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zoom link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/s/98710465440

• Meeting ID: 987 1046 5440
• Passcode: 781432

*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)

*9:35 AM - 10:00 AM: Writing as a Tool in Visualization Design (Chase Stokes)

*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)

*11:25 AM - 11:50 AM:LOTUS: Enabling Bulk Semantic Processing with LLMs (Liana Patel)

*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)

• 12:15 PM- 1:35 PM- Lunch (Wozniak Lounge)
• 1:35 PM - 2:00 PM - Eric Rawn, “Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational Notebooks”
• 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Joseph Gonzalez-Keynote (on the future of data-centric computation with LLMs)
• 3.00 PM - 3.10 PM - Break
• 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM - Shreya Shankar, “Complex Document Processing with DocETL: An Agent-Based Query Rewriting and Evaluation System”
• * 3.35 PM - 4.00 PM - Sora Kanosue, “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.
• 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner at Comal Restaurant