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 below is subject to change
Sunday, July 31
Arrival day. Check-in time at the hostel is 2pm – 10pm.
- 18:00 Registration (hostel)
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Monday, August 1
- 9:00 Breakfast (hostel)
- 10:00 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 10:30 Registration and brief orientation
- 10:45 Opening Remarks
- 11:00 Soheil Feizi (1st Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Thomas Ristenpart (1st Lecture)
- 15:30 Poster session with refreshments
- 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Tuesday, August 2
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Tom Goldstein (1st Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Soheil Feizi (2nd Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Guest Lecture: Asia Biega
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Viktor Vafeiadis (1st Lecture)
- 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Wednesday, August 3
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Thomas Ristenpart (2nd Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Tom Goldstein (2nd Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Guest Lecture: Christof Paar
Fun Ways to Build Hardware Trojans: From Transistors to Firmware Manipulation - 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Panel Session 1: “Why do a Ph.D. in computer science?”
- 18:00 Bus to banquet venue
- 18:30 Banquet – Albrechts Casino am Staden
Thursday, August 4
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Guest Lecture: Krishna Gummadi
Foundations for Fair Social Computing - 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Panel Session 2: How to apply to grad school
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:30 Excursion
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Friday, August 5
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Robbert van Renesse (1st Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Viktor Vafeiadis (2nd Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Group-Mentoring Session
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Guest Lecture: Emma Pierson
Data Science for Social Equality - 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Saturday, August 6
- 8:00 Breakfast (hostel)
- 9:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 10:00 Robbert van Renesse (2nd Lecture)
- 11:30 Lunch (at institute)
- 13:00 Mariya Toneva
- 14:30 Closing remarks
- 14:45 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Sunday, August 7
Departure day. Breakfast is provided at 8:00am. Check-out time at the hostel is 9:30am.