Connectionists: NeurIPS 2023 Call for Post-Conference Workshops

[Hsuan-Tien Lin]

Please check the formal document at
https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/CallForWorkshops and the guidance
link inside.

Following the NeurIPS 2023 main conference, workshops on a variety of
current topics will be held. We will provide more details in NeurIPS
2023 Guidance for Workshop Proposals.

We invite researchers interested in organizing 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.

Goals of NeurIPS Workshops

Workshops provide an informal, dynamic venue for in-person discussion
of work in progress and future directions. Good quality workshops have
helped to crystallize common problems and emerging scientific
paradigms, explicitly contrast competing frameworks, and clarify
essential questions for a subfield or application area. Workshops are
a structured means of bringing together people with common interests
to form communities. We expect the workshops, in their designated
formats, to include some form of community building, and stand apart
from other parts of the NeurIPS program, such as Tutorials or
Competitions.

For each workshop, approximately 7-9 hours of session contents are
expected, with considerable free time between the sessions for
individual exchange. NeurIPS will host only in-person workshops this
year, with full-stack technical support to broadcast the workshop to
the online audience.

Potential workshop topics range from Machine Learning, Neuroscience,
Reinforcement Learning, Computational Social Science & Economics,
Learning Theory, Robotics, Probabilistic Models and Inference,
Computer Vision, Speech, Natural Language Processing, Emerging
Applications for Machine Learning, and Societal Impacts of Artificial
Intelligence, as well as any other topic relevant to an appreciable
fraction of the NeurIPS community. Detailed descriptions of previous
workshops may be found in last year's online schedule.

Workshop schedules should encourage lively debates, stimulate the
production of new ideas and the discussion of controversial issues. To
this end, workshop proposals should be designed to attract a
medium-sized audience.

Every group considering submitting a workshop must read the NeurIPS
2023 Guidance for Workshop Proposals, which describes the philosophy
behind hosting workshops, formatting requirements, details of the
selection criteria and process, what is considered a conflict of
interest, and other frequently asked questions. We highly recommend
that each group utilize the provided template to draft their proposal.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should be submitted through an application using the
OpenReview system at
https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2023/Workshop_Proposals .

Important dates for workshop submissions:

Workshop Application Open: Apr 21, 2023 AOE

Workshop Application Deadline: May 31, 2023 11:59 PM AOE

Workshop Acceptance Notification: Jul 05, 2023 AOE

Suggested Submission Date for Workshop Contributions: Sep 29, 2023 AOE

Mandatory Accept/Reject Notification Date: Oct 27, 2023 AOE

The criteria and process by which proposals will be assessed are
described in the NeurIPS 2023 Guidance for Workshop Proposals.

Funding

NeurIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop organizers or
speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding
from external sources to bring in outside speakers. Some complementary
registration tickets (the exact number to be announced soon) will be
provided to each accepted workshop.

Hsuan-Tien, Ismini, Piotr and Yarin
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop Chairs
workshop-chairs at neurips.cc