STWinterMeeting2015

"Reuniune de iarnă" 2015 = ST winter meeting 2015

The winter meeting will be held at Säröhus on the 3th-4th February 2015. The programme includes talks and social activities. We recommend taking bathing suits as Säröhus has spa facilities. There are no outdoor activities planned, but the area is very nice for walks, so bringing weatherproof shoes/clothes might be a good idea.

Getting there and coming back:

The bus will leave from next to the Copper Dome (Kopparbunken) (Google Maps) at 9:00 on 3 February. Please be there at 8:55 the latest. Säröhus lies about 25 km south of Gothenburg, on the coast. If you plan to get there on your own, please notify the organisers.

We plan to arrive back at Chalmers around 17:10 on 4 February.

Detailed schedule:

Day 1 = Tuesday

9:00 Leaving from Chalmers with chartered bus
9:40 Arrival at Säröhus + welcome coffee
10:20-12:30 Session 1 (Session chair: WoAh)
- 10:20-10:30 Welcome!
- 10:30-11:00 Aarne Ranta: "GF Offline Translator: 2 Million Lines of Code"
- 11:00-12:30 FM talks:
  - Raúl Pardo Jiménez: "Preserving privacy in Social Networks"
  - Evgeny Kotelnikov: "First-Class Boolean Sort in First-Order Theorem Proving and TPTP"
  - Magnus Myreen: "Turning Proof Assistant into Programming Assistants"
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Session 2 (Session chair: AnPe)
- 14:30-15:00 Atze van der Ploeg: “Forget the past, change the future!”
- 15:00-15:30 Nikita Frolov: “Decomposing schedules of recursive programs”
15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Session 3 (Session chair: RaEn)
- 15:45-16:15 Patrik Jansson: “High School Haskell - an experience report”
- 16:15-17:00 Niklas Broberg: “Should I Stay or Should I Go? - Rethinking Introductory Programming”
17:00-19:30 Activity
20:00 Dinner

Day 2 = Wednesday

9:00-10:00 Session 4 (Session chair: CeIo)
- 9:00-9:30 Björn von Sydow: “Chebyshev revisited"
- 9:30-10:00 Dave Sands: “Just How Big are Dave’s Feet? - An introduction to Differential Privacy"
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:30 Session 5 (Session chair: DaSa)
- 10:30-11:20 Hamid Ebadi, Luciano Bello, Bart van Delft, Daniel Schoepe: "The security mess that was 2014" (40 min)
- 11:20-11:50 Johan Nordlander: “Functional, imperative – same thing, pretty much!”
- 11:50-12:20 Markus Aronsson: "Signal processing for various reasons"
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 ST 2015-02 division meeting
16:00 Goodbye coffee
16:30 Leaving from Säröhus
17:10? Arriving back to Chalmers

Organising team: Ramona Enache, Michał Pałka, Cezar Ionescu, Jonna Amgard, Patrik Jansson.

Previous meeting: ST Winter Meeting 2014

Regular talks:

"We would like to encourage talks that are interesting, inspiring, perhaps even entertaining. The speakers are welcome to choose topics from their research domains, but may also select other topics relevant to general Computer Science. The talks may also be about things unrelated to Computer Science if the speakers are particularly interested and enthusiastic about them."

Timeless papers

As a special session at the Winter Meeting 2015, we will have presentations of "Timeless Papers". It's your chance to present your favourite classical paper from Computer Science and show that even though the field evolves so fast, there are papers which are as relevant today as they were when published. Presentations of "timeless papers" should include some information about the main contribution of the paper and also some brief pointers to the influence that the paper over the years. For these reasons we would like to have papers which are older than 10-15 years and preferably not written by the person presenting them :-) Depending on how many of you volunteer to present their favourite paper, we can decide how much time we could allocate for each presentation.