Connectionists: [Meetings] Call for Workshops | Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) 2024

[Juxi Leitner]

+ Call for Workshops +

We invite proposals for full and half-day workshops and tutorials to
take place in conjunction with the “Robotics: Science and Systems”
(RSS) 2024 conference.
Proposals should be submitted by February 16, 2024, 23:59 AOE
via Google Forms: https://forms.gle/aG55LpD6UxbxDrCt6

The conference, including its workshops and tutorials, is planned as
an in-person event. Please contact the workshop chairs
(c.pek at tudelft.nl and katsu.yamane at gmail.com) for any clarifications.


For more information keep reading and check the webpage at:
https://roboticsconference.org/information/cfw/

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Call for Workshops

The RSS workshops and tutorials provide high-quality,
topically-focused forums for researchers at the forefront of robotics.
They will take place at the Technical University of Delft in Delft,
Netherlands, on Monday July 15 and Friday July 19, 2024.

Workshops are intended to supplement the research presented in the
main proceedings. Tutorials should support researchers new to the
field in quickly gaining the necessary skills and knowledge. We are
encouraging events that will promote discussion and interaction among
the participants. We will prioritize proposals with high educational
value, interest and relevance.

Specifically, we welcome:

+ Proposals with a diverse set of confirmed speakers as well as with a
plan for active participation of the audience (e.g., submissions for
posters/presentations, discussion sessions, interactive hands-on
tutorials, etc.).

+ We encourage organizers to consider, among others, diversity of
presenters in terms of: i) Seniority and academic rank (beyond senior
researchers, you could invite senior PhD students and postdocs whose
work you appreciate), ii) Gender, iii) Race and ethnicity, iv)
Geographic location, v) Professional backgrounds (e.g., industry,
government, and academia).

+ Innovative event structures that will encourage discussion and
interaction among the participants. Previous examples include
structured debates or groupings of senior and junior researchers for
brainstorming new research directions.

+ Proposals that will encourage the participation of communities that
have not traditionally participated at RSS but are relevant to
robotics science and systems, or the practice and philosophy of the
discipline.

+ Tutorials focusing on tools commonly used in work presented at RSS
or showcasing new libraries, which the community can leverage.

+ Workshops that will encourage analysis and reflection on topics and
issues, which formulate challenging problems and that promote
discussion, debates, and long-term vision. This includes workshops on
ideas that may be important for the field but may be poorly treated by
the formal peer-review process.


Workshop proposers should indicate to invited speakers that they
should not accept to participate in more than 2 workshops or
tutorials. Organizers should explicitly remind and verify this
recommendation with the invited speakers.

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Submissions

We expect proposals to be approximately 2-3 pages in length, and no
more than 5 pages. The proposal template can be found at this link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E6idp_ihl2WJNBJPWQRsIxCWpvw4ki4ptteoPdanD2g/edit?usp=sharing

Workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted here:
https://forms.gle/aG55LpD6UxbxDrCt6

Please contact the workshop chairs (c.pek at tudelft.nl and
katsu.yamane at gmail.com) for any clarifications.


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Important Dates

February 16, 2024, 11:59 pm AoE: Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline
March 22, 2024: Workshop Proposal Acceptance Notification
late March/early April 2024: RSS Workshop Organisers Meeting (virtual)
July 15th and July 19th, 2024Workshops Dates

Please check the conference website as well as the conference’s social
media accounts for more information.



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Juxi Leitner

Senior Lecturer  |  Monash University  |
http://www.monash.edu/engineering/robotics
CTO / Co-founder  |  LYRO Robotics  |  http://www.lyro.ai