====== EPIC Advance Fall 2024 ======


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===Zoom Session===
zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/s/98710465440

  * Meeting ID: 	987 1046 5440
  * Passcode: 	781432

===== October 8th, 2024 - Tuesday =====
==== Morning  ====

  * 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
  * 9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Intro Talk
  * 9:10 AM - 9:35 AM: Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space //(J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:epic-24-beyondcodegeneration.pdf |Slides}}
  * 9:35 AM - 10:00 AM: Writing as a Tool in Visualization Design //(Chase Stokes)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:epic-24-writing_as_a_tool.pdf |Slides}}
  * 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: On Data Meets Journalism - Keynote Talk //(David Barstow)//
  * 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM:NUDGE: Lightweight Non-Parametric Fine-Tuning of Embeddings for Retrieval //(Sepanta Zeighami)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:nudge_epic.pdf |Slides}}
  * 11:25 AM - 11:50 AM:LOTUS: Enabling Bulk Semantic Processing with LLMs //(Liana Patel)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:lotus_epicretreat_10-7-24.pdf |Slides}}
  * 11:50 AM - 12:15 PM:Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: The Critical Missing Piece for Grounding LLM-Powered Query Interfaces in Domain-Specific Data //(Madelon Hulsebos)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:epic-24-retrievalsystemsforstructureddata.pdf |Slides}}

==== Afternoon  ====

  * 12:15 PM - 1:35 PM:	Lunch
  * 1:35 PM - 2:00 PM: Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational Notebooks //(Eric Rawn)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:epic-24-pagebreaks.pdf |Slides}}
  * 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: On The Future Of Data-Centric Computation With LLMs - Keynote Talk //(Joseph Gonzalez)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:joeys_group_epic_talk.pdf |Slides}}
  * 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM:  Break
  * 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM:  On Building Human-In-The-Loop Data Transformation Tools //(Sora Kanosue)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:epic-24-hilt_epic_slides.pdf |Slides}}
  * 3:35 PM - 4:00 PM: Complex Document Processing with DocETL: An Agent-Based Query Rewriting and Evaluation System //(Shreya Shankar)// {{ :retreats:2024fall:docetl-epic-2024.pdf |Slides}}
  * 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Poster Session + light refreshments (Soda 5th floor atrium); on topics including reverse-engineering structure from PDFs, LLM-powered data discovery, demonstration/output-based program synthesis, low-resource languages, explanations for auto-generated programs.
  * 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner at Comal Restaurant