June 29, 2015 - July 3, 2015

PhD Summer School 2015

Location: Cambridge, UK

Monday, 29 June

Time Session Speaker Location
16:00
Arrival and check in at Selwyn College
16:00
Registration and High Tea at Selwyn College
18:00
Free Time

Tuesday, 30 June

Time Session Speaker Location
08:30
Coach Transfer: Selwyn to Microsoft Research and Sign In of All Attendees
09:15
Welcome to Microsoft Research Cambridge
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
09:30
How to Give a Great Research Talk
Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
 10:00
Introduction to Code Hunt
Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research Main Auditorium
10:30
Morning Break
11:00
Technology Development
Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners
Main Auditorium
12:00
Lunch/Poster Session
14:00
Research Parallel Sessions
Machine Learning in Health Care

Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research

Main Auditorium
Hoarding Cats: Modelling and Testing Concurrent Systems

Jade Alglave, Microsoft Research

Flexible Meeting Room
15:00
Afternoon Break
15:30
Research Parallel Sessions
Designing Computer Systems That See

Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research

Main Auditorium
Joined Up Planetary Information, in the Cloud and on Devices

Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research

Flexible Meeting Room
16:30
Coach Transfer: Microsoft Research to WildTracks, Go Karting
17:15
Go-Karting at WildTracks Karting and BBQ
21:30
Coach Transfer: WildTracks to Selwyn College

Wednesday, 1 July

Time Session Speaker Location
08:15
Coach Transfer: Selwyn to Microsoft Research and Sign In of All Attendees
09:00
Delivering a Fabulous Research Talk; How to Tell More Stories, Use Less PowerPoint and Get to the Point When Presenting
Dave Yewman, Elevator Speech Inc.
Main Auditorium
10:30
Morning Break
11:00
Delivering a Fabulous Research Talk; How to Tell More Stories, Use Less PowerPoint and Get to the Point When Presenting
Dave Yewman, Elevator Speech Inc.
Main Auditorium
12:00
Lunch/Poster Session
14:00
Computing Reliability with Molecular Walkers

Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford

Main Auditorium
15:00
Afternoon Break
15:30
Strategic Thinking for Researchers
Andy Gordon, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
 16:30
Research Parallel Sessions
Microsoft Azure Tutorial
Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
 .NET Gadgeteer Workshop
 Paul Foster, Microsoft
17:30
Coach transfer: Microsoft Research to Selwyn College
17:30-19:30
Code Hunt Contest (optional attendance)
Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research Main Auditorium

Thursday, 2 July

Time Session Speaker Location
08:45
Coach Transfer: Selwyn to Microsoft Research and Sign In of All Attendees
09:30
Research Parallel Sessions
Technology & Economics: Real-Time Ad Bidding and Personal Surveillance

Natasa Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research

Main Auditorium
The Varied Forms of Verification with Z3

Christoph Wintersteiger, Microsoft Research

Flexible Meeting Room
10:30
Morning Break
11:00
Research Parallel Sessions
Predictable Data Centers

Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research

Main Auditorium
Designing Human Experiences

Richard Banks, Microsoft Research

Flexible Meeting Room
12:00
Lunch/Poster Session
14:00
The Laws of Programming with Concurrency
Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
15:00
Empirical Inference for Intelligent Systems

Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Main Auditorium
16:00
DemoFest (including Afternoon Break)
17:30
Coach transfer: Microsoft Research to Jesus College
18:00
Drinks and Group Photo
19:00
Formal Dinner at Jesus College
21:30
Coach Transfer: Jesus College to Selwyn College

Friday, 3 July

Time Session Speaker Location
08:45
Coach Transfer: Selwyn to Microsoft Research and Sign In of All Attendees
09:30
How to Present a Poster at an International Conference
Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training
Main Auditorium
10:15
How to Give a Great Research Talk
Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
11:15
Morning Break
11:30
How to Write a Great Research Paper
Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research
Main Auditorium
12:30
PhD Summer School Closes | Grab-and-Go Lunch