Information for presenters
Stanford PhD/Postdoc presenters are asked to please:
- Send an email announcement
- No later than Sunday before the talk
- Include title, abstract and speaker bio
- Include time and place of the seminar (for any new members)
- Order snacks
- Bytes/Peet's/Coupa Cafe on campus have coffee and pastries (24 hour notice required)
- Grocery stores (such as Safeway) have cheaper and healthier options but require a bit more work.
- The budget is $50.
- For reimbursement please submit the receipts to Prachi in Gates 150.
- Prepare a presentation.
Depending on the type of meeting the presentation can be:
- An in-depth discussion of a topic, prepared by a student or a couple of students. For example, an
introduction to a technique and a discussion of a paper(s) that use that technique, a presentation of 1-3 papers grouped by a topic
or theme, or a tutorial on a certain topic. The presenter(s) will work with Fei-Fei Li and Silvio Savarese to select the topic, with
the goal being to choose themes which are of broad interest and are important to the Computer Vision community at Stanford.
- A series of shorter presentations by students around their latest discoveries in Computer Vision. These will be limited to 5-10
minutes per student, but all participants are expected to share one concrete cool tool or idea. For example it can be a software
package you discovered or an implementation trick you learned that may be useful, or a particular concrete idea you heard which may
not fit into a long presentation but might be worth sharing. We'll have one or two of these meetings per quarter, and you will be
expected to participate at least once.
- Students will occasionally be invited to talk about their own research projects. In contrast to group meetings, this will serve
to promote the finished project rather than discuss work-in-progress.
- Send a reminder email on the day of the presentation.
- Clean up snacks after the session is over.
Outside speakers please don't worry about anything other than your presentation. The meetings are usually 1-1.5 hours in length, so a 45 minute presentation with lots of time for questions usually works best. Students may be asked to host the speaker
and/or order snacks for the meeting.
Directions
From Highway 101 North & South
- Take the EMBARCADERO RD/OREGON EXPWY exit west toward Stanford - go 0.3 mi
- EMBARCADERO RD becomes GALVEZ ST as you enter Stanford - go 2.8 mi
- Bear LEFT at first fork in the road towards center of campus - go 0.2 mi
- Turn RIGHT on CAMPUS DR and continue past PALM DR - go 0.6 mi
- Turn LEFT on ROTH WAY and the PARKING STRUCTURE 1 is on the LEFT
- go 0.1 mi
- Walk south on NORTH/SOUTH MALL to SERRA MALL, the GATES BLDG is on your
RIGHT - go 0.2 mi
From Highway 280 North & South
- Take the SAND HILL ROAD exit east toward MENLO PARK - go 2.8 mi
- Turn RIGHT on STOCK FARM RD - go 0.4 mi
- Turn LEFT on CAMPUS DR W - go 0.2 mi
- Turn RIGHT on PANAMA ST - go 0.3 mi
- Turn LEFT on VIA ORTEGA and LEFT into PARKING STRUCTURE 2 -
go 0.1 mi
- Walk north on VIA ORTEGA, turn RIGHT on SERRA MALL, and the GATES
BLDG is across SERRA MALL on the LEFT - go 0.2 mi
From El Camino Real
- Exit RIGHT off EL CAMINIO REAL at UNIVERSITY AVE. Turn toward the hills (away
from the center of Palo Alto).
- As you enter Stanford UNIVERSITY AVE. becomes PALM DR - go 0.5 mi
- Turn RIGHT on ROTH WAY and PARKING STRUCTURE 1 is on the
RIGHT - go 0.3 mi
- Walk south on NORTH/SOUTH MALL to SERRA MALL, the GATES BLDG is on your
RIGHT - go 0.2 mi
Parking
Parking map (pdf)
Parking on campus may be challenging so we recommend allocating a bit of extra time to finding a spot and walking over. The map
above shows some of the nearby lots that have visitor parking spaces, or you can check out
Parking & Transportation office for more info. It's $1.50 per hour for parking in visitor spots,
which you can pay by credit card in most lots. The one-day Visitor permit (which can be purchased from the
Parking & Transportation office) allows use of 'P' & 'E' designated areas and all metered spaces.
Public transportation
You can take Caltrain to Palo Alto Station. Then take the (free) Marguerite bus to get
near the Gates building (within a 5 minute walk). The bus schedule for Line X is here. Your stop is the Stanford Medican Center. Here's a map.
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