Open Collab Research Jam (#8)

The Research Jam is a community event aimed at increasing collaboration opportunities and boosting the efficiency of interactions among researchers. We host Research Jams every eight weeks. You can view details about past jams here. The next Research Jam will be June 29, 2022.

Date & Time

The 8th Open Collab Research Jam is on May 4, 2022, 8am Pacific Time. Here's a calendar event to help with timezones.

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Format

Just show up and present your stuff! You'll have 5-15 minutes to show people what you've done, or an idea you have, while sharing your screen, and be open to answer questions, receive feedback — basically, jam with us.

The event will start with presentations over Zoom and conclude with a hangout and Q+A on our community Discord.

Submit

Submission to the Research Jam #8 is closed. If you are interested in securing a spot for future research jams, please complete this form. We will be in touch upon receiving your submission.

You can also support the event by simply attending. Join Zoom (Meeting ID: 829 2106 1425, PW 320761) for presentations and Q&A, and Discord for further hangout. Hope to see you at our Research Jam!

Schedule

The below times are in the Pacific timezone.

8:00 - 9:00am: Jam presentation (on Zoom; link to join; Meeting ID: 829 2106 1425, PW 320761)

  1. Each presenter is given 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A.
Jam Presenter Title
#1 Charles Martin Deriving the weightwatcher alpha-hat metric from first principles
#2 Diganta Misra APP: Anytime Progressive Pruning
#3 Ender Minyard RFP: Use mutable torrent for model updates
#4 Sai Raam Venkataraman Uncommon objects in unseen configurations
#5 Stefan Larson Evaluating Out-of-Distribution Performance on Document Image Classifiers (and also an idea, Splytters: Adversarial Train-Test Splits)

9:00 - 9:30am: Casual hangout (at Discord voice channels; link to join)

  1. Each presenter will host a voice channel on Discord, marked by the Jam # and their name. You can join one channel at a time; prior to joining, you'll be able to see who is in the channel. There is also a common channel for casual hangout.

Recording

Below you can find the recording of the presentation session.