Call for participation

14th Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science (ESSCaSS 2015)

Dates: August 16-20 2015 (Sun-Thu)
Location: Nelijärve Holiday Centre, Estonia
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2015/
International summer school for PhD and MSc students, postdocs, faculty

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.

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.

Lectures and abstracts

Fionn Murtagh - Towards the New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex, Hierarchic Systems
Jilles Vreeken - Simply Exploring Data
Sethu Vijayakumar - Robots that Learn: Harnessing Advances in Machine Learning for Smart Actuation
Dekai Wu - AI=Learning to translate
Hannu Toivonen - Computational Creativity

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 July 31st from the accepted participants.

Venue and travel

Venue
The summer school will take place at Nelijärve Holiday Centre, Estonia, that is 66 km from Tallinn and 130 km from Tartu.

Travel

There are direct flights to Tallinn from many cities in Europe by many different carriers. Alternatively, one can travel to Riga, Latvia and from there by bus to Tartu, or alternatively, to Helsinki, Finland and from there by ferry to Tallinn. For more detailed travel information, please take a look at the travel information web page at IoC.

There will be bus transfer from Tallinn and Tartu on the arrival day Sunday 16th, and back after the school ends.

Important Dates

Early bird registration: July 3 (Fri)
Notification: July 10th (Fri)
Late registration last deadline: Aug 2 (Su)

Registration and Cost

The participation fee is 300 EUR for early bird and 380 EUR later.

Fee includes:

the school materials,
full board and lodging for the duration of the summer school,
transportation to and from Tallinn and Tartu by bus.

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

Doctoral students of Tartu University (Computer Science and Engineering and Technology curricula) do not have to pay registration fee as it will be covered from by their institutes. Please mark the option "My institute will pay. Please issue the invoice to my institute" in the registration form.

Doctoral students of Tallinn University of Technology - Faculty of Information Technology will finance the participation of 15 its successful doctoral students. The selection among registered doctoral students from TUT will be made based on the information entered to the registration form and selected students will be notified by 11th of July. Please mark the option "My institute will pay. Please issue the invoice to my institute" in the registration form.

Organizers

The series is organised by University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and Tallinn University of Technology.

Programme Committee:

Jaak Vilo (University of Tartu), chair
Marlon Dumas (University of Tartu)
Meelis Kull (University of Bristol)
Sven Laur (University of Tartu)
Konstantin Tretyakov (University of Tartu)
Helger Lipmaa (University of Tartu, Cybernetica Ltd)
Innar Liiv (Tallinn University of Technology)
Tarmo Uustalu (Tallinn University of Technology)

Organising Commitee:

Jaak Vilo (University of Tartu), chair
Eva Pruusapuu (University of Tartu), administrative tasks

Contacts:

E-mail: esscass@ut.ee
Telephone: +372 50 49365
Facebook page for ESSCaSS

14th Estonian Summer School on Computer and System Science