June 28, 2010 - July 2, 2010

PhD Summer School 2010

Location: Cambridge, UK

Monday, 28 June 2010

Time Session
15:00
Students staying at Jesus College  (opens in new tab)get the keys to their rooms
16:00
Welcome and tea
16:30
Bus transportation from Jesus College to the go-karting venue
17:00
Go-karting* and dinner (casual clothing; we recommend wearing old shoes)
22:00
Bus transportation back to Jesus College

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
Registration
10:30
Overview of Microsoft Research and the Summer School
Andrew Blake
(Microsoft Research)
11:00
How to write a great research paper
12:00
Lunch and poster session 1 (see posters guidelines)
13:45
Bus transportation to London
15:30
Royal Society Festival of Science (opens in new tab), London
18:00
Free time in London
21:30
Bus transportation back to Cambridge

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
Presentation skills
Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)
10:30
Break
11:00
Presentation content Simon Peyton-Jones
(Microsoft Research)
12:00
Lunch and posters session 2 (see posters guidelines)
14:00
Rough guide to being an entrepreneur Jack Lang
(University of Cambridge)
15:00
Break
15:15
Parallel session 
Simulating global carbon-climate feedback Drew Purves
(Microsoft Research)
Molecular programming Luca Cardelli
(Microsoft Research)
16:15
Break
16:45
Parallel session
Infer.NET and probabilistic programming John Winn
(Microsoft Research)
Ten things you don’t know about Microsoft Derick Campbell
(Microsoft Research)
17:45 Bus transportation to punting location
18:00 Punting on the river Cam
19:30 Dinner at La Mimosa (opens in new tab)

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
From data to knowledge Sydney Brenner
(Salk Institute)
10:30 Break
11:00 Parallel sessions
Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple code Anton Schwaighofer (Microsoft)
Simulation and data analysis with windows azure Austin Donnelly
(Microsoft Research)
12:00 Lunch and posters session 3 (see posters guidelines)
14:00 From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems design Richard Harper
(Microsoft Research)
15:00
Break
15:15
Presentations of past students
From program analysis research to industrial programming language development Andy Maule (PhD at University College London; now at Microsoft Corp)
Static contract checking for Haskell Dana N. Xu (PhD at the University of Cambridge; now at INRIA)
Communications, travel and social networks Lynne Hamill
(University of Surrey)
16:15
Break
16:45
Presentations of past students
Tracking and localisation for speech and robotics Maurice Fallon
(PhD at the University of Cambridge; now at MIT)
Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answering Michael Kaisser
(PhD at the University of Edinburgh; now at Microsoft Bing STC Europe)
To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methods Jurgen Van Gael
(University of Cambridge)
17:30
Bus transportation to Murray Edwards College
18:00
Drinks, Drinks, and group photo
19:00
Dinner at Murray Edwards College

Friday, 2 July 2010

Time Session Speaker
09:00
Bus to Microsoft Research
09:30
Clound computing for research Fabrizio Gagliardi
(Microsoft Research)
10:30 Break
11:00
Parallel sessions
Introduction to intellectual property Carole Boelitz (Microsoft)
Poster presentations for non native English speakers Sue Duraikan
(Duraikan Training)
12:00
BBQ
13:30  End and bus transportation to Jesus College