June 29, 2009 - July 3, 2009

PhD Summer School 2009

Location: Cambridge, UK

Monday, 29 June 2009

Time Session
15:00
15:30
Welcome and group photo
16:30
Bus transportation from Jesus College to the Go-karting venue
17:00
Go-karting* and dinner (casual clothing; we recommend wearing old shoes)
TBC
Bus transportation back to Jesus College

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
How to write a great research paper
10:30
Break
11:00
How to Give a Great Research Talk
12:00
Lunch and posters session 1 (see posters guidelines)
13:30
New kinds of software for new kinds of science

Alexander Brändle
(Microsoft Research)

14:30
Break
15:00
Presentation of past students
15:00 – Hybrids of generative and discriminative models
Julia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute)
15:20 – Scalable display architecture
Alban Rrustemi
(University of Cambridge)
15:40 – Generative face models for image understanding
Brian Amberg
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(University of Basel)
16:00 – Interactive matting
Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology)
16:20 – Challenges in refactoring
Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford/Semmle (opens in new tab))
16:40
Break
17:00
EU opportunities for young researchers
Carlos Morais-Pires
(European Commission)
17:30
Bus transportation to Jesus College
18:30
Drink reception and dinner at Jesus College

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Time Session Speaker Location
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
Rough guide to being an entrepreneur

Jack Lang
(University of Cambridge)

10:30
Break
11:00
Third generation machine intelligence
12:00
Lunch and poster session 2 (see posters guidelines)
13:30
Parallel session
Alison Noble, University of Oxford
The executable pathway to biological networks
Jasmin Fisher (opens in new tab)
(Microsoft Research)
Small lecture room
Principles and applications of refinement types

Andy Gordon (opens in new tab)
(Microsoft Research)

14:30
Break
15:00
Tools and services for data intensive research Roger Barga
(Microsoft Research)
16:00
Break
16:15
WorldWide Telescope – A computational science innovation Yan Xu
(Microsoft Research)
16:40
Scientific computing on .NET Jurgen Van Gael
(University of Cambridge)
17:00
Bus transportation to Jesus College
18:30
Free evening with optional punting or bowling

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Time Session Speaker Location
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
 How to manage your supervisor
Tennie Videler (vitae)
10:30
Break
11:00
Parallel session
Overview of systems and networking research at Microsoft
Tim Harris
(Microsoft Research)
Small lecture room
New hardware enabling new user experiences
James Scott (opens in new tab)
(Microsoft Research)
12:00 Lunch and posters session 3 (see posters guidelines)
13:30 Parallel session
Enabling intelligent management of the environment Drew Purves
(Microsoft Research)
Small lecture room
Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in products Ralf Herbrich
(Microsoft Research)
14:30 Break
15:00 Introduction to intellectual property John Mulgrew (Microsoft)
16:00 Break
16:15 Internships uncovered… Peter Key (opens in new tab)
(Microsoft Research)
16:45 Bus transportration to Jesus College
17:00 Free time
18:30
Bus transportation from Jesus College to Carluccio’s
19:00
Dinner at Carluccio’s (opens in new tab)

Friday, 3 July 2009

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
Giving a good presentation
Ken Shaw
(Benchmark Communication Techniques)
10:30
Break
11:00
Sustainable energy – without the hot air
David MacKay
(University of Cambridge)
12:00
BBQ
14:00
Bus transportation to Jesus College