Conference Program

 Monday, October 12

09:00-16:30   Pre-Summit Workshops (TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna)

• Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors

• Workshop on Experiences and Practices in MOOCs
  

17:00-19:00 ARTEMATICA 2015 Wolfgang Pauli Lectures (Künstlerhaus, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna )

• 17:00-18:00 - Gerhard Widmer, University of Linz, Austria

          "Con Espressione! Towards a New Level of Music Understanding in Computers"

• 18:00-19:00 - Peter Weibel, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany

         "Gotthard Günther and the Digital Revolution"

19:00-21:00 Welcome Reception at the Künstlerhaus (co-sponsored by the WPI)

Tuesday, October 13

All talks and sessions will be at TU Wien Main Building

Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna

- First Floor - Festsaal -

08:30-09:00  Registration

09:00-09:30  Welcome and Introduction

• Carlo Ghezzi, Gerald Steinhardt, ECSS 2015 Chairs
• Hannes Werthner, Frank van Harmelen, ECSS 2015 Program Chairs

09:30-11:15  Session 1 "Data Science or Formal Science"

Session Chair: Hannes Werthner, TU Wien

• 09:30-10:15 - Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

          "On the Big Impact of Big Computer Science" [Slides]

• 10:15-11:00 - Moshe Vardi, Rice University, USA

   "From Model-Driven Computer Science to Data-Driven Computer Science and Back" [Slides]
  

• 11:00-11:15 - Discussion with both Speakers

 11:15-11:45   Coffee Break / Posters Session

11:45-12:45  Session 2 "Future of European Research"

Session Chair: Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano

• 11:45 - 12:30 - Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, ERC President

   "The European Research Council and Informatics: Situation and Perspectives" [Slides]
  

• 12:30-12:45 - Discussion with Speaker

12:45-14:00  Lunch Break

14:00-15:45  Session 3 “Emperor or Plumber or The Relation of CS with Other Sciences"

 Session Chair: Frank van Harmelen, VU University Amsterdam

• 14:00-14:45 - Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany

          "Ebola, Pandemic Influenza, MERS & SARS – How Computational Models Reveal the Hidden Geometry of Global Contagion Phenomena" [Slides]

• 14:45-15:30 - Matti Tedre, Stockholm University, Sweden

   "A Computational Paradigm of Science and its Discontents" [Slides]
  

• 15:30-15:45 - Discussion with both Speakers

15:45 -16:15  Coffee Break / Posters Session

16:15 - 17:30 Special Session Informatics Europe Activities

Session Chair: Cristina Pereira,  Informatics Europe

• Informatics Europe New Visual Identity
• Report Key Data Informatics Education in Europe (2015 Edition)
• Working Group Women in Informatics Research and Education
• Committee on European Computing Education
• EQANIE Goals and Activities: the Euro-Inf Quality Label

17:30 - 18:30  Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly

Session Chairs: Cristina Pereira (Secretary General), Carlo Ghezzi (President)

19:30-22:00 Conference Dinner at the traditional Viennese restaurant Heuriger 10er Marie (Ottakringer Strasse 222-224, 1160 Wien)

Meeting point to go together to the restaurant at the lobby of the TU Wien main building at 18:45!!

Wednesday, October 14

All talks and sessions will be at TU Wien Main Building

Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna

- First Floor - Festsaal -

08:30-09:00   Registration

09:00-10:45  Session 4 “Research Organization of the Future”

Session Chair: Lynda Hardman, CWI

•  09:00-09:45  - Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

         "Leadership and Balance in Research" [Slides]

• 09:45-10:30 - Maarja Kruusmaa, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

   "Interdisciplinarity in Robotics and ICT" [Slides]

• 10:30-10:45 - Discussion with both Speakers

10:45-11:15  Coffee Break / Posters Session

11:15-12:15  Award Ceremony 2015 Best Practices in Education Award (Sponsored by Microsoft Research)

Session Chair: Carlo Ghezzi, Informatics Europe

• Winner Announcement: "International Challenge on Informatics and Computational Thinking“

• Talk by Winner Representatives Wolfgang Pohl, Valentina Dagiene

           "Bebras - International Challenge on Informatics and Computational Thinking" [Slides]

• Talk by Award Sponsor Representative MSR, Judith Bishop 

            "Openness – What it Means for Academics" [Slides]

12:15-13:30   Lunch Break

13:30-16:00 Session 5 "Ethics and Impact or our Relation to Society”

Session Chair: Gerald Steinhardt, TU Wien

• 13:30-14:15 - Jeroen van den Hoven, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 

          "Ethics and ICT: Learning to Design for Moral Values"

• 14:15-15:00 - Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

            "Ethics of Computing"

• 15:00-15:45 - Reinhard Posch, TU Graz, Austria

   "ICT-Innovation – How Digital Sovereignty and IT-Security Can Help Pushing Europe Forward" [Slides]
  

• 15:45-16:00 - Discussion with all Speakers

 16:00-16:30  Coffee Break / Posters Session

17.00 – 18.30 Session 6 "Public Lecture: Women in Computing"

Session Chair: Hilda Tellioglu, TU Wien

• 17.00 – 18.30 - Britta Schinzel, University of Freiburg, Germany

       "Ada Countess of Lovelace, a One-Person Opera, and The Role of Women in Computing"