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, August 6
Arrival day. Check-in time at the hostel is 2pm-10pm.
- 18:30 Registration (hostel)
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Monday, August 7
- 9:00 Breakfast (hostel)
- 10:00 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 10:30 Registration and brief orientation
- 10:45 Opening Remarks
- 11:00 Moritz Hardt (1st Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Yixin Zou (1st Lecture)
- 15:30 Poster session with refreshments
- 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
- 20:00 Owolabi available on Zoom (Link on Mattermost)
Tuesday, August 8
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Murphy Yuezhen Niu (1st Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Moritz Hardt (2nd Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Guest Lecture: Jordan Boyd-Graber
- 15:30 Break
- 16:00 Owolabi Legunsen (1st Lecture)
- 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
- 20:00 Owolabi and Bobby available on Zoom (Link on Mattermost)
Wednesday, August 9
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Yixin Zou (2nd Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Laxman Dhulipala (1st Lecture)
- 12:30 Lunch
- 14:00 Murphy Yuezhen Niu (2nd Lecture)
- 15:30 Break / Owolabi available on Zoom
- 16:00 Panel Session 1: “Why do a Ph.D. in computer science?”
Confirmed panelists: Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Owolabi Legunsen, Mariya Toneva, and Camila Kolling
Chairs: Lorenzo Alvisi & Peter Druschel - 18:00 Bus to banquet venue
- 18:30 Banquet – Ratskeller Saarbrücken
Thursday, August 10
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (1st Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Panel Session 2: “Research in industry vs. academia”
Confirmed panelists: Laxman Dhulipala, Paul Francis, Suhas Thejaswi, Yixin Zou
Chair: Yiting Xia - 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:30 Excursion to Saarschleife
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
- 20:00 Owolabi and Bobby available on Zoom (Link on Mattermost)
Friday, August 11
- 7:30 Breakfast (hostel)
- 8:30 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 9:00 Laxman Dhulipala (2nd Lecture)
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Guest Lecture: Yiting Xia
- 12:30 Lunch (mensa)
- 14:00 Group-Mentoring Session
- 15:30 Break / Owolabi available on Zoom
- 16:00 Owolabi Legunsen (2nd Lecture)
- 17:30 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
- 20:00 Bobby available on Zoom (Link on Mattermost)
Saturday, August 12
- 9:00 Breakfast (hostel)
- 10:00 Bus to MPI-SWS
- 10:30 Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee (2nd Lecture)
- 12:00 Lunch (at institute)
- 14:00 Derek Dreyer: How to write papers and give talks that people can follow
- 15:30 Closing remarks
- 15:45 End of day
- 19:00 Dinner (hostel)
Sunday, August 13
Departure day. Breakfast is provided at 8:00am. Check-out time at the hostel is 9:30am.