Ecole: BigDat 2015, August 23, 2014, registration deadline

Sun Aug 17 11:00:31 UTC 2014

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:08:34 +0200
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA

BigDat 2015

Tarragona, Spain

January 26-30, 2015

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/

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--- 3rd registration deadline: August 23, 2014 ---

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AIM:

BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates
in the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them
about the most recent developments in the fast developing area of big
data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research,
development and innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge
impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business
models, and society itself.  Renowned academics and industry pioneers
will lecture and share their views with the audience.

All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations,
infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and
applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of
big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour
courses, which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The
organizers believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and
most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the
event.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will
be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may
be required for some of them.

BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will
surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers,
industry leaders and innovators.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will
be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

BigDat 2015 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south
of Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba

Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data
Applications to Clouds and HPC

C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly
Big Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining

William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data
Analytics

Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano),
[introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies

Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University),
[introductory/intermediate] Programming with Big Data

Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City),
[introductory/advanced] From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms
to Hands-on Code Lab Practice on Real Datasets

Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate]
Process Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and
Streams

Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced]
Mining Deep Web Repositories

Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba

Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using
Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems

Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania)
[intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams

Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park)
[introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data

Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring
User Engagement

Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami),
[introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual
Data

Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data
Visualization

Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam),
[introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and
Multicore to Tackle Big Data

David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate]
Data Parallel Programming

Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big
Data in Simulation-based Science

Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus),
[intermediate] Scalable Data Analysis

Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social
Networks

Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette),
[introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving
Large-scale Graphs

Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security
and Privacy in the Cloud

Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology),
[introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets

Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Fixed-size Kernel
Models for Big Data

Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems

Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced]
Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template
is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will
be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each
course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will
be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period
will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the
capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to
register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees
are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the
week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the
registration deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

BigDat 2015
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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