Thursday Seminar, June 11th --- Seth Lazar! (+ updated schedule)

[Joshua Pearson]

Hello everyone,

I am delighted to announce that this week the Thursday Seminar warmly welcomes our very own Seth Lazar, who will be presenting on June 11th, 3.30pm, in the RSSS Auditorium (room 1.28). Title and abstract are below.

While there will be no pre-talk this week, other events in the day include:

• Tea in the School of Philosophy tearoom at 3:00pm;
  
• Drinks at Badger & Co at 5:00pm;
  
• Dinner at TBD at 6.30, half-subsidized for grad students. Put your name down here if you would like to join (you need to scroll to the right). All visitors (faculty, graduate students, undergraduates) are welcome to join for dinner. Faculty dine at a rate of ~$30.00 AUD, and graduate students and undergraduates at a rate of roughly $15.00 AUD.

Title: Normative Competence in Language Models: Why it Matters, How Far We've Come, and How to Make Progress

Abstract: This is going to be a *loose* talk presenting the motivation for and, if there's time, the results of a series of experiments we've been doing in the MINT lab to both understand and enhance LLMs' ability to identify and apply reasons for action grounded in morality and other kinds of norms. 

Finally, I want to note that we have a very exciting and relatively packed schedule from now through to the end of August, outlined below. 

Hope to see many of you this Thursday!

Josh

11th June -- Seth Lazar

18th June -- Anton Killin

2nd July -- Sean Donahue

16th July -- David Enoch (John Passmore Lecture)

23rd July -- Lara Buchak

30th July -- Richard Pettigrew (Jack Smart Lecture)

6th August -- Thomas Schmidt

13th August -- Sarah McGrath

20th August -- Kit Fine

[Nicholas Southwood]

Dear All,

Further to Josh’s message, I also wanted to let you know that this will be a special farewell event for Seth, who has been a valued member of the School for 15 years but who will unfortunately be leaving us very soon to take up an exciting position at John Hopkins University. It would be great to see as many of you as possible at the seminar and drinks/dinner to help send Seth off in style!

Cheers, Nic

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[Nicholas Southwood]

Ps Don’t forget to sign up for dinner following the link in Josh’s message. I will make a booking tonight so would be good to have numbers by then. 

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Subject: Farewell to Seth

 

[Joshua Pearson]

Hi all,

Just a reminder that this is on today! Dinner will be at Blu Ginger. (The table has been booked already, so if you didn't put your name on the sign-up sheet but would like to come, please inquire with Nic as to whether there is space.)

Best,

Josh