Format of the Workshop
The
scientific sessions of the workshop will run Monday to Friday, with the
following overall structure. Each morning will start with two or three
20-40min
talks, with ample time for discussion. The rest of the day will be
self-organised at different levels to discuss and brainstorm on the
large
variety of topics addressed by the collaborations. In the early
afternoon, a
one-hour session will be devoted to discuss synergies between
the different collaborations; a main topic of several of these
discussions will
be devoted to visualizations techniques and data management strategies.
The
workshop is organized around three main areas of research ('seminars')
and one
technical/methodological seminar. Each seminar will be lead and
organized so that
goals can
be achieved. The main focusing seminars are:
- Stellar
populations
and
galaxy
evolution
- Kinematics
and
dynamics
- ISM
- Data
structuring
and
visualization
Clearly
the seminars have intersecting interests (e.g. metallicity gradients of
gas and
stars, star formation rates from Hα and from the star formation
history, etc),
so care will be taken to have a summary revision talk of issues common
to two
or more seminars in the morning when necessary. Notice that data
structuring
and visualization is an important challenge for these surveys with
hundreds spectra per galaxy, and their derived physical properties, for
thousands of galaxies.
Some suggested topics for afternoon discussion sessions: (i) volume
correction and representativity, (ii) the problem of edge-on galaxies,
(iii) efficient data analysis flows, ...
We are looking into the possibility to webcast the
morning talks and some discussions.
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