Envisioning Artificial Intelligence at Yale

This discipline-spanning event responds to the vision of the Yale Task Force on AI by bringing together faculty, staff, students, and guests to promote innovation and thought leadership in artificial intelligence and to foster interdisciplinary collaborations through a wide-ranging array of research, scholarship, and art.

Preliminary Schedule

8:30 - 9:00AM | Registration & Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15AM | Opening Remarks, Scott Strobel, Provost

9:15 - 9:45AM | Keynote

9:45 -10:00AM | Coffee Break

10:00AM - 4:00PM | Exhibits and Resource Tables

10:00 - 10:45AM | Concurrent Session 1

• Training Models Strategically - Complexity, Reinforcement, and Correction (panel)
• Advanced Image Processing and Interpretation (panel)
• Brains: Applications in neuroscience and beyond (panel)
• Poster Summit 1 - Humanities, Social Sciences & the Arts
• Imaginative Visions of the Past, the Future, and Mars (demonstrations and performances)

10:45 - 11:00AM | Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:15PM | Concurrent Session 2

• Ethical AI: from Philosophy to Practice (lightning talks)
• Teaching & Learning 1: Interdisciplinary Pedgagogy and Visions of AI Across the Curriculum (lightning talks)
• Integrating Complex Datasets (lightning talks)
• Poster Summit 2 - LLMs: Development, Application & Evaluation
• Multimodal Applications from Math, Music, and Medicine (lightning talks)
• AI for Workflow and Efficiency (Demonstrations)

12:15 - 1:30PM | Themed Luncheons

• Flex Lunch
• Poster Browsing
• Yale Ventures Networking Lunch
• AI Infrastructures Lunch and Learn
• Planetary Solutions Networking Lunch
• AI Seed Grants and Team Formation Networking Lunch
• Dealing with Data: Privacy, Security, and Best Practices for Development and Deployment of AI, Lunch and Learn

1:30 - 2:15PM | Concurrent Session 3

• The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence (lightning talks)
• Prioritizing Privacy in AI Development (lightning talks)
• Environmental and Climate Research Use Cases (lightning talks)
• Poster Summit 3 - Medicine and Health Sciences
• Language Acquisition - Human and Machine Approaches (panel)
• Teaching & Learning 2: Writing Pedagogy (round table)
• Quantum Visions for AI (panel)

2:15 - 2:30PM | Coffee Break

2:30 - 3:45PM | Concurrent Session 4

• Critical Cultural Contexts: Social Aspects of Language and LLMs (lightning talks)
• LLMs: Technical Problems and Solutions (lightning talks) & Networking
• Engineering Research Seed Grants Showcase
• Evaluation Methods for AI Models (lightning talks)
• Poster Summit 4 - Science, Engineering, and Math
• Teaching & Learning 3: Course Case Studies and Teaching Tactics (lightning talks)

3:45 - 4:00PM | Coffee Break

4:00 - 4:45PM | Keynote Performance: I AM ALAN TURING, musical performance with talkback

4:45 - 5:00PM | Closing Remarks

5:00 - 6:30PM | Reception: AI at Yale Celebrating Climate Day – joint session with Yale Climate Day Spring Symposium