Hello Lodewijk,


On 2016-08-06 10:36 AM, Lodewijk wrote:

unfortunately I have not spotted a response to this email. Could someone from the 2017 team confirm what is the situation at this point? Or who I should be talking with?

Sorry, my response had remained a draft that I forgot to complete and send.  :-)  Right now, the draft programme does not make distinctions along the "presentation", "workshop" and "discussions" lines more than the type of space available (magistral vs tables). I expect the allocation will remain fluid until we have a better idea of how many of each type need to be scheduled.

That said, I expect many of the roundtable discussions would fit Bird-of-a-feather sessions: those are explicitly set aside for self-organizing groups that want a session in whichever format meets their needs and are able and willing to take "ownership" of them. They are generally more specialized or aimed towards a more precise public, and are not selected by the programme committee nor curated beyond a simple set of criteria[1] so they are more free-form.