Nordic-RSE Gothenburg 2025

May 20-21, 2025

Welcome!

The 2025 edition of the Nordic-RSE conference will be held in Gothenburg on May 20-21 approximately 9-17 CEST. If you are interested in Research Software Engineering and want to connect with the community in the Nordics, you are warmly encouraged to join. For more details about the conference, and why you might want to join, check out our blog post

Schedule

May 20

Day 1
Keynote: Clarity, Not Consensus: Rethinking Unity in Open Science
  • Rebecca Willén IGDORE

BoquilaHUB: An open-source tool for researchers and professionals to run and share AI models with applications in biodiversity protection
  • José Ignacio Díaz Muñoz Boquila Foundation

Coffee Break

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Design Patterns: The secret to smarter, reproducible research
  • Marine Guyot CodingResearcher (freelance RSE)

Tutorial: Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, vim?
  • Waldir Leoncio Netto University of Oslo

Tutorial: 3D visualisation and manipulation of scientific data in static web applications
  • Joakim Bohlin Chalmers University of Technology

Lunch Break
Donated data and what Google already knows
  • Jarno Rantaharju Aalto University

What lessons do free software pioneers have for us in 2025?
  • Richard Darst Aalto University

Unreviewed and Unrunnable? On the role of peer review in publishing reproducible research software
  • Ina Pöhner School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Coffee Break with posters

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Discussion panel
  • Richard Darst Aalto University

May 21

Day 2
Keynote: Beyond Support: Building Strategic RSE Infrastructures for the Humanities
  • Cecilia Lindhé University of Gothenburg

A decade of bug fixing - Building (and maintaining) an open-source tool for research and science communication
  • Ylva Selling Linköping University

Coffee Break

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Harnessing power and synergy – Using game engines to produce visualization and simulation
  • Filip Berendt KTH Royal Institute of Technology

How Alarming
  • Callum Rollo Voice of the Ocean Foundation

LUMI AI Guide
  • Gregor Decristoforo UiT The Arctic University of Norway

The RSE experience at the northernmost university in the world
  • Gabriel Adolfo Gerez Sazo UiT, The arctic University of Norway, NRIS

CodeRefinery: Where Research Software Engineers can begin and grow
  • Samantha Wittke CSC - IT Center for Science

The periodic table: R package and visualized with ggplot2
  • Taha Ahmed

Experiences from 'High-performance R' course
  • Heli Juottonen CSC - IT Center for Science

N-min-ct - a research software to tell how sustainable is the neighbourhood.
  • Ruslan Zhuravchak Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Lunch Break
Modern HPC-access alternatives for the bash averse
  • Viktor Rehnberg Chalmers University of Technology

Discussion: How did we get this answer? Automating lineage preservation in computational pipelines.
  • Michael Dales University of Cambridge

Coffee Break

The best time to talk with speakers and attendees

Training Triumphs: Maximizing Impact with External Domain Experts
  • Yonglei Wang linkoping university

Discussion: How to finance your RSE group
  • Jørn Dietze UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Venue

University of Gothenburg

Renströmsgatan 6

Gothenburg, Sweden

Get around Gothenburg

From the Airport

Gothenburg Landvetter Airport. Between the airport and the University of Gothenburg it takes about 30-45 minutes, however in some days and times traffic can be an issue on the way. Therefore we suggest planning for an hour of travel. From the exit of the terminal, you should see signs for the bus from the airport, called Flygbussarna. The signs bear the logo of the company, which is a rainbow. The stop of the bus is at the exit from the airport, just on the left. Buy a ticket before getting on the bus, you can do this online (flygbussarna.se) or at the automatic machine by the door. Travel to the stop Korsvägen, and then follow directions from Public Transit. This leg should take about 20 minutes in ideal conditions. Note: the Flygbussarna network is not part of the public transports (Västtrafik) network, so tickets bought for one are not valid for the other!

From the Train Station

Get out from the South exit (to the left with respect to the arrival direction of trains). Once you have crossed the road, you will find yourself on a big square, to the left of you there is a big hotel called Clarion Hotel. Cross the square straight and you will find the tram stop Centralstationen. To go to the University, you can take either Tram 2 from platform B or Tram 4 from platform C, to the station Korsvägen. More info about public transportation below.

Public Transit

In Gothenburg, it is quite easy to get around using either busses or trams. To travel by tram, you will need a ticket which you can buy with the app Västtrafik or by tapping your payment card on the dedicated readers (this second option is only available in Zone A). Unless you are planning a trip outside of the city, all your travels will be done with a zone A ticket. It is possible to buy physical tickets at selected places and on some trams, but it is more expensive than buying in the app. The closest tram stop to the University where the conference is hosted is called Korsvägen. It is a major centre of transportation dispatch, and from there you can take trams that go more or less everywhere in town. From Korsvägen, you will have to climb up the hill to get to the Department. Follow indications on the map.

Hotels

The Nordic RSE conference has no special prices with the local hotels. Some of the hotels close to the department are the Comfort Hotel Panorama, the Poseidon, Hotell Heden, Hotell City Avenyn, Hotel Vasa, Scandic Rubinen or Scandic Opalen. But more can be found on Booking.com or other websites. In general, Gothenburg is not a big city, and much of it is walkable distance. Feel free to reach out for more information.

Conference organizers

This conference is organized by members of the Nordic-RSE association with support from their home organizations.

  • Richard Darst, Aalto University
  • Matteo Tomasini, University of Gothenburg
  • Luca Ferranti, Aalto University
  • Jarno Rantaharju, Aalto University
  • Samantha Wittke, CSC - IT Center for Science