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How do I submit a video?

Please click on the "Video submission form" button above and fill out the form. You will be asked to provide your name, your email, your video title, your video abstract (a short description to include on YouTube under your video), and a link we can use to download your video (we describe one way to create such a link, using We Transfer, in the form).

Does my video get posted to YouTube automatically and can it get removed?

Not automatically, but you will hear back from us within a week. We will briefly check the video to ensure it is in-scope. We don't think of the contributed video submissions as a competitive process - the more contributed videos we receive and that we can share on YouTube, the better! Even after posting the video to YouTube, we reserve the right to remove it if necessary (math errors are not necessarily a reason for this — math errors can be addressed in the video’s description). You may request that we remove the video at any point in the future, as well.

What if I have a longer video in mind, or a series of videos in mind? 

That’s great! We encourage you to contact us at ​​aatrn.director"at"gmail.com to inquire — we’d quite likely be excited to host your videos on our YouTube channel.

The following is a draft description of how the AATRN Speaker Selection Committee selects speakers to invite — these criteria are still under development! We emphasize that there are many more qualified speakers in our community than speaking slots, so even if a person fits all of the criteria, they may not be selected to speak. 

Inclusion criteria:

• Evidence that research is at a high level.

• Indications that the invitee will give a reasonably good talk. This mostly concerns the ability to present the content in a clear and understandable way, and it should not penalize non-native English speakers.

• Representation of the diversity of our community along many different axes, including (but not limited to) some of the bullets below.

  • We consider diversity in the broadest terms, including nationality, gender, sexuality, age, race, disability, religious affiliation or lack thereof, socio-economic status, first-generation academics, and intersections thereof.

  • We want to actively try to increase visibility of underrepresented groups by inviting qualified members of underrepresented groups to give AATRN talks. 

  • Though not all of these axes of diversity are (or even should be) known to the Speaker Selection Committee, they should all be kept in mind, with particular emphasis on ones that can typically be inferred, such as nationality and gender.

  • Speakers should typically range from PhD students to full professors, and equivalent levels from national labs as well as industry.

  • Speakers should come from various affiliations.

  • Another aspect of diversity is not re-inviting speakers if they have already spoken in the AATRN Wednesday seminar in recent years. A few years after their talk, we can reconsider re-inviting a speaker with particularly high quality research and high quality talks. 

• Timing of being on the job market can be taken into account.

• Help our community grow: on occasion, inviting speakers from nearby areas that are not applied topology. Examples of “nearby areas” might include (but are not limited to) pure topology (homotopy theory), physics, machine learning, statistics and probability, biology, application domains, especially if there is a connection to topology or geometry.

Exclusion criteria:

• There should be no clear conflict of interest when inviting a speaker. For example, among the primary reasons to invite someone should never be:

  • expecting a favor (e.g. inviting you or your collaborators to give a different talk) in return

  • sympathy or friendship

  • advancing the career of a member of the Speaker Selection Committee or AATRN co-directors

  • feeling pressured to invite someone.

This does not mean that a friend or collaborator of someone from the Speaker Selection Committee cannot be selected as a speaker, but the reasons for selecting them have to be based on the above inclusion criteria and not on personal interest.