AAAI 2019 Student Activities
Overview | Research | Mentoring | Social | TravelOverview
Prior to AAAI students should:
- Join the unofficial AAAI Student slack group
- Sign up for the roommate pairing services, if needed (closed)
Students should plan to partake in the following activities during AAAI:
Throughout AAAI
- Sticker Social Event
- What's Hot Talks (Recent surveys of an area)
- Student Three-Minute Presentation Contest
- Senior Member Talks
Sunday, January 26-27
- Student Outreach Workshop (Undergraduates)
- Tutorials: The Road to Industry, Presenting a Paper
- Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium
- Student Welcome Reception
- Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium
- Opening Reception
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- Lunch with a Fellow
- Black in AI Lunch (12:30pm)
- Women's Mentoring Breakfast (7:30-8:45am)
- Lunch with a Fellow
- LatinX in AI Lunch
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- Fun and Games Night (tentatively 8-10pm)
- AAAI / ACM SIGAI Job Fair (tentatively 12:30-3:00pm)
- Lunch with a Fellow
- AAAI Community Meeting (tentatively 5:00pm)
- Student Dining/Group Meals
- Student Dining/Group Meals
Research
AAAI / SIGAI Job Fair
AAAI/ACM SIGAI will be holding their annual job fair at the AAAI annual conference at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA on January 31, 2019, from 12:30–3:00PM (tentative), with informal meet and greet time beforehand. The job fair is open to all AAAI members, affiliates, and attendees of the AAAI conference. Attendees are encouraged to submit a CV or résumé for circulation beforehand. https://aaaijobfair.comTutorials
Several of the AAAI tutorials are especially valuable for student attendees:- SP6Q: Presenting a Paper by Eugene C. Freuder (University College Cork)
The tutorial will provide advice on making an effective, enjoyable and memorable presentation of a scientific paper. The talk is an advertisement for the paper. You may have spent years working on your paper; you do not want to waste the few minutes you have in a conference presentation to interest your audience in what you have done. If your audience is checking their email because they are lost or bored, you are doing yourself and them a disservice. Presentation skills can be studied and practiced like any others. They can help prevent your paper from becoming WORN (Write Once Read Never).
- SP8Q: The Road to Industry by John Kolen (Electronic Arts)
Most doctoral AI programs focus on preparing students for academic careers. Given the relatively few academic openings compared to the number of graduates, the majority of freshly minted AI PhDs will find themselves in industry positions. This tutorial aims to ease this transition, providing information that will prepare graduates for this next phase of their lives. This tutorial is not “how to write a resume” session, but a collection of insights, motivations and trivia that fall into the bucket labeled “I wish I knew that when I started”. The tutorial is organized in three parts: Finding the Job, Starting the Job, and Keeping the Job. Topics will include company types and the roles within them, the hiring process from the inside, acronyms you should know and what to do when you don’t, and life balance. The tutorial will finish with a question and answer panel session.
Mentoring
Doctoral Consortium
- All students are encouraged to drop by the DC and listen and learn from the event! See the DC Web Site for additional details.
- All day January 27-28
- Organizers: Daniele Magazzeni, King's College London and Laura Hiatt, US Naval Research Laboratory
Breakfast with Champions: A Women's Mentoring Event
- AAAI is holding the fifth annual women’s mentoring event for students and junior women professionals to meet with senior women in artificial intelligence. Breakfast with Champions is scheduled for Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Previous events have been very popular and over-subscribed.
- If you are a female student or within five years of your most recent degree and interested in joining us, please apply by checking the box on the registration form.
- There is a $15 registration fee for attendees to help cover a portion of the event costs. If this fee would prevent you from attending, please contact the organizers directly at aaai19women@aaai.org.
- Also see the AAAI registration page
Social
Slack Forum
- We have created an unofficial slack channel to facilitate student communication.
- You can join the channel here to discuss AAAI 2019 with other students.
- Reminder: This is an unofficial channel.
Student Welcome Reception
- All students are welcome at the AAAI-19 Student Welcome Reception. Light refreshments will be served.
- Sunday, January 27, 7:00 – 8:00 PM, Tapa Ballroom 1
- Sponsored by USC/Information Sciences Institute
LatinX in AI Lunch
- The lunch is intended to facilitate networking and sharing of ideas to increase participation of LatinX researchers in the field. For more information, please write to the organizer, Pablo Castro, at psc@google.com.
- January 30 at 12:30pm at the Hatsuhana Hawaii Japanese Restaurant, 2005 Kalia Rd
Sticker Social Event
- In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed dating event to facilitate social interactions at the conference. This year, there will not be a single social event for this purpose, but participants are encouraged to interact throughout the conference. To facilitate this, participants will be provided with stickers and are encouraged to place the answer to social questions on their name tag. Doing so means that you are open to social interactions with people at the conference that you do not know.
- Find stickers and instructions near the registration desk and at the student reception.
- A special AI sticker will be given to those who meet new people at the conference. More information is available at the sticker social table.
Fun and Games Night
- Come put your game theory into practice! The games night this year will feature a rock-paper-scissors competition, followed by an open time for playing games and solving puzzles. Everyone is invited to participate in the rock-paper-scissors competition, with fame and prizes for the winners. A mixer activity from the opening reception will also continue at the games night. Remember to pack an extra game to play afterwards!
- Run by Nathan Sturtevant and Michael Littman
Lunch with AAAI Fellow
- Students can meet a leader in one of the fields of Artificial Intelligence over lunch
- More information will be posted soon.
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)
Travel
Roommate Pairing Service
- Need to find a roommate? (CLOSED) We match students up based on their constraints and preferences.
- Deadline: Pairings will be made up until December 30, but sign up earlier to receive an earlier pairing. We will pair you up as applications come in and will finalize all pairings by the deadline.
- Organizer: Sriraam Natarajan (natarasr@indiana.edu)