Program

8:00am - 8:30am: Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30am - 9:30am: Opening Keynote Talk by Prof. Chris Fletcher:

Title: New Directions in Computer Architecture

Abstract: Agentic coding has radically transformed the world in the past 6 months. The pace only seems to be accelerating. In this talk I will argue how this change is making NOW the most exciting time to start in Computer Architecture. I will first overview my experience using these tools, based on my attempts to push the technology as hard as I can for the past several months. I will then describe a series of problems previously out of reach of graduate students that are now, possibly, within reach (by graduate students, or even undergraduates). I will conclude with comments about the future.

Chris is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, he spent six wonderful years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has broad interests ranging from Computer Architecture to Security to High-Performance Computing (ranging from theory to practice). If you are also interested in these things, please reach out and say hi. He would love to chat with you.

9:30am -10:00am: Around the Room Introductions

10:00 -10:30am: Break

10:30am -11:15am: Panel 1: "Life in Grad School"

Mariam Elgamal

Harvard University

Deepanjali Mishra

Carnegie Mellon University

Avinash Kumar

University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Wong

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:15am - 12:00pm: Panel 2: "Life After Grad School"

Martha Barker

Emory University

August Ning

EPFL

Moumita Dey

AMD

Jovan Stojkovic

University of Texas at Austin

12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lunch

1:30am - 2:30pm: Panel 3: "Applying to Grad School"

Sandhya Dwarkadas

University of Virginia

Abdulrahman Mahmoud

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of AI

Bahar Asgari

University of Maryland, College Park

Akshitha Sriraman

Carnegie Mellon University

Matt Sinclair

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:30pm - 3:30pm: Panel 4: "Impact of AI on Higher Education & Computer Architecture"

Elba Garza

University of Washington

Vijay Janapa Reddi

Harvard University

Kelly Shaw

Williams College

Joel Emer

MIT

Callie Hao

Georgia Tech

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Office Hours

Meet professors in small groups: Introduce yourself, get to know them, and ask your questions in a small group setting. Participants and professors rotate, encouraging many great interactions.

5:30pm - 5:45pm: Group Picture and Closing Remarks

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