Photos from the Event

DSI RETREAT 2023

 

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This year’s retreat will take place June 14-15 in C-HOTEL NEVE ILAN and is open for all DSI members and their graduate students.

We would like to remind you that:

1. The DSI retreat will take place 14-15.6.2023 – we hope to circulate agenda highlights and a draft schedule soon.
2. This year’s retreat will include research students – make sure to register them as well.
3. Registration deadline is 30.4.23 (see details below).
4. The winners of the DSI Outstanding Publication Award will be announced in the retreat – if your students have a recent publication make sure they apply.

Agenda

Agenda will include Scientific talks by the attendants (faculty and research students), a night excursion to Jerusalem and other social activities.

Tentative Agenda (May include last minute changes):

BIUDSIRetreatProgram – v1.1

Day I 

09:00:09:30 Arrival and Gathering at the hotel, Registration and Refreshments

09:30-10:00 Opening (Onn Shehory)

10:00-11:00 Gal Chechik. Text-conditioned image generation: Making it personal (60m)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session I (90m)

• Roni Ramon Gonen. Data mining applications [30m]
• Binyamin Knisbacher. Computational cancer genomics for precision medicine [30m]
• Michal Yemini. Resilience, trust and connectivity in distributed networks [30m]

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 Data Visualization Workshop (Hebrew)  – Hadas Shezaf (120m)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Session II (90m)

• Tom Tirer. Image Restoration Based on Data-Driven Priors [30m]
• Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern. ChiTaH: a Big Data tool to identify chimeric RNAs [15m]
• Eldar Shlomi. Zero-shot segmentation [15m]
• DSI Outstanding Publication Awards – winner announcements
• Royi Lachmy. “Draw Me a Flower: Processing and Grounding Abstraction in Natural Language” [15m]
• Omri Suissa. Around the GLOBE: Numerical Aggregation Question-Answering on Heterogeneous Genealogical Knowledge Graphs with Deep Neural Networks. [15m]

18:00-18:30 Break

18:30-19:30 Dinner

19:30-23:30 Tour in Jerusalem (meet in lobby for evening activity in Jerusalem)

Day II 

07:30-08:30 Breakfast

08:30-09:15 Generative AI Panel session

09:15-11:45 Tour of Neve Ilan Channel 2 Tv And Film Studios

11:45-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-12:45 Session III (45m)

• 12:00-12:15 Elana Golumbic. Decoding attention from the human brain [15m]
• 12:15-12:45 Yaron Orenstein. Deep learning in genomics [30m]

12:45-13:45 Ido Dagan.  Beyond End-to-End: Regaining transparency and control through Task and Representation Decomposition

13:45-14:45 Lunch

14:45-15:45 Jonathan Herzig, Google
Towards Attributed Language Models: How can we make large language models more faithful and useful?

15:45-16:00 Closing Session and Farewell

Registration details:

Send email to Ofir (ofir_m@ophirtours.co.il) specifying for each attendee: Full Name, email and choice accommodation (A-C)

1. Single in private room (750 NIS)
2. Single in shared double room (500 NIS)
3. Registration for retreat without accommodation (400 NIS)

Please note that the rooms and prices are guaranteed until April 30th, 2023.

Contact the DSI (dsi@biu.ac.il) for any further questions.

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Feedback and photos from last year’s event:

• Wonderful face to face meeting that made me better aware of the variety of exciting fields and researches that people conduct here.
• Great. Very interesting. I got to learn about the activities of DSI members.
• Great program, including the event and trip, great balance between short and longer talks.
• The Grantathon, Broad audience introductory talks and Social events were all great!