Hi Radim and Renata,
I met with the team leaders at 10:30 today, and a few things came up that would benefit from your help.
1. Personal information form: Please let the team leaders know if someone from their team hasn’t yet provided you the personal information form. They will help you chase them down. 2. Steering committee mailing list: Please add Samuele, Santosh and Fethi to the list; the respective team leaders rely on them for organizational help. 3. Personal liability insurance: many participants are unfamiliar with this. Would it be possible to post a link to one or two possible suggestions? E.g. links to a couple of companies that offer such insurance, and perhaps to specific policies whose coverage will meet the minimum coverage requirement. 4. Lodging costs for companions/spouses: Please clarify on the Google Doc whether those who plan to have a companion or spouse visit for a portion of JSALT must pay only for only the days of the visit, for full weeks in which they visit (i.e. minimum stay is 1 week), or their entire stay of 6 or 8 weeks. Some participants think it can only be the full 6-8 weeks, which feels high for much shorter visits.
If these questions/request don’t make sense to you, please let me know and I’ll provide more context. Call me on WhatsApp +1-443-858-9052.
Cheers. Sanjeev
Begin forwarded message:
From: khudanpur@jhu.edu Subject: Steering committee meeting in 10 minutes Date: May 21, 2025 at 10:22:32 AM EDT To: Lukas Burget burget@fit.vutbr.cz, Ricard Marxer ricard.marxer@lis-lab.fr, Ramani Duraiswami ramanid@umd.edu, "Yannick Esteve" yannick.esteve@univ-avignon.fr Cc: Samuele Cornell cornellsamuele@gmail.com, Santosh Kesiraju kesiraju@fit.vut.cz, Fethi Bougares fethi.bougares@elyadata.com, "JSALT 2025" jsalt2025@jh.edu
Colleagues, let us meet in 10 minutes (10:30 AM ET) and sync up on JSALT preparations.
Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/6955509790
@Karen, if you see this message in time, please join us. One of the points I want to discuss are people planning their flights to Brno — we need everyone to be responsive to your emails.
Cheers. Sanjeev
thank you very much, Sanjeev, for this summary
1. OK, I am in touch with team leaders, situation is good overall: -- Yannick/Fethi team: all provided -- Lukas/Samuele team: all provided -- Ricard team: 1 missing - I will ping them and keep Ricard in cc -- Ramani/Santosh team: 2 missing and Amazon engineer TBD - I will ping them and keep Ramani&Santosh in cc
2. DONE
3. OK, I will come back to people with more details
4. OK, JSALT2025_WelcomeGuide [1] updated with the text
_Important note for short-term visits of wife/husband/partner_ _Some participants would like to bring a "+1" (wife, husband, or partner) for a few weeks. This is possible. The BUT dorms require payment for the stay of any additional person._ _Price: 940 CZK per night per "+1" person (~38.2 EUR or ~42.8 USD, depending on exchange rates). Payment can be made by card at the front desk. The fee is charged per night, so your "+1" will only pay for the number of nights they actually stay._
hope it helps Radim
On 2025-05-21 17:48, Sanjeev Khudanpur wrote:
Hi Radim and Renata,
I met with the team leaders at 10:30 today, and a few things came up that would benefit from your help.
- Personal information form: _Please let the team leaders know_ if
someone from their team hasn't yet provided you the personal information form. They will help you chase them down.
- Steering committee mailing list: _Please add Samuele, Santosh and
Fethi_ to the list; the respective team leaders rely on them for organizational help.
- Personal liability insurance: _many participants are unfamiliar with
this_. Would it be possible to post a link to one or two possible suggestions? E.g. links to a couple of companies that offer such insurance, and perhaps to specific policies whose coverage will meet the minimum coverage requirement.
- Lodging costs for companions/spouses: _Please clarify_ on the Google
Doc whether those who plan to have a companion or spouse visit for a portion of JSALT must pay only for _only the days of the visit_, _for full weeks_ in which they visit (i.e. minimum stay is 1 week), or their _entire stay of 6 or 8 weeks_. Some participants think it can only be the full 6-8 weeks, which feels high for much shorter visits.
If these questions/request don't make sense to you, please let me know and I'll provide more context. Call me on WhatsApp +1-443-858-9052.
Cheers. Sanjeev
Begin forwarded message: From: khudanpur@jhu.edu
Subject: Steering committee meeting in 10 minutes
Date: May 21, 2025 at 10:22:32 AM EDT
To: Lukas Burget burget@fit.vutbr.cz, Ricard Marxer ricard.marxer@lis-lab.fr, Ramani Duraiswami ramanid@umd.edu, "Yannick Esteve" yannick.esteve@univ-avignon.fr
Cc: Samuele Cornell cornellsamuele@gmail.com, Santosh Kesiraju kesiraju@fit.vut.cz, Fethi Bougares fethi.bougares@elyadata.com, "JSALT 2025" jsalt2025@jh.edu
Colleagues, let us meet in 10 minutes (10:30 AM ET) and sync up on JSALT preparations.
Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/6955509790
@Karen, if you see this message in time, please join us. One of the points I want to discuss are people planning their flights to Brno -- we need everyone to be responsive to your emails.
Cheers. Sanjeev
--- Radim KUDLA Technology Transfer Manager Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology
gsm/whats-up: +420 732 100 775 tel: +420 54114 1214 e-mail: kudla@fit.vut.cz profile: www.fit.vut.cz/person/kudla [2] ---
Links: ------ [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TgE69LVepBKqlbcZ9VkVPl4HwonbI1xUDvmW6ueK... [2] http://www.fit.vut.cz/person/kudla
Yes, Radim. This should address all the items. Thanks! —Sanjeev
On May 23, 2025, at 3:49 AM, Kudla Radim kudla@fit.vut.cz wrote:
External Email - Use Caution
thank you very much, Sanjeev, for this summary
1. OK, I am in touch with team leaders, situation is good overall: -- Yannick/Fethi team: all provided -- Lukas/Samuele team: all provided -- Ricard team: 1 missing - I will ping them and keep Ricard in cc -- Ramani/Santosh team: 2 missing and Amazon engineer TBD - I will ping them and keep Ramani&Santosh in cc
2. DONE
3. OK, I will come back to people with more details
4. OK, JSALT2025_WelcomeGuidehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1TgE69LVepBKqlbcZ9VkVPl4HwonbI1xUDvmW6ueKcps/edit?usp=sharing updated with the text
Important note for short-term visits of wife/husband/partner Some participants would like to bring a “+1” (wife, husband, or partner) for a few weeks. This is possible. The BUT dorms require payment for the stay of any additional person. Price: 940 CZK per night per "+1" person (~38.2 EUR or ~42.8 USD, depending on exchange rates). Payment can be made by card at the front desk. The fee is charged per night, so your "+1" will only pay for the number of nights they actually stay.
hope it helps Radim
On 2025-05-21 17:48, Sanjeev Khudanpur wrote:
Hi Radim and Renata,
I met with the team leaders at 10:30 today, and a few things came up that would benefit from your help.
1. Personal information form: Please let the team leaders know if someone from their team hasn't yet provided you the personal information form. They will help you chase them down. 2. Steering committee mailing list: Please add Samuele, Santosh and Fethi to the list; the respective team leaders rely on them for organizational help. 3. Personal liability insurance: many participants are unfamiliar with this. Would it be possible to post a link to one or two possible suggestions? E.g. links to a couple of companies that offer such insurance, and perhaps to specific policies whose coverage will meet the minimum coverage requirement. 4. Lodging costs for companions/spouses: Please clarify on the Google Doc whether those who plan to have a companion or spouse visit for a portion of JSALT must pay only for only the days of the visit, for full weeks in which they visit (i.e. minimum stay is 1 week), or their entire stay of 6 or 8 weeks. Some participants think it can only be the full 6-8 weeks, which feels high for much shorter visits.
If these questions/request don't make sense to you, please let me know and I'll provide more context. Call me on WhatsApp +1-443-858-9052.
Cheers. Sanjeev
Begin forwarded message:
From: khudanpur@jhu.edu Subject: Steering committee meeting in 10 minutes Date: May 21, 2025 at 10:22:32 AM EDT To: Lukas Burget burget@fit.vutbr.cz, Ricard Marxer ricard.marxer@lis-lab.fr, Ramani Duraiswami ramanid@umd.edu, "Yannick Esteve" yannick.esteve@univ-avignon.fr Cc: Samuele Cornell cornellsamuele@gmail.com, Santosh Kesiraju kesiraju@fit.vut.cz, Fethi Bougares fethi.bougares@elyadata.com, "JSALT 2025" jsalt2025@jh.edu
Colleagues, let us meet in 10 minutes (10:30 AM ET) and sync up on JSALT preparations.
Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/6955509790
@Karen, if you see this message in time, please join us. One of the points I want to discuss are people planning their flights to Brno — we need everyone to be responsive to your emails.
Cheers. Sanjeev
--- Radim KUDLA Technology Transfer Manager Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology
gsm/whats-up: +420 732 100 775 tel: +420 54114 1214 e-mail: kudla@fit.vut.czmailto:kudla@fit.vut.cz profile: www.fit.vut.cz/person/kudlahttp://www.fit.vut.cz/person/kudla ---
Hi all,
Sanjeev spoke about JSALT2025 webpage: https://jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/
Now, each team has already dedicated page:
* Play your Part: Towards LLM role-playing agents that stick to their role https://jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/play-your-part * Advancing Expert-Level Reasoning and Understanding in Large Audio Language Models https://jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/advancing-expert-level-reasoning-and-understanding-in-large-audio-models * End to End multi channel multi talker ASR, EMMA https://jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/end-to-end * TTS4ALL: TTS in low resource scenarios: data management, methodology, models, evaluation https://jsalt2025.fit.vut.cz/tts4all
You can nominate one person in your team to request changes on that team page. I bring Josef ("Pepa") to cc who is our main web magic person.
Feel free to send request, please keep us both in "to": Josef zizkaj@fit.vut.cz Radim kudla@fit.vut.cz
br Radim
--- Radim KUDLA Technology Transfer Manager Faculty of Information Technology Brno University of Technology address: Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic
gsm/whatsup: +420 732 100 775 tel: +420 54114 1214 e-mail: kudla@fit.vut.cz profile: www.fit.vut.cz/person/kudla ---
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