@astronomerritt I have seen #PostDocLife a lot.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a researcher who has just spent an entire week talking about her research and answering critical questions from others, must be in want of a week off so she can rewrite the entire paper. 😓

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Last week, I presented the work I did with prof. Kuldeep Meel and prof. Arunabha Sen at IJCAI 2023.

We showed the benefits of reducing a problem to a computationally harder problem (yes, you read that right!), by demonstrating how it allows us to solve much larger problem instances.

It was so much fun to finally share this work with so many fantastic researchers at IJCAI! Thank you to all organisers for making this conference possible. I'm also super grateful to the reviewers who gave us great feedback!

Please find our paper, slides, poster, a short video, and our open source tool, gismo, here: www.annalatour.nl/publication/2023-08-01-Solving-the-Identifying-Code-Set-Problem-with-Grouped-Independent-Support

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Excited to be presenting "Solving the Identifying Code Set Problem with Grouped Independent Support" at 11:45 in Almaty 6007 (CSO Constraint Programming session) today at IJCAI!

If you cannot make it to my presentation, no worries! You can check out the slides or my poster, or come talk to me during the poster session at the end of the day 🤓

paper: https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2023/0219.pdf

slides: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/slides/LatEtAl23-handout.pdf

poster: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latower/latower.github.io/master/files/posters/LatEtAl23.pdf

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Very much enjoyed today's poster session at IJCAI! I spent over two hours asking questions and discussing science with the various presenters, and still didn't have time to look at all the posters that I found interesting!

Scrolling through my phone pictures, I realise that I took way fewer pics of posters than I should have. Oh well. We still have a few days to go :)

Thanks to all presenters for the great work!

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Hi fellow academics! I was wondering if y'all can give me some feedback on the poster I am working on for IJCAI (https://ijcai-23.org/)? I'm playing a bit with the design and how to make it attractive.

I'm attaching two screenshots. My questions are about the big eye-catcher in the middle. If you have a minute, can you please let me know what you think?

1. Do you get the reference?
2. Does the effort to make the reference distract you?
3. Do you think that the text in the big pink box has NSFW vibes?
4. Does the text in the big pink box help to pique your interest in the poster?

Thanks!

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Submitted a manuscript* on my first working day after returning from holidays! 💪 Felt great about myself until I moved on to task 2 for the day, reading reviews on a (already heavily) revised manuscript... 😩 #PostDocLife

* For transparency, I should probably add that I had actually finished it before going away but wanted to re-read it with fresh eyes before submitting.

I fell on my way to work and now the left side of my body is covered in scrapes, cuts and bruises. Needed to record a video, though.

Struggled to record around the yelps, wooooos and drumrolls from the students who were playing something that I can only describe as "office chair soccer" right next to our office.

I'm calling this look "bruised Barbie, struggling to hold on to her sanity".

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Also: it was so nice of my coworkers to invite me along for their movie night! Being an academic, moving every few years to different continents and having to start over again each time... it gets lonely. These moments of inclusion are precious ❤️

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I baked a cake yesterday! It wasn't much: just a simple walnut-coffee cake, but collaborating on this little project with my coworker was *so much fun*!

I guess it made me realise how much I've missed baking. Haven't done it since moving to Singapore.

Of course, me being me, I have a million notes on what I would do better next time, but my coworkers were kind enough to say that it tasted nice ❤️

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Check out CP2023's Call for DEI scholarship: https://cp2023.a4cp.org/cfdei.html

Deadline: 31 July 2023

The scholarship is intended for early-career researchers who have historically been underrepresented, for instance in terms of geographical region, cultural background, gender identity, and disability.

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BREAKING!

The registration webpage for CP 2023 is live!

https://cp2023.a4cp.org/registration.html

We also have a page with accommodation information ready for you, so go find a hotel in Tdot!

https://cp2023.a4cp.org/hotels.html

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Congratulations to all the authors who had their papers accepted to CP 2023!

Many thanks to everyone who submitted their work, whether accepted or not, there wouldn't be a conference without you! ❤️

Also many thanks to all the (senior) program committee members! We very much appreciate all your hard work to review this year's submissions ❤️

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We have just updated our Visa Information page: https://cp2023.a4cp.org/visa-information.html

If you plan on attending CP 2023, please check if you need a visa or are eligible for eTA!

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Oh no, somebody save me: I have three exciting ideas for new research projects and two for brand-new courses I'd like to teach... And also half-a-dozen urgent deadlines for current projects... #PostDocLife

This week, I have read anonymous peer reviews describing my #AcademicWriting as:
- "garbled and ungrammatical"
- "not academic"
- "at times verbose and lacking in clear structure"
- "well-written"
- "clear and stylistically flawless"
#PostDocLife #MultiTalent 😅 😇

Brief outdoor celebration for having submitted a manuscript wifh major revisions and then on to the next urgent project! 🎉😎 #PostDocLife

True academic love is when your co-author who knows you have a deadline today sends you an e-mail with the subject line: "Read this tomorrow :)" 🤗💛 #AcademicLife #PostDocLife

Receiving an email with the words “accept with minor revisions” is a fine way to start the weekend! ☺️ Thank you to the two anonymous reviewers. I look forward to reading your comments next week! ☀️ #PostDocLife #AcademicChatter

I misread my colleague's handwriting to say that I should include "brownies" instead of "binaries", and now that I've found out what he actually meant, I am low-key disappointed.

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