The next Lecture Series starts on December 7th (15:00 – 18:00) at Humboldt-Kabinett, Rudower Chausee 25, Berlin (Adlershof). TBA. You are welcome!
This semester we have two invited speakers for each lecture and fewer lectures. Lars Grunske organized the first lecture, the topic is:
Software Engineering for Science and Science for Software Engineering
We are happy to have Norman Peitek (Saarland University) and Andreas Zeller (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) as our guests.
The presentations are:
Effective Notebooks: Making Notebooks Reusable, Extensible, and Well-Tested (Andreas Zeller)
Notebooks combine code, documentation, tests, visualizations, and interactive tutorials in an elegant and reusable fashion, and have quickly become the tool of choice for any researcher exploring, evaluating, and managing large amounts of data. Yet, notebooks are not as reusable and replicable as they could be – and as they should be. In this talk, I highlight some of the problems researchers face when they want to reuse, extend, or replicate notebook code and results, and I introduce several best practices from Software Engineering that improve modularity, quality assurance, documentation, and configuration management – and thus vastly facilitate reuse and extensibility of notebooks.
Neuroscience & Software Engineering: A New Wave of Research on Programmers (Norman Peitek)
Software engineering has traditionally focused on technical aspects such as paradigms, processes, and practices. But, a major component to success—programmers and their minds—has eluded our comprehensive understanding despite decades of research. In the last few years, neuroscientific methods have opened a new perspective for software engineering. In this talk, we provide an overview of the insights and challenges of measuring programmers’ brains.
In addition, we have time for discussion and questions to our guests. So, do not miss our Lecture Series.
We have planned two additional lectures. January 5th to the topic “Workflows in materials science” and on January 26th to “Scheduling”. Some more information is on our Wiki (https://wikis.hu-berlin.de/fonda/Category:Lecture_Series) and will be announced as news (https://fonda.hu-berlin.de/?page_id=14).