November 2024 - Sanghani-faculty

IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2024)
by blmicale＠vt.edu 25 Nov '24

25 Nov '24

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Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS)
by blmicale＠vt.edu 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

I've invited you to fill out the following form: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurlPS) To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxghfMMx_1Z8cxqgnXKzAEnohdXvkg0VX… Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IDCM)
by blmicale＠vt.edu 22 Nov '24

22 Nov '24

I've invited you to fill out the following form: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IDCM) To fill it out, visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePpBJiKzeFa9Zrv5MybAd2wFaQ2vgk4s6… Google Forms: Create and analyze surveys.

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Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - Friday, Nov. 22 at 12 pm
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

Hi All, Our next faculty meeting is scheduled for Friday, November 22 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them to our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events, etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, Sept. 20. Those of you in Blacksburg will be meeting in D&DS 337. Those of us in the D.C. area will be connecting via Zoom. Below is the Zoom information. Join Zoom Meeting Https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89087118458<https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89087118458> Meeting ID: 890 8711 8458 --- One tap mobile +16469313860,,89087118458# US +19294362866,,89087118458# US (New York) --- Dial by your location • +1 646 931 3860 US • +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) • +1 305 224 1968 US • +1 309 205 3325 US • +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) • +1 360 209 5623 US • +1 386 347 5053 US • +1 507 473 4847 US • +1 564 217 2000 US • +1 669 444 9171 US • +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) • +1 689 278 1000 US • +1 719 359 4580 US • +1 253 205 0468 US • +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) • +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) Thanks, Wanawsha Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations UrbComp Program Coordinator Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: (571) 858-3361 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu>

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FW: LDC November Special License Agreements
by Brian Mayer 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

FYI From: Penn LDC <ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2024 4:30 PM To: Penn LDC <ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu> Subject: LDC November Special License Agreements Dear Member, This month LDC is releasing two data sets, one of which require a Special License Agreement (attached): LDC2024S12, Samrómur Synthetic. It was developed by the Language and Voice Lab, Reykjavik University, in cooperation with Almannarómur, the Center for Language Technology. The corpus contains 72 hours of Icelandic synthetic speech from 220 speakers representing 62,700 utterances. Please sign the Agreement that applies to your organization, either FP (For-Profit) or NFP (Not-for-Profit). Please let me know if you have any further questions. Best regards, Taylor Membership Office Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu <mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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OSP/My Office Updates
by Newberry, Joyce 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hello, the holiday season is approaching and here's the OSP schedule for Thanksgiving and my office schedule: Thanksgiving: VT will be closed from noon on 11/27/24 (Wed) through 11/29/24 (Fri) and will reopen on 12/2/24 (Mon). Please have all proposals due during this time to OSP and ready to submit by 9:00 am on 11/26/24 (Tues). I will be out of the office on the following days: 11/27/2024 (Wed - all day), 12/06/2024 (Fri - all day), 12/09/2024 (Mon - all day), 12/11/2024 (Wed - from 8a-12noon) and 12/23/2024 (Mon - all day). If you have proposals due around those days, I will make sure everything is done before leaving for the Winter Break. OSP schedule for Winter Break will be available in the first week in December. I will keep you posted on the details. Regards, Joyce I. Newberry, MBA Grant Administrator Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech 900 North Glebe Road Arlington, VA 22203 Email: joyce15(a)vt.edu Out of Office: Wednesday, November 27th (all day) Friday, December 6th (all day) Monday, December 9th (all day) Wednesday, December 11th (8a-12noon) Monday, December 23rd (all day) [cid:01089677-5a1d-4b00-a638-ad5613160409]

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AI meeting in ROA for state proposal
by Brian Mayer 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

The presidents of both UVA and VT would like us (i.e. faculty from resp institutions) to collaborate on a state-wide proposal to get some seed funding that could eventually blossom into something like CCI. There is an AI conference happening in Roanoke at Hotel Roanoke <https://www.hotelroanoke.com/> next week that several UVA faculty will attend. They'd like to use this as an opportunity to get together and discuss collaboration opportunities. Everyone is welcome to attend the conference https://www.rbtc.tech/event/disrupt-up-ai-conference/ <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rbtc. tech%2Fevent%2Fdisrupt-up-ai-conference%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C 8f1d808b79a344fa319b08dcfec7b90f%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0% 7C638665381006101113%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2l uMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=m8n47BgQyBpWLCYYrJqA% 2FErd7c7HO6UR4lFr1ONVD9w%3D&reserved=0> https://member.rbtc.tech/events/disrupt-up#agenda <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmember.rb tc.tech%2Fevents%2Fdisrupt-up%23agenda&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C8f1d 808b79a344fa319b08dcfec7b90f%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C63 8665381006121998%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzI iLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=JGVVFBHjYaxRc07hKCFl38jHy XQWSnuTdYE2Y71FtHA%3D&reserved=0> But you can also just come to the Happy Hour event we are having with the UVA faculty at 5pm on Thursday Nov 14. Please let me know if you can attend. We'd like to send as many people as possible to have good representation and position ourselves nicely for the expected proposal (and already know some folks are unavailable). Thanks, Brian

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Sanghani Travel Fund
by Naren Ramakrishnan 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Sanghani Colleagues, As you know we recently launched our Sanghani travel fund program to support students in their conference travels. The program has been quite successful - too successful in fact :-) that we have run out of budget for this current season, so we are pausing this program for a few months. The fund will be replenished in March, so we will be able to support travels again beginning in April 2025. We can discuss this further at our next Sanghani faculty meeting but wanted to bring this to your attention. (You can still submit requests for travel beginning >= April 2025 but expect a response by March.) We can discuss policies to ensure that funds are available throughout the year to support different conf venues and how we can increase the impact of this program across our student community. Thanks - pl let me know if you have any questions. Best, Naren

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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
by blmicale＠vt.edu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

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FW: Reminder: ARC Town Hall Meeting (Hybrid) - Friday, November 1st, 3:00 PM
by Brian Mayer 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

I know many of you have gotten this already but want to make sure you don't miss it as I imagine many of you will be interested. -Brian From: Ghazanfari, Sarah <sarahghazanfari(a)vt.edu <mailto:sarahghazanfari@vt.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 10:07 AM To: arc.principal_investigators(a)groups.vt.edu <mailto:arc.principal_investigators@groups.vt.edu> Subject: Reminder: ARC Town Hall Meeting (Hybrid) - Friday, November 1st, 3:00 PM Dear ARC Faculty Users, This is a reminder for our upcoming ARC Town Hall Meeting, where we'll discuss recent updates and future plans for ARC resources and services. This meeting offers a valuable chance to connect with the ARC team, share feedback, and discuss your research needs for computational resources. The meeting will be held in a hybrid format. You are welcome to join us either in person or via Zoom <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvirginiat ech.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89046412063&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C4fc1a07991384 077403908dcf9ab18ec%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C63865976045 8751634%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6 Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PvcCsUHimbbSjUrHuN1d0Votjma00mAZRZ db6%2FyRXuU%3D&reserved=0> . Please see the details below: Event Details: * Date: Friday, November 1st * Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM * Location: Newman Library, 207A Classroom or via Zoom Zoom Link: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/89046412063 <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvirginiat ech.zoom.us%2Fj%2F89046412063&data=05%7C02%7Cmayer2%40vt.edu%7C4fc1a07991384 077403908dcf9ab18ec%7C6095688410ad40fa863d4f32c1e3a37a%7C0%7C0%7C63865976045 8776521%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6 Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dU9iPicT52ddQ23M9ZcmwJ8eAMWNp8BPyc pdbPqn9M8%3D&reserved=0> Meeting ID: 890 4641 2063 Topics for this meeting: * ARC cluster status and timelines: Tinkercliffs reprovisioning, Owl released, Falcon in final testing * FY25 GPU purchase options: Nvidia H200 vs. AMD MI300X * SuperComputing 2024 conference To encourage ongoing collaboration, we plan to host these town hall discussions regularly throughout the academic year. Your input is invaluable in guiding ARC's decisions on hardware acquisitions and service offerings to better support the computational needs of our faculty. We look forward to seeing you on Friday and to hearing your insights! Best regards, Advanced Research Computing Virginia Tech -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "COE System Administrators Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coesysadmins-g+unsubscribe(a)vt.edu <mailto:coesysadmins-g+unsubscribe@vt.edu> . To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/msgid/coesysadmins-g/DS0PR05MB9679F36C9 A61B83D6794DCE4BD552%40DS0PR05MB9679.namprd05.prod.outlook.com.

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