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dmanet Digest, Vol 76, Issue 26

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Today's Topics:

1. SSTiC 2014: last-minute half-price registration (GRLMC)
2. DEADLINE APPROACHING: MADALGO Summer School on Learning at
Scale (Lars Arge)
3. PhD student position in automatic algorithm configuration at
IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium (Thomas Stuetzle)
4. IEEE IPDPS 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (Francesco Silvestri)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:03:24 +0200
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc@urv.cat>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] SSTiC 2014: last-minute half-price registration
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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/

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--- Last-minute registration at half price! ---

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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 21 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

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 Mart?n-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:

Last-minute registration: July 5, 2014 --- 250 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@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


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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:22:50 +0200
From: Lars Arge <large@cs.au.dk>
To: <DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] DEADLINE APPROACHING: MADALGO Summer School on
Learning at Scale
Message-ID: <53B0132A.1000800@cs.au.dk>
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MADALGO Summer School on

LEARNING AT SCALE

August 11- 14, 2014, Aarhus University, Denmark

madalgo.au.dk/learningatscale2014


OVERVIEW AND GOAL
The MADALGO Summer School 2014 will introduce attendees to the latest
developments in learning at scale. The topics will include high
dimensional inference, algorithmic perspectives on learning and
optimization, and challenges in learning with huge data.

LECTURES
The school will be taught by experts in learning:
* Amr Ahmed (Google)
* Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State)
* Stefanie Jegelka (Berkeley)
* Ankur Moitra (MIT)

PARTICIPATION
The summer school will take place on August 11-14, 2014 at Center for
Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) at the Department of Computer
Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. The school is targeted at graduate
students, as well as researchers interested in an in-depth introduction
to Learning.

The capacity of the Summer School is limited. Prospective participants
should register as soon as possible. Registering graduate students must
also have their supervisor send a letter confirming their graduate
students status directly to tjh@cs.au.dk; the subject of the e-mail
should be 'student_/SS_2014/confirming'. Registration is on a
first-come-first-serve basis and will close on Friday July 4, 2014.
Registration is free; handouts, coffee breaks, lunches and a dinner will
be provided by MADALGO and Aarhus University.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)
* Peyman Afshani (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Lars Arge (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Gerth S. Brodal (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Kasper Green Larsen (MADALGO, Aarhus University)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
* Trine Ji Holmgaard (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Katrine ?stergaard Rasmussen (MADALGO, Aarhus University)

ABOUT MADALGO
Center for Massive Data Algorithmics is a major basic research center
funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The center is located
at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, but
also includes researchers at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the US, and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
and at Frankfurt University in Germany. The center covers all areas of
the design, analysis and implementation of algorithms and data
structures for processing massive data (interpreted broadly to cover
computations where data is large compared to the computational
resources), but with a main focus on I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious and
data stream algorithms.




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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:27:31 +0200
From: Thomas Stuetzle <stuetzle@ulb.ac.be>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PhD student position in automatic algorithm
configuration at IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
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The IRIDIA laboratory of Universit? Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) has one
open PhD position for research on the automatic design and
configuration of heuristic and/or exact algorithms for computationally
hard optimization problems.

Candidates should have an excellent background in computer science
and/or operations research; more particular, a solid formation in
algorithms, optimization, machine learning, statistics as well as
excellent programming skills are required. Very good communication and
writing skills in English are expected. The candidate will work under
the supervision of Dr. Thomas Stuetzle.

IRIDIA is the computational intelligence laboratory of Universit?
Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. IRIDIA is a
multi-disciplinary laboratory with active research lines on swarm
intelligence, heuristic optimization, and swarm robotics; it is also
very international with researchers of more than 10 different
nationalities and English as working language.

The appointment can be for a maximum of four years (with annual
evaluation) with a net monthly fellowship of more than 1750
Euros.

To apply to this position, please send

- a cover letter with a motivation why you want to pursue a PhD
- a detailed CV
- academic transcripts and grades
- a statement of research interests
- a copy of bachelor and master thesis as well as any other scientific
publications
- 3 references and their e-mail addresses.


Please send the application material in a single pdf file to
stuetzle@ulb.ac.be as soon as possible (a first cut-off date after
which candidatures will be examined is July 15); however, we continue
reviewing applications until the position is filled.


IRIDIA: http://code.ulb.ac.be/iridia.home.php
ULB: http://www.ulb.ac.be/ulb/presentation/uk.html





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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:34:40 +0200
From: Francesco Silvestri <silvest1@dei.unipd.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IEEE IPDPS 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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July 1, 2014 Release

IEEE IPDPS 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

Hyderabad, INDIA
May 25-29, 2015
www.ipdps.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
? Workshop proposals due ... August 1, 2014
? Submissions due (ABSTRACT) ... October 10, 2014
? Submissions due (PAPER) ... October 17, 2014
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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel
Processing In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing

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IPDPS 2015 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

IPDPS workshops, held on the first and last days of the symposium,
provide attendees an opportunity to explore special topics. They also
broaden the content of the week's presentations by extending the
topics of interest beyond those of the main symposium. IPDPS workshops
are a major part of the IPDPS week-long family of events. Attendance
at all of the IPDPS workshops, along with receipt of the published
proceedings, is included in the registration fee for IPDPS. For more
information on organizing a new workshop and instructions for
submitting a formal proposal, contact the Workshops Chair
(workshops@ipdps.org) before August 1, 2014.

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IPDPS 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IPDPS travels to India in 2015. Voted best convention venue in India
multiple times, the Hyderabad International Convention Centre will
host an event that offers the full IPDPS program of workshops,
contributed papers, and keynote speakers, as well as a very special
opportunity for attendees and their families to visit Hyderabad and
explore other parts of India. The top rated Rajiv Gandhi International
Airport (RGIA) has direct flights from all international hubs and
direct flights to all major cities in India. Hyderabad is a city that
offers a variety of tourist attractions ranging from heritage
monuments, lakes and parks, and gardens and museums to a richly mixed
cultural and historical tradition spanning 2000 years. Modern
development has made it the center of new technologies; it is
sometimes called Genome Valley and Cyberabad to reflect the
biotechnology and information technology investments and industrial
parks. Visit this Website regularly for updates on travel tips and
other information for attendees to help plan your trip to IPDPS 2015.

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Susamma Barua (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
R. Govindarajan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

PROGRAM CHAIR
Srinivas Aluru (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
?mit V. ?ataly?rek (Ohio State University, USA) | workshops@ipdps.org

WORKSHOPS VICE-CHAIR
Bora U?ar (ENS Lyon, France)

WORKSHOPS PROCEEDINGS VICE-CHAIR
Ramachandran Vaidyanathan (Louisiana State University, USA)



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