Estonian Summer School in Computer and Systems Science (ESSCaSS 2013)

International summer school for PhD and MSc students, postdocs, faculty

August 18-22 2013 (Sun-Thu), Voore Guesthouse, Estonia

Website: http://esscass.cs.ut.ee/2013/

Registration form online: http://eid.ee/1b8

Important dates

Early bird registration: June 30 (Su)

Notification: June 5th (Fri)

Late registration last deadline: Aug 4 (Su)

Programme

The programme of an ESSCaSS school consists of short courses by enowned specialists accompanied by a student session of short talks and poster presentations.

The courses to be presented at ESSCaSS’13 are:

Bing Liu – Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

Fosca Giannotti – Mobility Data Analysis and Mining

Frits Vaandrager – Inference of State Machines

Vitaly Shmatikov – Privacy Technologies: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Is To Be Done

Dino Pedreschi – Social network analysis: a crash mini-course

Posters and Student Presentations

The school will have sessions for poster presentations and talks from participants. Please register Your tentative topic at the application form. We will send the notification and ask for poster abstracts by July 30th from the accepted participants.

Venue

The summer school will take place at Voore Guesthouse in Estonian countryside.

Tallinn, Estonia’s capital, is famous for its picturesque medieval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Travel

There are direct flights to Tallinn from many cities in Europe by many different carriers. Alternatively, one can travel to Riga, Latvia and from there by bus to Tallinn, or alternatively, to Helsinki, Finland and from there by ferry to Tallinn. For more detailed travel information, please take a look at the travel information web page at IoC.

There will be bus transfer from Tallinn and Tartu on the arrival day Sunday 18th, and back after the school ends.

Registration and Cost

The participation fee is 300 EUR for early bird and 380 EUR later. Fee includes the school materials, full board and lodging for the duration of the summer school, and transportation to and from Tallinn and Tartu by bus.

Students are expected to contact their supervisors or department heads about covering the registration fee (there will be dedicated funds available for most students). The doctoral students of the Estonian Doctoral School in Information and Communication Technology do not have to pay a registration fee (please mark that you are an IKTDK student to the payment comment line when registering).

Organizers

The series is organised by University of Tartu Institute of COmputer Science and Tallinn University of Technology.

Contacts

E-mail: esscass@ut.ee

Telephone: +372 50 49365

Facebook page for ESSCaSS

Sponsors

The organisers of ESSCaSS’12 wish to thank the supporters and sponsors: