The event will take place virtually (on gather.town) on March 4-5 2021, two weeks before the ALT 2021 conference. See registration link and full schedule below.
Mentorship Workshop
Event Schedule
Welcome Remarks
How-to Talks. Jacob Abernethy, Pravesh Kothari
The talk will have two parts. The first part will cover general advice about giving talks, structuring papers, and writing reviews. The second part will discuss how to get the most out of a conference---and ALT in particular---covering topics such as networking and attending poster sessions.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
Talk Dissesction. Kamalika Chaudhuri, Robert Kleinberg
This session will begin with a talk by a senior PhD student or postdoc. The presenter and a senior member of the learning theory community will then “dissect” the talk: the presenter will describe their process when making the talk and the senior member will identify aspects of the talk that went well and those that could be improved. This session should be as instructive and beneficial for the junior researchers in the audience as it is for the presenter since the audience will learn about what goes into making a great talk.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
Ask Me Anything. Lester Mackey
Participants will be encouraged to “ask anything” of our featured senior member of the learning theory community. The questions could be about choosing research directions, conducting interdisciplinary research, experiencing success and failure in research, inclusion and diversity, etc.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
General Research Talks. Po-Ling Loh, Vatsal Sharan
This session will feature two talks on recent learning theory research which will be accessible to new researchers.
Social Event
This session will be a social gathering with virtual board games and dancing.
Welcome Remarks
How-to Talks. Rafael Frongillo, Jamie Morgenstern
The talk will have two parts. The first part will cover general advice about giving talks, structuring papers, and writing reviews. The second part will discuss how to get the most out of a conference---and ALT in particular---covering topics such as networking and attending poster sessions.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
Ask Me Anything. Shafi Goldwasser
Participants will be encouraged to “ask anything” of our featured senior member of the learning theory community. The questions could be about choosing research directions, conducting interdisciplinary research, experiencing success and failure in research, inclusion and diversity, etc.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
Talk Dissesction. Praneeth Netrapalli, Mary Wootters
This session will begin with a talk by a senior PhD student or postdoc. The presenter and a senior member of the learning theory community will then “dissect” the talk: the presenter will describe their process when making the talk and the senior member will identify aspects of the talk that went well and those that could be improved. This session should be as instructive and beneficial for the junior researchers in the audience as it is for the presenter since the audience will learn about what goes into making a great talk.
Break
This session is intended to be free time to socialize with senior members of the community as well as other participants.
General Research Talks. Nadav Cohen, Zhiyi Huang
This session will feature two talks on recent learning theory research which will be accessible to new researchers.
Social Event
This session will be a social gathering with virtual board games and dancing.