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ICML 2019 Post-Conference Workshops

The ICML 2019 Organising Committee and Workshop Chairs would like to thank the workshop review committee and workflow chairs, for their hard work in reviewing the workshop proposals and in administering the review process.

Workflow chairs

Jongwook Choi
Yunseok Jang

Workshop review committee

Jacob D Abernethy
Marc Bellemare
Kyunghyun Cho
Joseph Gonzalez
Roger Grosse
Philipp Hennig
Navdeep Jaitly
Stefanie Jegelka
Mladen Kolar
David Lopez-Paz
David Mimno
Mohammad Norouzi
Junhyuk Oh
Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Vinayak Rao
Suvrit Sra
Zoltan Szabo
Isabel Valera
Yisong Yue

ICML 2019 Call for Post-Conference Workshops

Fri June 14th and Sat June 15th, Long Beach Convention Center, USA

Following the ICML 2019 main conference, workshops will be held on Fri June 14th and Sat June 15th. We invite researchers interested in chairing one of these workshops to submit proposals. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including coordinating workshop participation and content, publicizing and providing the program in a timely manner and moderating the program throughout the workshop.

ICML also solicits proposals for affinity workshops. The format and aims of these workshops should be described by the workshop organisers, following for instance the template set out by similar workshops that took place at NeurIPS in 2018 (WiML, Black in AI, LatinX in AI, Queer in AI). Affinity workshop proposals should be emailed directly to icml-2019-workshops@googlegroups.com with the subject line "Affinity workshop: [name of workshop]". The deadline for affinity workshop proposals is Jan 31, 2019. Decisions on acceptance for affinity workshops will be made in a  committee appointed by the ICML board (https://icml.cc/Conferences/2018/Board).

Workshops

The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss emerging research questions and challenges. Workshops will last for one day, with morning and afternoon sessions and free time between the sessions for individual exchange. To encourage workshop variety, all workshops will be one-day workshops.

The workshops can be on any subject relevant to an appreciable fraction of the ICML community. Schedules should encourage lively debates, and topics should lean more towards exploring new ideas, open problems, and  interdisciplinary areas, compared with the main conference. Workshops should encourage contributed content and reserve a significant portion of time for open discussion/panel discussion and posters. A diverse group of speakers is more likely to bring diverse and surprising viewpoints on a topic. As a result, we encourage workshop organizers to be cognizant of designing panels and speaker lists that are inclusive.

Below, we include the criteria by which workshop submissions will be evaluated:

  1. Fit for ICML (connections to rest of program and past workshops)
  2. Potential impact (promising topic)
  3. Novelty and originality (emerging topic)
  4. Quality of the abstract & clarity of purpose
  5. Confirmed invited speakers with sufficient coverage of the topic
  6. Organizers' relevant expertise (please avoid excessive  self-promotion)
  7. Organizers & speakers diversity
  8. Room for contributed work (posters and contributed talks)
  9. Open discussion/panel

Submission Instructions

Workshops submissions will be made through easychair. Please follow the URL below and check the required format for the application well before the proposal deadline. You may submit and update your application online right up until this deadline.

Important dates for workshop and symposia submissions:

  • Workshop Application Deadline: Jan 31, 2019
  • Workshop Notification: Feb  20, 2019

Interested parties must submit a proposal by Jan 31 2019 23:59 PM GMT. Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL:

(please use the same email address at easy chair and at ICML.cc)

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icml2019workshops

ICML does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. The organizers of each accepted workshop can name four individuals per day of the workshop to receive complimentary workshop registrations.  In the event the conference sells out, each workshop will be given a number of guaranteed registrations for the workshop contributors, so please let us know in the application how many registrations you anticipate you will need.

Proposals should be two pages long in single column A4 or letter format, with font size 11 or greater, excluding organiser contact details/CVs and bibliographic references.

Submission format

Proposals should clearly specify the following:

  • Workshop title
  • A brief description of the topics to be covered, and an explanation as to why the workshop will appeal to ICML audiences
  • A short description and rough timetable of the planned activities (talks, posters, panels)
  • List of invited speakers, specifying who is confirmed and who is unconfirmed.
  • A description of the history of the workshop (if it previously took place then when/where)
  • Similar past and current events at ICML and NeurIPS in the last 1-2 years, even if not organised by the present workshop organisers. New workshops are welcome to build on prior workshops, if a good case is made; completely original workshops are also welcome.
  • A list of organizers with email addresses, web page URLs, pointers to Google Scholar or other similar citation service pages, and a one-paragraph bio for each organizer, describing research expertise, and previous experience organizing scientific meetings.

 

Arthur Gretton and Honglak Lee
icml-2019-workshops@googlegroups.com
ICML 2019 Workshop Chairs