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INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
BigDat 2015
Tarragona, Spain
January 26-30, 2015
Organized by Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/
--- 2nd registration deadline: July 23, 2014 ---
AIM:
BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be required for some of them.
BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
REGIME:
In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel 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:
BigDat 2015 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:
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data Applications to Clouds and HPC
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining
William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba
COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano), [introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data
Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced]
From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets
Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams
Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining Deep Web Repositories
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba
Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems
Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania) [intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams
Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data
Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User Engagement
Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami), [introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual Data
Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data Visualization
Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), [introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore to Tackle Big Data
David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data Parallel Programming
Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in Simulation-based Science
Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social Networks
Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), [introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale Graphs
Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud
Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets
Johan Suykens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data
Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems
Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced] Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling
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/bigdat2015/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 and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event.
FEES:
As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
ACCOMMODATION:
Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time.
CERTIFICATE:
Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
BigDat 2015 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