The goal of this course is to learn from internationally recognized visiting professors research topics in different areas of Computer Science.

News:

• The talk of Prof. Zanker has been cancelled! Therefore, there is no talk on May 31!

Visiting professors invited by the Vienna PhD School of Informatics will give a 45-minute talk about their research area.

Lecturers:

• Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan (May 3rd, 2016)
• Arthur Zimek, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (May 18th, 2016)
• Markus Zanker, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (May 31st, 2016) (cancelled!)
• Blay Whitby, University of Sussex (June 1st, 2016)
• Dirk Pattinson, Australian National University (June 6th, 2016)
• Johann Makowsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (June 7th, 2016)
• Guido Sanguinetti - University of Edinburgh (June 30th, 2016)

Please visit TUWEL to:

• Download the slides of the course
• Download the template for the assignment
• Upload your assignment

Students will be graded provided that the following requirements are fulfilled:

• Attendance to a minimum of 4 lectures.
• Submission of assignment.

The assignment consists of a written summary of each of the lectures. Students who attend all 6 lectures should write a summary report of 3 lectures in 3 pages. Students who attend 4 or 5 lectures should write a summary report of attended 3 lectures in 5 pages.

These summaries should be written in English and in latex (a template will be provided in TUWEL). The deadline for submission of the assignment is July 31st at 23:55h through TUWEL.

Registration takes place in TISS