Networks of interacting agents are everywhere. Populations competing for resources, neurons in the brain, and computer networks are just a few examples that we encounter every day. In this year's edition of ADFOCS we will analyze networks from three different perspectives. By looking at networks in three very different contexts, we hope to find unifying ideas, and identify future challenges and promising approaches towards our understanding of networks, that can serve as a touchstone to bring these communities closer together. This summer school's scope is international, and its goal is to bring together leading researchers with international participants of graduate level and above.
No prior knowledge of distributed algorithms or algorithmic game theory is necessary to attend this course.
ADFOCS is organized by Stefano Leucci, Will Rosenbaum, and Cosmina Croitoru as part of the activities of the Algorithms and Complexity Group and the International Max Planck Research School of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions via email to adfocs@mpi-inf.mpg.de.
August 19 Monday |
August 20 Tuesday |
August 21 Wednesday |
August 16 Thursday |
August 17 Friday |
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8.00-8.55 | Registration (Campus E1 4, ground floor) |
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9.00 | Lecture Pierre Fraigniaud |
Éva Tardos |
Lecture (9:15) Kurt Mehlhorn Trustworthy Graph Algorithms |
Exercises Pierre Fraigniaud |
Éva Tardos |
10.45 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
11.15 | Lecture Pierre Fraigniaud |
Éva Tardos |
Lecture Christoph Lenzen Distance Approximation and Routing |
Lecture Pierre Fraigniaud |
Lecture MPII Members |
13.00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
14.30 | Éva Tardos |
Exercises Pierre Fraigniaud |
Excursion |
Éva Tardos |
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16.15 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
16.45-18.30 | Éva Tardos |
Lecture Pierre Fraigniaud |
Maps and such:
The registration fee is EUR 130 for early registration
(deadline July 19, 2019) and EUR 180 for late registration (after July 20, 2018).
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.
Websites of previous ADFOCS summer schools.
We will offer a limited number of travel grants for graduate students and young researchers.
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.
June 21, 2019, 24:00 Central European Summer Time (longest day of the year)
(By the deadline, we must receive both the CV and the letter of recommendation)
by June 28, 2019
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.
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:
You will probably try to reach Saarbrücken by train. If you have a flight to Frankfurt, this is extremely easy. There is a train station right in the terminal building. Trains run frequently. You have to buy a ticket before you board the train, and there you can also ask which trains to take.
If you are a group of people, note that there is a special offer called "Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket" (nice week-end ticket) for sundays and saturdays. It costs 44 Euros (or 42 at the machines) and entitles up to 5 people to travel a whole day on all local trains ("S-Bahn" (S), "Regional-Express" (RE), "Regional-Bahn" (RB)). Several such connections to Saarbrücken only use such trains, so this is not a real limitation. For week days, there is a similar offer called "Quer-durchs-Land"-Ticket.
If you arrive at some other airport, things are not that simple, but there are still train connections.
From the train station to your hotel you can use public transport: Buses and a tramway that is called "Saarbahn".
Specific bus queries (using the names of the bus/tram stops) can be entered here (enter the name of the origin bus/tram stop in the "von" field, the destination in the "nach" field, and in the next two, date and time).
Your ADFOCS name badge entitles you to free public transport in Saarbrücken from August 13 to August 17. All buses to the MPII will have "Universität" as part of their destination sign. You get off the bus at the stop "Universität Mensa". The MPI building is located on the left side a bit further down the street (Building number E1.4). You can also look at the map below. On the way back you depart from the same bus stop (other side of the road).