update 12/20

_config.yml

@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@
 title: Brown Robotics Talks
 email: [email protected]
 description: >- # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Write an awesome description for the workshop site here. You can edit this
-  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
-  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
+  Website for Brown Robotics Lab Talks.
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
 url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com
 twitter_username: rethinkmlpapers
@@ -38,10 +36,11 @@ plugins:
 # this and add the path to the pages in order as they should show up
 header_pages:
 - index.md
+- pasttalks.md
 # - speakers.md
-# - organizers.md
+- organizers.md
 # - callforpapers.md
-- schedule.md
+# - schedule.md
 # - papers.md
 - contactus.md
 
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ header_pages:
 # A two-line attribution (remove this if you have to, but we'd appreciate if you leave this as is)
 attribution: >
   Based on a <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> template from a <a href="https://krrish94.github.io">lazy grad student</a>.
-  Some icons made by <a href="https://smashicons.com/" title="Smashicons">Smashicons</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" title="Flaticon">www.flaticon.com</a>.
 
 # Displays a "last updated" date in the footer if set to "true"
 last_updated: true

_layouts/all.html

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+---
+layout: default
+---
+
+<!-- Home -->
+<div class="home">
+    <!-- <h3>Workshop on Learning for Task and Motion Planning</h3> -->
+
+  {{ content }}
+
+
+  {% if site.paginate %}
+    {% assign posts = paginator.posts %}
+  {% else %}
+    {% assign posts = site.posts %}
+  {% endif %}
+
+
+  {%- if posts.size > 0 -%}
+    {%- if page.list_title -%}
+      <h2 class="post-list-heading">{{ page.list_title }}</h2>
+    {%- endif -%}
+    <ul class="post-list">
+      {%- assign date_format = site.minima.date_format | default: "%b %-d, %Y" -%}
+      {%- for post in posts -%}
+      <li>
+        <span class="post-meta">{{ post.date | date: date_format }}</span>
+        <h3>
+          <a class="post-link" href="{{ post.url | relative_url }}">
+            {{ post.title | escape }}
+          </a>
+        </h3>
+        {%- if site.show_excerpts -%}
+          {{ post.excerpt }}
+        {%- endif -%}
+      </li>
+      {%- endfor -%}
+    </ul>
+
+    {% if site.paginate %}
+      <div class="pager">
+        <ul class="pagination">
+        {%- if paginator.previous_page %}
+          <li><a href="{{ paginator.previous_page_path | relative_url }}" class="previous-page">{{ paginator.previous_page }}</a></li>
+        {%- else %}
+          <li><div class="pager-edge">•</div></li>
+        {%- endif %}
+          <li><div class="current-page">{{ paginator.page }}</div></li>
+        {%- if paginator.next_page %}
+          <li><a href="{{ paginator.next_page_path | relative_url }}" class="next-page">{{ paginator.next_page }}</a></li>
+        {%- else %}
+          <li><div class="pager-edge">•</div></li>
+        {%- endif %}
+        </ul>
+      </div>
+    {%- endif %}
+
+  {%- endif -%}
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- <article class="post">
+
+  <h3>Call for Papers</h3>
+
+  <div class="post-content">
+    {{ content }}
+  </div>
+
+</article> -->
+
+
+<!-- Speakers -->
+
+<article class="post">
+
+  <h3>Speakers</h3>
+
+  <div class = "post-content">
+	  <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;">
+      <tr style="border: none;">
+        <th></th>
+        <th>Speaker</th>
+        <!-- <th>Topic</th> -->
+        <th>Bio</th>
+      </tr>
+      {% for speaker in site.speakers %}
+		    <tr style="border: none;">
+		        <td style="border: none;">
+		            <div class="col-xs-6">
+		                <p align="center">
+		                	{% if speaker.img_url %}
+		                    	<img class="people-pic" src="{{ speaker.img_url }}" target="_blank">
+		                	{% elsif speaker.img %}
+                          <img class="people-pic" src="{{ speaker.img | prepend: '/assets/img/speakers/' | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}" target="_blank">
+		                    {% else %}
+		                    	<img class="people-pic" src="{{ 'avatar.jpg' | prepend: '/assets/img/speakers/' | prepend: site.baseurl | prepend: site.url }}" target="_blank">
+		                    {% endif %}
+		                </p>
+		            </div>
+		        </td>
+		        <td style="border: none;">
+		            <div class="people-name text-center">
+		            	<!-- Speaker name (link to webpage if provided) -->
+		            	{% if speaker.webpage %}
+		            		<b><a href="{{ speaker.webpage }}" target="_blank">{{ speaker.name }}</a></b>
+		            	{% else %}
+		            		<b>{{ speaker.name }}</b>
+		            	{% endif %}
+		                <br>
+		                <!-- Speaker affiliation (if provided) -->
+		                {% if speaker.affil_link %}
+		                	<a href="{{ speaker.affil_link }}" target="_blank">{{ speaker.affil }}</a>
+		                {% else %}
+		                	{{ speaker.affil }}
+		                {% endif %}
+		                <!-- Additional speaker affiliation (if provided) -->
+		                {% if speaker.affil2_link %}
+		                	<br>
+		                	<a href="{{ speaker.affil2_link }}" target="_blank">{{ speaker.affil2 }}</a>
+		                {% elsif speaker.affil2 %}
+		                	<br>
+		                	{{ speaker.affil2 }}
+		                {% endif %}
+		            </div>
+		        </td>
+		        <!-- <td style="border: none;">
+		        	<div class="people-name text-center">
+		        		{{ speaker.topic }}
+		        	</div>
+		        </td> -->
+		        <td style="border: none;">
+		        	<div class="people-name text-left">
+		        		{{ speaker.content }}
+		        	</div>
+		        </td>
+		    </tr>
+      {% endfor %}
+	  </table>
+  </div>
+
+</article>

_speakers/1_stefanoalbrecht.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+# Name of the speaker
+name: Stefano Albrecht
+
+# Link to the speaker's webpage
+webpage: https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk/stefano-albrecht/
+
+# Primary affiliation of the speaker
+affil: University of Edinburgh
+# Link to the speaker's primary affiliation
+affil_link: https://www.ed.ac.uk/
+
+# An image of the speaker (square aspect ratio works the best) (place in the `assets/img/speakers` directory)
+img: sa.jpeg
+
+# # (Optional) Secondary affiliation of the speaker
+# affil2: BuzzFizz Corp
+# # Link to the speaker's secondary affiliation 
+# affil2_link: https://buzzfizz.corp
+---
+
+<!-- Whatever you write below will show up as the speaker's bio -->
+
+Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht is Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, where he leads the [Autonomous Agents Research Group](https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk). Dr. Albrecht is a Royal Society Industry Fellow working with Five AI/Bosch to develop AI technologies for autonomous vehicles; and he is a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow working with KION/Dematic to develop reinforcement learning solutions for multi-robot warehouse systems. His research on reinforcement learning and multi-agent interaction has been published in leading conferences and journals for AI/ML/robotics, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, UAI, AAMAS, AIJ, JAIR, JMLR, TMLR, ICRA, IROS, T-RO. Previously, Dr. Albrecht was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained PhD and MSc degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Darmstadt. He is co-author of the book ["Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches"](https://marl-book.com) (MIT Press).

_speakers/2_felixyanweiwang.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+---
+# Name of the speaker
+name: Felix Yanwei Wang
+
+# Link to the speaker's webpage
+webpage: https://yanweiw.github.io/
+
+# Primary affiliation of the speaker
+affil: MIT
+# Link to the speaker's primary affiliation
+affil_link: https://www.csail.mit.edu/
+
+# An image of the speaker (square aspect ratio works the best) (place in the `assets/img/speakers` directory)
+img: felixyanweiwang.png
+
+# # (Optional) Secondary affiliation of the speaker
+# affil2: BuzzFizz Corp
+# # Link to the speaker's secondary affiliation 
+# affil2_link: https://buzzfizz.corp
+---
+
+<!-- Whatever you write below will show up as the speaker's bio -->
+
+__TBD__

index.md

@@ -3,7 +3,33 @@
 # To modify the layout, see https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults
 
 permalink: /
-title: About
-layout: home
+title: Home
+layout: all
 ---
-Brown Robotics Talks consists of BigAI talks and lab talks (CIT 115). From spring 2024, this website is created to track both talk series. All confirmed schedule will be posted, together with recordings of past talks (you'll need a Brown account to access the recordings).
+![BigAI banner](assets/img/bigai.jpeg)
+
+Brown Robotics Talks consists of BigAI talks and lab talks (CIT 115). From spring 2024, this website is created to track both talk series. All confirmed schedule will be posted, together with recordings of past talks (you'll need a Brown account to access the recordings).
+
+### Schedule for Spring 2024
+
+<table>
+<thead>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Date</th>
+    <th>Talk</th>
+    <th>Speaker</th>
+  </tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+  <tr>
+    <td>02/02</td>
+    <td>Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction</td>
+    <td>Stefano Albrecht</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>03/01</td>
+    <td>TBD</td>
+    <td>Felix Yanwei Wang</td>
+  </tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>

pasttalks.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: Past Talks
+permalink: /pasttalks/
+---
+
+You'll need a Brown account to access the recordings.
+
+<table>
+<thead>
+  <tr>
+    <th>Talk</th>
+    <th>Speaker</th>
+  </tr>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Regularization in Neural Networks: A Probabilistic Perspective [<a href='https://brown.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0e1cdf54-2b41-42cf-bb3f-b0cb01325be8' target="_blank">recording</a>]</td>
+    <td><a href='https://timrudner.com/' target="_blank">Tim Rudner</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</tbody>
+</table>