The German-Israeli Workshop / Winter School on Algorithms for Big Data, 2017 is organized in a cooperation between the Tel Aviv University (http://www.tau.ac.il/)  and the German Research-Cluster "Algorithms for Big Data" (http://www.big-data-spp.de/).

Dates:

Begin: Monday November 13, 2017

End: Wednesday November 15, 2017

Venue:

Room 011, Engineering Kitot Building (classrooms), Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.
The Engineering Kitot Building is located in the far south end of the campus, adjacent to Gate number 17 (which is open only for pedestrians).
Please check the map.

Registration:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyV7tws1DWubRoSvurEuGmjueet72zDqzueI9R7o5BRm8NDg/viewform?c=0&w=1

Further Information:

It is planned to have sessions of invited speakers as well as student sessions with shorter talks.

UPDATE: Schedule and Abstracts are available.


The confirmed speakers so far are:

Distributed Computing
Leonid Barenboim
, Open University of Israel, Israel
Keren Censor-Hillel
, Technion, Israel 
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Social Networks
Deepak Ajwani, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
Chen Avin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Data Structures
Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers University, USA
Laszlo Kozma, TU Eindhoven
John Iacono, Tandon School of Engineering, USA
Moshe Levenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Property Testing
Artur Czumaj, University of Warwick, UK
Reut Levi, Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics, Germany
Ilan Newman, University of Haifa, Israel
Dana Ron, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Applications
Eli Ben-Sasson, Technion, Israel
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

Further information (registration, hotels, more detailed schedule, etc) will be detailed later.