We have a pool of tickets that we can guarantee to papers that are selected for an oral presentation, but at this point cannot promise that we will have enough for everyone with a poster presentation. However, we encourage you to submit and will keep you updated!

Important Dates

• Round 1 Submission Deadline: Sept 21, 2018
• Round 1 Notification: Oct 1, 2018
• Round 2 Submission Deadline: Nov 1, 2018
• Round 2 Notification: Nov 11, 2018
• Final Papers Due: Dec 1, 2018
• Workshop Date: Dec 7, 2018

Authors may submit directly to either rounds.

Call for Extended Abstracts

Authors are invited to submit extended research abstracts on topics related to physical world modeling, including but not limited to the following:

• Building and learning physical models (deep networks, structured probabilistic generative models, physics engines)
• How to combine model-based and model-free approaches to physical prediction
• How to use physics models in higher-level tasks such as navigation, video prediction, robotics, etc.
• How perception and action interact with physical representations
• How cognitive science and computational neuroscience may inform the design of artificial systems for physical prediction
• Methodology for comparing models of infant learning with artificial systems
• Development of new datasets or platforms for physics and visual common sense

Submissions should be up to 4 pages in NIPS format (including references). Submissions need not be anonymized, and will be lightly reviewed. We encourage submissions of work that has been previously published or to be presented in the main conference. Accepted abstracts are considered non-archival, and will only be distributed on the workshop website.

All accepted abstracts will be included in a poster presentation session. The best abstracts will be invited to give a contributed talk.

Please submit to https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PHYS2018.