MPI-INF 25th Anniversary – Scientific Symposium
Location: Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, Campus E2.2, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Program
24 September 2015 | |
| WelcomeGerhard Weikum, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics |
GreetingsAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Prime Minister of the German Federal State of SaarlandWolf-Dieter Lukas, Department Head at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Volker Linneweber, President of Saarland University Ludwig Kronthaler, Secretary General of the Max Planck Society | |
15:20 | Leslie Valiant Harvard University How Nature Exploits Big Data: Learning and Evolution |
16:00 | Peter Sanders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Algorithm Engineering, Parallel Algorithms, and the MPII |
16:40 | Coffee Break |
17:10 | Leif Kobbelt RWTH Aachen From Quad Meshes to Quad Layouts – Advances in the Optimization of 3D Models |
17:50 | Tony de Rose Pixar Animation Studios How Mathematics has Changed Hollywood |
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25 September 2015 | |
09:00 | Andrew Blake |
09:40 | Wolfgang Heidrich |
10:20 | Fabian Suchanek Télécom ParisTech A Hitchhiker's Guide to Ontologies |
11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 | Friedrich Eisenbrand EPFL Diameter of Polyhedra and Linear Programming |
12:10 | Leslie Lamport Microsoft Research A Mathematical View of Computing Systems |
12:50 | Lunch |
13:50 | Tom Mitchell Carnegie Mellon University How to Raise a Computer: Never-Ending Machine Learning |
14:30 | Niko Beerenwinkel ETH Zürich Modeling Cancer Evolution from Genomic Data |
15:10 | Coffee Break |
15:40 | Susanne Albers Technische Universität München Modeling Real-World Data Sets |
16:20 | Robert E. Tarjan Princeton University Data Structures and Graph Algorithms |
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