Call for participation

7th Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science in cooperation with the Nordic Network On DEpendable Systems (NODES)

Otepää, Estonia, August 24 - 29, 2008
http://courses.cs.ut.ee/schools/esscass2008/

Background and Objectives

The Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science is an annual international event promoting interdisciplinary education of graduate students specializing in (but not limited to) computer science, systems science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. These schools carry an important role in doctoral education in Estonia.

The summer school is organized in association with the NODES - Network On DEpendable Systems in this year and includes a one-day NODES'08 Workshop.

International participation is open to everyone, and we would like to welcome you to register for the school. To apply, please fill in the online registration form. Preference will be given to early applicants.

Programme

The programme of an ESSCaSS school consists of short courses by renowned specialists accompanied by a student session of short talks and poster presentations.

The courses to be presented at ESSCaSS'07 are:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research and Dept. of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile -- Web Mining or The Wisdom of the Crowds
Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics -- The Web as a Social Environment
Arend Rensink, University of Twente -- Graph Transformation for Specification and Verification
Algirdas Avižienis, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania -- Fundamental Concepts of Dependable and Secure Computing and Architectures of Fault-Tolerant Systems
Nordic Network on DEpendable Systems (NODES) -- Tutorial on Dependability

Posters and Student Presentations

The school will have sessions for poster presentations and talks from participants. Please register your tentative topic at the application form. We will send the notification and ask for poster abstracts by August 10th from the accepted participants.

Venue

The Summer School will take place at the Marguse Holiday Center http://www.marguse.ee. Marguse center is situated at just a 15-minute walk from downtown Otepää , 800 metres from Väike Munamägi /Small Egg Mountain/.

Map

Tallinn, Estonia's capital, is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Travel

There exist direct flights to Tallinn from many cities in Europe by many different carriers, including Easyjet flights from London Stansted and Berlin. Alternatively, one can travel via Riga, Latvia or Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki is connected with Tallinn by over 30 ferries a day, taking from only 1h 30 min to 3 h to cross. There will be a bus transport organised from Tallinn to Otepää on the arrival day Sunday 24th, and back after the school ends.

Important Dates

Early bird registration: June 15th
Notification: June 27th

Registration and Cost

The participation fee is 260 EUR (4000 EEK) for early bird and 320 EUR later. Fee includes the school materials, full board and lodging for the duration of the summer school, and transportation to and from Tallinn by bus.

Students are expected to contact their supervisors or department heads about covering the registration fee.

Organizers

The series is organised by University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TTU).

Programme Committee:

Jaak Vilo (University of Tartu), chair
Juhan Ernits (Tallinn Univ. of Technology / Inst. of Cybernetics), co-chair
Meelis Kull (University of Tartu),
Marko Kääramees (Tallinn University of Technology),
Sven Laur (University of Tartu),
Jaan Penjam (Institute of Cybernetics, TTU),
Tarmo Uustalu (Institute of Cybernetics, TTU),
Jüri Vain (Tallinn University of Technology),

Organising Commitee:

Jaak Vilo (University of Tartu), chair
Juhan Ernits (Institute of Cybernetics, TTU)
Marko Kääramees (Tallinn University of Technology)
Triin Käpp (University of Tartu)

Contacts:

E-mail: esscass08 at ut dot ee
Telephone: +372 7375425; +372 50 49365