[DMANET] MADALGO Summer School on Algorithms for Modern Parallel and Distributed Models

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
(further details on topics and lectures will follow)

MADALGO Summer School on

ALGORITHMS FOR MODERN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED MODELS

August 20-23, 2012, Aarhus University, Denmark

www.madalgo.au.dk/pardist2012


OVERVIEW AND GOAL
Handling massive data often requires use of parallel or distributed
algorithms. Current technology offers many ways of implementing such
algorithms, e.g. GPUs, multi-core CPUs, the map-reduce framework, etc.
Each technology has its strengths, but also comes with some limitations.

The goal of the summer school is to provide an in-depth introduction to
some of the models of modern parallel and distributed technology, and
the key techniques used to design efficient algorithms in these models.
A number of open problems will also be highlighted.

LECTURERS
The school will be taught by experts in the area of parallel and
distributed algorithms. Confirmed lecturers are (further will be added):

* Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google)
* Graham Cormode (AT&T Research)
* Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)

PARTICIPATION
The summer school will take place on August 20-23, 2012 at Center for
Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) in the Department of Computer
Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.

The school is targeted at graduate students, as well as researchers
interested in algorithms for parallel and distributed models.

The capacity of the summer school is limited. Prospective participants
should register using the online registration form available at
www.madalgo.au.dk/pardist2012. 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_2012/confirming'. Registration is on a
first-come-first-serve basis and will close on Friday July 6, 2012.

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Peyman Afshani (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Lars Arge (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Gerth S. Brodal (MADALGO, Aarhus University)
* Ulrich Meyer (MADALGO, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
* Else Magard (MADALGO, Aarhus University
* Matie Bach Søgaard (MADALGO, Aarhus University
* Jan Frederiksen (Aarhus University)

ABOUT MADALGO
Center for Massive Data Algorithmics is a major basic research center
funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. The center is located
at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, but
also includes researchers at CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the US, and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics
and at Frankfurt University in 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 with a main focus on I/O-efficient, cache-oblivious, and
data stream algorithms. The center also emphasizes work on the boundary
between the algorithms and database areas, in particular work in
relation to efficient indexing and query and update processing.

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