2023 ERA Workshop
2023 Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life Workshop (@ ALife 2023)
Description
The Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life (ERA) is the official student, post-doc, and junior researcher group for the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL). The purpose of the ISAL student group is to provide opportunities for students and post-docs interested in artificial life to interact with each other, develop professionally, and contribute to the broader artificial life community.
This workshop will be held as part of the 2023 Conference on Artificial Life. The workshop will be hybrid, supporting both those attending the conference virtually and those physically in Japan. The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for junior researchers to meet, share their work, and network.
Schedule
- General information about the ERA (15-20 minutes)
- We will begin with a brief informational discussion about ERA, including an introduction by the current elected chairs, an overview on how to get involved in the group, discussions of events and activities junior researchers would like to see organized by the group, and a request for nominations for 2023-2024 ERA chairs.
- Additionally, we will announce any upcoming ERA-organized social events planned during the conference.
- Announcement of the 2023 Outstanding Student Paper Award recipient (5 minutes)
- A look into the ALife Career of Olaf Witkowski (15 minutes + questions)
- Research lightning talks (35 minutes, 7 minutes each)
- To give junior ALife researchers a minimal-barrier-to-entry venue to share their research with peers, we are offering sign-ups to give lightning talks on research at any stage of development, ranging from rough ideas for future projects to already published work.
- Sign up for a lightning talk slot below
- Academic karaoke (15-??? minutes, 5 minutes each)
- Academic karaoke is an entertaining improvisational social activity where participants present a series of ALife-themed slides that they have never seen before! The presenter’s goal is to give an improvisational talk on-the-fly. We’ve held academic karaoke the last three years, and each year had hilarious talks and lots of laughter!
- Sign up for academic karaoke below
Sign up for a research lightning talk or to participate in academic karaoke!
Sign up for a lightning talk slot and/or to participate in academic karaoke by emailing us at emerging.researchers.alife@gmail.com or reaching out to us on the Discord!
You do not need to commit to a topic for your lightning talk in order to sign up for a speaking slot. We don’t need to know your topic until you present! If you do know what you’d like to talk about, however, we’ll post the topic/description here.
We should have time for roughly 10 speaking slots split between lightning talks and academic karaoke (allocation depending on interest). Sign-ups are first-come, first-serve, so feel free to sign up as early as you’d like! We will be accepting sign-ups up until the time of the workshop or until all slots have been filled.
If you have any questions feel free to email us at emerging.researchers.alife@gmail.com or reach out on the Discord (link below!).
Lightning talks
| Time Slot | Speaker | Topic | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanako Shimaoka | Soft robot design based on coevolution of morphology, material and control | shimaoka.nanako.x1 (at) s.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp |
| 2 | Georgina Montserrat Reséndiz-Benhumea | The Clash of Agents’ Worlds: A 4E Cognition Perspective on Social Ontogeny | gmontserb (at) comunidad.unam.mx |
| 3 | Thomas Willkens | ADDRESSA: Visualizing and Analyzing Evolutionary Trajectories of Graph-Structured Data | twillkens (at) brandeis.edu |
| 4 | Stavros Anagnou | The effect of noise on the emergence of norms and its evolutionary dynamics | s.anagnou (at) herts.ac.uk |
| 5 | Ryan Boldi | The emergence of diversity | rbahlousbold (at) umass.edu |
Academic Karaoke
| Time Slot | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 1 | Aidan Barbieux |
| 2 | Chris Reeves |
| 3 | Zachary Laborde |
| 4+ | Potential walk-ons, depending on time |
Important Dates
- ALife conference: July 24-28, 2023
- Website: https://2023.alife.org/
- Workshop: July 26th @ 17:10
Organizers and contact info
It’s easiest to reach us on the ERA Discord server! Communication about this workshop will likely be in the #conference channel.
Otherwise, you can direct questions to us at emerging.researchers.alife@gmail.com.
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