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Fall 2022 Mentorship Workshop
This Fall, we organized a mentorship workshop, in collaboration with FODSI, for Undergraduate, Masters, PhD students, and Postdocs interested in Learning Theory and adjacent fields.
The event took place virtually (on gather.town) on October 26-27 2022.
Speakers: Hamsa Bastani, Sébastien Bubeck, Clément Canonne, Stefanie Jegelka, Jelani Nelson, Behnam Neyshabur, Emma Pierson, Chara Podimata, Jacob Steinhardt, and Vasilis Syrgkanis.
Mentors: Boaz Barak, Hamsa Bastani, Clément Canonne, Sarah Cen, Vaggos Chatziafratis, Sitan Chen, Lee Cohen, Kate Donahue, Simon Du, Noah Golowich, Sam Hopkins, Kevin Jamieson, Gautam Kamath, Tengyu Ma, Eric Mazumdar, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Sloan Nietert, Chara Podimata, Shibani Santurkar, Ayush Sekhari, Abhishek Shetty, Jess Sorrell, Dimitris Tsipras, Colin White, Manolis Zampetakis, Cyril Zhang, and Tijana Zrnic.
See the schedule below.
Mentorship Workshop
Event Schedule
How-to Talk 1: Starting your Research Journey. Stefanie Jegelka
[Slides]
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
This session will be geared towards senior undergrads and junior grad students and will mostly cover the following topics: how to find your first research opportunity and advisor, prepare for research meetings, foster a good relationship with your research advisor, and more generally navigate your first few research projects.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
How-to Talk 2: Expanding your Research Profile. Emma Pierson
Session chair: Siddharth Prasad
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
This session will be geared towards grad students and postdocs, and will mostly cover the following topics: how to decide what to work on, define new research projects, find collaborators, and develop a research vision.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
Panel: Evolution of a project / thesis / career. Hamsa Bastani, Sébastien Bubeck, Vasilis Syrgkanis
Moderator: Thodoris Lykouris
Venue: Seminar room (gather.town)
The panel will focus on the evolution of research at the scale of a project, PhD thesis, and overall career.
Mentoring Tables.
Mentors: Boaz Barak, Hamsa Bastani, Sarah Cen, Lee Cohen, Kate Donahue, Noah Golowich, Sam Hopkins, Gautam Kamath, Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Sloan Nietert, Ayush Sekhari, Jess Sorrell, and Cyril Zhang
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with members of the community as well as other participants. There will be tables where a mentor would be available to seek advice and answer your questions!
Social Hour
Venue: Lounge/Beach (gather.town)
This session will be a social gathering with virtual board games and dancing.
How-to Talk 1: Starting your Research Journey. Behnam Neyshabur
[Slides]
Session chair: Meena Jagadeesan
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
This session will be geared towards senior undergrads and junior grad students and will mostly cover the following topics: how to find your first research opportunity and advisor, prepare for research meetings, foster a good relationship with your research advisor, and more generally navigate your first few research projects.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
How-to Talk 2: Expanding your Research Profile. Jacob Steinhardt
Session chair: Abhishek Shetty
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
This session will be geared towards grad students and postdocs, and will mostly cover the following topics: how to decide what to work on, define new research projects, find collaborators, and develop a research vision.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
Panel: Evolution of a project / thesis / career. Clément Canonne, Jelani Nelson, Chara Podimata
Moderator: Ellen Vitercik
Venue: Seminar room (gather.town)
The panel will focus on the evolution of research at the scale of a project, PhD thesis, and overall career.
Mentoring Tables.
Mentors: Clément Cannone, Vaggos Chatziafratis, Sitan Chen, Simon Du, Kevin Jamieson, Tengyu Ma, Eric Mazumdar, Chara Podimata, Shibani Santurkar, Abhishek Shetty, Dimitris Tsipras, Colin White, Manolis Zampetakis, and Tijana Zrnic.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with members of the community as well as other participants. There will be tables where a mentor would be available to seek advice and answer your questions!
Social Hour
Venue: Lounge/Beach (gather.town)
This session will be a social gathering with virtual board games and dancing.
Team
Organizers
Surbhi Goel
Postdoc Researcher, Microsoft Research NYC
Nika Haghtalab
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley EECS
Thodoris Lykouris
Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan
Vidya Muthukumar
Assistant Professor, GaTech ECE and ISyE