Schedule
Times are in Central European Standard Time
Monday, March 21, 2022 ¦ Tuesday, March 22, 2022
- Welcome to EPFL!
On behalf of the Doctoral Program in Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, congratulations!
Our Open House for admitted EDIC fellowship students will run for two days, from Monday, March 21 to Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
We are glad to announce that we can host the Open House both on site and remotely for participants that cannot currently travel to Lausanne.
We have planned a large number of short talks and group events, as well as plenty of opportunities for one-on-one meetings with IC faculty and students. These meetings are a great opportunity for you to learn more about the research we do, as well as ask all the questions you have about PhD student life at EPFL and in Lausanne.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Michael Kapralov and Wenzel Jakob, 2022 EDIC Open House Chairs
Schedule
Indicated time in Central European Standard Time. The event will be live streamed and recorded. The Zoom links will be communicated by email to registered participants.
Day 1 – Monday, March 21
| Time | On site program | Online |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration & welcome coffee | |
| 09:00-10:00 | IC Colloquium* | IC Colloquium* |
| 10:10-12:30 | Lightning talks in 2 parallel tracks | Lightning talks in 2 parallel tracks |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch Break | Break |
| 14:00-18:00 | Research area roundtable discussions & One-on-one meetings | Research area roundtable discussions & One-on-one meetings |
| 15:30-16:30 | Meet the EDIC team, Q&A about the program | Meet the EDIC team, Q&A about the program |
| 18:00-19:00 | Campus tour | |
| 20:00 on | Dinner in town |
Day 2 – Tuesday, March 22
| Time | On site program | Online |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-12:30 | One-on-one meetings | One-on-one meetings |
| 12:00-12:30 | Closing remarks | Closing remarks |
| 12:30-13:45 | Lunch break | Break |
| 14:00-18:00 | Free program/excursion | One-on-one meetings |
IC Colloquium*
On Monday, Divya Mahajan from Microsoft Research will be presenting her work on AI/ML accelerators. You are encouraged to attend her talk, which will give you a sense of the external speakers you can expect at EPFL I&C (however, participation in this part is optional).
Lightning Talks
| Time | Talk |
|---|---|
| BC420 | |
| 10:10-10:20 | Welcome by OH chairs |
| 10:20-10:35 | Prof. Rachid Guerraoui (Distributed Computing Lab) The quest for the lost universality (moderns clouds, genuinely distributed crypto-currencies and decentralized ML) |
| 10:35-10:50 | Akash Dhasade (Scalable Computing Systems, Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec) (Re)Designing decentralized learning algorithms: A systems view |
| 10:50-11:05 | Prof. Carmela Troncoso (Security and Privacy Engineering Lab) Building socially responsible systems |
| 11:05-11:25 | Break |
| 11:25-11:40 | Stefan Nikolić (Processor Architecture Lab, Prof. Paolo Ienne) Systematic exploration of reconfigurable interconnect |
| 11:40-11:55 | Prof. Matthias Payer (HexHive) Finding vulnerabilities in unexpected places |
| 11:55-12:10 | Simon Guilloud (Laboratory for Automated Reasoning and Analysis, Prof. Viktor Kunčak) Formal verification of proofs and programs |
| 12:10-12:25 | Etienne Bamas (Theory of Computation Lab 2, Prof. Ola Svensson) Combinatorial optimization, old and new |
| BC410 | |
| 10:10-10:20 | Welcome by OH chairs |
| 10:20-10:35 | Prof. Pascal Fua (Computer Vision Lab) From images to deep 3D surfaces |
| 10:35-10:50 | Delio Vicini (Realistic Graphics Lab, Prof. Wenzel Jakob) Physically-based differentiable rendering |
| 10:50-11:05 | Prof. Amir Zamir (Visual Intelligence and Learning Lab) Robust vision for robots |
| 11:05-11:25 | Break |
| 11:25-11:40 | Tong Zhang (Image and Visual Representation Lab, Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk) Deep image and visual representation |
| 11:40-11:55 | Jade Cock (Machine Learning for Education Lab, Prof. Tanja Käser) Machine learning for education |
| 11:55-12:10 | Maxime Peyrard (Data Science Lab, Prof. Robert West) Invariant language models |
| 12:10-12:25 | Dr. Yanina Shkel (Lab for Information in Networked Systems) Functional representation of information |
Research Area Roundtable Discussions
| Time | Room | Research area |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-15:00 | BC133 | Information & Coding Theory Michael Gastpar, Olivier Lévêque, Nicolas Macris, Yanina Shkel, Rüdiger Urbanke, Emre Telatar |
| 14:00-15:00 | BC333 | Computer Graphics Wenzel Jakob, Mark Pauly |
| 14:00-15:00 | BC410 | Operating Systems & Networks Katerina Argyraki, Edouard Bugnion, George Candea, Haitham Hassanieh, Sanidhya Kashyap, Jim Larus |
| 15:00-16:00 | BC233 | Security & Privacy Rachid Guerraoui, Mathias Payer, Carmela Troncoso |
| 15:00-16:00 | BC333 | Systems for Data Management & Data Science Anastasia Ailamaki, Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Christoph Koch |
| 15:00-16:00 | BC410 | Theory of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Emmanuel Abbé, Nicolas Boumal, Volkan Cevher, Lénaïc Chizat, Nicolas Flammarion, Michael Gastpar, Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová |
| 16:00-17:00 | BC133 | Theoretical Computer Science Mika Göös, Ola Svensson |
| 16:00-17:00 | BC333 | Programming Languages & Formal Methods Viktor Kunčak, Martin Odersky, Clément Pit-Claudel |
| 16:00-17:00 | BC410 | Computer Vision Alexandre Alahi, Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine Süsstrunk, Amir Zamir |
| 17:00-18:00 | BC233 | Computer Architecture & Integrated Systems Andreas Burg, Babak Falsafi, Paolo Ienne, Sanidhya Kashyap, Mirjana Stojilovic |
| 17:00-18:00 | BC410 | Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Antoine Bosselut, Martin Jaggi, Tanja Käser, Rémi Lebret, Bob West |
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