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New Year's 2025 Special Issue
Table of Contents:
Contribute to NSF AI Stories
Save the Date for SAIL 2025: October 21-23 in Reston, VA
NSF OAC Office Hours Start Friday, January 17, 2025
NAIRR Pilot Workshop
AI-SDM Summer Workshop for High School Educators: Apply by January 24
AIVO Communications Office Hours Start January 24
Events in the AI Institutes Community
Contribute to NSF AI Stories
The AI Institutes have a unique opportunity to contribute to NSF outreach!
The NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs is interested in covering stories about the outcomes of NSF-funded activities (including partially NSF-funded work) — including AI research, public outreach, education, and workforce development efforts. They’re particularly interested in featuring breaking news.
All the Ag Institutes are welcome to flag AI stories to NSF, as well.
Announcing your news through NSF’s channels is a great way to amplify press releases and your other communications endeavors.
They’re especially interested in learning about newsworthy research when it’s submitted to a publication, so that all the NSF outreach resources available can be applied. NSF and AIVO will strictly adhere to publication embargo restrictions.
How to contribute
As part of this program, AIVO is collecting the names of Institutes’ media/press contacts. The names and email addresses of your Institute’s media contacts will be posted on the AIVO website and shared directly with NSF public affairs staff when press opportunities arise. Since reporters are often on deadline when they reach out, it’s extremely helpful to have a list of Institute press contacts at the ready.
Please add the names and email addresses of your press contacts to the AI Institute Comms and Education Contacts spreadsheet. Thanks to the Institutes who have already provided their contacts!
We’re also collecting the names and email addresses of Institutes’ education contacts in the AI Institute Comms and Education Contacts spreadsheet, as part of our work for the Google.org grant. Read more about our Google.org grant in the December issue of AIVO News.
Commemorating the last 75 years of NSF investment
NSF is particularly engaged this year as they commemorate the last 75 years of NSF investment. They’re looking forward to what innovations and discoveries the next 75 years of investment may bring. Happy 75th anniversary to NSF!
Resources
- Learn how you can work with your media office to help commemorate NSF’s anniversary in the Public Information Officer toolkit.
- Access logos for NSF’s 75th anniversary: https://nsf.widencollective.com/portals/agilbske/NSF75thAnniversary
- Access images of various types of research: https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/
If you have any suggestions for NSF AI stories, especially successes in the realms of research and workforce development, please share them with us at aivo@ucdavis.edu. Our team will coordinate with NSF on story topics.
Save the Date for SAIL 2025: October 21–23 in Reston, VA
Mark your calendar for the next Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) conference!
We hope to see all of you there. Stay tuned for more details and registration information.
October 21–23, 2025
Hyatt Regency Reston
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190
As a reminder, we’re decoupling Expo Day from SAIL.
NSF OAC Office Hours Start Friday, January 17, 2025
Every other Friday, noon to 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time
NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) Concierge Team is hosting virtual office hours for the AI Institutes. Drop in to the office hours to discover how you can leverage cyberinfrastructure resources made available to U.S.-based researchers at no cost.
The sessions will feature offerings from the NSF-funded Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program, the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot, and the NSF-funded CloudBank resource.
Registration is now open for these sessions:
- January 17, noon to 1:30 p.m. EST
- January 31, noon to 1:30 p.m. EST
- February 14, noon to 1:30 p.m. EST
- February 28, noon to 1:30 p.m. EST
- March 14, noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT
- March 28, noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT
Learn about the opportunities available to you and get your questions answered by experts on the various initiatives. Register now!
More about cyberinfrastructure resources
- Review the ACCESS flyer for details on the program.
- Visit the NAIRR Pilot page on the NSF website.
- Visit the CloudBank website.
NAIRR Pilot Workshop
Advance your AI skills and collaboration in higher education! The AI Unlocked: Empowering Higher Education through Research and Discovery workshop is designed for individuals across all disciplines and career stages in higher education.
Hosted by the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot User Experience Working Group, the workshop offers an introduction to AI fundamentals, hands-on experience with pre-configured AI tasks, and guidance for tailoring AI models to your projects.
April 2–3, 2025
The Westin Denver Downtown
Denver, CO
Registration is open to researchers, students, faculty, and practitioners, especially those from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), this workshop provides access to cutting-edge computational resources and expertise.
Travel support is provided, and virtual options are available.
Apply now via the AI Unlocked page. Applications close January 31, 2025.
AI-SDM Summer Workshop for High School Educators:
Apply by January 24
AI-SDM is empowering high school educators to prepare their students for the future! There’s still time to apply for the workshop. The application deadline was extended to January 24, 2025.
For the second year in a row, AI-SDM is hosting a workshop to help educators become AI-empowered. The five-day virtual session will be held July 7–11, 2025, 12:00–3:00 p.m. EDT. There are no requirements for participants to have a prior coding, computer science, or AI background.
Interested high school educators can apply on the AI-SDM website. Applications should be submitted early as space is limited.
Accepted applicants will be notified by January 31, 2025.
AIVO Communications Office Hours Start January 24
Attend the inaugural AIVO Communications Office Hours next week!
Here’s why you should attend:
- Find out how to get a feature article placed in AIVO News or on the AIVO website
- Get advice on your messaging for feature articles and press releases
- Request a review of your draft communications
- Get help drafting a communications plan
- Request writing or editing support for your Institute’s communications
- Ask a communications-related question
Calendar invitations will be sent upon request to aivo@ucdavis.edu.
Monthly Schedule – Winter & Spring 2025
- Friday, January 24, 2025, 10:00–11:00 a.m. PST / 1:00–2:00 p.m. EST
- Friday, February 21, 2025, 10:00–11:00 a.m. PST / 1:00–2:00 p.m. EST
- Friday, March 21, 2025, 10:00–11:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT
- Friday, April 18, 2025, 10:00–11:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT
- Friday, May 16, 2025, 10:00–11:00 a.m. PDT / 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT
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Events in the AI Institutes Community
- ICICLE Open House
January 21, 2025 | 1:00–7:00 p.m.
San Diego, CA - AI-ALOE Webinar: Introducing the National Tutoring Observatory
January 22, 2025 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Zoom - TILOS Seminar: Unlearnable Facts Cause Hallucinations in Pretrained Language Models
January 29, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Zoom - TRAILS Conference – AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
February 3–4, 2025
Washington, D.C. - USDA’s 101st Agricultural Outlook Forum
February 27–28, 2025
Hybrid Event | Arlington, VA - CosmicAI Inaugural Conference – The Cosmic Horizons: AI-Powered Insights into the Universe
May 6–8, 2025
Austin, TX
Visit the AIVO website for details and registration links: https://aiinstitutes.org/events/.