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EPIC Advance Fall 2024
Zoom Session
October 8th, 2024 - Tuesday
Morning
8am Breakfast
9am Intro
9.10 AM - 9.35 AM - JD (on integrating programming and natural language with LLMs)
9.35 AM - 10.00 AM - Chase (on writing as a design tool in visualization)
10:00 AM -11:00 AM - Joseph Gonzalez Keynote (on the future of data-centric computation with LLMs)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM - Sep (on lightweight finetuning for retrieval for RAG pipelines)
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM - Madelon (on retrieving tables for RAG)
11.50 AM - 12.15 AM - Eric (on improving the computational notebook paradigm)
Afternoon
12:15 PM- 1:35 PM- Lunch (Woz)
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM - Shreya (on an agentic framework for complex document processing)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - David Barstow Keynote (on data meets journalism)
3.00 PM - 3.10 PM - Break
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM - Liana (on semantic queries over tables of structured and unstructured data)
3.35 PM - 4.00 PM - Sora (on building human-in-the-loop data transformation tools)
4:00 PM - 6:00 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.
7:00 PM - Dinner