CodeRefinery Workshop

Workshop Overview

Are you writing code and managing data for your research? Do you spend too much time on tedious manual tasks? Struggling to understand and reuse your own or others’ older code?

Join CodeRefinery's FREE online workshop series to learn modern tools and best practices for writing research code that lasts and that others can use.

-> Sep 22-24 (08:00-13:00) and Sep 29- Oct 1 (08:00-13:00), 2026 (Iceland time).

This hands-on workshop introduces tools and techniques to help you write more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) research code.

Workshop Schedule:

• Sep 22-23 Introduction to version control with Git
• Sep 24 Collaborative distributed version control
• Sep 29 Reproducible research: Preparing code to be usable by you and others in the future
• Sep 29 Social coding and open software: What can you do to get credit for your code and to allow reuse
• Sep 30 How to document your research software
• Sep 30 Responsible use of generative AI in assisted coding
• Oct 1 Automated testing: Preventing yourself and others from breaking your functioning code
• Oct 1 Modular code development: Making reusing parts of your code easier

Who is it for?

• Students at levels - Bachelors, Master’s, or PhD.
• Researchers across disciplines and career stages.
• Research software engineers and developers working with scientific code.
• Administrative and technical staff supporting research or development work
• Anyone curious about version control, reproducibility, and collaborative coding practices.

Practicalities

• The workshop is FREE and open to everyone.
• You can participate online on your own OR during the first week, join us at the Computer Science department in Groska, Reykjavik, for an in-person exercise session with helpers.
• Registered participants from Iceland will receive an invitation to the in-person session closer to the workshop date.
• All sessions will be conducted in English.

Registration

• In-person participants for the classroom must register with both UICE and CodeRefinery
  Register for in-person classroom in Reykjavík (university / institute email required)
  Register with CodeRefinery
  
• Online only participants need to register with CodeRefinery
  Register with CodeRefinery

Organizers (Iceland):

• Prof. Ebba Þóra Hvannberg, Professor, University of Iceland
• Dr. Hemanadhan Myneni, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Iceland

Contact
If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact myneni(at)hi.is

Download the PDF for the event details here.