[compgeom-announce] MADALGO Data Stream Summer School and Inauguration Event

[Lars Arge <large@madalgo.au.dk>]

                    MADALGO Summer School on
                     DATA STREAM ALGORITHMS
                              and
                      MADALGO INAUGURATION

               August 20-23 and August 24, 2007
                       Aarhus, Denmark

                   http://www.madalgo.au.dk/

Center for MAssive Data ALGOrithmics, is a major new basic research
center funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The center is
located at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus,
Denmark, but also includes researchers at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, USA, and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
Germany. The center covers all areas of the design, analysis and
implementation of algorithms and data structures for processing massive
data (interpreted broadly to cover computations where data is large
compared to the computational resources), but initial focus will mainly
be on I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious and data stream algorithms.

In the week of August 20-24, 2007, the center will host both a summer
school and an inauguration event.

--------------------------  SUMMER SCHOOL  --------------------------

OVERVIEW
The area of data stream algorithms has experienced a tremendous growth
over the last decade; computing over continuous streams of data using
only a limited amount of memory has become of key importance in many
applications, including analysis of massive data sets and network
monitoring. At the same time, the area has been enriched by the
discovery of strong connections to other fields, such as randomized
dimensionality reduction, metric embeddings, communication complexity
and compressed sensing.

GOAL AND TOPICS
The goal of the summer school is to provide an in-depth introduction to
some of the key issues in data stream computing, with the emphasis on
theoretical tools for designing and analyzing efficient data stream
algorithms. Specific topics include:

* Algorithms for metric and geometric data streams
* Randomized sketching and compressed sensing
* Histograms, norms and other statistics of data streams
* Algorithms for ordered data
* Lower bounds and communication complexity

LECTURES
The topics will be covered by experts in the area:

* Sudipto Guha (U. Penn)
* Sariel Har-Peled (UIUC)
* Piotr Indyk (MIT)
* T.S. Jayram (IBM Almaden)
* Ravi Kumar (Yahoo!)
* D. Sivakumar (Google)

PARTICIPATION
The summer school will take place on August 20-23, 2007 at MADALGO in
the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

The school is targeted at graduate students, as well as researchers
interested in an in-depth introduction to data stream algorithmics.

The capacity of the summer school is limited. Prospective participants
should register using the online registration form available at
http://www.madalgo.au.dk/streamschool07/ as soon as possible.
Registering graduate students must also have their supervisor send a
letter confirming their graduate student status directly to
madalgo@madalgo.au.dk; the subject line of the email should be
'student_last_name/SS_2007/confirming'. Registration is on a
first-come-first-serve basis and will close on June 15, 2007.

Registration is free; handouts, coffee breaks, lunches and a dinner will
be provided by MADALGO and the University of Aarhus.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lars Arge (MADALGO, Aarhus)
Gerth S. Brodal (MADALGO, Aarhus)
Piotr Indyk (MADALGO, MIT)
Else Magård (MADALGO, Aarhus)


--------------------------  INAUGURATION  --------------------------

OVERVIEW
The formation of MADALGO will be celebrated at an inauguration event
immediately following the MADALGO summer school on data stream algorithms.

PROGRAM
The event will consist of two parts - a scientific part in the morning
and a more formal inauguration part in the afternoon. The event will end
with a reception.

The scientific part will consist of half hour scientific talks by
highly-recognized (and non-center) international researchers in the core
center research areas, including by
  - MIT Computer Science Professor Charles Leiserson
    (one of the initiators of the cache-oblivious algorithms area)
  - Purdue University Dean of Science Jeff Vitter
    (one of the initiators of the I/O-efficient algorithms area)
  - Karlsruhe University Computer Science Professor Peter Sanders
    (one of the main forces in the algorithms engineering area)

The formal inauguration part in the afternoon will consist of a number
of presentations, including presentations by
  - Chairman of the Danish National Research Foundation Klaus Bock
    (also Carlsberg Vice President for Research and Development)
  - University of Aarhus Dean of Science Erik Meineche Schmidt
  - MADALGO Center Leader Lars Arge

More speakers will be announced shortly.

PARTICIPATION
The inauguration even will take place on August 24, 2007 at MADALGO in
the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Everybody is welcome; participation is free.

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