Thursday, March 6, 2025 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
This workshop, hosted in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s Center for Scientific Software Engineering, will focus on sharing research and development experiences as they relate to open source projects and scientific software both from Georgia Tech developers and from the local Atlanta academic community. The event will include invited speakers from local open source projects, updates from Georgia Tech’s Open Source Program Office and Center for Scientific Software Engineering, and lightning talks from students involved in open source development.
Logistics
The event will primarily be held in-person at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center in Atlanta’s Midtown area (see directions here). We may record individual talks, but this event will not have an explicit hybrid option. Breakfast and lunch will be provided along with coffee breaks for registered attendees.
Parking will be provided for external attendees traveling to Georgia Tech by car. For those traveling by car, please park in the E81 deck at the Georgia Tech Hotel (see directions here).
Speaker Materials
Are you interested to give a lightning talk on your work? We have slots for faculty and student talks open for the afternoon session. Please use the links below to register your interest for joining the schedule!
Speaker materials will be shared after the event using Figshare and open-source licensing where allowed by the individual presenters.
Workshop Agenda
Note the agenda is tentative and subject to final changes.
| Time (EDT) | Speaker | Title |
| 8:00 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 | Jeffrey Young, Fang Liu Directors, Open Source Program Office | Updates from Georgia Tech’s OSPO |
| 9:00 | Alex Orso Co-Director, SSE Center | News from the Scientific Software Engineering Center |
| 9:30 | Dillon Henry Digital Accessioning Archivist Georgia Tech Library | Your Code in a Thousand Years: Long Term Planning for Digital Storage, Preservation, and Access |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:30 | Sayeed Choudary Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure OSPO Director Carnegie Mellon University | Open Source AI and the Open Forum for AI |
| 11:00 | Parv Mahajan Advanced Concepts Laboratory AI Safety Initiative | Examining Concepts of AI Safety |
| 11:30 | Lahiru Jayathilake Yasith Jayawardana Center for Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering (ARTISAN) | Advancements in the Apache Airavata and Cybershuttle Platforms |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Faculty Lightning Talks | Lightning Talks of ~15-20 minutes to discuss new and ongoing OSS research |
| 1:00 | Shazibul Islam Shamim Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University | Title to be confirmed |
| 1:30 | Stephen Garrett Associate Director, Computational Music for All Lab | EarSketch – a musical approach to teaching programming |
| Qi Tang Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering | Open source solvers for magnetic confinement fusion (Title to be Confirmed) | |
| 2:30 | Break | |
| 3:00 | Student Lightning Talks | Lightning Talks of ~5-10 minutes to discuss new and ongoing OSS research |
| Austin Adams | Qwerty, a high-level quantum programming language for quantum education and research | |
| Darsahn Singh | Experiences with the Alpine Linux open source platform | |
| Chiyho Ahn | Vortex, a RISC-V open source GPU research platform | |
| Jingzhi Yang | Gravity, a Mathematical Modeling Tool for Optimization and Machine Learning |
Contact Us
Please reach out to us using the Contact Us form here with any questions or comments about this event.