Attendance is by invitation only. All student attendees stay at the Saarbrücken youth hostel:
Europa-Jugendherberge
Meerwiesertalweg 31
66123 Saarbrücken
Tel: +49 (0) 681 33040
When you arrive at Saarbrücken train station, please take public transport to the youth hostel. We recommend that you take tram S1 in the direction of Brebach/Sarreguemines to the stop “Johanneskirche”, and then bus 101 in the direction of “Dudweiler Dudoplatz” to the stop “Prinzenweiher/DJH”. For additional travel options, we recommend that you install the app “Saarfahrplan” on your smart phone. The ticket for one journey costs €2.60. The bus runs until about 11pm. Should you arrive later, you would need to take a taxi to the youth hostel.
All lectures, panels, and the poster session will take place at:
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
Campus E1.5
66123 Saarbrücken
Tel: +49 (0) 681 9303 9100
Attendees are requested to take the public buses to travel between hostel and MPI-SWS (bus ticket will be provided as part of the registration package). To get to MPI-SWS, walk to the bus stop “Prinzenweiher/DJH” in front of the hostel. Take line 124 in the direction of “Universität Busterminal” or line 101 in the direction of “Dudweiler Dudoplatz”, and get off at “Universität Mensa” (6 stops, 10 minutes). MPI-SWS is in the tall, dark gray building next to the gate.
Monday, August 6
Arrival day, earliest check-in time at the hostel is 2 pm.
06:00 pm: registration (hostel)
07:00 pm: dinner (hostel)
Tuesday, August 7
07:30 am: breakfast (hostel)
08:15 am: bus to MPI-SWS
08:30 am: registration
08:45 am: opening remarks
09:00 am: Lorenzo Alvisi, Lecture 1
10:30 am: break
11:00 am: Marine Carpuat, Lecture 1
12:30 pm: lunch (mensa)
02:00 pm: Deepak Garg, Lecture 1
03:30pm: break
04:00 pm: John Dickerson, Lecture 1
05:30 pm: Poster session: graduate students present ongoing research
07:00 pm: bus to hostel
07:30 pm: dinner (hostel)
Wednesday, August 8
07:30 am: breakfast (hostel)
08:30 am: bus to MPI-SWS
09:00 am: Maria Christakis, Lecture 1
10:30 am: break
11:00 am: John Dickerson, Lecture 2
12:30 pm: lunch (mensa)
02:00 pm: Deepak Garg, Lecture 2
03:30pm: break
04:00 pm: Marine Carpuat, Lecture 2
05:30 pm: Invited talk: Derek Dreyer — “How to write papers and give talks that people can follow”
06:30 pm: bus or walk to hostel
07:30 pm: dinner (hostel)
Thursday, August 9
07:30 am: breakfast (hostel)
08:30 am: bus to MPI-SWS
09:00 am: Lorenzo Alvisi, Lecture 2
10:30 am: break
11:00 am: Maria Christakis, Lecture 2
12:30 pm: lunch (mensa)
02:00 pm: social event
07:00 pm: dinner (restaurant Esplanade)
Friday, August 10
07:30 am: breakfast (hostel)
08:30 am: bus to MPI-SWS
09:00 am: Marine Carpuat, Lecture 3
10:30 am: break
11:00 am: Nate Foster, Lecture 1
12:30 pm: lunch (mensa)
02:00 pm: John Dickerson, Lecture 3
03:30pm: break
04:00 pm: Maria Christakis, Lecture 3
05:30 pm: Panel session: “Why do a Ph.D. in computer science?”
06:30 pm: bus or walk to hostel
07:30 pm: dinner (hostel)
Saturday, August 11
07:30 am: breakfast (hostel)
08:45 am: bus to MPI-SWS (note: buses run only every 30min on Saturdays)
09:00 am: Nate Foster, Lecture 2
10:30 am: break
11:00 am: Deepak Garg, Lecture 3
12:30 pm: lunch (catered)
02:00 pm: Lorenzo Alvisi, Lecture 3
03:30pm: break
04:00 pm: Nate Foster, Lecture 3
05:30 pm: Panel session: “How to apply to graduate school”
06:30 pm: bus or walk to hostel
07:30 pm: dinner (hostel)
Sunday, August 12
08:00 am: breakfast (hostel)
Departure day, check-out time at the hostel is 9:30 am.