[Scipy-organizers] Mini symposia

[Katy Huff]

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
>> >
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>> > Department of Oceanography
>> > Texas A&M University
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