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VIGS is happy to invite you to a joint trip May 3-5, 2023! We aim to gather early career researchers from Visual Intelligence to collaborate and socialize for two days at UiT’s field station in Skibotn.
VIGS is SFI Visual Intelligence’s social and scientific initiative for early career researchers. VIGS consists of PhD students, postdocs, and researchers ++ from UiT, UiO, NR as well as early career researchers from SFI VI’s user partners.
We invite you to join our workshop week at UiT’s field station in Skibotn in indre Troms!
The University of Tromsø built a field station in 1980-82 to be used for courses, seminars, and lab work. The station is located in a scenic area with easy access to mountains and fjords, about 6 km from Skibotn and 130 km from Tromsø.
The main building includes a kitchen, dining room, living room, classroom, laboratory, and sauna. The facilities include audio-visual equipment, and wireless internet in all cabins and the main building.
The station has 38 beds in 2-, 3-, and 4-person rooms, spread over three cabins with 14 bedrooms.
You can read more about the field station at UiT's website.
Our days in Skibotn will be filled with both a social and scientific program.
The social program will include fun and games, bbq on campfire, teambuilding, and of course include the typical “hyttetur” activities like cards and board games. Also, did we mention there is a sauna?
The scientific program for the field trip will include plenary sessions for everyone and more focused group work to connect people working on similar topics, data, or problems. Some examples might include reading groups, discussions groups, collaborative problem solving, crash course, and knowledge transfer.
The group sessions will expect participants to contribute, share, prepare, and collaborate on the given tasks.
Below we provide a rough outline of the days. More details will be provided when the dates approach.
We are planning to set up a bus from Skibotn field station. The bus will leave from the airport at 14.00, in correspondence with the scheduled 13.20 flight from SAS. If you arrive before that, or are already in Tromsø, you can catch the bus from UiT or the city center (TBD).
The bus back on Friday will arrive at the airport at approximately 15.30 in time for flights leaving after 17.00.
This event is open to early career researchers in association with SFI Visual Intelligence or UiT/UiO/NR.
Registration deadline is March 31. Please contact Eirik Østmo for more information.