The topic for this year's COMPUTE Winter Meeting is the DATA Theme which is currently taking place at the Pufendorf Institute in Lund. As an extra feature, Anders Ynnerman will be a key-note guest speaker. Anders Ynnerman holds a chair in scientific visualisation at Linköping University and is the director of the Norrköping Visualisation Center.

The meeting is open to everyone associated with the research school COMPUTE (including PhD supervisors) or anyone simply interested in getting to know more about the COMPUTE activities.

Free lunch and coffee/tea is provided for all participants.

Registration

To register, please email Melvyn B. Davies (mbd@astro.lu.se) using “COMPUTE 2 March Registration” as subject. As space is limited, you are strongly encouraged to register as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. In any case, the registration deadline is 12.00 noon on Thursday 22 February. 

Programme

Date: Friday 2 March, 2018

Location: Lundmarksalen, Astronomy, Lund University

09.30-10.00 Cofffee/tea in foyer
10.00-11.00 Anders Ynnerman: Open Space — Visualising the Universe
11.00-11.10 Melvyn B. Davies — Introduction to the DATA Theme
11.10-11.50 Nicole Kruspe (Thread One): Archiving vanishing languages
11.50-12.30 Oscar Agertz & Mattias Wallergård (Thread Two): Understanding the Universe using Virtual Reality
12.30-13.15 Sandwich lunch in foyer
13.15-13.55 Johan Frid (Thread Three):  Discovery from the written word
13.55-14.35 Ross Church & Philipp Birken (Thread Four): A catalogue of stellar spectra
14.35-15.15 Monica Lassi (Thread Five):  Understanding how we work together
15.15-15.30 Coffee/tea in foyer

All Thread talks are 30 minutes + 10 minutes for questions/discussion