CDS Colloquium - “Open-mic” session

For this week’s session we will return to a format used once or twice per year pre-COVID: an ‘open mic’ session in which anyone from our research community is welcome to make a short (5-15 minute) presentation. Suitable topics for such presentations include, but are not limited to:

1. Work-in-progress talks, perhaps highlighting some stumbling block you have encountered that the community may know how to defeat.

2. Ideas for future research, to find out if anyone knows if similar work has been done or if you are seeking collaborators.

3. Proposals in progress, either for soliciting participants with specific expertise or help in better understanding the goals of a funding agency.

4. Fun, possibly light-hearted, even frivolous ideas or models, possibly having pedagogical value (as we approach Halloween I am reminded of a couple of great presentations on zombies, one an ABM by Ph.D. student Brant Horio, one an ODE model by math professor Sander).

5. Summer paper or dissertation ideas at preliminary stages, to alert the community to what you are working on.

6. New results you have recently figured out and don’t know what to do with, perhaps to get advice on an appropriate publication outlet.

7. A new modeling language, framework, tool, or paradigm that you are considering using and want to find out if anybody else has tried it (e.g., Hash.AI or Rust).

8. Questions about the availability of data or other resources that people in the Department may have have access to and you want to know how to use.

9. Announcements of special issues of journals or calls for funding that our community might benefit from knowing more about.

10. For research prrojects that will be starting in 2024 and are looking for help from students, whether graduate or undergraduate, this is a good forum to make a ‘pitch’ to prospective participants.

For Zoom link contact Robert Axtell