CW14 Participants

The Collaborations Workshop attracts people from a broad range of backgrounds. To give an idea of the number of disciplines that will be represented, as people sign up to the workshop, we will add their organisation details to the list below.

Several people joining hands
  • GitHub Inc.
  • Microsoft Research
  • ScienceToolbox.org
  • Zooniverse
  • Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics, and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig
  • Medical Research Council Functional Genetics Unit, Oxford 
  • Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
  • The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), Norwich
  • The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), Norwich
  • Wellcome Library, London
  • Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 
  • Fielding DSP, Germany
  • High Energy Physics Group,  Imperial College London
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield
  • School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
  • Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh
  • Electronics and Computer Science - University of Southampton
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  • Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
  • Computing Science, Cardiff Metropolitan University
  • Computational Proteomics Unit, University of Cambridge
  • Geography and Environment & Institute for Complex Systems Simulation, University of Southampton
  • NSCCS, Imperial College London
  • Centre for Computational Science, University College London
  • Diamond Light Source (UK national Synchrotron Facility)
  • Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
  • Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra, University of St Andrews
  • The Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London
  • Information Services Division, University College London
  • Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
  • School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent
  • Department of Geography, University of Northumbria
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield

In anticipation of the workshop, we have collected some of the expectations of the participants. Maybe their reasons resonate with you or you could help. If so, we hope to see you there!

  • Find out about new project proposals and potential partners partners
  • Interact with members of the community of the software in research community
  • Build collaborations (lmy atendence at CW13 led to a £50k grant)
  • Discussing the best approaches to reproducibility, and how to link this in with teaching
  • New ideas for software tools
  • New applications for the tools I've already developed
  • Additional ideas on improving software engineering practice
  • New insights in how to do better automation
  • Networking. I expect to meet a lot of people interested in the issues of software, computational science and reproducible research.
  • To get an overview of approaches to do reproducible research and enable a critical evaluation of our approach
  • New supporters and prospective users for Recomputation.org
  • Would like to talk with funders and publishers about mechanisms for promoting code sharing.
  • Identify good ideas and practices for reproducible science, particularly whilst doing Open Science.
  • Gain an insight into the best way to run a workshop of this nature.
  • Meet computational researchers, building community
  • New collaborations and learn about new methods in sustainable development. Ways to improve my research software.
  • Here at Wellcome Trust we're currently looking into software sharing as an addition to our existing data management and sharing policy. The workshop looks as though it could be very useful in helping to inform our policy review.
  • Gain 2-3 key contacts contacts that help me to understand how software might become acknowledged as scientific contribution on a national level, e.g. with future software publications.
  • Brainstorm ideas about how to make results more reproducible in research
  • Meeting new people who are thinking about reproducibility, brainstorming about all things science.
  • Get feedback about our ideas and a prototype of a new public infrastructure and repository for collaborative research and experimentation in computer engineering (c-mind.org/repo). 
  • Knowledge of tools and techniques for text-mining & XML markup
  • Meet people and learn.
  • How the Institute can more effectively help the UK research community in the use and development of software and its' place in reproducible research