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

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

Lecturers:

• Christiane Floyd, em.Prof. Universität Hamburg / D (March 30th, 2017)
• Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University / USA (April 27th, 2017)
• Guy Even, Tel-Aviv University / ISR (May 3rd, 2017)
• Thomas Kühne, Victoria University of Wellington / NZ (May10th, 2017)
• Alessandro Provetti, Birkbeck - University of London / GB - talk cancelled

The dates of the talks will be announced as soon as possible.

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 3 lectures.
• Submission of assignment.

The assignment consists of a written summary of each of the lectures. Students who attend 4 lectures should write a summary report of 3 lectures in 2 pages each. Students who attend 3  lectures should write a summary report of the attended 3 lectures in 3 pages each.

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