Program
Meeting Program
Meeting Agenda
8:45-9:30 Sign-in/name tags, breakfast
9:30-10:00 Introduction, call for speakers, order of talks, queueing up first session
10:00-12:00 First session of talks
12:00-1:15 Lunch break (enjoy the Farmer's Market)
1:15-3:00 Second session of talks
3:00-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-5:00 Third session of talks
5:00-5:15 Conference traditions, closing (conference poems and award winners listed below)
5:45-?? Dinner, drinks (location TBD, walking distance from our meeting location)
List of Speakers
Daniel Venn
Javier Almonacid
Avleen Kaur
Kshitij Patil
Cheng Zhen
Brandin Farris
Mordecai Ohemeng
Daniel Shapero
Bala Krishnamoorthy
Tyler Fara
Nicholas Fisher
Austen Nelson
Ralph Showalter
Praveeni Mathangadeera
Gabriel Pinochet Soto
Karan Bains
Zachary Fendler
Bruno Jedynak
Fabiana Ferracina
Tamara Gratcheva
Safa Mote
Rick Barnard
Jay Gopalakrishnan
Guosheng Fu
Michael Neunteufel
Nicholas Slugg
Jeffrey Ovall
Bin Jiang
Li Zhu
Awards
Longest title: Nick Fisher (more than 120 letters/symbols)
Shortest title: Bruno Jedynak (20 letters/symbols)
Honorable mention: Jay Gopalakrishnan (21 letters/symbols)
Furthest distance travelled to meeting: Guosheng Fu (from Indiana)
Honorable mention: Mordecai Ohemeng (12 hour bus ride from Idaho)
Most time spent on a single slide: Jay Gopalakrishnan (slide 2)
Most slides (meaningfully) covered: Gabriel Pinochet-Soto (26 out of 27)
Honorable mention: Kshitij Patel (25 out of 27)
Smallest ratio of slides meaningfully covered to total number of slides: Tyler Fara
Honorable mention: Bin Jiang
Sharpest dressed: Safa Mote (CEO-level attire)
Coolest slides (style and content): Daniel Shapero
Most RAIN meetings attended: Ralph Showalter (all eight)
Honorable mention: Jeff Ovall (also all eight, but Ralph wins)
Most egregious abuse of power to win an award: Jeff Ovall
Meeting Poem
(Credit to Jeff Ovall)
After four years of drought,
closed off from the RAIN,
It is good to be back in the saddle (point) again.
It was not clear when RAIN would
next see the light of day,
but where there's a Will, there's a way.
[We were rather Stokes'ed about that.]
Should we reconvene next year?
Schur; y_0?