Section 2.1 Update for Friday's BLIS Retreat
Thursday Sept. 30, 2021
Folks, We are in the home stretch getting ready for Friday. Some comments: All information is at https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/BLISRetreat2021 - Information about the zoom link is at https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/BLISRetreat2021/subsection-2.html - The BLIS Retreat is meant to be relatively unstructured. This exhibits itself in a number of ways: o We have scheduled sessions, but not strict times within sessions. This leaves a lot of time for discussion and some flexibility to the speakers. o Some speakers have been more timely with their materials than others. Some “hot off the press” results are still coming in. Thus, not all videos and related materials are up yet. o If you did not sign up to be a speaker, you should feel free to have a few slides ready to present during the various discussion periods and/or at the end of the program. - The rules are that everyone watch the three minute ‘short videos’ ahead of time. Some will then go through the additional materials so that we can have a healthy discussion. Given how much time is being saved by the format we have chosen, please take the time to do your homework. The videos are posted in the sessions. You can navigate through all contributions by just forwarding from page to page. Regarding text discussions: - Please use the Zoom chat to communicate regarding an ongoing talk. e- Please use the BLIS Discord server (retreat thread) for side discussions. For information regarding the BLIS Discord server see https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/BLISRetreat2021/Discord.html - We did not build in a lunch break since people are in different time zones. The assumption is that people will take their break while monitoring the retreat. I will try to eventually put up recordings of the sessions, checking with people who are recorded to make sure they are ok with the material being shared. If you have questions, please send me e-mail at rvdg@cs.utexas.edu. Robert