SSTiC 2013: 1st announcement

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2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON

TRENDS IN COMPUTING

 

SSTiC 2013

 

Tarragona, Spain

 

July 22-26, 2013

 

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

 

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AIM:

 

SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers.

 

SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of more than 70 six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as the main motto of their research work.

 

ADDRESSED TO:

 

Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge background.

 

SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.

 

Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing nowadays.

 

REGIME:

 

At least 8 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

 

VENUE:

 

Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona

Arquitecte Rovira, 2

43001 Tarragona

http://www.palaucongrestgna.com

 

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

 

Divyakant Agrawal (Santa Barbara) [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its Applications

James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems

Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of Representations

Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction

Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications

Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing

Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy

John M. Carroll (Penn State) [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke) [intermediate] Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure Federated Systems

Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human Activities

Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems

Marco Dorigo (Brussels) [introductory] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics

Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial Relations: Formalizations and Inferences

Matthias Felleisen (Northeastern) [introductory] Programming with Contracts

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation

David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future

Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing

Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and Networking

Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural Language

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open Problems

Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell

Syed Ali Jafar (Irvine) [intermediate] Interference Alignment

Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design

George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing

Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization

Carl Kesselman (Southern California) [intermediate] Biomedical Informatics and Big Data

Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols

Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice

Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and Influence Spread in Social Networks

Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities

Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data Integration

Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based Modeling and Simulation

Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (Nanyang Tech) [introductory] Modelling and Animating Virtual Humans

Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods

Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [introductory/advanced] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems

Daniel Mossé (Pittsburgh) [intermediate] Asymmetric Multicore Management

Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation

David M. Nicol (Urbana) [intermediate] Cyber-security and Privacy in the Power Grid

Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications

David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming

Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations

Massoud Pedram (Southern California) [intermediate] Energy Efficient Architectures and Information Processing Systems

Jian Pei (Simon Fraser) [intermediate/advanced] Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and Advertising

Sudhakar M. Reddy (Iowa) [introductory] Design for Test and Test of Digital VLSI Circuits

Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering

Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing

Yousef Saad (Minnesota) [intermediate] Projection Methods and Their Applications

Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models

Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked Software

Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods

Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [advanced] Visual Crowd Surveillance

Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks

Micha Sharir (Tel Aviv) [introductory/intermediate] Geometric Arrangements and Incidences: Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Algebra

Satinder Singh (Ann Arbor) [introductory/advanced] Reinforcement Learning: On Machines Learning to Act from Experience

Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory] Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism

Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [advanced] Selected Topics in Computer Security

Daniel Thalmann (Nanyang Tech) [intermediate] Simulation of Individuals, Groups and Crowds and Their Interaction with the User

Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web

Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [intermediate] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems

Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development

Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place

Ian H. Witten (Waikato) [introductory] Data Mining Using Weka

Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis

Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data

Yuanyuan Zhou (San Diego) [intermediate] Building Robust Software

Justin Zobel (Melbourne) [introductory/intermediate] Writing and Research Skills for Computer Scientists

 

REGISTRATION:

 

It has to be done on line at

 

http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php

 

Since a large number of attendees are expected and the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete.

 

FEES:

 

They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by the corresponding deadline. They give the right to attend all courses.

 

ACCOMMODATION:

 

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School.

 

CERTIFICATE:

 

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013

Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26, April 26, May 26, June 26, July 26, 2013

 

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

 

Lilica Voicu:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

 

SSTiC 2013

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)

Rovira i Virgili University

Av. Catalunya, 35

43002 Tarragona, Spain

 

Phone: +34-977-559543

Fax: +34-977-558386

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

 

Ajuntament de Tarragona

Diputació de Tarragona

Universitat Rovira i Virgili