Course Syllabus
The plan for this semester is as following: the first week I will briefly introduce what is automatic differentiation and why do we want to differentiate programs. We will also spend some time to know each other. In the following weeks, we will have students present and discuss related work in the area. Since we have 9 weeks and around 20 people, we will take the following format (inspired by the "role-playing seminar" people did at UNC & U of Toronto https://colinraffel.com/blog/role-playing-seminar.html (Links to an external site.)): for each week, a group of 2-3 students will examine a paper/article in detail and present their opinions. The class will start with a brief summarization of the article from the group (but all of the class are expected to have at least skimmed through the article). One or two students will play the "reviewer" role, who will assess the importance of the paper and attempt to find flaws in it. The rest will play the "rebutter" role (imagine you are writing a rebuttal to the reviewers) to respond to the reviewer's criticism -- how we could potentially address the flaws either by improving the article or doing future research. Others in the class are expected to join the conversation and post a question on the Discord channel beforehand (see below for the link).
Regarding units: let's do 2 units if you ever present a paper in the class.
The class is being held at Center Hall 218
Before the end of the first day of the class (9/29), please do the following:
1. Please sign up for a time slot at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gu2WE37koU0j-bM-hXP7kRz1cHOPYxtjZgv1ZeL51N8/edit?usp=sharing (Links to an external site.) You don't have to decide for what to present/read yet, but feel free to put something there (it doesn't need to be in the reading material). We can talk with the class to decide what to read in the subsequent weeks.
2. Join the Discord server here https://discord.gg/PQCxeZpQrT (Links to an external site.) and briefly introduce yourself: tell us your background, research interests, and what do you want to learn from this reading group. This will make deciding what to read for each week much easier. You are also encouraged to post meme pictures.
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