Inhomogeneous Cosmologies IV

• Inhomogeneous Cosmologies IV, 14-19 July 2019, Toruń Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University
  • main URL - programme, participant list, ...: https://cosmo.torun.pl/CosmoTorun19
  • wiki - https://cosmo.torun.pl/Cosmo/InhomCosmIV

Software

• InhomCosmIVSoftware
  • WikipediaEn:Free_Software - why software licensing affects what we mean by science
  • irc - server: irc.oftc.net , channel: #inhomog - web interface: https://webchat.oftc.net/

Community organising

• Friday late morning - converge/discuss? https://cosmo.torun.pl/cosmotorun19_prog.html#fri

Running

• inhom newsletter
• f2f meetings - 2017, 2018, 2019 - CosmoTorun19 History tab

Future meetings

• Future meetings:
  • Strategy proposal: 2020, 2021, ... alternative years: "internal work meetings" (odd years) vs "internal vs external debate meetings" (even years)?
  • Are Marseille-May-2018-meeting organisers interested in organising e.g. a 2020 "inhomog vs LCDM" meeting?
  • Could we "open" up a Sestens-type-one-percenters meeting to order-unity people?
  • observers tend to be more open to inhomog cosmology than "theorists"
  • Lorentz Center (Leiden) meeting? join with cosmic web people? https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/
  • Strategy proposal: also hackathon meetings that are 90% software?
    • Would a mixed hackathon for all free-licensed numerical codes (ET/gevolution/inhomog/simsilun/GRAMSES) in a 1-week meeting make sense?
• examples for OnlineCOVIDeanEpochMeetings
  • https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2020/08/msg00003.html
    • https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2020/08/msg00001.html

People

• new PhDs - about 8
• getting postdoc positions - about 8
• getting tenure-track/faculty positions - 1

Ongoing

• white paper Monday afternoon - https://cosmo.torun.pl/cosmotorun19_prog.html#mon
  • as of 2020: ERC, ANR, NCN, INFN, UKRI, grant-funded paper - 2020 open-access-only publishing under grants: cOAlition S - https://www.scienceeurope.org/coalition-s/

Online social network(s)?

• Instant survey result: about 6 out of the 23 participants have neither FB nor Twitter accounts. So most have GAFAM social media experience, and could start using community-controlled social media instead of centralised %GAFAM% social media.
• online decentralised social networks - with "software+servers that we control, rather than software+servers that control us"
  • Riot https://riot.im/app/#/group/+inhom:matrix.org - typically with the matrix protocol (equivalent of "Slack")
    • get started: https://riot.im
  • Fediverse - mastodon/diaspora/... ? - e.g. https://framapiaf.org/@boud - https://framapiaf.org/web/timelines/tag/physics (equivalent of FB/Twitter)
    • get started: https://joinmastodon.org/ - https://diasporafoundation.org/

Other

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