DISC 2020

MoPS Sessions

Meet other Postdocs and Students

What is This?

One of the best aspects of a conference is the chance to meet your peers. Pre-COVID this was simple enough, but it has become a tad difficult in this time of virtual conferences. To address this, we’re organizing Meet other Postdocs & Students (MoPS) sessions which allow you to get to know others in the area. Just think of it like a conversation during the banquet dinner, only held online.

This is organized in association with the 34th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2020).

Have some Feedback?

If you have any feedback you'd like to give us, please enter it here:

https://forms.gle/fCENg9Djo3JmSYsh7

We'd love to know how to improve your experience and any suggestions you may have are welcome. Even if you'd just like to share how you felt about the experience, we'd love to hear from you.

How does it Work?

  1. We release a survey on September 28th, 2020 asking you for some basic info and asking you when you want to attend a MoPS session and if you want to attend more than one.

  2. Fill out the survey by October 5th, 2020 at 23:59, AoE.

  3. We will email you by October 9th, 2020 to let you know when your session(s) is and provide a Zoom link to the session.

  4. Join the Zoom session 10 minutes before your session begins.

  5. Meet other people and have fun!

For the second set of dates (Oct. 17th and 18th), we've released a second survey. The procedure to register for those dates is as follows:

  1. We release a survey on October 11th, 2020 asking you for some basic info and asking you when you want to attend a MoPS session and if you want to attend more than one.

  2. Fill out the survey by October 14th, 2020 at 23:59, Berlin time (GMT +2).

  3. We will email you by October 16th, 2020 to let you know when your session(s) is and provide a Zoom link to the session.

  4. Join the Zoom session 10 minutes before your session begins.

  5. Meet other people and have fun!

Where do I Register?

You may register for MoPS and/or the Junior-Senior meetings by filling out the following survey by Oct. 5th, 2020 at 23:59 AoE:

https://forms.gle/ZyaxFmhYm9u5LYwd8

The registration for the first set of dates (Oct. 10th, 11th, and 13th) is closed.

You may register for MoPS sessions on Oct. 17th & 18th by filling out the following survey by October 14th, 2020 at 23:59, Berlin time (GMT +2):
https://forms.gle/LEmi19sMWVR4E5w36

The registration for the second set of dates (Oct. 17th and 18th) is closed.

When is it?

All times are in Central European Summer Time = CEST = Berlin time = UTC+02:00.

October 10th, 2020

  • 15:00 – 16:00

  • 18:00 – 19:00

October 11th, 2020

  • 15:00 – 16:00

  • 18:00 – 19:00

October 13th, 2020 (note the different timings)

  • 14:00 – 15:00

  • 19:30 – 20:30

October 17th, 2020

  • 15:00 – 16:00

  • 18:00 – 19:00

October 18th, 2020

  • 15:00 – 16:00

  • 18:00 – 19:00

Icebreaker Questions

Below are a few questions you can ask and answer to help get the sessions started.

  1. What’s your area of research? What are you working on?

  2. What are your general interests & hobbies?

  3. What do you hope to get out of this MoPS session?

  4. Is there any big problem you’re interested in solving? Why?

  5. <Can be asked to someone senior to you> What considerations do I have to take into account if I want to pursue an X (Masters, PhD, Postdoc)?

  6. How do you stay motivated?

  7. How many projects do you handle at a time? How do you split your time between them?

  8. How do you stay productive? (In general and specifically during COVID)

Organizing Committee

William K. Moses Jr. (General Chair) - Technion, Israel

Manish Kumar (Publicity Chair) - Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Shreyas Pai (Virtual Chair) - University of Iowa, USA

Mouna Safir (Organization Chair) - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

Shir Cohen (member) - Technion, Israel