Welcome to our free one-day workshop for celebrating women studying and working in computing! Alice & Eve aims to bring together talents in the field of computing. The fifth edition of this workshop will be hosted on 25 October 2024 by the Leiden University.
Alice and Eve event is inspired by the BCS Lovelace Colloquium that started in 2008. For more details about earlier editions of Alice & Eve, see the websites of 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The event is held during a single day, and features:
Join us, and participate to our poster contest on the topic of your choice!
Alice & Eve will take place on October 25th, 2024.
The workshop will be held at PLNT, Leiden.
The registration is free and includes coffee breaks, lunch and drinks. We welcome everyone of all genders, from bachelor students to full professors, to attend the event.
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Opening |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Talk: Suzan Verberne (Leiden University) - The role of truth in Large Language Models |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Talk: Niki van Steen (Leiden University)- Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Identifying the Dimensions that Matter |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Talk: Anna Sperotto (University of Twente) - Title |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Talk: Gabriele Keller (University of Utrecht) - A pragmatic approach to verified compilation |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Exhibition |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Computing in Industry: Lightning Talks |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Talk: Katja Tuma (Vrije University Amsterdam) - Gender in Security Decision Making: Research and Impact |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Talk: Anna Wilbik (University of Maastricht) - Federated learning – a hype or a trend? |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Poster Awards |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Panel: Ethics in Computing: How can we design algorithms that are more fair, transparent and explainable? speakers: Francien Deshesne (Leiden University), Christine Utz (Radboud University), Hugo Jonker (Open University) |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Goodbye Drinks |
We are thrilled to announce the Alice & Eve 2024 poster contest with exciting prizes awaiting the winners! We invite all female students (Bachelor/Master/PhD) and early career researchers of computing and related subjects (in the broadest sense) to submit a poster.
To enter the poster contest, please write a half-page abstract (word limit for abstract is set to 250 words) on the topic of your poster and submit it by 1 October 2024 through EasyChair
Your poster can be on any computing topic you like: from social networking to quantum computing and from medical image processing to formal verification. If it involves computers, we are interested. We welcome you to reuse any existing/published work or poster, no need to print it again.
Notifications will be sent out by 11 October 2024. Selected participants are expected to bring the poster (up to size A0 portrait or A1 landscape) described by their abstract with them to Leiden to present during the poster session. At the end of the day, prizes will be awarded for the winning posters in each category.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We look forward to seeing you in Leiden!
In addition to the keynote talks and the posters, there will be an exhibition which portrays thirty women in computing and their most important contributions.
Some highlights of the exhibition:
More information can be found at the exhibition booklet.
Fantastic coding games and media - which include videos and podcasts related to women in computing - are also offered.
We have invited some inspiring women working on the cutting edge of computing. Confirmed speakers include:
Katja Tuma, Assistant professor at VU Amsterdam
In 2021 I joined the Foundational and Experimental Security research group as Assistant Professor (Universitair docent 2) and am working at the Department of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the Computer Systems group. I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, which I completed at the University of Gothenburg. I am an active member of EUGAIN (WG3: From Ph.D. to Professor), and diversity co-officer for CSE department at the VU.
Anna Sperotto, Associate professor at U Twente
I am an Associate Professor at the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente. My research interests lays in the field of Internet Security and Internet measurements. On Octber 14, 2010, I defended my thesis “Flow-based Intrusion Detection”, at the University of Twente.
Gabriele Keller, Professor at U Utrecht
My main research interests are functional programming, type systems, high-performance computing, and programming language based approaches to verification. I’m also interested in teaching of functional programming, and have co-authored the (still incomplete) Learning Haskell Tutorial together with Manuel Chakravarty.
Anna Wilbik, Professor at U Maastricht
I am a researcher who aims at bridging the gap between the meaning of data and human understanding in complex application environments, where data can be of various natures. I am also an academic teacher and mentor, who believes that students learn most, when they are given responsibility and freedom in their learning process. I believe in an international orientation in research and teaching and a balance between academic, curiosity-driven research and industrial, problem-oriented research.
Niki van Stein, Assistant professor U Leiden
Dr. Niki van Stein is a researcher, heading the XAI group, which is part of the Natural Computing Cluster of LIACS, and manager of the applied data science lab. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Leiden University in 2018. Niki’s research interest are in eXplainable AI for automated machine learning, global (Bayesian) optimization and neural architecture search. She mostly works on research with direct applications in industry, such as predictive maintenance, car and ship design optimization and schedule optimization.
Suzan Verberne, Professor at U Leiden
I am a researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR). My research focus is text mining and information retrieval in specific domains. I am a Full Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). I am group leader of Text Mining and Retrieval Leiden. My vision is that domain-specific challenges can enable breakthroughs in computer science; more specifically in my fields NLP and IR. I currently supervise projects that develop and evaluate NLP and retrieval methods in a diversity of domains. I am work package leader for two H2020 projects and project co-leader of an NWA project. My group works on novel methods for representation learning, ranking, and information extraction. We work with a large diversity of textual data: archaeological reports, patents, scientific and legal publications, health records, newspaper texts, user-generated content in online patient communities (discussion forums), and posts on social media.
During the conference, there will be the possibility for attendees to advertise open positions in their university/company. Furthermore, participants looking for jobs are also welcome to post their credentials and type of job/internship they are looking for. Job postings are under the following rules:
Details regarding the advisory committee will update soon.
Details regarding the steering committee will update soon.
Alice and Eve is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers. Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. If someone makes you or anyone else feel unsafe or unwelcome, please report it as soon as possible by contacting us ether in person or via email. This Code of Conduct was adapted from the Geek Feminism Wiki anti-harassment policy.
We are currently looking for sponsors. Contact Eleftheria Makri for more information and a discussion on how your organization could support the 5th Alice and Eve workshop.
For questions regarding the workshop, please contact the organizers!