From giovanna.guerrero-medina at yale.edu Mon Jun 3 12:34:15 2024 From: giovanna.guerrero-medina at yale.edu (Guerrero-Medina, Giovanna) Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:34:15 +0000 Subject: [WTI-trainee] Position Opening: Yale Ciencia Initiative Research Associate Message-ID: I?m happy to announce an opening for a Research Associate within the Yale Ciencia Initiative team, which is part of Yale School of Medicine?s Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Yale School of Medicine. The new colleague will work closely with me to design, lead, and promote scholarly learning about programs that improve the diversity of the scientific workforce and contribute to more inclusive environments! It's a great position for a recent PhD looking to transition into a career directing academic programs. Past research associates have gone on to more advanced administrative leadership positions. 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If you have not already, please go to the following link to cast your vote: https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5fnLqMBTZOzVR4 Trainees who accepted their nominations will be listed as candidates. If your name does not appear on the ballot when you think it should have, or if you have other questions, please email us at wti.spc at yale.edu and copy Leah Harmon (leah.harmon at yale.edu) and Liz Knapp (liz.knapp at yale.edu). Elections will remain open until Monday, June 24, at 11:59 pm ET. Thank you for your participation! Best, WTI Student & Postdoc Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wti.spc at yale.edu Thu Jun 20 21:29:44 2024 From: wti.spc at yale.edu (Wu Tsai Institute Student and Postdoc Committee) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 01:29:44 +0000 Subject: [WTI-trainee] [WTI SPC Elections] Cast your votes! Message-ID: Hi everyone, A reminder that we are having elections for the 2024-2025 WTI Student & Postdoc Committee Governing Body. If you have not already, please go to the following link to cast your vote: https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5fnLqMBTZOzVR4 Trainees who accepted their nominations will be listed as candidates. If your name does not appear on the ballot when you think it should have, or if you have other questions, please email us at wti.spc at yale.edu and copy Leah Harmon (leah.harmon at yale.edu) and Liz Knapp (liz.knapp at yale.edu). Elections will remain open until Monday, June 24, at 11:59 pm ET. Thank you for your participation! Best, WTI Student & Postdoc Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can find the reading list below and access the PDFs on Google Drive . - *6/26/24: Why Can?t We Say What Cognition Is (at least for the time being) - M. Facchin* - 7/10/24: Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation - R. Balestriero et al. - 7/17/24: A Theory for Emergence of Complex Skills in Language Models - S. Arora & A. Goyal - 7/24/24: Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? - R. Schaeffer et al. - 7/31/24: Making a Mind Versus Modeling the Brain: Artificial Intelligence - Back at the Branchpoint - H. Dreyfus & S. Dreyfus - 8/7/24: Scaling Monosemanticity: Extracting Interpretable Features from Claude 3 Sonnet - Templeton et al. - 8/14/24: On the Measure of Intelligence - F. Chollet (*Challenge Day*) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: