<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">One more thing:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In addition to the joint meeting, we plan to have 2 reading groups associated with</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">our labs, one for each research area.  Pushkar is organizing the reading group <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">in Research Area 1 (see his earlier email about the Doodle Poll), and maybe <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">someone in Area 2 can organize that reading group.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Papers in both reading sessions will be announced to the whole community, and</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">then students can attend one or the other (or both!) based on their own interests.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Let's see how this model works...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Pradeep</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---<div>Pradeep Sen</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>UCSB MIRAGE Lab</div><div>Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering</div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">93106-9560</span></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:04 AM Pradeep Sen <<a href="mailto:psen@ece.ucsb.edu">psen@ece.ucsb.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Last Friday, the five faculty members associated with the 4Eyes and MIRAGE <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Labs (Hollerer, O'Donovan, Sen, Turk, Yan) met to discuss logistics for the <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">upcoming year, specifically to figure out how our joint meetings would be run.  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">These general meetings are currently scheduled from 2-3pm on Thursdays (although <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">we might be able to extend them to 3:30pm).<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div>

</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The main objective of these meetings should be that we are able to cover</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">technical material in enough depth to meet the needs of specific subsets of <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">our joint community, while at the same time being of enough general interest <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to warrant attendance by everyone in both labs. That would be the best use <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">of our joint meetings.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To this end, we identified two main research areas that should be represented</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">at these joint meetings:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Research Area 1:</b> Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Research Area 2:</b> AR/VR, HCI, RecSys, Social Computing, Visualization</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Our current plan is to alternate the presentations every other week between these</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">two research areas.  So, for example, the first week will be a presentation by <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a student in Research Area 1, then the following week someone from Research <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Area 2, and so on.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The hope is that students in one area would still find the presentations from the other <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">area interesting/relevant/informative, even though they may not be quite working in this <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">space.  So let's try this to see how it goes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">To get started, we need to start populating a rotation schedule of students who</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">would present at each joint meeting. This presentation could be on your current</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">research project, 
a pitch for a future project, a new set of ideas that you think are <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">interesting or worth exploring, etc.  If you have a question about the suitability of</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a topic, please talk to the faculty responsible for that sub area.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So I have created the following Google Docs document to keep track of the students</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and the rotation schedule:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV7H7LQF4mFC3RlAV_seZsR0zuhCkngOYE-buHciDrA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV7H7LQF4mFC3RlAV_seZsR0zuhCkngOYE-buHciDrA/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please put your name down under your respective research area. I realize that <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">many students could fit both areas, but please put your name under the one <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">that you think is your <i><b>primary</b></i> area.  We have done the same with the faculty <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">as well.  I have taken the liberty of adding my students already as an example.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In the end, we hope that we have roughly the same number students in both <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">categories so that each rotation takes equally long. Once everyone has put their</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">names on one of these lists, we will devise a rotation schedule that rotates through</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">all the students in the lab about one per week.  So if we have around, say, 16 students <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">signed up, it's going to be more than 4 months before anyone has to present again.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Keep in mind that the rotation schedule can slip back as other special talks or broader <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">plenary meetings are inserted into the schedule.<br></div><div><br></div>

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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Once we have the rotation schedule in hand, you will be able to plan ahead and see <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">roughly when you will be expected to speak next. And, if for any reason you have a</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">conflict (e.g., you are out of town that day), then you can swap places with someone</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">on the list as well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Finally, we plan to start this week so I am looking for a volunteer in Research Area 1</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">who wants to present this week to get things started.  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Please let us know if you have any questions.</div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-Pradeep</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-8072908092145269318gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---<div>Pradeep Sen</div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>UCSB MIRAGE Lab</div><div>Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering</div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">93106-9560</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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