Announcing the NeurIPS 2021 Socials!

NeurIPS Socials are back for their third year! The social events can provide an excellent opportunity for those with a common interest to meet up, discuss, collaborate, debate, or celebrate. The community heard our call, and we’ve got an exciting lineup for NeurIPS 2021 — check them out below, or see them on the NeurIPS website here.

• Improving Global Research Collaboration & Communication – Come learn and share best practices collaborating with researchers around the world, and discuss how to bridge the remote work, cultural, and social divides.

• ML in Korea – A Social focused on individuals part of, or interested in, the ML research scene in Korea. 

• Latinx in AI Social – A social event with the goal of creating new connections between the NeurIPS community and Latinx researchers across the world.

• Women in Research Roundtable – This roundtable aims to highlight the experiences of women researchers in tech and promote an engaging discussion around how women are excelling in the research science field.

• Can Technology Be Used to Help Combat Maternal Mortality? – The United States has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among developed nations. This Social is meant to brainstorm and discuss strategies for combating maternal mortality in the United States and beyond.

• Shine in Your Technical Presentation – This Social will cover how to design and deliver an effective presentation, featuring an opportunity to present and get feedback in a small group discussion. 

• Lapsed Physicists Wine-and-Cheese – This BYOWC (Bring Your Own Wine and Cheese) event is an informal opportunity to connect with members of the former Physicists community.

• Space & ML – An opportunity to convene a community around ML application for space exploration, planetary stewardship of Earth and opportunities for ML in science. 

• BigScience – A Social related to the BigScience community, a one-year long research workshop on large multilingual datasets and large language models. 

• Interdisciplinary ML: Bridging Gaps and Building Graphs – This Social is designed to bring together people with different technical backgrounds, intending to build bridges between individuals from different communities.

• ML in India: A Billion Opportunities – This Social aims to facilitate interaction between those interested in exploring career opportunities in India and researchers who are currently based in India, and also create more awareness around ML problems that can have significant impact in the Indian context.

• Queer in AI – A safe and inclusive casual networking and socializing space for LGBTQIA+ individuals involved with AI that celebrates all queer people around the world.

• Women in AI Ignite – Ignite is a fast-paced presentation format, with five-minute talks consisting of 20 slides displayed for 15 seconds each. This is the third annual Women in AI Ignite event at NeurIPS.

• Un-bookclub Algorithms of Oppression – An “un-bookclub” to discuss and interact with ideas from Safyia Noble’s book Algorithms of Oppression.

• Roundtable Chatroom – A community that fosters communication and sharing of great ideas dedicated to AI and ML practitioners. Will consist of Zoom roundtable chats, where participants discuss a topic for some time before moving on to the next one. Topics will include “The next big thing in AI,” “How to develop a research idea?,” and “Do we publish too much?”
  

We look forward to seeing you at NeurIPS 2021. Join us and register today!