News

Fabian Lehmann, Ph.D. student in project B5 on adaptive scheduling in workflow systems, has become an official contributor to the popular Nextflow workflow engine.

FONDA is excited to open a professorship for Human-Computer Interaction for Scientific Software at the institute for Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

For details, please visit the official advertisement or contact as directly.

The paper Efficient Control Flow in Dataflow Systems: When Ease-of-Use Meets High Performance by Gábor E. Gévay, Tilmann Rabl, Sebastian Breß, Loránd Madai-Tahy, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, and Volker Markl receives the Best Paper Award at the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021). Congrats to FONDA PIs Tilmann and Volker and their teams!

FONDA organizes a workshop on Sustainable Data Analytics at INFORMATIK 2021, the official annual conference of the German Informatics Society (GI). The workshop is chaired by Timo Kehrer, Ulf Leser, and Marcus Hilbrich and invites long and short paper submissions until May 17, 2021. See https://informatik2021.gi.de/call-for-paper/sda for the full call for papers.

Next week, on April 23 Johannes Köster will give the Nano Course on Snakemake. The course is online. Please use our wiki to get the link to the Zoom session.

Next week on April 21 & 22 we welcome Stephan Druskat to held the upcoming Nano Course “Software Carpentry- Software Engineering Principles for Scientific Software” on version control with Git and collaboration with GitHub/GitLab. To get the Zoom link, members of FONDA can use our internal wiki.

Our RTG on good scientific practise will be held by Hans-Peter Eckle next month on May 5, 6 and 7. They will take place online, so use our Wiki to get the toom link.

FONDA has its own wiki now. Follow the link to take a look: https://wikis.hu-berlin.de/fonda/Main_Page

Next month on April 5 we will meet virtually for the RTG Evaluation Workshop. Be sure to find the zoom link on our Wiki.

See our new short description of the research we will be doing in FONDA.