The event will take place virtually (on gather.town) on June 4-5, 2024.
Speakers: Shuchi Chawla, Adam Groce, Zhiyi Huang, Varun Kanade, Po-Ling Loh, Audra McMillan, Ankur Moitra, Devi Parikh, Aaditya Ramdas, and Steven Wu.
Mentors: Avrim Blum, Sitan Chen, Karolina Dziugaite, Simon Du, Nan Jiang, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Shay Moran, Praneeth Netrapalli, Aditi Raghunathan, and Fanny Yang.
See the schedule below.
Mentorship Workshop
Event Schedule
Welcome Remarks.
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
How-to Talk 1: Collaboration. Steven Wu
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
Examples topics include what a healthy collaboration looks like and best practices for being a good collaborator.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
How-to Talk 2: Solving Theoretical Research Problems. Ankur Moitra
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
Example topics include formulating research questions and theory problems, breaking a larger problem into smaller toy problems, and day-to-day best practices (e.g., documenting progress).
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
Panel: Time Management. Shuchi Chawla, Varun Kanade, Devi Parikh
Venue: Seminar room (gather.town)
Example topics will include time management as a PhD student and time management when transitioning out of the PhD.
Mentoring Tables.
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 (gather.town)
Welcome Remarks.
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
How-to Talk 1: Collaboration. Po-Ling Loh
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
Examples topics include what a healthy collaboration looks like and best practices for being a good collaborator.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
Panel: Time Management. Zhiyi Huang, Audra McMillan, Aaditya Ramdas
Venue: Seminar room (gather.town)
Example topics will include time management as a PhD student and time management when transitioning out of the PhD.
Break.
Venue: Lounge (gather.town)
How-to Talk 2: Solving Theoretical Research Problems. Adam Groce
Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)
Example topics include formulating research questions and theory problems, breaking a larger problem into smaller toy problems, and day-to-day best practices (e.g., documenting progress).
Mentoring Tables.
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 (gather.town)
Team
Organizers
Ciara Pike-Burke
Lecturer in Statistics, Imperial College London Department of Mathematics
Vatsal Sharan
Assistant Professor, USC CS
Ellen Vitercik
Assistant Professor, Stanford MS&E and CS