[Scipy-organizers] Mini symposia

[Katy Huff]

Sounds great!
Katy


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Rocher <jrocher at enthought.com>wrote:

> 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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