A Key: Open Discussion
The point of the workshop is to have your input and build the future vision (see the "Workshop Goals"). To this end, having everyone engage in an open discussion about the workshop questions is far more important than giving/listening presentations. We have accommodated several "unconference sessions" to have everyone's inputs in most effective manner and consolidate them into building the future vision of scientific AI/ML research. During an unconference session, we expect that everyone is an active and vocal participant.
Unconference: How Does It Work?
We will have 4 unconference sessions. Each sessions is organized by a facilitator who gives a few "charge questions". The goal is to have everyone engage and summarize key points to answer the questions. But asking inputs from many people is inefficient and we will miss many inputs. The unconference works in the following steps.
- Create sub-groups (3-6 people/group). Meet your teammates.
- Group discussion to answer charge questions.
- Group presentation of the answers
- Session leads consolidate and summarize all groups' outputs
This way, we have everyone engage the question and answers are discussed and summarized at the individual, subgroup, and session level.
The bird view of four unconference session goals are:
- Identify challenges in science ... session per science domain
- Identify promising AI/ML techniques ... session per science domain
- Build synergies across science domains ... session for the whole workshop
The above list is in the order of increasing scope and complexity. We encourage participants to preview the list of questions in each session (coming soon) and prepare your inputs for the discussion.
