Microsoft Research Summer School on Parallel Computing opens the registration of participants

During the summer holidays, the research division of Microsoft - Microsoft Research holds the annual largest event for graduate students, senior students and young scientists - the Summer School. This year the school will be held in St. Petersburg in cooperation with ITMO from 22 to 29 August 2012.



School goal

• Provide students from leading universities of the country a unique opportunity to learn about the latest achievements in the field of parallel computing.
• Provide unique conditions for the exchange of experience between students and teachers during the week of intensive classes under the guidance of leading international experts in the field of computational sciences.

School topics : parallel computing (Concurrency and Parallelism in Software).

School format : lectures and practical classes, poster presentations of students, a software project.
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During the entire week of study, students will actively communicate with leading foreign and Russian scientists, which will allow students to demonstrate their knowledge on the basis of tests and establish new contacts during joint classes.

The summer school program includes reports by leading experts from around the world in the area of ​​parallel computing:

• Dr. Sebastian Burckhardt (Microsoft Research, United States);
• Prof. Viktor Gergel (University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia);
• Prof. Dan Grossman (University of Washington, United States);
• Dr. Tim Harris (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom);
• Prof. Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, United States);
• Prof. Jeff Kramer (Imperial College, United Kingdom);
• Prof. Bertrand Meyer (ITMO, Russia and ETH-Z, Switzerland);
• Prof. Davide Sangiorgi (University of Bologna, Italy).

You can apply for participation in the summer school until March 30 at the site .

The selection process will continue until May 30 .

For more information about summer school, contact: research.microsoft.com/rss2012 .