Spring 2024 Mentorship Workshop

In Spring 2024, we will organize a mentorship workshop centered on the day-to-day life of an ML/theory researcher for Undergraduate, Masters, PhD students, and Postdocs interested in Learning Theory and adjacent fields.

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.

Click here to join the workshop with password letall2024!

Mentorship Workshop

Event Schedule

Welcome Remarks.

Venue: Seminar Room (gather.town)

Steven Wu

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)

Ankur Moitra

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)

Shuchi Chawla
Varun Kanade
Devi Parikh

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)

Po-Ling Loh

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)

Zhiyi Huang
Audra McMillan
Aaditya Ramdas

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)

Adam Groce

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

Lydia Zakynthinou

FODSI Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley