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Envisioning AI at Yale: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

May 9, 8:30-5pm

Kline Tower

This discipline-spanning event responds to the vision of the Yale Task Force on AI by bringing together faculty, staff, students, and guests to promote innovation and thought leadership in artificial intelligence and to foster interdisciplinary collaborations through a wide-ranging array of research, scholarship, and art.

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Preliminary Schedule

8:30-9:00am   Registration & Breakfast

9:00-9:15am   Opening Remarks

9:15-9:45am   Finding Reliable Information on AI

9:45-10:00am  Coffee Break

10:00am-4:00pm Exhibits and Resource Tables

10:00-10:45am   Concurrent Session 1

  • Training Models Strategically - Complexity, Reinforcement, and Correction (panel)
  • Advanced Image Processing and Interpretation (panel)
  • Brains: Applications in neuroscience and beyond (lightning talks)
  • Poster Summit 1 - Humanities, Social Sciences & the Arts
  • Imaginative Visions of the Past, the Future, and Mars (demonstrations and performances)

10:45-11:00am   Coffee Break

11:00-12:15pm   Concurrent Session 2

  • Ethical AI: from Philosophy to Practice (lightning talks)
  • Teaching & Learning 1: Interdisciplinary Pedgagogy and Visions of AI Across the Curriculum (lightning talks)
  • Integrating Complex Datasets (lightning talks)
  • Poster Summit 2 - LLMs: Development, Application & Evaluation
  • Multimodal Applications from Math, Music, and Medicine (lightning talks)
  • AI for Workflow and Efficiency (Demonstrations)

12:15-1:30pm   Themed Luncheons

  • Flex Lunch
  • Poster Browsing
  • Yale Ventures Networking Lunch
  • AI Infrastructures Lunch and Learn
  • Planetary Solutions Networking Lunch
  • AI Seed Grants and Team Formation Networking Lunch
  • Dealing with Data:  Privacy, Security, and Best Practices for Development and Deployment of AI, Lunch and Learn

1:30-2:15pm   Concurrent Session 3 

  • The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence (lightning talks)
  • Prioritizing Privacy in AI Development (lightning talks)
  • Environmental and Climate Research Use Cases (lightning talks)
  • Poster Summit 3 - Medicine and Health Sciences
  • LLMs: Language Acquisition, Social Reasoning, and Evaluation (panel)
  • Teaching & Learning 2: Writing Pedagogy (round table)
  • Quantum Visions for AI (panel)

2:15-2:30pm   Coffee Break

2:30-3:45pm   Concurrent Session 4

  • Critical Cultural Contexts: Social Aspects of Language and LLMs (lightning talks)
  • LLMs: Technical Problems and Solutions (lightning talks) & Networking
  • Engineering Research Seed Grants Showcase
  • Evaluation Methods for AI Models (lightning talks)
  • Poster Summit 4 - Science, Engineering, and Math
  • Teaching & Learning 3: Course Case Studies and Teaching Tactics (lightning talks)

3:45-4:00pm   Coffee Break

4:00-4:45pm   Keynote Performance: I AM ALAN TURING, musical performance and talkback

  • Matthew Suttor, Senior Instructor, Composer, and Program Manager CCAM

4:45-5:00pm Closing Remarks

5:00-6:30pm   Reception: AI at Yale Celebrating Climate Day – joint session with Yale Climate Day Spring Symposium

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Symposium Call for Proposals (Closed)

We welcome proposals for lightening talks, posters, panel entries, art, performances, demonstrations, and resource tables on artificial intelligence including, but not limited to innovations, applications and implications of machine learning and generative AI in the following thematic areas:

Imaging and Imagination – From satellite data to MRI imaging, how can AI help us see at new scales and recognize patterns?  How can advances in AI imaging help solve big problems like health, climate change, and resource management (water, energy, minerals)?  How might AI’s powerful capabilities to generate images be used in fields like engineering, architecture, and the arts for purposes like accelerating design and expression?      

Reading and Understanding – How might technologies like natural language processing and LLMs mean for understanding large qualitative data sets?  What might new modes of reading, interpreting, and analyzing mean for disciplines like the social sciences, language studies, medicine, and nursing?   

Oversight & Ethics – How do we use AI responsibly?  How do we design AIs to behave ethically?  Who should be responsible for guardrails, policy, environmental impacts, etc.? How are emerging AIs impacting areas like management, law, intellectual property, education, religion, public health policy, environment, and governance?

Critical Lenses – What does AI reflect back about human culture?  How can lenses like critical computing, disability studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies and more help us understand issues like bias or confabulations?  What legacies, social constructs, and infrastructures can we better understand by confrontation with artificial others?

Visions of the Future – What is the future of AI? Do you have new visions for cutting edge research in areas like algorithms, hardware, or energy use?   How do we lead in times of change?  Creative, experimental, and innovative approaches to the future of AI could come from areas like computer science, the humanities, leadership studies, fine arts, and performance arts among others.   

Session Formats

Session Type Submission Requires Format Details
Lightning Talks 150-250 word abstract 5 Minutes, slide decks encouraged
Posters and Digital Art 150-250 word abstract Will be displayed on 48in LED screens 
Art Installations
  • 150-250 word abstract about the work;
  • Additional field for describing logistics needs for installation 
Be sure to specify spatial dimensions of the work.   
Panel entries 150-250 word abstract 15 minutes each.  You propose a paper or presentation.  We will organize interdisciplinary panels.
Performances and Demonstrations
  • 150-250 word abstract about the work;
  • Additional field for describing logistics needs for installation
15 minutes, be sure to specify space needs
Resource Tables 
  • 50-150 words abstract
  • Additional field available to list table staff and logistics needs 
Table will be provided

Submissions

Eligibility

Yale faculty, staff, and students

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline for presenters:  Monday, March 31, 2025
  • Notification date: Monday, April 14, 2025*
    • *Poster submissions will have rolling acceptance and early submissions may receive early notification.
  • Poster upload deadline: Wednesday, April 24, 2025
  • Registration Deadline for attendees: Wednesday, April 30, 2025  
  • Symposium date: Friday, May 9, 2025 

Contact

Connie Steel, Program Manager AI Initiatives, Office of the Provost, connie.steel@yale.edu