This meeting will take place from 19th to 23rd March 2018 at iDiv, Deutscher Platz 5, 04103 Leipzig.
Sunday 18 March 2018
| 7:00 pm | Dinner reservation in the restaurant Amaroso (in Balance Hotel) |
Monday 19th March
| 9:00 am | Registration and Introduction |
| Marten Winter | |
| 9:20 am | Working group - brief overview |
| Gillespie, Hickerson | |
| 9:30 am | Each participant gives intro short presentations |
| 5 mins, 1 min questions | |
| (1) Your own work; and (2) Expectations and motivations | |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am | Short presentations continue |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Brief introduction to goals |
| Rominger, Overcast | |
| 2:15 pm | Goals breakout groups |
| 3:15 pm | Brief summary of breakout groups |
| 3:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm | Synthesis of goals across groups Chase, Harmon |
| 5:00 pm | End |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner at Wenzels Prager Bierstuben |
Tuesday 20 March
| 8:30 am | Overview of empirical data sets |
| 9:00 am | Breakout groups on leading topics. For example, model details, empirical systems, inference, scaling, and other topics of interest |
| 10:15 am | Summary of breakout groups |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 pm | Introduction of spin-off projects |
| 11:15 pm | Breakout session: spin-off projects |
| 12:15 pm | Brief summary of spin-off groups |
| 12:30 pm | Sorting into groups by afternoon |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Working in small groups |
| 3:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm | Working in small groups |
| 4:30 pm | Summarize group work |
| 5:00 pm | End |
| 6:00 pm | Sightseeing Tour: guided 1 h walking tour through the city centre in English. Starting point: Demokratieglocke on Augustusplatz |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Wednesday 21 March
| 8:30 am | Reassessment of working group goals, potential papers and deliverables |
| 9:30 am | Work in small groups |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am | Work in small groups |
| 11:45 pm | Lunch |
| 12:30 pm | iDiv seminar series public talk and get-together |
| 2:00 pm | Work in small groups with cross-pollinators |
| 3:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm | Small group presentations |
| 5:00 pm | End |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Thursday 22 March
| 9:00 am | Reimbursement info by the sDiv admin team |
| 9:10 am | Work in small groups |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am | Work in small groups |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Work in small groups |
| 3:30 pm | Coffee break |
| 4:00 pm | Discussion - overall insights, next steps, timelines, deliverables |
| 5:00 pm | End |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday 23 March
| 8:30 am | Appraisal of where we are at |
| 9:00 am | Final presentations from small groups |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am | Summary of next steps and assignments of tasks |
| 12:30 pm | Official end of working group |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Informal discussion among leads |
| 7:00 pm | Dinner* |