Geilo Winter school in eScience 2016-2020

The Geilo Winter School series has been organized since 2001, and has annually attracted around 50 students and young researchers for a week long winter school in eScience. The aim is to facilitate that young researchers can get updated on new ideas, methods and theories within the eScience field, and simultaneously collaborate and exchange ideas and experience. The schools are primarily aimed at graduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral students in the Norwegian eScience community, but are also open for advanced undergraduate students, senior researchers, and international participants. Beyond teaching specific topics, we aim to continue the school as a meeting place that facilitates and encourages networking both within and across the different scientific disciplines in eScience. The school emphasizes the social aspects with common meals, and a long mid-day break which is well spent for social activities in the ski slopes, collaborations at the hotel, or swimming in the hotel swimming pool. Each winter school will start on Sunday afternoon and end on Friday after lunch. A series of 24 -- 30 lectures and/or hands-on sessions (45 minutes each) will be given during the week-long school, focusing on advanced methods and theories in computational mathematics, statistics, and computer science that are relevant to a wide range of eScience applications of national interest. In addition to the lectures, each winter school will also include an open poster session where participants are encouraged to present their own research. This session has in previous years been well received as an opportunity for making new connections and exchanging ideas. The 2020 winter school topic was modern techniques and algorithms in HPC, and five experts lectured throughout the week. In addition, there were posters presented in the poster session on Tuesday. There was about 50 registered participants for the school.

Prosjektet har latt Vinterskolen på Geilo fortsette gjennom perioden 2016-2020, og dermed opprettholdt den viktige faglige møteplassen som vinterskolene utgjør. Gjennom perioden har flere hundre forskere (i hovedsak unge, men også mer erfarne) møttes, knyttet kontakter, og fått faglig oppdatering fra et tredvetalls forelesere. I tillegg har mange av dem presentert arbeidet sitt gjennom postersesjoner. Skolene bidrar til styrking av e-vitenskapsfagmiljøene i Norge og internasjonalt, og gir mye indirekte merverdi.

The aim of the project is continue to organize a winter school where young researchers can get updated on new ideas, methods and theories within the eScience field, and simultaneously collaborate and exchange ideas and experience. The schools are primarily aimed at graduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral students in the Norwegian eScience community, but are also open for advanced undergraduate students, senior researchers, and international participants. We aim to make the school a meeting place that facilitates and encourages making new connections both within and across the different scientific disciplines in eScience. SINTEF has organized winter schools since 2001, and the format and content of the school has varied over these years. We have performed evaluation using anonymous questionnaires to improve the schools, and the feedback we receive is that participants are very content with the current format and organization. We therefore propose to continue with the same format for the period 2016 - 2020. We will continue to perform surveys to constantly improve the organization and scientific content over the next five years. In the proposed format, each winter school will start on Sunday afternoon and end on Friday after lunch. A series of 24 - 30 lectures (45 minutes each) will be given during the week-long school, focusing on advanced methods and theories in computational mathematics, statistics, and computer science that are relevant to a wide range of applications of national interest. In addition to the lectures, each winter school will also include an open poster session where participants are encouraged to present their own research. This session has in previous years been well received as an opportunity for making new connections and exchanging ideas.