AAAI 2016 Student Activities
Overview | Research | Mentoring | Social | TravelOverview
Students should plan to partake in the following activities during AAAI:
Friday, February 12
- Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium
- Career Panel (Part of DC, but open to all students)
- Student Reception (5:00-7:30pm - more details below)
- Open House
- Robotics Events
- Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium
- Research Speed Dating (Convention Center Room 301c)
- Opening Reception
- What's Hot Talks (tentative)
- General Game Playing Competition
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- AAAI / ACM SIGAI Job Fair (6:10pm)
- Women's Mentoring Breakfast
- What's Hot Talks (tentative)
- Robotics Students Talks (tentative)
- General Game Playing Competition
- Lunch with a Fellow
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- Student Abstract Poster Ads
- AAAI Community Meeting
- Fun and Games Night (Convention Center Room 106 - 8-10pm)
- RSS / Robotics Student Talks (tentative)
- General Game Playing Competition
- Student Abstract Poster Ads
- Lunch with a Fellow
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- Robotics / Exhibits
- Conference ends at noon
Research
Accessible Tutorials
The presenters of the following tutorials are putting particular work into making their tutorials accessible to students with limited backgrounds in AI. Each of these will take place during separate time slots over the two days of tutorials.- How to Automatically Machine Read the Web (Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior)
- CP-Nets (Thomas E. Allen, Judy Goldsmith, Francesca Rossi)
- Deep Learning: from Foundations to Implementation (Reza Borhani, Jeremy Watt, Aggelos K. Katsaggelos)
- Algorithm Configuration: A Hands on Tutorial (Frank Hutter, Marius Lindauer)
Mentoring
Doctoral Consortium
- All students are welcome to drop in and attend the doctoral consortium.
- All day February 12-13
- Organizers: David L. Roberts, David W. Aha
Career Panel
- February 12, 5-6pm, Phoenix Convention Center (West Building) Room: 211B
- Panelists: Henry Kautz, Francesca Rossi, Laura Hiatt, & Ugur Kuter
- Part of DC, but open to all students
- Organizers: David L. Roberts, David W. Aha
Breakfast with Champions: A Women's Mentoring Event
- AAAI is holding its second annual women's mentoring event between women students and senior women in CS/AI. Breakfast with Champions will be Monday morning, February 15, 2016. This event follows on the successful footsteps of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring program. If you are interested in joining us, please apply by checking the box on the registration form. Attendance is limited to the first 40 applicants.
- Women's Breakfast: $10.00
Social
Lunch with AAAI Fellow
- More details soon!
- Organizer: Carol Hamilton (hamilton@aaai.org)
Student Welcome Reception
- This will begin with a joint event with the Doctoral Consortium and continue with a short program afterwards. Students are encourage to arrive in time for this event!
- 5:00-6:00pm Begin with career panel (part of Doctoral Consortium)
- 6:00-6:30pm Student Activity (1st level Convention Center Atrium Lobby)
- 6:30-7:30pm Welcome from organizers and AAAI; reception
Student Dining Opportunities
- A student coordinator will be organizing informal opportunities for students to eat together for lunches and dinners at various casual restaurants near the conference venue. Students will be expected to pay for their own meals. Some groups will be available based on research or career interests, while others will be general groups. Additional information will be available as the conference approaches.
- Organizer: Arun Reddy Nelakurthi (anelakur@asu.edu)
Research Speed Dating
- Convention Center Room 301c
- Come get to know other researchers!
- Saturday February 13, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
- Organizer: William Yeoh
Fun and Games Night
- Convention Center Room 106, 8-10pm
- Join organized games! Bring your own games to play afterwards.
- Organizers: Nathan Sturtevant and Michael Bowling
Travel
Roommate Pairing Service
- Need to find a roommate? Fill out this form and we will match students up based on their constraints and preferences.
- Deadline: January 8, 2016. We will pair you up as applications come in and will finalize all pairings by the deadline.
- Organizer: Sriraam Natarajan (natarasr@indiana.edu)