Schedule

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

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 reservation in the restaurant Pata Negra - Walking Directions from sDIV

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*