Welcome CSA Summer School 2019.
About
The Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru is holding a five and a half day summer school during July 15-20, 2019. We aim to introduce students to cutting-edge research in computer science. The summer school contains talks, demos, and hands-on sessions by the institute faculty, research scholars and industry experts covering theoretical and applied aspects of computer science. Participating students get an opportunity to interact with students and faculty in the department. For details of last year’s summer school, please click here.
Interesting Talks
Talks on various topics by Institute faculties, Research scholars and Industry experts.
Interactive Demos
Hands on session and interactive demos by current students. Great oppurtunity to interact.
Hackathon
Solve problems spanning domains like Theoretical Computer Science, Systems and Machine Learning.
Fun Activities
Quizzes and many other fun activities on each and everyday. Lot of surprises awaiting.
Important Information
Open to all undergraduate students in Computer Science/Information Sciences. Students who will be completing the third year of their study by the end of July 2019 will be given higher preference. Check out this space periodically for more updates.
- Deadline for submitting applications is 5th June by 11:59 PM.
- No registration charges/fees for the school
- The selected candidates will be informed through email.
- The tentative schedule is announced.
- All participating candidates will receive a certificate of participation.
- Find out videos of previous Summer School talks on Youtube
- The candidates will be selected based on their academic qualifications (CGPA, projects etc) and the statement of purpose provided at the time of registration. The decision of the selection committee is final.
- The selected candidates will be given free wi-fi access within the department. Hence, all the selected candidates are advised to bring their laptops. The selected candidates will be given free lunch on all six days of the summer school (Monday through Saturday).
- Selected applicants are requested to arrange for their accommodation on their own. The CSA department does not provide accommodation.
- We would require a bona fide cum no objection certificate from your Department Head or your College Principal, the template for which shall be sent to you upon getting selected.
Program Schedule
*Schedule is Tentative
Registration
Orientation
Arun Joseph (PhD)
Introduction to the world of Blockchain
Break
Jayesh Gaur (Intel)
Towards the next leap in single threaded programming
PhD Student
The Lost Symbol
Lunch
Rahul Saladi (Prof)
A Gentle Introduction to Computational Geometry
Saloni Bansal (Archeron Group, alumnus of CSA)
(Talk by Microsoft)
Arindam Khan (Prof)
Approximation and Online Algorithms
Break
Kapil Khurana (MTech)
The black art of SQL Query Processing
Indu John (PhD)
Introduction to Reinforcement learning
Lunch
(Talk by TIFR)
Prerona Chatterjee
Convincing Yourself That You're Not Stupid.
(Talk by AMD)
Enabling GPU compute for HPC and Machine Learning (followed by interactive session with AMD R&D engineers)
Vinod Ganapathy (Prof)
Thinking outside the box (and inside it)
Shubham Gupta (PhD)
A Walk to Remember!
Break
Student Presentations
Lunch
Nagaraj Kota (LinkedIn)
Guided Search via Self Attention Neural Networks
Sivaramakrishnan Lakshmivarahan (Prof)
Sources of Big Data / Data Mining
Ravi Babu Gudivada (PhD)
Introduction to Quantum Computing
Aravind Acharya (PhD)
Introduction to optimizing compilers (Tentative)
Break
PhD Student
Preparing for the Walk!(contd.)
Faculty AMA
Lunch
N S Kumar (Visiting Prof at PES)
Back to Basics
V R Chittaranjan (NASDAQ)
Principles of Software Engineering - Why should we care about them?
Dr. Amit Sharma (MSR)
Causal Machine Learning: Inferring cause and effect in computing systems
Anirban Biswas (Amazon, alumnus of CSA)
Words don't lie
Shubham Gupta (PhD)
A Walk to Remember!
Break
Dr. Viraj Kumar (Prof at Divecha Center for Climate Change)
Student AMA
Lunch
Dr. Deepak Subramani (Prof at CDS)
Computational solutions to environmental problems
Dr. Ankit Garg (MSR)
Introduction to algebraic complexity
Mohit Gupta (MTech)
Breakfast
Stanly Samuel (PhD)
Music Programming using Chuck
Vote of Thanks, Prize and Certificate Distribution
Informal Tour
Lunch
GET IN TOUCH
Have any questions? Our team will happy to answer your questions.
Mail us at ugsummerschool.csa@iisc.ac.in
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