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Spring 2024 Reading Group
- Location: Info Building 807
- Time: Wednesday 4:30pm (biweekly)
Schedule
Please sign up here: 2024 Spring Reading Group Schdule
Format
This year, we adopt a new discussion format called ``role-play seminar. Instead of the traditional one-to-many style, ``role-play seminar encourages everyone to participate in discussion by taking a specific role. The roles will rotate in each meeting.
Lead (1 人） Scientific Peer Reviewer （1-2 人） Archaeologist: （1 人） Academic Researcher: （1 人） Industry Practitioner （1 人） Private Investigator (also picks next paper): （1 人）
Lead. Summarize the paper and its main claims and contributions. What problem is the paper trying to solve? Why is that problem interesting and important? How does the paper solve the problem and what is the novelty?
Scientific Peer Reviewer. The paper has not been published yet and is currently submitted to a top conference where you’ve been assigned as a peer reviewer. Evaluate the paper's strengths and weaknesses including the technical novelty, clarity of exposition, magnitude of impact, and reproducibility.
Archaeologist: This paper was found buried underground in the desert. You’re an archeologist who must determine where this paper sits in the context of previous and subsequent work. Find and report on one older paper cited within the current paper that substantially influenced the current paper and explain the relationship.
Academic Researcher: You’re a researcher who is working on a new project in this area. Propose an imaginary follow-up project not just based on the current but only possible due to the existence and success of the current paper.
Industry Practitioner. You work at a company or organization developing an application or product of your choice (that has not already been suggested in a prior session). Bring a convincing pitch for why you should be paid to implement the method in the paper, and discuss at least one positive and negative impact of this application.
Private Investigator. You are a detective who needs to run a background check on one of the paper’s authors. Where have they worked? What did they study? What previous projects might have led to working on this one? What motivated them to work on this project? Feel free to contact the authors, but remember to be courteous, polite, and on-topic.