Call for participation

16th Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science (ESSCaSS 2017)

Dates: August 20-24 2017 (Sun-Thu)
Location: Jäneda Manor, Estonia
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/t/esscass2017/
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 specialising 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

Audris Mockus - From Software Engineering to Evidence Engineering
Carl Henrik Ek - Machine Learning: beliefs, models and inference
Kalle Lyytinen - Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World; Metahuman systems- a new socio-technical challenge; “Computing” Requirements for Open Source Software: A Distributed Cognitive Approach
Jaakko Hollmén - Machine learning: predictive analytics in health and environment

Presentations on spotlight topics

This year there will be additional intriguing presentations:

Starship Technologies - "under the hood" technologies.
CyberSecurity serious games initiative on "Locked Shields"
Discussion on reproducibility in science lead by PhD students

Posters and Student Presentations

The school will have sessions for poster presentations and talks from participants. Please register your tentative topic at the online registration form. We will send the notification and ask for poster abstracts at the beginning of August from the accepted participants.

Important Dates

Early bird registration: July 2 (Sun)
Notification: July 10th (Mon)
Late registration last deadline: Aug 6 (Sun)

Registration and Cost

Registration to summer school has ended.

The participation fee is 320 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 who are members of ICT doctoral school either in the of Tartu University or Tallinn University of Technology - you do not have to pay registration fee. It will be covered from University of Tartu ASTRA project PER ASPERA Doctoral School of Information and Communication Technologies.

Please mark the option "I'm a member of ICT doctoral school. ICT doctoral school will cover my participation fee" in the registration form .

Lists of the members of the ICT doctoral schools are available here:

Supervisors, if you are supervising one or more of the ICT doctoral school members, your participation fee will also be covered from University of Tartu ASTRA project PER ASPERA Doctoral School of Information and Communication Technologies. Please mark that you are the supervisor of a PhD student who is a member of ICT doctoral school in the registration form .

Masters' students are very welcome to participate summer school. University of Tartu ASTRA project PER ASPERA Doctoral School of Information and Communication Technologies will cover the participation fee of a limited number of master's students.

Venue and travel

Venue
The summer school will take place at Jäneda Manor, Estonia, that is 70 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 20th, and back after the school ends.

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)
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

16th Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science