[4eyes] Rotation schedule for joint 4Eyes-MIRAGE Lab meetings

[Pradeep Sen]

Hi everyone,

If you haven't already, please put your name in the list for the
4Eyes-MIRAGE Lab
joint meetings. So far, only 3(!) 4Eyes students have replied, and none in
the
Research Area 2.

Please do so as soon as possible so you can participate in the joint
meetings. I
realize some of you are new students, so we'll try to put you towards the
end of the
rotation so you hopefully have something to talk about by then.

Best,

-Pradeep

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Pradeep Sen
Associate Professor
UCSB MIRAGE Lab
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560


On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:04 AM Pradeep Sen <psen at ece.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Last Friday, the five faculty members associated with the 4Eyes and MIRAGE
> Labs (Hollerer, O'Donovan, Sen, Turk, Yan) met to discuss logistics for
> the
> upcoming year, specifically to figure out how our joint meetings would be
> run.
> These general meetings are currently scheduled from 2-3pm on Thursdays
> (although
> we might be able to extend them to 3:30pm).
>
> The main objective of these meetings should be that we are able to cover
> technical material in enough depth to meet the needs of specific subsets
> of
> our joint community, while at the same time being of enough general
> interest
> to warrant attendance by everyone in both labs. That would be the best use
> of our joint meetings.
>
> To this end, we identified two main research areas that should be
> represented
> at these joint meetings:
>
> *Research Area 1:* Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning
> *Research Area 2:* AR/VR, HCI, RecSys, Social Computing, Visualization
>
> Our current plan is to alternate the presentations every other week
> between these
> two research areas.  So, for example, the first week will be a
> presentation by
> a student in Research Area 1, then the following week someone from
> Research
> Area 2, and so on.
>
> The hope is that students in one area would still find the presentations
> from the other
> area interesting/relevant/informative, even though they may not be quite
> working in this
> space.  So let's try this to see how it goes.
>
> To get started, we need to start populating a rotation schedule of
> students who
> would present at each joint meeting. This presentation could be on your
> current
> research project, a pitch for a future project, a new set of ideas that
> you think are
> interesting or worth exploring, etc.  If you have a question about the
> suitability of
> a topic, please talk to the faculty responsible for that sub area.
>
> So I have created the following Google Docs document to keep track of the
> students
> and the rotation schedule:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV7H7LQF4mFC3RlAV_seZsR0zuhCkngOYE-buHciDrA/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Please put your name down under your respective research area. I realize
> that
> many students could fit both areas, but please put your name under the one
> that you think is your *primary* area.  We have done the same with the
> faculty
> as well.  I have taken the liberty of adding my students already as an
> example.
>
> In the end, we hope that we have roughly the same number students in both
> categories so that each rotation takes equally long. Once everyone has put
> their
> names on one of these lists, we will devise a rotation schedule that
> rotates through
> all the students in the lab about one per week.  So if we have around,
> say, 16 students
> signed up, it's going to be more than 4 months before anyone has to
> present again.
> Keep in mind that the rotation schedule can slip back as other special
> talks or broader
> plenary meetings are inserted into the schedule.
>
> Once we have the rotation schedule in hand, you will be able to plan ahead
> and see
> roughly when you will be expected to speak next. And, if for any reason
> you have a
> conflict (e.g., you are out of town that day), then you can swap places
> with someone
> on the list as well.
>
> Finally, we plan to start this week so I am looking for a volunteer in
> Research Area 1
> who wants to present this week to get things started.
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
>
> -Pradeep
>
> ---
> Pradeep Sen
> Associate Professor
> UCSB MIRAGE Lab
> Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560
>
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