Program

This year's ADFOCS features three lecturers, each of which will give three lectures and two exercise sessions. They will be distributed to eight blocks of about four hours. A typical morning or afternoon block will start with 1 1/2 hours of lecture, followed by 2 hours of exercises (in small groups without the lecturers). During the exercise periods, the respective lecturer will be around, as well as some fruits, snacks, and drinks.

There will be an additional slot for the members of the Algorithms and Complexity Group (D1) at MPI to introduce the different research areas of the group.

Schedule

Talks by members of MPI-INF

On Friday morning, some members of MPI-INF will present their own work

Excursion

On Wednesday afternoon, there will be an excursion offered.

Registration

The registration fee is EUR 130 for early registration (deadline July 15, 2016) and EUR 180 for late registration (after July 16, 2016).
This fee covers course material, lunches, and the excursion; it does not cover hotel accommodation.
We will provide some grants for graduate students and young researchers.
If you are a student (including PhD student) please register here: student registration
Otherwise please register here: regular registration

Websites of previous ADFOCS summer schools.

• ADFOCS 16 (2015)
• ADFOCS 15 (2014)
• ADFOCS 14 (2013)
• ADFOCS 13 (2012)
• ADFOCS 12 (2011)
• ADFOCS 11 (2010)
• ADFOCS 10 (2009)
• ADFOCS 9 (2008)
• ADFOCS 8 (2007)
• ADFOCS 7 (2006)
• ADFOCS 6 (2005)
• ADFOCS 5 (2004)
• ADFOCS 4 (2003)
• ADFOCS 3 (2002)
• ADFOCS 2 (2001)
• ADFOCS 1 (2000)

Grants

We will offer a limited number of travel grants for graduate students and young researchers.

Application

If you wish to apply for a grant, please send an email with a brief CV (name, affiliation, complete address, education, publications, nationality, etc.);
Please have your supervisor at your institute send an email with a brief letter of recommendation, certifying in particular your relation with the topics in ADFOCS, before the deadline.

Note that the travel grant is meant to roughly cover your local expenses (hotel/youth hostel, registration); it will not be sufficient to cover flight costs!

Please send both emails to adfocs@mpi-inf.mpg.de and indicate as subject "ADFOCS grant application". You will receive a confirmation of receipt of your application.

Deadline

June 1, 2016, Anywhere on Earth :)

Notification

June 17, 2015

Accommodation

The participants are responsible for their accommodation. In Saarbrücken per-night prices including taxes and breakfast typically range from EURO 20 (youth hostel, double room) to about 70 Euro (hotel, single room).

We have reserved a certain number of rooms in the following hotels. Please note that these reservation expire:

• Hotel Madeleine by 18 July
• Hotel B&B by 1 August
• Hotel Continental by 15 July
• Hotel Weller by 10 July
• Hotel Kaiserhof by 18 July

When booking a room at these hotels, please refer to "ADFOCS" since we have negotiated special rates for you.

Further options (without reserved contingents) include:

• Youth Hostel (closest to the university, not too expensive)
• Etap-Hotel
• City Hotel

Materials

• 

  Maurice Herlihy

  Brown University

  Consensus and wait-free data structures

  Highly-concurrent lists and other data structures

  Work-stealing and functional programming

• 

  Rotem Oshman

  Tel-Aviv University

  Distributed computing through the lens of communication complexity

• 

  Roger Wattenhofer

  ETH Zurich

  Sorting, Social Networks, Stabilization Labeling Schemes, Arrow & Ivy, Bitcoin