Studieresa med Eusja till Saarbrücken

"How Computer Science and Materials Science are improving the world”.

The department of Materials Science and Engineering of Saarland University has close connections to the Material Engineering Center Saarland, a Steinbeis Research Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing, the Leibniz Institute for New Materials and some other reasearch centers, thus the journalists will get the information also from these institues. Please find enclosed the invitation from the University and a preliminary programme.

The logistics and some other nessasary information will be sent later. But I can say now that we discussed the possibility for earlier check in (the day before the trip) and later check out - if nessasary according the flight shedules. The closer international airport is Francfurt, the train from Frankfurt to Saarbrueken takes about 2,5 hours.

The organizer will cover the accomodation and meal, the journalists have to take care of their travelling usual EUSJA rules. The trip is from 28 to 30 of March, we have invitation for 15 journalists. Please note: if the group will be less than 8 journalists, the trip will be postponed. That is why we ask you to send your applications by January 30: we need to know that we have a group.

We ask to send applications via national associations to Viola Egikova (violae@mail.ru):
name,
affiliation with media,
e-mail,
tel number, cell tel. number

"How Computer Science and Materials Science are improving the world”.
EUSJA Press tour to Campus of Saarland University
and Schloss Dagstuhl, March 2012, 28 to 30

Host Research Institutes:
 Saarland University
 Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics
 Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
 Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
 German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
 Cluster of Excellence „Multimodal Computing and Interaction“ (MMCI)
 Competence Center of Computer Science at Saarland University
 Steinbeis Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS)

Program

Wednesday March 28

14:00 – 14:20 h
“Saarbrücken - International Research Center for Computer
Science”
Philipp Slusallek
Founder of Competence Center of Computer Science at Saarland University
 14:20 – 15:30 h
“Intelligent Simulated Reality: 3-D-Internet and the Convergence
of Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence”
Philipp Slusallek
Professor of Computer Graphics at Saarland University and Scientific Director of German
Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
 15:30 – 16:00 h
Walk to Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Building E1 4
Coffee break
 16:00 – 16:15 h
“Overview: Research at Max Planck Institute for Informatics and
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems”
Bernt Schiele
Managing Director of Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI)
 16:15 – 17:00 h
„Cars learn to see and predict“
Bernt Schiele
Scientific Director of Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing at Max Planck Institute
for Informatics
 17:15 – 18:00 h
“Bioinformatics Support of HIV Therapy - Spearheading
Personalized Medicine”
Thomas Lengauer
Scientific Director of Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics at Max Planck
Institute for Computer Science
 18:30 h
Check-in Hotel, Transfer to Restaurant
 19:00 h
Dinner with scientists by invitation of Cluster of Excellence on „Multimodal
Computing and Interaction”

Thursday March 29

Campus of Saarland University, Center for Computational Biology (Building E2 1)
 09:30 – 10:30 h
“Privacy - dead or alive?”
Michael Backes
Professor for Information Security and Privacy and Head of CISPA (Center for IT
Security, Privacy and Accountability) at Saarland University, Fellow of Max Planck
Institute for Software Systems
 10:30 – 10:45: Coffee Break
 10:45 – 11:30 h
„Automatic software debugging“
Andreas Zeller
Professor for Software Engineering at Saarland University
 11:45 – 12:15 h
“International Master and Graduate Programs at Saarland
University”
Wolfgang Heintz
International Office of Saarland University
 12:30 – 14:00 h: Lunch and Walk to DFKI
 14:00 – 14:45 h
“Creation of novel algorithms and architectures for interactive
visualization and analysis of large and complex data sets”
Jens Krüger
Head of Junior Research Group “Interactive Visualization and Data Analysis” at Cluster
of Excellence MMCI
 14:45 – 15:00 h: Coffee Break
 15:00 – 16:00 h
“Latest retail technologies for the supermarket of the future”
Antonio Krüger
Director of the Innovative Retail Laboratory at the German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence (DFKI) and Professor for Ubiquitous Media Technologies at Saarland
University
 16:00 h: Departure for Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Center for Informatics
 17:00 – 18:00 h: Guided tour through Schloss Dagstuhl by Prof. Reinhard
Wilhelm, Scientific Director of Schloss Dagstuhl
 18:00 h: Dinner
 19:00 – 20:00 h
“Open Models as a Foundation of Future Enterprise Systems”
Question and answer session with international scientists of Dagstuhl Seminar
 20:00 h: Informal get together, chats and talks, exchanges of views on ICT with
scientists during the evening in the wine-cellar of Schloss Dagstuhl

Friday March 30

 09:15 h Departure at Schloss Dagstuhl, Transfer back to Saarbrücken
Saarland University, Material Engineering Center Saarland (MECS),
Building D 3.3
 10:30 –11:30 h
“Overview: Materials Science and Engineering Activities at the
Campus of Saarland University”
“Design and 3D Analysis of Materials Textures in the Micro,
Nano, and Atomic Scale”
Frank Mücklich
Professor of Functional Materials at Saarland University and Director of Steinbeis
Material Engineering Center Saarland
 11:30 – 11:45 h: Coffee Break
 11:45 – 13:00 h
Visit of Material Science Laboratories at Steinbeis Material Engineering Center
Saarland: Atome Probe Tomography, Nanotomography, Laser Surface
Techniques
 13:00 – 13:30 h: Business Lunch and End of Press Tour