June 2016 - Planning-inf - mailman.kcl.ac.uk

Planning group meeting
by Daniele Magazzeni 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Dear all, ICAPS-16 will start in less than one month! :) We are sure it will be a fantastic event, and for this we need the help of everyone in the team. We thought that it's a good idea to have a planning group meeting to discuss local arrangements for the summer school and the conference, given that most of us are actually in the local arrangements committee. The meeting will be on Tuesday 17th at 4.30pm (also to allow Sara to join us). Sorry for the short notice, I hope many of us will be able to attend. Best, Dan -- Dr Daniele Magazzeni Lecturer Department of Informatics King's College London Office S6.19 Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1587 Twitter: @danmagazzeni http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/danmag

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Planning Meetings for the Next Two Weeks and General News
by Amanda Coles 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Hi All, Just a quick update on meetings this week and next. - Tomorrow Tanja will do a practice run of the talk she will give at the Cardiff Argumentation Forum next week, usual time and place. - Next week I will do my IJCAI early career spotlight talk (in an effort to get me to be orgnised and make the slides early!). However, I can't make the usual time, so I'd like to propose Friday the 8th at 13:30 (location TBC). Could you let me know ASAP if you have any problems with making this time, so that we can consider other options if necessary, and book a room. - The following week Dan, Andrew, Liz and I will all be away at IJCAI so if you all want to arrange to meet that week, feel free to go ahead (free biscuits are available!). Also don't forget our ICAPS celebratory dinner which will be next Monday (July 4th) venue to be confirmed. And finally, some good news! Andrew, Derek and I have heard today that our EU project ERGO has been funded, this is a 2-and-a-bit year project in collaboration with Malte's group at Basel and various space tech companies in the UK and Europe working on software for autonomous space robotics. See you all tomorrow, Amanda -- Dr Amanda Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics King's College London Room: S6.17 http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/amanda/

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Adding publications to PURE
by Andrew Coles 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Dear all, A friendly reminder that our research group's publications need to be added to PURE, the college's publications database: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/portal/index.aspx Yes, it is tedious to have to manually update a list of publications, but if we do not update the list in a timely manner, it may prejudice our ability to attract research funding -- for some purposes, to count as published, our papers need to be freely available through the college website. You can get all the details from DBLP, just copy-and-paste them across - you need the title, authors, and the link to the PDF of the work on the AAAI website: http://dblp2.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aips/icaps2016 Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Fwd: ICAPS 2016
by Savas, Okkes 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Hello, Here is a list of questions that we will all remember: 1. Do you have spare consent forms? 2. Can you cover my slot? I will get you a coffee. 3. Who is at the reception? 4. How do you switch the camcorder on/off? 5. When is the coffee break? 6. Did you get all the teabags/cookies? Remarkable moments/phrases/people etc: The white box (aka the magic box) Protecting the coffee table from King's Learning Institute people (the pastry predators) KCL-tech extension cables Captain Cyan (printing company) Standard Satin Pret A Manger Sort/merge nametags 6:30am (or earlier) alarms Stiff poster boards and the tiny pins Expense forms Wheeler Latte K0.20 Montage song ICAPS Rota Twitter Diamond Something Award (jealous :) ) The dancing beauties: Bram and Stefan Oaty/ chocolate chip/ fruity Andrew's exhausted cat gif. Eros #ICAPS16London My favourite short conversations: 1) Claudio: (speaking in Italian to me for 15 seconds) Emre: in English, please. 2) Dan: Tell me only one sentence: "Everything is fine" :) Us: Everything is fine Have a planningless weekend! :) Emre On 17 Jun 2016, at 15:52, Fox, Maria <maria.fox(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:maria.fox@kcl.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi everyone, Just wanted to say what an amazing job you did running this conference. It has been a fantastic group effort! Everything seemed to go smoothly - no-one noticed the firefighting that you were all doing in the background <OutlookEmoji-😉.png> Anyway, a fantastic conference (and the most fun banquet I've been to in years), so well done everyone. Maria Professor Maria Fox Department of Informatics Kings College London Strand London WC2R 2LS _______________________________________________ Planning-inf mailing list Planning-inf(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:Planning-inf@kcl.ac.uk> https://mailman.kcl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/planning-inf

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ICAPS 2016
by Fox, Maria 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Hi everyone, Just wanted to say what an amazing job you did running this conference. It has been a fantastic group effort! Everything seemed to go smoothly - no-one noticed the firefighting that you were all doing in the background [😉] Anyway, a fantastic conference (and the most fun banquet I've been to in years), so well done everyone. Maria Professor Maria Fox Department of Informatics Kings College London Strand London WC2R 2LS

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It's Friday, Friday
by Andrew Coles 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

(It appears we 'got down' one day early.) The rooms are different today. We have: - the Great Hall for the invited talk, 'a' sessions and closing remarks - K1.28 for 'b' sessions - the King's Building entrance for coffee breaks As with Thursday, I've thinned out the rota to just have one person on in each room. One person for the great hall camera operation; one person for K1.28 in case of AV problems etc. Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Extra banquet guest sales
by Andrew Coles 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Patrik Haslum Jason Gregory -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Thursday
by Andrew Coles 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Hi all, Today could have been terrible - the invited talk over-ran, the projector in the great hall didn't work, the monitor screws were wrong, the monitor cables were wrong, the demo chairs took too many poster boards, ... But, it wasn't! We've had so much good feedback about how well things have gone. Here's the update before Thursday, sent -- as is traditional -- after midnight: i) Camcorder Safra is locked, so I can't install the camera before the invited talk in the morning. I'll set it up on the tripod at the back of K0.20, plugged in to charge. It can go (with the legs not extended) on the balcony of Safra in the middle. ii) Invited speaker Actually I met Susanne today and gave her her bag. She knows what she's doing, and Stefan Edelkamp is all ready to session chair. Tanja, can you operate the camcorder? (You are of course welcome to talk to Susanne and Stefan if you want.) iii) Reg desk People will want guest tickets. Here's the list of confirmed: Attendee : +1 for Chris Beck Attendee : +1 for Pedro Santana Attendee : +1 for Claudio Salvatore De Mutiis Attendee : +1 for Alexander Shleyfman Attendee : +1 for Federico Comitani Attendee : Aylin Savas Attendee : +1 for Mark Roberts Attendee : +2 for Mark Roberts Attendee : +1 for Davide Venturelli Attendee : +1 for Steve Smith If any of the above come for a ticket, go ahead and write them one on the blank banquet ticket paper (pale green card, says 'guest banquet ticket'). If anyone else asks for tickets tell them to email me a request. I'll make final decisions on numbers by midday. iv) Session helpers I've thinned the rota down. One person in each room is enough. In the Great Hall, operate the camcorder. In Safra, just be generally present in case anything hits the fan. iv) Bought-in help I've hired an assistant for the day. She'll be covering the desk during the best paper session (that we really shouldn't miss), and otherwise being generally helpful. v) I'm getting some sleep I'll not be around before talks start tomorrow. I've put all the signage up now - apart from moving the tripod we're good to go. Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Before Tuesday
by Andrew Coles 14 Jun '16

14 Jun '16

Hi all, Today went so well! Tomorrow should be much easier - most people have registered and know what they're doing, and PlanRob is on the ground floor in K0.20 rather than being upstairs. We'll need to encourage people to make better use of both coffee rooms, as most of the events are around K0.19. This should be easy, as our registration desk is in K0.19. I have the tutorial camera in my office and will bring it down when I arrive to S-1.22. Highlights after the main activities for the day: - At 17:30: * If you are in a session, and there are KCL Tech extension cords in use, please collect these and bring to K0.19 * After the tutorial in K0.20, we need to move our stuff from K0.17 and K0.19 to K0.20, as we don't have those rooms on Wednesday--Friday. (K0.20 is our registration and quiet room on those days: catering goes to the great hall.) - At 18:40: meet by the King's Building main entrance. Forecast is heavy showers, so we'll meet indoors. See you then, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Midday update
by Andrew Coles 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

So far, nothing has set on fire! Two points of note: - As I mentioned this morning, people only get a bag/umbrella/programme if they have registered for the conference. Please do not give out programmes to people who have not registered, as given the number of on-site registrations we are getting, there is a very real risk we will run out; which looks bad when on-site reg is £600. Roughly how many programmes were given out to non-registrants? - There is spare tea, coffee, juice, food in K0.31. Go help yourself. Most people seem to be going to K0.19, there's a lot of spare food in K0.31. I'll reiterate to the PlanRob chairs that they should send people to K0.31 not K0.19. Thanks, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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