Saturday, May 6, 2023
ARC 241 at UIC
9am – 1:30pm
Synopsis
The workshop will be a half-day event and have an audience of research faculty, graduate students, high school teachers, and educators (and anyone else who wants to come!). The program will consist of three talks on current research topics in Data Science and Machine Learning, talks introducing local mathematics programs Math Circles of Chicago, MAPSCorps, and the Young Scholars Program at UIC; and a panel discussion. Breakfast and lunch will be served and there will be plenty of time for meeting new people.
The goals of the workshop are:
- Introduce math / science / computing educators, students, researchers in the Chicago area to each other.
- Give high school teachers some high level ideas of the concepts of data science and machine learning that they can use in the classroom or to motivate students 3
- Give anyone interested in teaching or reaching high school students information and ideas about how to engage, motivate, and connect with students
- Inform participants about programs like Math Circles of Chicago, MAPSCorps, and the YSP at UIC so they might get involved in the future.
Registration:
- Registration is free but required; we will be serving breakfast and lunch to participants so we need an accurate headcount; please register here: https://forms.gle/1mzvxfikuw1egzvj6
Schedule
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome, Coffee & Breakfast
9:30 – 9:55 Avrim Blum (TTIC): “Markov Chains: (some of the) math behind Google and ChatGPT”
10:00 – 10:25 Nati Srebro (TTIC): “”Language Models: From Shannon to GPT”
10:30 – 10:40 Doug O’Rourk: “Math Circles of Chicago”
10:40 – 11:00 Sara Rezvi (MC2) “Choosing the Path of Wandering”
11:20 – 11:40 Amelia Pompilio & Nick Christo: YSP at UIC
11:45 – 12:10 Matthew Walter (TTIC): “Duckietown: An Accessible Platform for Robotics Education”
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:10 JaCoya Thompson: Introduction to MAPSCorps
1:10 – 1:40 MAPSCorps, YSP, and MC2 Teacher panel
Organizers
Doug O’Rourk (Math Circles of Chicago), Will Perkins (Georgia Tech), Lev Reyzin (UIC), Haifeng Xu (UChicago)