[Scipy-organizers] Mini symposia

[Jonathan Rocher]

Sorry Katy, my email was probably not worded correctly. I am not
complaining and was just asking what conclusion was reached. What you are
describing sounds excellent. And like you say, now we will need to make
abstracts rain in. I will drum up all the people I know. Agreed with Andy
too that a bof could serve as a catalyst for getting them all in the same
room.

Peace and love :)
Jonathan


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Katy Huff <katyhuff at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a lot of discussion. Much of it was between Serge and myself,
> but some was on the list and some was on the associated github issue.
> Indeed, Kristen helped us arrive at a main theme name that would do more to
> include things like Atmospherics and Meteorology and Oceanography and
> whatnot. We decided this:
>
> This year we have two special main themes:
>
>    - "Geospatial Data and Science" and
>    - "Scientific Computing Education."
>
>
> Additionally, there are six domain-specific mini-symposia:
>
>    - "Geophysics,"
>    - "Astronomy and Astrophysics,"
>    - "Bioinformatics",
>    - "Imaging, Vision, and Visualization,"
>    - "Digital Social Science,"
>    - and "Engineering".
>
>
> Much of the logic came from the survey you sent from last years
> conference, Jonathan. We didn't want to have too many of the same symposia
> twice in a row and the AOS/Meteorology symposium seemed popular enough that
> it should be considered as a main theme.  Finally, GIS people felt left out
> last year, so we thought the main Geospatial Data and Science theme would
> actually *highlight* people in Atmospherics and Oceanography. We also
> thought that geophysics would help to completely cover people in
> atmospherics and whatnot who don't think of themselves as a geospatial
> science. So... your field seems really heavily covered by the themes (all
> told your field will probably have to come up with ~50 abstract
> submissions). I'm a little surprised you guys want a domain symposium
> too...? You can't have the whole conference!
>
> I don't know... there is also the "general" track if that kind of work
> doesn't qualify as "Geospatial Science"?
>
> Katy
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Jonathan Rocher <jrocher at enthought.com>wrote:
>
>> I did hope for a Atmospheric and Oceanic science symposia as well (and
>> just advertized for SciPy at the Python symposium as AMS<http://annual.ametsoc.org/2014/index.cfm/programs-and-events/conferences-and-symposia/fourth-symposium-on-advances-in-modeling-and-analysis-using-python/>).
>> I must have missed the discussion, I am sorry. What has been decided for
>> the mini-symposia? Did we do a poll again this year?
>>
>> I will post something on pyAOS.org to encourage people to submit to these
>> alternate tracks.
>>
>> Sorry for following this better!
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Katy Huff <katyhuff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Honestly, I do think it's too late. We did hope, just as you're
>>> suggesting,
>>> that the Geospatial Data in Science one would provide a home for a lot of
>>> oceanography and atmospherics stuff. Maybe some atmospherics will end up
>>> geophysics too, as you suggest. Sorry!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Kristen Thyng <kthyng at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hey folks,
>>> >
>>> > I imagine it is too late to ask this, but is there room in the
>>> schedule for
>>> > an atmospherics/oceanography mini symposium? I think it was
>>> well-attended
>>> > last year and that there would still be interest. If not, we'll
>>> probably
>>> > choose one of the others to be a part of (geophysics, or generally in
>>> the
>>> > geospatial theme).
>>> >
>>> > Kristen
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Kristen M. Thyng
>>> > Postdoctoral Research Associate
>>> > Department of Oceanography
>>> > Texas A&M University
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