[Scipy-organizers] Mini symposia

[Serge Rey]

I think having so much interest in participating is a good problem to have
:->

It is a big tent being pitched for 2014.



On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:31 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
> >>> > http://kristenthyng.com
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GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation
Arizona State University
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