How to run a lab for reproducible research
Prof. Barba awarded a 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science
The 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes were announced on 15 December 2016, at the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). They award those "working to forward the values of openness and transparency in research,” and this year went to ten researchers and educators, out of 44 nominees from eighteen disciplines... Continue »
Supercomputing Conference SC16: panel on reproducibility
Prof. Lorena Barba participating in the SC16 panel "Different Architectures, Different Times: Reproducibility and Repeatability in High Performance Computing"
Barba for SIAM CSE Vice-Chair
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is electing new officers for 2017–2018. Prof. Lorena A. Barba was nominated for the position of Vice-Chair. Here are Barba's election statement and SIAM biography. Members of SIAG/CSE received voting instructions via email on Oct. 31. Voting is open until Dec. 2,... Continue »
The hard road to reproducibility
by Lorena A. Barba Science 07 Oct 2016: Vol. 354, Issue 6308, pp. 142 DOI: 10.1126/science.354.6308.142 Early in my Ph.D. studies, my supervisor assigned me the task of running computer code written by a previous student who was graduated and gone. It was hell. I had to sort through many different versions of the code,... Continue »
Prof. Barba gave keynote at PyCon 2016
Lorena Barba, flanked by fellow keynote speakers and PyCon Chair, Brandon Rhodes.