IAIFI thrives on the energy and enthusiasm of its members! If you are currently an IAIFI member and would like to get more involved in IAIFI-related activities, browse this page for opportunities that interest you.
- Join an IAIFI Committee
- Lead an IAIFI Journal Club
- Attend IAIFI Discussion Seminars and Public Colloquia
- Collaborate on IAIFI Research Projects
- Share Achievements with IAIFI Management
- Advertise and Acknowledge IAIFI
- Be a Guest in the IAIFI Penthouse
- Access the IAIFI Internal Website
- Explore Career and PhD Opportunities
- Get Involved Beyond IAIFI
If you are not currently an IAIFI member, visit the Get Involved page to find out about opportunities to join us.
Unless otherwise noted, the opportunities listed on this page are available to all IAIFI members, including Senior Investigators, Junior Investigators, IAIFI Affiliates, and Friends of IAIFI.
Join an IAIFI Committee
Community Building Committee
- Coordinates opportunities for making connections across IAIFI, including sharing research, networking, and facilitating random connections
- Led by Max Tegmark (Community Building Coordinator), Demba Ba (Foundational AI Research Coordinator), Phil Harris (Physics Experiment Research Coordinator), and Phiala Shanahan (Physics Theory Research Coordinator)
- We are currently looking for volunteers for this Committee
- Email IAIFI Management if you are interested in volunteering
Early Career and Equity Committee
- Serves as an advisory body to the IAIFI Management on aspects related to early career researchers and diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as to oversee the well-being and working environment of all IAIFI members
- Current Members: Tracy Slatyer (Chair), Edo Berger, Harold Erbin, Katie Fraser, Jasmine Gill, Anindita Maiti, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Marisa LaFleur (Project Manager)
- The Committee will rotate membership in January 2022
- Email Tracy Slatyer if you’re interested in learning more
PhD Summer School Committee
- Organizes PhD Summer School and subsequent workshop, aimed at educating PhD students interested in the intersection of AI and Physics, as well as broadening our impact beyond IAIFI members
- Current Members: Jim Halverson (Chair), Tess Smidt, Anna Golubeva, Jeffrey Lazar, Peter Lu, Dylan Rankin, Marisa LaFleur (Project Manager)
- The Committee is currently planning the PhD Summer School for Summer 2022
- Email Jim Halverson if you have ideas or would like to express interest in volunteering for events during the Summer School
Speaker Selection Committee
- Identifies and invites speakers for our IAIFI Internal Discussion Seminar series and our IAIFI Public Colloquium series
- Led by Cora Dvorkin (Colloquium organizer) and Demba Ba (Discussion Seminar organizer)
- Committee members: Dan Roberts, Nayantara Mudur, Di Luo, Arkopal Dutt, Marisa LaFleur (Project Manager)
- The Committee is currently planning the Spring 2022 series
- Suggest a speaker for either the Colloquium or Seminar series
MITx Course
- IAIFI junior members may serve on the teaching team for MIT’s Physics in Data Science class (8.S50), which will be taught over IAP (January 2022) and will be used to help build IAIFI’s first MITx (MIT’s online education platform) course
- Current IAIFI members on the team: Phil Harris, Ike Chuang, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Dylan Rankin, Ouail Kitouni, Tri Nguyen, Duc Hoang, Eric Moreno, Raymond Wynne, Aidan Chambers
- As part of the team, members are helping to shape the material, potentially teach recitation, and help build the online version of the course
- Requirements: Completed MIT junior lab or experience in data analysis
- Email Phil Harris if you’d like to learn more
Lead an IAIFI Journal Club
- Any IAIFI member or partner can sign up to lead an IAIFI Journal Club
- Journal Club is led by Andrew Tan and John Martyn
- Journal Club for the Fall 2021 semester is held every other Thursday (beginning Sept. 23, 2021) at 11 am ET over Zoom
- Previous Journal Club slides and resources can be found on the IAIFI internal website (if you do not have access, email IAIFI Management)
Attend IAIFI Discussion Seminars and Public Colloquia
- View the full schedule for Discussion Seminars and Colloquia
- Watch recordings of past seminars on the IAIFI internal website (if you do not have access, email IAIFI Management)
- Watch recordings of past colloquia on our YouTube Channel
- The Discussion Seminars for Fall 2021 are held every other Friday (beginning Sept. 24, 2021) at 2 pm ET over Zoom
- The Colloquia for Fall 2021 are held every other Friday (beginning Sept. 17, 2021) at 2 pm ET over Zoom and YouTube
- Make sure you are on the internal IAIFI mailing list to receive announcements and Zoom information (if you are not receiving iaifi-all emails, email IAIFI Management)
- Suggest a speaker for either the Colloquium or Seminar series
Collaborate on IAIFI Research Projects
- View the People page to identify other IAIFI researchers who you may be interested in collaborating with
- Share research questions and ideas on the #general research IAIFI Zulip stream
Share Achievements with IAIFI Management
- When a paper is posted to arXiv:
- Post to the #recent-iaifi-papers stream on the IAIFI Zulip (if you do not have access,email IAIFI Management)
- For particle physics papers: check that your paper is appearing under IAIFI on INSPIRE
- When a paper is published:
- Email Marisa LaFleur (IAIFI Project Manager) with a link to published article
- When giving a talk, organizing a workshop, etc:
- Email IAIFI Management so that we can advertise on our Events page, share on Zulip, and include in reports
- When you’re in the news:
- Email IAIFI Management so that we can share on the home page (news on the home page is eventually moved to the News Archive), tweet about it, and include in reports
Advertise and Acknowledge IAIFI
- Use the IAIFI (with NSF) logo in talks related to IAIFI: Black; White
- Share slides advertising public IAIFI opportunities when appropriate: Overview Slide; Resources and Activities Slide
- Include IAIFI affiliation in papers: The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (Note: There is no address.)
- Include IAIFI acknowledgment in IAIFI-related papers (required if you are a Junior or Senior Investigator): This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786 (The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, http://iaifi.org/).
Be a Guest in the IAIFI Penthouse
- If you are an IAIFI member and would like to visit the IAIFI Penthouse (MIT Building 26, 6th floor), we can provide temporary desk space.
- View available desks and request a space at the internal IAIFI Penthouse page (must be signed into the internal website to access; email IAIFI Management if you are not registered).
- If you would like to request a permanent desk in the Penthouse, email IAIFI Management with your request and rationale.
Access the IAIFI Internal Website
- Sign in to internal.iaifi.org
- If you do not have access, email IAIFI Management
- Resources on the internal website include:
- Affiliation and acknowledgment details for IAIFI-related papers;
- Access to sign up for the IAIFI Zulip;
- Recordings of previous seminars.
Explore Career and PhD Opportunities
- Apply to the MIT Interdisciplinary PhD in Physics, Statistics, and Data Science
- Students currently enrolled in the Physics doctoral program at MIT or another participating MIT doctoral program
- For access to the selection form to apply, email the IDSS Academic Office
- Apply to be an IAIFI Fellow
- Apply for other postdoc positions with IAIFI involvement
- Apply for PhD programs at IAIFI institutions
- Follow the IAIFI #job opportunities Zulip stream (if you do not have access, email IAIFI Management)
Get Involved Beyond IAIFI
We encourage IAIFI members to be involved in programs and initiatives not affiliated with IAIFI, but which can provide new insights and value to the IAIFI community, including sharing relevant events and best practices. If you have other suggestions for ways the IAIFI community can be involved beyond IAIFI, email IAIFI Management.
Ethics and AI
- Participate in MIT’s SERC (Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing) by joining the SERC Scholars Program or reading the MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing
Affinity Groups
- MIT (Grad Students): Graduate Women at MIT; LGBT Grad; LGBT Grad QPoC; Women’s Initiative; Graduate Women in Physics; SPXCE (Social Justice Programming & Cross Cultural Engagement)
- MIT (Postdocs/Faculty): Postdoc Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee; qtPhDs; MIT Black Postdoctoral Group; Postdoctoral Organization for Women Engaged in Research (POWER); Employee Resource Groups
- Harvard (Grad Students): AstroGrad Network; GSAS Society of Underrepresented Students in STEM; Harvard Graduate Women in Science and Engineering at Harvard University at GSAS (HGWISE); LGBTQ@GSAS Association; InTouch (SEAS); Physics Graduate Student Council; SEAS Graduate Council; W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society of GSAS; Women in Physics
- Harvard (Postdocs/Faculty): FAS Postdoctoral Association; Association of Black Faculty, Administrators, and Fellows (ABFAF); Association of Harvard Asian and Asian American Faculty and Staff (AHAAAFS); Association of Harvard Latinx Faculty and Staff (AHLFS); LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff (QERG); Committee on the Concerns of Women (CCW); Women in Physics
- Northeastern (Grad Students): Graduate Students of Color Collective; Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE); Physics Graduate Student Association; AI Skunkworks at Northeastern; Alliance for Diversity in Science and Engineering
- Northeastern (Postdocs/Faculty): LGBTQA+ Faculty and Staff Affinity Group; Native and Indigenous Affinity Group; NU Dream (Faculty and Staff of Color Affinity Group); Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA); Northeastern University Future Leaders (NUFL); Asian Faculty and Staff Affinity Group
- Tufts (Grad Students): Physics and Astronomy Student Society; Black Students in Computer Science; Women in Computer Science; GLBT Grad Group;
- Tufts (Postdocs/Faculty): Employee Resource Groups
Related Groups and Events
- Physics meets ML—a virtual hub at the interface of theoretical physics and deep learning
- NSF AI Planning Institute for Data-Driven Discovery at Carnegie Mellon University—bringing cutting edge methods from AI into a broad range of physics areas, to rapidly propagate successful methods from one field of Physics to another thereby avoiding replication of effort, and to facilitate back-transfer from the data-rich sub-fields of physics to AI development
- MIT Statistics and Data Science Center—an MIT-wide focal point for advancing research and education programs related to statistics and data science (part of MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society)
- CLARIPHY Topical Meetings—allows researchers in related areas to present their work at all stages (early, in progress, post-publication) of their efforts, with a special focus on areas at the intersection of Physics and Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Understanding the Nature of Inference: Correlation and Causation: A Multi-disciplinary Exploration—aims to examine deeply the process of inference of cause and effect across disciplines with a view to understanding the utility of conceptual modeling and simulations as proxies for controlled experiments