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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING
SSTiC 2014
Tarragona, Spain
July 7-11, 2014
Organized by Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/
--- Early registration deadline: June 7 ---
AIM:
SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/
SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience.
SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 22 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them.
SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 3 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:
SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be:
Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis
David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness
George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin
Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style
Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling
COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
Divyakant Agrawal (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures
Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences
Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing
John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design
Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps
Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud
Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation
Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science
David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice
George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning
Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization
Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data
Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning
Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science
Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs
Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models
Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web
Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web
Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms
Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications
Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos MartÃn-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.
Since 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. It is very convenient to register prior to the event.
DEADLINES AND FEES:
As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline:
Early registration: June 7, 2014 --- 470 Euro Regular registration: July 5, 2014 --- 500 Euro On-site registration: July 11, 2014 --- 530 Euro
ACCOMMODATION:
Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Universitat Rovira i Virgili