TALKS:

Research Talks: Twenty-minute presentations of research results; open to all.

First-timer Research Talks: Fifteen-minute presentations with room for feedback and mentoring. Open to students. Reports on preliminary results and works-in-progress are welcome in this category.

Diversity Presentations: Twenty-minute presentations and discussion on initiatives and issues that focus on diversifying computing. Past examples include presentations on identifying and dealing with microaggressions and best practices for establishing an ACM-W chapter; open to all.

POSTERS:

Diversity Posters: Presentations of efforts to diversify computing; open to all. Reports on new efforts that have not yet produced measurable results are welcome in this category.

Research Posters or Demos: Presentations of research, class projects and works-in-progress; open to all. Prizes will be awarded to the best student research posters in a poster competition category.

Submit abstracts of no more than 500 words in PDF format by December 15, 2021. All abstracts should list the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the presenters. Students should also specify their status; for example: 2nd year undergraduate, 3rd year graduate student. (Title, list of authors etc. do not count toward the word limit.)

How to Submit a Proposal

If you have questions or if you would like to propose another kind of activity or session, please contact Caroline Buinicky, Program Chair, at [email protected]. If you would like to volunteer to help with the organization or running of NYCWiC '22, please contact [email protected].

@channel team OREL, some thoughts about what is ahead:
There are so many different potential projects we could be developing into 2021. I'd like to suggest we take some time in the next few weeks to hash some of them out and maybe vet them with the lab. Actual projects that would test some ideas and research them ; some of the cataloguing things that I'm doing in #cognition-futures currently ; Anson's allostasis work (unifying some things in the AI-Neuro space ala Main2020) ; past ties to #virtual-reality; Bradly being hype about the Continuous Learning tutorial also at MAIN ; A throwback to Sam F's older work came up recently ; and no less the actual Developmental AI / #meta-brain-models flagship project that we've had going on.
This is part lab manager and part... developing researcher learning about project management and directing actual academic activity. But I think some of these things can be distilled into micro-proposals or visions, and frankly some of these things I know I have friends who are interested in and could lead to a call for involvement with them. So let's think about this some, mm.

@jesparent is interested in writing up a summary of the event.

In this project we aim to show how Switching behavior influences RL agents representation , and whether that helps them learn better , i.e , become more adaptable. This is primarily done by comparing an Agent left for X epochs in a single environment to an Agent left for (x+y+x*=X) epochs in 2 environments x and y .

when the time is right (after ALIFE)

currently on back burner heh

• Erin

• A.N.

• Lab Manager intern / assistant?

• what technical tools are in OREL? DevoWorm?

• Collaboration idea (cc Logan) brief review of tools / key topics in neuroscience / neuroinformatics

Previous submissions for ethics / society. Would be open to anyone who is doing tech / cs and is interested in diversity - there are special first time researcher slots, and diversity slots as well. Ask Jesse for more details

• onboard Erin
• onboard Angela
• Erin mtg 1 discuss plans
• Erin mtg 2 prep deliverable / presentations
• @balicea discuss Data/Privacy event
• Erin - Github account
• shared notes: decide gmail vs notion
• create notion database
• put notion databse in online/shared / open format

needs to house Neuromatch Academy as well as various NM related collabs, and potential refinements of the actual training materials or bridges to OREL work.

conference applications and research talk submissions

see https://orthogonal-research.slack.com/archives/C494J6DEG/p1639028867088200

• #50
• Re-familiarize with new GH Beta project views
• Tutorial on GH
• #58
• Deliverables Document
• Project Presentations

link to stefan, ziyi, and ankit's software packages in a clear and coherent way in the dbv repo for orel-group

Semi-automated gsheet to keep track of upcoming events & deadlines

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U0cm3qOnvgxpqOpmH0fsDKGP9j86KN3OFU9mdW8lyr4/edit?usp=sharing

• demo

• add - slack thread link options / other github orgs?

@anushas1000 6-10 min intro to Critical Periods

https://twitter.com/PessoaBrain/status/1460399614646013952

Luiz Pessoa
@pessoabrain
...in complex biological systems no single perspective is enough (and why should it?) and they can be partly inconsistent in a non-spooky sense (reasons for inconsistencies can be reasonably well understood).
Wonder what
@yoginho
would say in this respect.

• dbv
• e-d
• submissions
• admin
• cgs
• cognition futures

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18iUCqFh-fXevOIG5YIKq6OoEHJFy0FGg6TaxG2nz7vY/edit#slide=id.gd6949316a0_0_360

Different cards / slides for different involvements

• dev AI

• Neural Organoids

• Cog Futures

• Allostasis Machines

• tech society ethics

https://culturalevolutionsociety.org/

https://nycwic.org/submission

Project Tasks

• #53
• #54
• #52 - More info for submission in this ticket

Important Dates

• Oct. 15, 2021 - Abstract submission opens
• Dec. 15, 2021 - Abstract submissions due
• Jan. 15, 2022 - Acceptance notification
• Feb. 1, 2022 - Final abstracts for program due
• Mar. 3, 2022 - Registration deadline
• Apr. 8-9, 2022 - NYCWiC

How to Submit a Proposal

If you have questions or if you would like to propose another kind of activity or session, please contact Caroline Buinicky, Program Chair, at [email protected]. If you would like to volunteer to help with the organization or running of NYCWiC '22, please contact [email protected].

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