Faculty Friday Events for Sept. 30
Faculty Friday on Sept. 30 will feature a wellness discussion and writing support group in the morning, private dining for faculty at University Commons for lunch, and a talk and reception celebrating a new book by MD Kamruzzaman (Zaman) Sarker, Assistant Professor of Computing Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
From 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., please join Gail Syring and Julie Sochacki for a virtual faculty wellness talk. The talk will focus on building our foundational, daily self-care practices; integrating rejuvenating activities into our weeks; and cultivating more self-compassion in our lives. Email sochacki@hartford.edu for more information and to receive the Zoom passcode.
From 12 p.m. - 2 p.m., the Private Dining Room in University Commons has been reserved for faculty use. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch at the Commons, and join your faculty friends and colleagues. This week, the talk Drs. Beth Dietz and Cathy Bishop-Clark, co-authors of the book, “Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, A Guide to the Process and How to Develop A Project from Start to Finish” will be live-streamed so that you can watch and listen while you eat!
From 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., in the Shaw Center in Hillyer Hall, all are invited to a talk by MD Kamruzzaman (Zaman) Sarker, Assistant Professor of Computing Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences about his book, Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art, co-edited with P. Hitzler. Neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence is an emerging subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that brings together two hitherto distinct approaches. ”Neuro” refers to the artificial neural networks prominent in machine learning, ”symbolic” refers to algorithmic processing on the level of meaningful symbols, prominent in knowledge representation. The new book provides an overview of the cross-over between the two fields of AI in a collection of 17 chapters by authors who have made significant contributions to the fields. Come for Dr. Sarker’s talk and stay for a reception to celebrate the publication.