August 27, 2020
The Third Annual WID Symposium — and first virtual WID Symposium — features lightning talks, a poster session, and community building for WIDites. This event is integral to being a WIDite, so please make your attendance a top priority and encourage your colleagues to do the same.
Note that you will not be able to access symposium sessions if you have not RSVP’d for the event. Log in with your UW Google Suite credentials in order to complete this form. If you are logged into another Google account, you will be unable to access the form.
Virtual Tools – This year’s symposium will use a variety of virtual meeting tools; you may wish to make yourself familiar with these tools ahead of the symposium:
- Zoom – Plenary sessions and lightning talks will take place within Zoom’s virtual meeting software.
- Congregate – Break room discussions, the closing activity, and the poster session will take place in Congregate’s online meeting space.
- Slack – The #widsymposium channel on WID’s Slack will be available throughout the symposium. Click here to join.
- Google Docs – Some activities will use Google Docs to facilitate discussion and collect ideas.
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SYMposium Schedule:
WIDites are expected to attend the program in its entirety.
10:00 am CDT | Welcome & WID Updates WID Director Jo Handelsman Zoom: WID Symposium |
10:45 | Lightning Talks: Session I Zoom: WID SymposiumEach speaker will have three minutes to talk about their group’s work or a particular project in the most compelling and informative way possible. After three minutes, the moderator will pose one question from the chat for the speaker to answer. Then the next talk will begin. Save the rest of your questions for the break room, chat, or email follow-up. Melissa Schoenlein Michael Ferris Katie Mueller Rui Chen Silvia Di Gregorio Xuehua Zhong |
11:15 | Poster Session Congregate: WID Symposium Poster Session |
12:30 pm | Break (Lunch) Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room (optional discussion space) |
1:15 | Lightning Talks: Session II Zoom: WID Symposium Zhen Peng Blake Mason Claudia Solís-Lemus Gavin Knight Ross Tredinnick Coral Wille |
1:45 | Break Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room |
2:00 | Lightning Talks: Session III Zoom: WID Symposium Jon Eckhardt Daniel Pimentel-Alarcón Yiming Qin Stefanie Glas Amanda Hurley |
2:30 | Break Congregate: WID Symposium Break Room |
3:00 | Lightning Talks: Session IV Zoom: WID Symposium Kirin Hong Brittany Baur John Yin Yuyuan Wang Jeff Linderoth Stephen Wright |
3:30 | Closing & WID Trivia Congregate: WID Trivia |
4:00 | End of program |