Description

The Emerging Researchers in ALife (ERA) are the student chapter of the International Society for Artificial Life. We target emerging researchers, providing opportunities to interact with each other, develop professionally, and contribute to the broader artificial life community.

This workshop will be held as part of the (virtual) 2022 Conference on Artificial Life. The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for emerging researchers to meet, share their work, and network. Additionally, there will be an ERA-sponsored social event outside of conference hours, offering a space to have fun and socialize within the broader conference.

We give an inclusive definition of “emerging researchers”: anybody seeing themselves as such fits into the category. These mostly include, but are not limited to, PhD students, Post-Doc researchers, independent researchers, and undergraduates.

Schedule

Workshop

General information about the ERA (10-15 minutes)
- A brief informative session about ERA, discussions of events and activities emerging researchers would like to see organized by the group, and a request for nominations for 2022-2023 ERA chairs.
Invited talk by the 2022 Outstanding Student Paper Award recipient (30 minutes with questions)
- A talk from the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Student Paper award. Pending timely nomination from ISAL.
Research lightning talks (30-45 minutes)
- Short presentations (5-10 minutes each, followed by questions). Speakers introduce themselves and their research activity; topics include, but are not limited to, anything falling within the scope of the broader conference. The goal is to put the spotlight on the speaker and to spread awareness about their research activity—at any stage of development.

Academic karaoke (30-40 minutes)
- An entertaining social activity. Participants prove their banter skills by improvising a presentation on top of a (random) ALife-related slideshow. The slideshow is a salad bowl of material presented at the broader conference. Last year’s academic karaoke featured participants making unexpected connections across ALife’s many disciplines, as well as much laughter.

Registration

Sign up for a research lightning talk or to participate in academic karaoke by emailing us at pigozzife@gmail.com

You do not need to commit to a topic for your lightning talk in order to sign up. If you do know what you’d like to talk about, however, we’ll post the topic/description here.

Sign-ups are first-come, first-serve. We will be accepting sign-ups up until the time of the workshop or until all slots have been filled.

If you have any questions feel free to email us.

In order to attend the workshop, participants are not required to register or pay a fee. Just send us an email :)

Lightning talks

Time Slot	Speaker	Topic	Contact
0	Atoosa Parsa (University of Vermont)	Evolving computational granular metamaterials	Atoosa.Parsa@uvm.edu
1	Georgina Montserrat Reséndiz-Benhumea (UNAM)	Initial steps toward the development of minimal affectivity-in-collectivity (AiC) models under a 4E cognition perspective	gmontserb@comunidad.unam.mx
2	Fernando Rodriguez	Is phenomenological experience a cognitive phenomenon?	ferodriguezv@gmail.com
3	Stavros Anagnou (University of Hertfordshire)	Towards an emotional model of social norms	S.anagnou@herts.ac.uk
4	Sharon Minsuk (Indiana University)	Modeling morphogenesis with a new particle-based framework	sharon@sharonminsuk.com
5	You!	TBD	TBD

Academic Karaoke

Time Slot	Speaker
0	You!

Important Dates

ALife conference: July 18-22, 2022 (virtual)
Workshop: July 18, 14.00 - 15.30 CEST
Social event: July 21, 18.00 - 19.30 CEST

Organizers

Federico Pigozzi
Imran Khan
Abraham J. Leite

Acknowledgments

We thank the 2020-2021 board for providing the template for this page!