========================================================================

VLDB Summer Summer School - Call for Student Applications

23 July – 26 July, Cluj, Romania

========================================================================

Important Dates

========================================================================

Application period opens: 15th of February 2024
Registration deadline: 15th of April 2024 (midnight CEST)
Notification of acceptance: 22nd of April 2024
Payment due: 1st of May 2024

========================================================================

Overview

========================================================================

The theme for the VLDB Summer School is « Data Management in the Cloud ». The four-day event will take place from 23-26 of July 2024 in Cluj-Napoca, the heart of the Transylvania region of Romania. The lectures will be given by outstanding international speakers from both academia and industry. Topics range from the design principles behind data-intensive applications in the Cloud, through Data Integration, down to the underlying hardware resources of Cloud machines and how Databases can take advantage of these, to offer efficient query processing. The Summer School aims to educate early-stage research students on these topics, as well as to provide them with many opportunities to network in a friendly, collegial, setting with each other and with the expert speakers at the event.

The Summer School will take place at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. It will consist of tutorials covering foundational aspects of Data Management in the Cloud, research talks on state-of-the-art research projects and future challenges, and a Poster Session. In the Poster Session participants will have a chance to showcase their Phd/Postdoc research topic and results (or Master’s thesis topic, if they are still in the Master’s degree), and get early feedback.

========================================================================

Confirmed Speakers

========================================================================

The list of confirmed speakers includes (in alphabetical order):

Carsten Binnig, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Angela Bonifati, University of Lyon 1, France
Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Natacha Crooks, University of California, Berkeley, US
Asterios Katsifodimos, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Viktor Leis, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh, UK, and RelationalAI, US
Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Note that more speakers will be announced.

========================================================================

Registration Fees

========================================================================

The Summer School has two types of participation fees: Full (€450) and Reduced (€100).

The participation fee includes coffee breaks, lunch, and dinner served all throughout the event.

There is only a limited supply of Reduced Fee registrations available for students studying in Eastern Europe or in non-High-Income Country (according to the World Bank classification). Self-financed students from High-Income Countries may apply for the Reduced Fee as well, but we reserve the right to “convert” the applications to Full Fee.

In addition to the participation fee, the selected participants are expected to pay for their lodging and travel expenses to Cluj-Napoca. The city has many hotels and guesthouses for different budgets; we estimate per-night costs to be in the range of 60€-130€. For those eligible for a reduced fee, a limited number of student dormitory rooms will be made available.

For further information, please visit: https://vldb.org/summerschool/2024/pages/about/

========================================================================

How to Apply?

========================================================================

Participation, including presentation, in the Student Session requires a VLDB Summer School 2024 registration at: https://goto.dm.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/tudasystems/vldbssc24/

Registration is open from the 15th of February to the 15th of April 2024.

The participation is selective, as we are aiming to accept around 40 students.

Interested applicants are required to apply and provide the following information:

an up-to-date CV (with optional publication list)
a description of their experience/knowledge about databases
a short motivation of how the Summer School will benefit them in their studies/research.

========================================================================

Organization

========================================================================

The VLDB Summer School is organized with the very generous support of the VLDB Endowment and of the VLDB SPEND Committee, by:

Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE & Télécom SudParis, France
Anca Hangan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Zsolt Istvan, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

For any questions, feel free to contact: vldbssc24-org@lists.systems.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de.