Presentation of the virtual Meeting XIV.0. We offer you a new scientific and social programme different in many aspects to that planned for the face-to-face meeting. It has been worked out in a joint effort of the Scientific Committee and the SEA Board. This virtual gathering -that we hope will be of interest to everyone- has the main goal of reflecting, in a dynamic and active way, the present and future of several scientific projects in which the community will be deeply involved during the next decade. 

The Meeting focuses in different aspects: the purely scientific part contains nine short talks, called “Milestones and Challenges” (HR in the Spanish acronym), six sessions “Contributions’ Overview” (RC) and the talks by the young doctors awarded with the SEA prizes; the programme also contains presentations by several SEA commissions and working groups, a round table on scientific policy, a session devoted to outreach, and group meetings. All the sessions will be open and broadcasted live by streaming. As it is customary in our face-to-face meetings, we will offer two public outreach talks that will be broadcasted live through the SEA YouTube channel.

We are conscious that many scientific projects, currently under development, are not explicitly represented in the programme. We hope to offer them room in the next months, either in a forum similar to the one we are opening now, or in our next face-to-face meeting in La Laguna. 

Registration

We encourage you to register, and although there will be no registration fee, that process will allow us to gauge the interest and participation of the community at large in this new-format Meeting; in addition, this will allow us to issue certificates of attendance to those who would require one.

Important dates

8 May: Circular 1.0, announcement of the programme of the virtual Meeting. Opening of registration (free, no deadline)
1 June: Circular 2.0, opening of submission of contributions.
5 July: Deadline of submission of contributions.
7 July: Circular 3.0, announcement of all  details concerning the live streaming of the Meeting
13-15 July: XIV.0 SEA Scientific Meeting (virtual)

Format of the scientific sessions

Milestones and Challenges (HR talks). We have included in the programme nine short plenary talks focused on hot topics of interest to the community. The speakers have agreed to summarize in a very short time span the milestones reached in each field and the challenges posed in the next few years. The talks will last 15 minutes, followed by a 5-minute question-and-answer discussion. Some of the talks are planned to be given by two experts in the field to confront and complement their corresponding views.

Contributions Overview (RC sessions). The contributions are accessible in six folders, corresponding to the areas (acronyms from their Spanish denominations): GC (Galaxies and Cosmology), VL (The Milky Way and its components), CP (Planetary Sciences), FS (Solar Physics), IS (Instrumentation and Supercomputation), and ED (Teaching and Outreach). During the virtual Meeting, six 40-minute sessions will be held, one per area. The coordinators of each session will describe the general contents of the works submitted, followed by an open discussion with the authors and attendees via chat or with open microphones.

See calendar and detailed programme above