ICML 2021 Call for Workshops
Friday, July 23, and Saturday, July 24, online
Following the ICML 2021 main conference, workshops will be held on Friday, July
23rd, and Saturday, July 24th. We invite researchers interested in chairing one
of these workshops to submit proposals. Workshop organizers have several
responsibilities, including coordinating workshop participation and content,
publicizing and providing the program in a timely manner, and moderating the
program throughout the workshop.
ICML also solicits proposals for affinity workshops. The format and aims of
these workshops should be described by the workshop organizers, following, for
instance, the template set out by similar workshops (WiML, Black in AI, LatinX
in AI, Queer in AI, New in ML, {Dis}Ability in AI, Muslims in ML, Indigenous in
AI), at NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML (e.g., see https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/workshops).
The affinity workshops are typically held during the main conference or the day
before. Affinity workshop proposals should follow a similar format as regular
workshop proposals (see below) and should be emailed directly to
[email protected] with the subject line "Affinity workshop: [name of
workshop]." The deadline for affinity workshop proposals is Mar 05, 2021 11:59
PM AOE or .
Workshops
The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to
discuss emerging research questions and challenges. Workshops will last for one
day, with morning and afternoon sessions and free time between the sessions for
individual exchange. To encourage workshop variety, all workshops will be
one-day workshops.
The workshops can be on any subject relevant to an appreciable fraction of the
ICML community. Schedules should encourage lively debates, and topics should
lean more towards exploring new ideas, open problems, and interdisciplinary
areas, compared with the main conference. Workshops should encourage
contributed content and reserve a significant portion of time for open
discussion/panel discussion and posters. A diverse group of speakers is more
likely to bring diverse and surprising viewpoints on a topic. As a result, we
encourage workshop organizers to be cognizant of designing panels and speaker
lists that are inclusive.
Below, we include the criteria by which workshop submissions will be evaluated:
Fit for ICML (connections to rest of program and past workshops)
Potential impact (promising topic)
Novelty and originality (emerging topic)
Quality of the abstract & clarity of purpose
Confirmed invited speakers with sufficient coverage of the topic
Organizers' relevant expertise (please avoid excessive self-promotion)
Organizers & speakers diversity
Room for contributed work (posters and contributed talks)
Open discussion/panel
Submission Instructions
Workshops submissions will be made through CMT. Please follow the URL below and
check the required format for the application well before the proposal
deadline. You may submit and update your application online right up until this
deadline.
Important dates for workshop submissions:
Workshop Application Deadline: Mar 05, 2021 11:59 PM AOE or
Workshop Notification: Apr 02, 2021
* AOE = Anywhere On Earth
Proposals should be submitted electronically at the following URL (please use
the same email address that you use for ICML.cc):
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICMLWORKSHOPS2021
The organizers of each accepted workshop can name four individuals per day of
the workshop to receive complimentary workshop registrations. In the event the
conference sells out, each workshop will be given a number of guaranteed
registrations for the workshop contributors, so please let us know in the
application how many registrations you anticipate you will need.
Proposals should be two pages long in single column A4 or letter format, with
font size 11 or greater, excluding organizer contact details/CVs and
bibliographic references.
Submission format
Proposals should clearly specify the following:
Workshop title
A brief description of the topics to be covered, and an explanation as to why
the workshop will appeal to ICML audiences
A short description and rough timetable of the planned activities (talks,
posters, panels)
List of invited speakers, specifying who is confirmed and who is unconfirmed.
A description of the history of the workshop (if it previously took place, then
when/where)
Similar past and current events at ICML and NeurIPS in the last 1-2 years, even
if not organized by the present workshop organizers. New workshops are welcome
to build on prior workshops if a good case is made; completely original
workshops are also welcome.
A brief description of how you plan to make the workshop interactive (e.g.,
pre-recorded videos vs. live sessions) and how you plan to engage potential
attendees across the globe in vastly different time zones
A list of organizers with email addresses, web page URLs, pointers to Google
Scholar or other similar citation service pages, a one-paragraph bio for each
organizer, describing research expertise, and previous experience organizing
scientific meetings
Workshop review committee
ICML 2021 Workshop Chairs
[email protected]
Raman Arora (Johns Hopkins University)
Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University)
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