RAG Assistants — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Paper AquiLLM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Open-Weight RAG-LLM Systems for Scientific Research
2. Talk LZ Oracle: an AI-assisted knowledge retrieval platform for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment
3. Talk Data Sherpa: An AI-Powered Assistant for Scientific Collaboration Knowledge Management
4. Talk AskALCF: A RAG Assistant for HPC User Support

Case Studies Demonstrating RSE Impacts Part I — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Automating Data-Driven Alternative Text in Quarto-based NOAA Fisheries Reports
2. A Modular Threaded Software Application for Axion Detection with DMRadio
3. Poisonous Books: Rule Based Physics Pipeline and Agentic LLMs for Detecting and Analyzing Toxic Pigments in Victorian Bookbindings
4. Building Modern Tools for Computational Science in Flutter to Track the American Chestnut

AI Assisted Code Development — Willow Glen Room

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Reuse, Compose, Extend, Standardize, Automate: Two Decades of RSEing Open (Neuro)Science at CON
2. Drinking from the Firehose: Practical Strategies for Research Software Engineers to Stay Current on AI Tools and Agents
3. Research Software Engineering at SNS and HFIR: Advancing Neutron Science Software in the Age of AI-Assisted Development
4. Designing for Trust in AI-Assisted Scientific Computing

Lunch Break (Sponsorship available) — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

Notebooks — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. [Notebook] Effective Tutorial Notebooks for Cloud Computing Workflows using Remote Sensing Datasets
2. Marimo: an open-source reactive notebook for Python
3. [Notebook] Beyond human readers: designing domain-specific language notebooks for AI-assisted code generation
4. From Notebook to Control Room: Reproducible MLOps for Accelerator Digital Twins

Lessons from Training Users & RSEs — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. INTERSECT After Three Years: Lessons Learned from Delivering Advanced Research Software Engineering Bootcamps
2. Beyond Workshops: RSE-Led Hackathons as Experiential Learning for Software Practice in the AI Era
3. Building Open Source Communities Through Effective Tutorials
4. Evolving HPC User Support: Just-in-Time Learning with Instructional Videos

AI + Software Quality — Willow Glen Room

Chair: TBD

1. Software Gardening Almanack: Measuring and Growing Sustainable Research Software Ecosystems
2. [Paper] Measuring What Matters in the Age of AI: The Research Software Metrics Landscape
3. Back to Basics: Design-First Development in the Age of AI Coding Assistants
4. Scientific Open-Source Software Is Less Likely to Become Abandoned Than One Might Think: Lessons from Curating a Catalog of Maintained Scientific Software

Afternoon Break (Sponsorship available)

RSE Team Operations — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

Workshop · Chair: TBD

1. [BoF] Navigating RSE Team Operations: Leadership, Sustainability, and Emerging Challenges

Institutional RSE Community — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Workshop · Chair: TBD

1. [BoF] Building an Institutional RSE Community

Better Scientific Software Fellowship — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Workshop · Chair: TBD

1. [BoF] Better Scientific Software Fellowship Community

Threat Modeling for Research Software Systems — Willow Glen Room

Workshop · Chair: TBD

1. [Workshop] A Group Attempt at Threat Modeling for Research Software Systems

RSE Practices in the Age of AI Part I — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI
2. Beyond Editing Code: Uses for AI Tools in Scientific Work
3. Ten Projects, Two Teams, One Question: How Does AI Impact Development?
4. Coding with LLM Agents: The Research Software Engineer as the Quality Gate

The Human Factor — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Usability Challenges across AI-Assisted Infrastructure, Security, and Scientific Workflows
2. From Mood Boards to Web Components: Our Journey Building a Design System for Research
3. Human in the Loop: Requirements Gathering and Researcher Trust in the Age of AI
4. Designing for Two Audiences: AI-Readiness and Human Data Usability

HPC + AI — Willow Glen Room

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. [Paper] DART: Distributed Assignment of Research Tasks for Heterogeneous Compute Environments
2. [Paper] Ten Practices for Refactoring Bioinformatics Pipelines to nf-core DSL2 on Shared Slurm HPC
3. [Paper] Tapis AI Assistant: Increasing Research Impact through Traceable and Evaluated Agentic Tools
4. [Paper] Structuring agentic AI for HPC code modernization

Working Group Fair (Presentations during lunch) — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

RSE Skill Training — San Jose Ballroom Salon 3 & 4

BoF

1. Bird of a Feather [BoF] How to train an RSE: A discussion of RSE skill training - past, future, and present by Ellianna Abrahams, Lauren Milechin, Jeffrey Carver, Daniel Woulfin, Patrick Diehl and Gabrielle O'Brien

User Experience: Journey Mapping — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Workshop

1. [Workshop] Journey Mapping: A technique to see opportunities and recognize gaps in user experience

Improve Research Outputs by Improving Institutional Collaboration — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

BoF

1. [BoF] How can institutional RSE hubs and OSPOs work together for the betterment of research outputs?

Refactoring Code for Reuse and Impact — Willow Glen Room

Workshop

1. [Workshop] Fixer-Upper Software: Refactoring Code for Reuse and Impact

Case Studies Demonstrating RSE Impacts Part II — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. [Paper] Josh: Efficient, Portable, and Scalable Cross-Disciplinary Vegetation Modeling via Domain-Specific Language
2. [Paper] Take it on the road: How RCD Helps Field Researchers Report Culvert Condition even when Offline
3. [Paper] Escaping the Enclave: Format-Faithful Synthetic Data for Open, Reproducible Medicare Claims Pipelines
4. Automated Data Reduction for Neutron Scattering Experiments: Current Capabilities and Future Directions

Code Modernization Using AI — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Agentic code modernization
2. Scientific Agentic Engineering: A Framework for Reliable AI Agents in Research Software
3. From Laptop to Cluster: HPC Translation Patterns for AI Stacks
4. Beyond Code Pairs: Generating Test-Grounded Data for AI-Assisted Scientific Software Modernization

Workflows — Willow Glen Room

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Cloud-Native Graphical and Programmatic Cross-Database Access to Experiment Metadata with Trino, Superset and Ibis
2. Custom Containers for Continuous Integration via Spack: Decoupling Environment Configuration from Test Execution
3. Talk OSC-IS: Research Software Infrastructure for Scientific Artifact Preservation, Provenance, and Reproducible Collaboration by Fernando Garzon, Steven Yeu, Scott Sakai, and Subhashini Sivagnanam
4. [Paper] Fabla: An Open-Source Voice-First EMA Platform for Clinical Research

Collaboration & Community Building — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Building Inclusive Talent Pathways: Scaling Outreach, Workforce Development, and Community Engagement for RSE
2. HPC Carpentry and Community Building at NIST
3. Navigating the Code Review Process as a Team: A Case Study
4. Collaboration within RSE group at Princeton: development of slurmise for resource usage estimation

Software Quality — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. Developing a Handbook of best practices for research software sustainability at Princeton
2. [Paper] We Create Quality: Towards a Human-Centric Theory of Research Software Quality in the Age of AI
3. Beyond Productivity: Human-Centered Guardrails for AI-Assisted Research Software Workflows
4. Performance Portable Software Design Patterns – What they can do and why we should collect them.

Generative AI + Applications — Willow Glen Room

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. From Chaos to Schema: LLM-Powered Document Information Extraction
2. Generative AI for Research Data Processing: Lessons Learnt From Three Use Cases
3. Steering an LLM AutoResearch Loop with Domain Context: A Case Study with Vehicle Energy Models
4. Logic Meets Intuition: The Neuro-Symbolic Upgrade for LLMs

RSE Practices in the Age of AI Part II — San Jose Ballroom Salon 1 & 2

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. [Paper] AI-Augmented Research Software Engineering: Risks, Challenges, and Practices
2. [Paper] A Generalized Methodology for Evaluating AI-Integrated Research Software: Lessons from a Smart Search Implementation for Cyber-Training
3. A Nonprofit's Google Summer of Code Experience in the Age of AI-Assisted Contributions
4. Preparing Students for AI-Assisted Research Workflows

Reflections on RSE Roles & Pathways — San Jose Ballroom Salon 5 & 6

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. What They Don’t Tell You About the Data Science to RSE Transition
2. Bears, Bottlenecks, and Bus Factors: Why Embedded RSEs Pay Off
3. Mission Control: Service and the Stewardship of Science
4. Coding is Easy, Everything else is Hard: Lessons learned from working with third-party software developers

Building Infrastructure for Communities or Organizations — Willow Glen Room

Talks · Chair: TBD

1. From Lakehouse to Labmate: KBase’s Vision for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery
2. HEROIC: A Research Software Infrastructure for Real-Time Multi-Messenger Observatory Coordination
3. A Managed Database-as-a-Service Platform for Scientific Computing
4. One Size Fits None: Rethinking Campus Research Computing