The workshop was split into four half-day sessions: each session had a specific theme relating to the overall theme of Mira. Within a typical session there would be four short five minute introductions to the topic, essentially giving an individuals personal view on what the main issues of that session were. These short talks would be followed by a longer keynote presentation. After around one hour of talks, the session would split into four or five groups which discussed the topic and the presentations for roughly one and a half hours before concluding. To form these proceedings all presenters were invited to write an abstract of their talks - in practice, most keynote presenters and some others wrote a short paper for their talks. Each working group for each session was required to write a short summary of their session (resulting in 32 contributions in all).
Together with lunch / coffee breaks, social events and time to walk in the grounds of Villa Duodo, this format led to a considerable amount of discussion which pushed our knowledge forward and tired most participants!
The attendees were:
