Best U.S. Army Engineer Research Podcasts (2025)

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[EN] Bring your own classroom - with The Code Refinery 39:00

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The Code Refinery has been training researchers on how to write better software since 2016. In this episode Samantha Wittke, Richard Darst and Radovan Bast tell us how it all started, how CodeRefinery is run and what's in store for the future. Do look out for their workshops for September and October 2025. Links: https://coderefinery.org/ The CodeR…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 166 "Stone by Stone" Series - Frannie Bui - National Hurricane Program Manager 13:03

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In this second episode of “Stone by Stone,” a new “Inside the Castle” podcast series, we talk with Frannie Bui, the National Hurricane Program Manager for the National Planning Center of Expertise for Coastal Storm Risk Management, which is located in the Corps’ Baltimore District. Listen as Bui discusses hurricanes preparedness, the National Hurri…

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[EN] Welcome to the autumn and winter season of Code for Thought 9:10

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Welcome to Season 10 of Code for Thought. To warm us up for the forthcoming winter and autumn season, here a list of the episodes and content you can look forward to. The season will start in earnest on 2 September. Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can l…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 165 - "Stone by Stone" Series - Dr. Robert L. Miller - Mississippi River Commission 15:53

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Welcome to the first installment of “Stone by Stone,” a new "Inside the Castle" podcast series that is bite size in scope, providing listeners with a shorter, focused update on critical U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-related issues impacting our nation. Listen as we delve into the critical issues facing the Mississippi River with Dr. Robert L. Miller…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 165 Stone by Stone Series - Dr. Robert L. Miller - Mississippi River Commission 15:53

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Welcome to the first installment of “Stone by Stone,” a new "Inside the Castle" podcast series that is bite size in scope, providing listeners with a shorter, focused update on critical U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-related issues impacting our nation. Today, we delve into the critical issues facing the Mississippi River with Dr. Robert L. Miller, f…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 164 Build Strong With Us Series - Anthony Watters - Maintenance Supervisor 40:03

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Welcome to the Build Strong With Us series where we give our listeners an opportunity to learn more about the diverse people, mission impact, and career opportunities our personnel experience within the US Army Corps of Engineers. In this edition we talk with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Anthony Watters, a Maintenance Supervisor for Wolf Cree…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 163 Tribal Liaisons 41:55

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In this episode of Inside the Castle, we spotlight the critical and often lesser-known role of tribal liaisons within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Join us as we sit down with Melissa Leslie (Seattle District) and Sean O'Donnell (Alaska District) to explore how these dedicated professionals build government-to-government relationships with Trib…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 162 Mr. Edward Belk, Director of Civil Works 33:55

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In this special episode, we sit down with Mr. Edward Belk, Director of Civil Works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as he prepares to retire after 38 years of extraordinary service. From humble beginnings as a temporary GS-9 on a Mississippi River survey crew to leading the entire Civil Works Directorate, Mr. Belk shares the stories, challenge…

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[EN] A Service for All Seasons - the MetOffice UK 54:08

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English edition: In the last episode of this season of Code for Thought, I want to take you on a tour through the MetOffice in Exeter, UK. My host Dimitri Theodorakis and some colleagues of his talk us through some of the exciting work happening there. Links: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research overview of research at the MetOffice https://en.wik…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 161 Build Strong With Us Series - Brittany Bruder – Coastal Research Engineer, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory – Field Research ... 33:52

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In this edition we talk with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Brittany Bruder a Coastal Research Engineer with the US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory – Field Research Facility.By Unknown Author

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[DE] Ein Code Klub beim Max Planck Institut - mit Jonas Hagenberg, Vera Karlbauer 34:39

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Vera Karlsbauer und Jonas Hagenberg arbeiten am Max-Planck Institut für Psychiatrie in München. Aber Software und Datenverarbeitung spielt auch dort eine große Rolle. Vera und Jonas erzählen uns etwas über ihre Arbeit und über den Code Klub den sie gegründet haben um anderen Forschenden und Studierenden den Zugang und Umgang mit S…

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[EN] Open Research - at FOSDEM 2025 37:26

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FOSDEM is the annual event for all things free and open source software in Europe happening over the 1st weekend in February in Brussels. In this episode I want to talk about one "dev room" (developer room) in particular: the one on Open Research, that has been running since 2020. Over the course of a day, we heard from a variety of speakers on top…

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[EN] Parsl: a Python library for parallel programming - with Dan Katz and Ben Clifford 40:11

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Parallel programming is hard. Say Hi to Parsl a Python library and tool that aims to make the task a bit easier. I spoke with two of the key people on the project, Dan Katz and Ben Clifford. https://github.com/parsl/parsl the GitHub repo of Parsl https://funcx.org FuncX http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu Montage programme mentioned in the discussion h…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 160 Build Strong With Us Series - Brian Ellis 23:39

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In this edition we talk with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Brian Ellis with the US Army Corps of Engineers Aviation Program Office based in Huntsville, Alabama. Brian spent a career in uniform in the aviation field, and is now applying that expertise and knowledge to drive innovation within the Corps of Engineers.…

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[DE] Software entwickeln mit KI? Ein Gespräch mit Carina Haupt und Chris Stenkamp 35:19

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Meine Gäste Carina Haupt und Christoph Steinkamp vom DLR beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Einsatz von Large Language Models (wie z.B. ChatGPT) bei Forschungsprojekten und deren Softwareentwicklung helfen? Große Versprechungen - aber kleine Brötchen? Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören…

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[EN] Pandoc: a swiss-army knife for documents - with J MacFarlane, A Krewinkel 39:16

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John MacFarlane and Albert Krewinkel from Pandoc take us through the history and development of this very popular Swiss-army knife for digital documents and document publishing. Pandoc is, of course, open source. And if you want to contribute, don't be shy! https://github.com/jgm/pandoc GitHub repo https://www.lua.org Lua language https://pandoc.or…

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[EN] Let's Go Atomic (with Design) - Brad Frost 41:41

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Brad Frost is the author of a book called Atomic Design, in which he tries to help UI/UX designers improve their workflow and approach and create digital apps. We also talk about the changing roles of designers and design in a world where we get new gadgets all the time. As Brad says in his book: let's go atomic Links: https://bradfrost.com Brad's …

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[DE] Rechnen mit Quantencomputern - mit Elisabeth Lobe und Peter Schuhmacher 52:22

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Dr Elisabeth Lobe und Dr Peter Schuhmacher vom DLR geben uns einen (nicht ganz so) kleinen Einblick in die Welt von Quantencomputern und an welchen Themen sie daran arbeiten. Ein spannendes Gebiet auf dem viel passiert! Hier eine Reihe von Links https://qci.dlr.de/en/alqu/ Die Quanteninitiative und die daran beteiligten Projekte https://qci.dlr.de/…

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Inside the Castle - Ep. 159 Build Strong With Us Series - Eric Daniels 29:24

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Welcome to the Build Strong With Us podcast series where we give our listeners an opportunity to learn more about the people, mission impact, and career opportunities our personnel experience within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In this edition, we talk with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Eric Daniels with the Talent Acquisition Center o…

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[EN] From Volcanos to Open Source - John Stevenson 47:22

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My guest is John Stevenson from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and there is a lot to cover in this episode: John's switch from science to engineering; how to move from proprietary to open source software - and the hot stuff: volcanos. And what John did in volcanology. Here are a few links: https://www.bgs.ac.uk/people/stevenson-john/ John's pr…

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[EN] From Research to Production? With Duncan McGregor 32:28

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How can you transition from photo-type or exploratory research software to production code? Can you? I've been discussing this with my guest Duncan McGregor. In the first part of our discussion we touch on how you can effectively analyse large data sets that are distributed over different locations with tools like Dask. Links: https://www.youtube.c…

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Inside the Castle – Ep. 158 Celebrate the Corps 250th Anniversary with the New England District 30:58

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In this episode, we are joined by COL Pabis, Commander of the New England District. We’ll hear about the District’s role in shaping USACE, and the valuable work being done today and in the future.By Unknown Author

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#32: Muddy: A mapping robot for extreme environments 38:50

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A low-cost unmanned ground vehicle capable of producing 3D maps, the Muddy robot has solved a variety of mapping challenges since 2017. Developed by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), Muddy is often used to test more expansive robotic platforms and to enable other projects. Its combination of autonomous navigation, affor…

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: AI assisted coding - with Liam (Jianliang) Gao 34:24

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English Edition: In this last episode for the ByteSized RSE "miniseries" we talk about AI assisted coding - and the (long) history how engineers tried to come up with assisting tools to make our code better and more robust. My guest is Liam Gao from Imperial College, London, UK. Links: https://github.com/features/copilot GitHub Co-Pilot https://hug…

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[DE] Hermes - oder wie veröffentliche ich meine Software. Mit S Druskat und M Meinel 38:25

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Das Hermes Projekt versucht das Publizieren von Software zu vereinfachen und auch zu automatisieren. Stephan Druskat und Michael Meinel, beide vom DLR und dem deRSE e.V. erklären uns was es damit auf sich hat. Links: https://hermes.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Hermes homepage https://docs.software-metadata.pub/en/latest/ Herme…

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Inside the Castle - People First Series - Ep. 157 Portland District’s Public Affairs Office on Being Responsibly Unhinged 40:42

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Episode title: People First series – Portland District’s Public Affairs Office on Being Responsibility Unhinged Episode description: Today’s episode is part of our “People First” series where we celebrate unity, empowerment and the Corps great asset, our people! In this episode, the Inside the Castle team is joined by Chris Gaylord and Kerry Solan …

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: What's the carbon footprint of my app? 33:41

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English Edition: This episode is all about 'green computing' and how we can check the impact of our computing efforts. Helping me with that are Kirsty Pringle (SSI), Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge, UK) and Andy Turner from the EPCC in Edinburgh (UK). Tools discussed in this episode: https://www.green-algorithms.org Green Algorithms home …

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[FR] RésIn: un nouveau réseau pour les ingénieurs - avec A Baneyx et D Antolinos-Basso 43:41

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Edition française: le projet RésIn - réseau d'ingénieurs RésIn est une collaboration entre Science Po et l'Université Paris Cité pour valoriser le travail des ingénieurs pluridisciplinaires. Audrey Banyex et Diégo Antolinos-Basso (maintenant à l'Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse) nous expliquent pourquoi créer ce réseau et à quoi il sert. Liens: http…

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Inside the Castle - Build Strong With Us Series - Crystal Torgerson – Pathways Program 21:01

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Welcome to the Build Strong With Us podcast series where we give our listeners an opportunity to learn more about the people, mission impact, and career opportunities our personnel experience within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In this edition, we talk with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) Crystal Torgerson with the Logistics Activity. Cry…

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Project Management with GitHub 28:21

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English Edition: How can repository services like GitHub or GitLab help you manage your project. Listen to my conversation with three guests, Gemma Turon (Ersilia), Ben Clifford (Parsl) and Mike Simpson (Uni Newcastle) how they use GitHub PM tools effectively in their work. Links: https://ersilia.io Ersilia project - Gemma Turon https://github.com/…

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[DE] TEACH Konferenz in Berlin im November 2024 - ein Rückblick 41:41

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Ende November 2024 fand in Berlin ein Austausch von Ausbildern und Tutoren bei Helmholtz statt - unter dem Namen TEACH. Wie kann man dem wachsenden Bedarf and Weiterbildung gerecht werden und welche Mittel und Tools helfen dabei. In diesem kleinen Rückblick spreche ich mit den OrganisatorInnen und Sprechern der Veranstaltung: Prof…

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Design with a capital D - Zihao Lu and Meag Doherty 31:57

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English Edition: together with Meag Doherty and Zihao Lu I want to shine a light on UX/UI design in research and put the capital "D" back into it. The way we design our software and research projects shapes the way not only the way they are being used, but also how successful they will be. Links: https://www.figma.com/ Figma tool for wireframing ht…

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[FR] OCamL: un langage multi-paradigme - avec Florian Angeletti 43:39

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Edition française: Nous sommes ravi d'accueillir Florian Angeletti d'INRIA, qui est très connu pour son travail sur OCamL (anciennement Objective CamL), le langage multi-paradigme. OCamL est Open Source et très utilisé dans le métier de la recherche. Mais aussi dans certains secteurs industriels. https://ocaml.org https://dev.realworldocaml.org htt…

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[EN] An Emerging Voice - Deborah Udoh 30:38

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I met Deborah at the Research Software Engineering 2024 conference in Newcastle, UK, where she gave an impassioned speech about her drive to carve out a new career and new opportunities in STEM. Here she talks about how she got here and the obstacles she faces. My apologies, I initially uploaded the raw version of the interview. This should now be …

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[DE] Software Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft - die Tagung in Hannover, Dezember 2024 41:12

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Vom 2.-4. Dezember 2024 fand in Hannover die Tagung zum Thema Digitale Kompetenzen in der Wissenschaft statt. Mit von der Partie waren ca 35 TeilnehmerInnen aus der Landschaft der Forschungssoftware EntwicklerInnen. Bei den Arbeitskreisen kamen dabei interessante und spannende Vorschläge heraus, wie Ihr hoffentlich in dieser Folge…

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Inside the Castle - Get to Know Major General Jason Kelly - Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations 22:42

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This past fall the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers welcomed Major General Jason E. Kelly as the Deputy Commanding General for Civil Works and Emergency Operations. In this episode, we have a candid conversation with Major General Kelly about his career, the Corps focus areas, and how he is helping the Corps deliver the mission for the Nation.…

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Gestalt and Data Visualisation - Kirsty Pringle 29:01

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Happy New Year and Welcome to Season 9 of Code for Thought. The season opens with a ByteSized RSE session - the short online courses with companion episodes for all of you who do science and write code. ByteSized RSE is sponsored by the Universe HPC project. Subject for this episode is data visualisation and how you could use the perception feature…

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Inside the Castle - Build Strong With Us Series - Nikki Edelenbos - Biologist 23:14

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Welcome to the Build Strong With Us podcast series where we give our listeners an opportunity to learn more about the diverse people, mission impact, and career opportunities our personnel experience within the US Army Corps of Engineers. In this edition we talk with US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Nikki Edelenbos with the Jacksonville District.…

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#31: Wellbot: An innovative system to maintain relief wells 30:29

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The nation’s levees and dams depend upon relief wells to alleviate underground pressure when water levels are high. However, microorganisms and natural chemicals in the water gradually leave a residue that clogs the wells’ porous screen walls, reducing their practical value and increasing the risk of dam or levee failure. Existing maintenance metho…

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[EN] Keeping Time - in Memoriam of David Mills (with Harlan Stenn) 28:43

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English Edition: In this last episode of 2024 I want to remember David Mills and his work on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). The tool that keeps our machines in sync. David Mills worked closely with Harlan Stenn from the Network Time Foundation on NTP and I was very fortunate to grab some of Harlan's time to talk to him about NTP and David Mills' …

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[EN] A MOOC for Reproducibility - A Legrand, Ch Pouzat, K Hinsen 38:40

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English Edition: Arnaud Legrand, Christophe Pouzat and Konrad Hinsen, three French researchers, who went through the pain of making research data and software reproducible. Out of that pain grew a set of online courses. I met with them to discuss how they developed the courses, the steps they had to go through and what the courses cover. https://ww…

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[FR] Reproductibilité avec GUIX - P-A Bouttier, L Courtes et S Tournier 38:02

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Edition française: GNU Guix est un gestionnaire de paquets pour GNU/Linux. Ghislain a rencontré Pierre-Antoine Bouttier, Ludovic Courtes et Simon Tournier de GUIX pour discuter de la façon dont GUIX peut aider à la reproductibilité. https://guix.gnu.org/fr/ https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/guix-as-a-tool-for-computational-science/ https://10years…

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[EN] Pascal or the art of keeping things simple - in Memoriam of Niklaus Wirth 35:43

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English edition [EN]: Niklaus Wirth is one of the computing pioneers and his work inspired many other technologies and a generation of engineers. In this episode I discuss one of his many contributions: the programming language Pascal. And we hear from 3 people who worked and learnt with Pascal in their career: Irving Reid, Todd Jacobs and Charles …

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[EN] ByteSized RSE: Fun with Containers - Simon Li 26:11

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English edition [EN]: We're kickstarting a round of new ByteSized RSE online classes and podcast episodes with an episode on containers. Focusing on Podman (used in the online class) and Docker. My guest for this episode is Simon Li from the Uni. Dundee. Many thanks to Universe HPC for supporting this podcast. Containers: https://docs.docker.com Do…

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Inside the Castle -Program Spotlight - Critical Incident Stress Management Program Part 1 37:22

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This is part one of a three-part series focused on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's (USACE) Critical Incident Stress Management Program (CISM). The mission of the CISM program is to provide education, support, and assistance to USACE employees for incidental or cumulative critical incident stress experienced in the performance of their jobs and/or…

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[DE] Eine kleine Reise durch das Land der Hochleistungsrechner - mit Georg Hager 35:26

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Deutsche Version: In dieser letzten Folge vor Weihnachten treffe ich mich mit Priv. Doz. Dr Georg Hager vom Rechenzentrum der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Georg Hager gibt uns einen kleinen Überblick in die Entwicklung von HPC Rechnern, also Hochleistungsrechnern und wir sprechen über die Herausforderung bzgl. Software Entwicklung und wie man Per…

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[EN] Enhancing Science - the eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 34:54

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English Edition: https://www.esciencecenter.nl Home page of the eScience Center https://www.esciencecenter.nl/calls-for-proposals/fellowship-open-call/ Fellowship programme at the eScience Center Get in touch Thank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! If you're like to support this show, you can leave a little tip at…

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[FR] Le calcul quantique à GENCI - Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois 38:17

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L'édition française: On a beaucoup de promesse sur l'usage du calcul quantique. Ghislain Vaillant discute avec Sabine Mehr et Félix Givois de GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) pour jeter un coup d'œil aux coulisses de cette technologie fascinante. https://www.genci.fr/connaitre-genci/calcul-haute-performance-intelligence-artifici…

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[EN] Champions for Change in research: Imperial College London and Cambridge University 33:42

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English Edition [EN]: In this episode I am looking at two different champion schemes: one at Imperial College London, focussing on research software and the other at Cambridge University for research data. My guests are Jeremy Cohen and Mike Bearpark from Imperial and Clair Castle, Sacha Jones and Lutfi Ben Othman from Cambridge University. Imperia…

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[DE] Suresoft, ein Projekt zur Nachhaltigkeit - mit Jan Linxweiler 34:10

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Deutsche Ausgabe: Diesmal geht es an die TU Braunschweig, von wo aus Jan Linxweiler uns über seine Arbeit am Suresoft Projekt erzählt - und uns erklärt warum es wichtig ist, nachhaltige Software für die Wissenschaft zu schreiben. Links https://suresoft.dev Die Homepage des Suresoft Projektes https://zenodo.org/communities/suresoft/ Suresoft on Zeno…