MPI-INF 25th Anniversary – Scientific Symposium

Location: Günter Hotz Lecture Hall, Campus E2.2, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

Program

24 September 2015


14:30

Welcome

Gerhard Weikum, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Greetings

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Prime Minister of the German Federal State of Saarland
Wolf-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

 

 

25 September 2015


09:00

Andrew Blake
Microsoft Research
Machines that learn to see


09:40

Wolfgang Heidrich
KAUST
Computational Imaging and Display Hardware-Software Co-design for Imaging Devices


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

17:00


Closing Remarks