOSSCast: Open Source for Researchers. Giulia presented DeepRank2, a deep learning framework developed by the eScience Center and Radboudumc. She talked about how she uses different machine learning techniques to develop and contribute to methodologies and applications in the life sciences. Listen to the full episode here:
Presenting at the EGU24 General Assembly in Vienna
Each year, the EGU General Assembly brings together geoscientists from around the world. This year, we had the privilege to give talks, provide a course and showcase various projects and software at this major event. Check them out below:
Research Software Engineer Bart Schilperoort presented no less than three projects and software:
- our work on the eWaterCycle project, where we developed a platform for Open and FAIR research collaboration, enabling hydrologists to work with other models and data.
- the xarray-regrid software, an xarray plugin that provides different methods to regrid data between two rectilinear grids.
- in-progress work from the EXCITED project where the eScience Center is building a workflow for creating machine learning models for estimating the global biospheric CO2 exchange.
Research Software Engineer Ou Ku presented two open-source Python packages: SARXarray and STMTools. Both are xarray extensions designed to handle large volumes of radar interferometry data, with seamless support for distributed processing using Dask.
Research Software Engineer Francesco Nattino presented a poster on deploying Jupyter and Dask on SURF infrastructure developed from the Remote-Sensing Deployable Analysis environmenT (RS-DAT) project.
Together, Ou and Francesco also gave an introduction course to geospatial raster and vector data with Python. Check out the course material here.
Hanno Spreeuw and Johan Hidding (both eScience Center), together with Emilia Jarochowska (Utrecht University) gave a talk about the MindTheGap project. This project aims to quantify how stratigraphic gaps affect evolutionary patterns in the fossil record using numerical forward modelling. Hanno presented on the uncertainties in modelling diagenetic self-organization in limestone-marl sequences. Johan presented CarboKitten.jl, the software he co-developed in project to simulate carbonate platform formation.
Showcasing our projects at #ICTOpen2024
If you were at NWO’s ICTOpen 2024, we hope you had the opportunity to stop by our booths to say hello! The eScience Center was well represented at the event and spoke to many interested participants about the Research Software Directory, presented a PowerSensor demo with ASTRON, gave talks about explainable Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, and much more!
HyrbidLabs. We have a lift-off!
HybridLabs is a consortium of 37 partners that will “accelerate innovations in offshore renewable energy through data-driven hybrid labs.” We are excited to be part of the project and will contribute to developing digital models for Hybridlabs.
Another workshop, another full house
On 16 April, we had another successful workshop on Intermediate Research Software Development with Python. Thanks to our inspiring and enthusiastic participants and our wonderful teachers.
Who are we?
The eScience Center is a research organization dedicated to applying research software to answer research questions in any scientific domain through project collaborations. It has the largest concentration of dedicated, high-level research software expertise in the Netherlands. The eScience Center also has a Fellowship Programme and makes all of its software and training materials openly available online. For more information about what we offer, visit esciencecenter.nl.