Program

Attendance is by invitation only. All student attendees stay at the Saarbrücken youth hostel:

Europa-Jugendherberge
Meerwiesertalweg 31
66123 Saarbrücken
Tel: +49 (0) 681 33040

The schedule for the school is shown below. All lectures, panels, and the poster session will take place at:

Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
Campus E1.5
66123 Saarbrücken
Tel: +49 (0) 681 9303 9100

Travel between the hostel and MPI-SWS is by public buses (bus ticket is provided as part of the registration package). To get to MPI-SWS, walk to the bus stop “Prinzenweiher/DJH” in front of the hostel. Take line 124 in the direction of “Universität Busterminal” or line 101 in the direction of “Dudweiler Dudoplatz”, and get off at “Universität Mensa” (6 stops, 10 minutes). MPI-SWS is in the tall, dark gray building next to the gate.


The schedule is subject to change

Sunday, July 27

Arrival day. Check-in time at the hostel is 2pm-10pm.

  • 18:00 Registration (hostel)
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Monday, July 28

  • 8:30 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 9:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 10:00 Registration and brief orientation
  • 10:30 Opening Remarks + Introductions
  • 11:00 Abhinav Shrivastava (1st Lecture)
  • 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
  • 14:00 Christina Giannoula (Lecture)
  • 15:30 Break with refreshments
  • 16:00 Poster session
  • 17:30 End of day
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Tuesday, July 29

  • 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 9:00 Mia Cha (Lecture)
  • 10:30 Break with refreshments
  • 11:00 Alexandra Silva (1st Lecture)
  • 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
  • 14:00 Justin Hsu (1st Lecture)
  • 15:30 Break with refreshments
  • 16:00 Panel Session 1: “Why do a Ph.D. in computer science?”
    Chair: Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell)
  • 17:30 End of day
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Wednesday, July 30

  • 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 9:00 Alexandra Silva (2nd Lecture)
  • 10:30 Break with refreshments
  • 11:00 Justin Hsu (2nd Lecture)
  • 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
  • 14:00 Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (1st Lecture)
  • 15:30 Break with refreshments
  • 16:00 Panel Session 2: “Research in industry vs. academia”
    Chair:  Antoine Kaufmann (MPI-SWS)
  • 17:30 Group photo outside MPI-SWS building
  • 17:30 End of day
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Thursday, July 31

  • 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 9:00 Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez (2nd Lecture)
  • 10:30 Break with refreshments
  • 11:00 Panel Session 3: “How to apply to CS Ph.D. programs?”
    Chair: Peter Druschel (MPI-SWS)
  • 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
  • 14:00 Excursion
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Friday, August 1

  • 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 9:00 Bahar Asgari (1st lecture)
  • 10:30 Break with refreshments
  • 11:00 Abhinav Shrivastava (2nd Lecture)
  • 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
  • 14:00 Rediet Abebe (Lecture)
  • 15:30 Break with refreshments
  • 16:00 Group Mentoring Session  
  • 17:30 End of day
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Saturday, August 2

  • 9:00 Breakfast (hostel)
  • 10:00 Bus to MPI-SWS
  • 11:00 Bahar Asgari (2nd lecture)
  • 12:30 Lunch (at institute)
  • 14:00 Derek Dreyer: How to write papers and give talks that people can follow
  • 15:30 Break with refreshments
  • 16:00 Krishna Gummadi (Lecture)
  • 17:15 Closing remarks
  • 17:30 End of day
  • 18:30 Dinner (hostel)

Sunday, August 3

Departure day. Breakfast is provided at 8:00am. Check-out time at the hostel is 9:30am.