A Key: Open Discussion
The point of the satellite workshop is to have your input and design the public datasets and associated scientific challenges. To this end, having everyone engage in an open discussion about the workshop questions is far more important than giving/listening presentations. We have accommodated several "unconference sessions" to have everyone's inputs in most effective manner and consolidate them into organizing the public datasets and data challenges. During an unconference session, we expect that everyone is an active and vocal participant.
Unconference: How Does It Work?
We will have several unconference sessions. Each sessions is organized by a facilitator who gives a few "charge questions". The goal is to have everyone engage and summarize key points to answer the questions. But asking inputs from many people is inefficient and we will miss many inputs. The unconference works in the following steps.
- Create sub-groups (3-6 people/group). Meet your teammates.
- Group discussion to answer charge questions.
- Group presentation of the answers
- Session leads consolidate and summarize all groups' outputs
This way, we have everyone engage the question and answers are discussed and summarized at the individual, subgroup, and session level.
The bird-view of the sessions are:
- Datasets and challenge planning ... The kick-off session
- Topical sessions: discuss specific datasets/challenges in each area
- Reconstruction (3 sessions)
- Detector physics modeling (3 sessions)
- Analysis (3 sessions)
- Datasets and challenge organization ... The last session
We encourage participants to preview the list of questions in each session (coming soon) and prepare your inputs for the discussion.
