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Research School Events

This page will highlight seminars, workshops and lectures held within B-IT Research School that are open to all students of this Research School. All events are aimed at
  • exposing our PhD students to a cross-disciplinary learning and research environment
  • fostering the exchange of different ideas from neighboring research areas
  • creating a highly stimulating research environment

Professor Kaisa Nyberg for talk and seminar in B-IT

Professor Kaisa Nyberg from Aalto University, Finland, is one of the leading experts in mobile security. She will present a lecture and lead a discussion group in B-IT, in the framework of the B-IT Research School. The lecture is open to a wide audience.

Title of the lecture: Pairing Protocols in Wireless Standards</b>

Date: 20 January 2012

Time: 12.00 noon

Venue: B-IT lecture hall

More information about the talk (abstract)..

"Young Scientist Award" 2011 to Steffen Kirchhoff

02/12/2011

Research Schools of North Rhine Westphalia award the "Young Scientist Award" to young academics who have released successfully an excellent scientific publication before obtaining their Master's Degree.

In 2011 there are seven laureates. The prize of B-IT Research School was awarded to Steffen Kirchhoff who is currently carrying out his PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen. Mr Kirchhoff received the "Young Scientist Award" for his excellent work in the field of similarity search in photos and videos. This is supposed to substantially improve results of search engines in the future.



From left to right: Dr. Beate Wieland (Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research North Rhine-Westphalia), Steffen Kirchhoff (awardee) and Professor Dr. Matthias Jarke (Director of B-IT Research School)

Lecture "Human-friendly Robotics" by Professor Oussama Khatib

Professor Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University will deliver a lecture on November 29th, 2011 at 5.30 pm in B-IT lecture hall.

Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots being developed today will increasingly touch people and their lives, in homes, workplaces, and communities, providing support in services, entertainment, education, manufacturing, personal health care, and assistance.

Professor Oussama Khatib, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, is working in this scientific field of massively increasing interest. He received several high distinctions, the latest among them are the Japan Robot Association Award and the IEEE RAS (Robotics and Automation Society) Pioneer Award for Robotics and Automation in 2010 for his fundamental pioneering contributions in robotics research, visionary leadership, and life-long commitment to the field.

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Best Paper Award for B-IT Research School Scholar Brigitte Boden

Stephan Günnemann, Brigitte Boden and Thomas Seidl received the ECML PKDD 2011 Best Paper Award in Data Mining for the paper "DB-CSC: A density-based approach for subspace clustering in graphs with feature vectors" presented in the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2011), held September 5-9, 2011 in Athens, Greece.


Professor Sebastian Thrun Talk and Workshop in B-IT Research School on July 19, 2011

Sebastian Thrun, Professor at Stanford University, will receive this year's prestigious Max-Planck Research Award. He will be giving a talk on "Self Driving Cars" in the B-IT lecture hall on July 19, 2011. Professor Thrun created, together with the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), an autonomous vehicle that won the DARPA Grand challenge, a competition of driverless vehicles, in 2005. PhD students of B-IT Research School will additionally be able to meet Professor Sebastian Thrun in a separate workshop on the same day at 16:15 hours in B-IT Rheinsaal.

Weighted network analysis: Applications in Genomics and Systems Biology

Professor Dr. Steve Horvath from the Department of Biostatistics of the University of California, Los Angeles, will offer a workshop focusing on "Weighted network analysis. Applications in Genomics and Systems Biology", June 27-28, 2011 in B-IT building.

This course will cover several advanced chapters in the upcoming book of the same title. The book will be appear in print in May 2011. The workshop (and the book) covers state-of-the-art methods, software and applications surrounding weighted networks. Most methods and results also apply to unweighted networks. Although aspects of weighted network analysis relate to standard data mining methods, the intuitive network language and analysis framework transcend any particular analysis method. Weighted networks give rise to data reduction methods, clustering procedures, visualization methods, data exploratory methods, and intuitive approaches for integrating disparate data sets. Weighted networks have been used to analyze a variety of high dimensional genomic data sets including gene expression-, epigenetic-, methylation-, proteomics-, and fMRI- data.

Proposed topics

  1. Brief review of clustering procedures and module detection.

  2. Evaluating whether a module is preserved in another network. Cross-tabulation based and network based module preservation statistics.

  3. Networks based on regression models and prediction methods. In particular, association networks based on polynomial and spline regression models.

  4. Networks between categorical or discretized numeric variables (mutual information networks).

  5. Integrated weighted correlation network analysis of mouse liver gene expression data.

  6. Review of systems genetic analysis methods (including causal testing based on SEMs


Audience: PhD students of B-IT Research School Areas 4 and 7 in the first place, but also PhD students from all other B-IT Research School Areas in order to widen their horizon.

Application deadline: June 21, 2011

Registrations for this workshop should be sent by e-mail to Ms Sabine Burch to burch (at) iai.uni-bonn.de

Area Meeting "Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning", October 27, 2010

The next meeting of the research area "Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" will take place on October 27, 2010. The meeting fosters the interaction of the PhD students and advisors of the different groups in this research area. PhD students will have the opportunity to present their current research projects in a short talk.

Venue: UMIC Centre, Mies-van-der-Rohe-Straße 15, Aachen

Time: 14:30 - 18:30

Workshop on Network Methods in Biology, October 6 - 8, 2010

Professor Dr. Steve Horvath from the Department of Biostatistics of the University of California, Los Angeles, will offer a workshop focusing on "Network Methods in Biology", October 6-8,2010 in B-IT Building in collaboration with B-IT Professor Dr. Holger Fröhlich.

This workshop addresses primarily Research Area 4 "Life Science Informatics" but is also strongly recommended for those PhD students who apply network theory in their thesis. In latter context the workshop will broaden the horizon how network theory is applied in a different field. This may yield some productive and beneficial effects for your own work. Professor Horvath is predestined for this interdisciplinary approach as he is a trained mathematician (Bachelor degree and PhD) and has therefore also an understanding for different views on network theory and on its applications.

More information about Professor Steve Horvath

The workshop will cover the following topics:
  1. Alternative methods for constructing gene networks based on microarray gene expression data and complementary data (e.g. gene ontology data, proteomics data.
  2. Studying differences between networks. Differential network analysis.
  3. Structural equation models for testing causal relationships.
  4. Using networks for selecting biomarkers
  5. Using networks for supervised and unsupervised machine learning tasks
  6. Application to time series data.
Some literature and material

More information about R package and software tutorials

The workshop will discuss research topics surrounding methods and applications of weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), which is a systems biologic analysis for analyzing genomic data. But the underlying correlation network methodology has also been applied to other high dimensional data, e.g fMRI data.

Important note: Attendees of this workshop will have the additional opportunity to discuss their thesis project on a one-on-one basis with Professor Horvath. All those participants who would like to do this please submit a one page document containing:
  • a short CV and
  • the topic of the thesis with a short description
to Ms Sabine Burch at burch at iai.uni-bonn.de

This information will help Professor Horvath to better prepare for the one-on-one interviews with you.

Registration for the workshop and submission of one page documents for the one-on-one interviews: Ms Sabine Burch by e-mail (burch at iai.uni-bonn.de)

Registration Deadline: September 30, 2010

Venue: B-IT building, Dahlmannstaße 2, 53113 Bonn

Strategy Workshop, September 1-2, 2010

B-IT Research School students will organise this Strategy Workshop on their own. The workshop fosters peer learning among PhD research school students across research areas. Moreover, PhD students are made familiar with the substantial amount of organisational and social requirements in research, besides the scientific requirements, taking the PhD thesis as an example.

Venue : B-IT building, Dahlmannstraße 2, 53113 Bonn

Programme: Workshop Programme

B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2010

Professor Dr. Peter Sloot, Computational Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Modeling HIV from Molecule to Man"

Venue: B-IT lecture hall, Dahlmannstraße 2, 53113 Bonn

Time: 17:00 hours

More information about the lecturer.

In brief: Professor Sloot earned a Machelor's Degree in Chemistry, another Master's Degree in Physics and a PhD in Computer Science. With his personal scientific background, he will give an interdisciplinary talk on the topic. This talk particularly addresses PhD students from all areas of B-IT Research School.

Workshop with Dr. Etienne Lozes, ENS Cachan

A compact course by Dr. Etienne Lozes, ENS Cachan will be held in May/June on "Separation Logic, Heap-Manipulating Programs, and Concurrency".

Lecture dates

17.05., 16:00 - 17:30: Lecture 1 - Foundations

25.05., 15:00 - 16:30: Lecture 2 - Decision procedures

07.06., 16:00 - 17:30: Lecture 3 - Race-free concurrency

17.06., 15:00 - 16:30: Lecture 4 - Racy concurrency

The course will take place in Seminar Room I11 (ground floor, R 2002, Informatik Zentrum, Ahornstr. 55, Aachen) and is open to students of the Research Training Groups "AlgoSyn" and of the B-IT Research School. Other participants are welcome as well.

Hoare-Floyd logic is a well-known proof system for programs based on so-called Hoare triples of the form {A} p {B}, meaning "if program p can assume A as it starts, it ensures B as it stops". Separation Logic is an extension of Hoare-Floyd logic for reasoning about programs.

The main ingredient of separation logic is a second-order connective called separating conjunction: A*B asserts that the state is composed of two disjoint parts, one satisfying A, the other satisfying B.

This connective yields a new reading of a Hoare triple {A} p {B}: "if p can consume A as it starts, then it has enough resources to run safely, and it produces B as it stops". Less than ten years after its theoretical foundation, Separation Logic starts to prove, through impressive automatic tools, to be a successful approach for checking large low-level C code (Apache, Linux,...), and to nicely handle lots of small but intricate concurrent algorithms (e.g. lock-free concurrent data structures).

The logical foundations, expressiveness issues, and decision procedures, have been much clarified since 2000. However, for all of these aspects and others, Separation Logic is still a very active field of research. This lecture aims at giving a complete overview of the main ideas and results that were developed during these first ten years, ranging from logical-theoretic aspects to programs' design principles, and possibly to present some open issues.

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B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2010

B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics is aimed at giving an overview of current and future trends in this research area.

Lecturers from academia and industry are invited to present their research area of interest and discuss it with the students.

B-IT Research School students will additionally be given the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with each lecturer before their respective talks.

More information about the talks, including a comprehensive list of talks and their dates and times.

Workshop in Audiosignal and Speech Processing - Workshop Audiosignal- und Sprachverarbeitung

B-IT offers a one Day Workshop in Audiosignal and Speech Processing on February 17, 2010. Please note that this Workshop will be held in German.

More information on this workshop (in German) (.pdf)

Persons to contact (in German)(.pdf)

Date: February 17, 2010

Time: 09:00 - 17:30 hours

Venue: Lecture Hall (Hörsaal), B-IT Building, Dahlmannstraße 2, 53113 Bonn

Workshop on "Computational Life Sciences"

B-IT Research School organises the Workshop "Computational Life Sciences". The workshop will be held on January 25, 2010 at B-IT building. Lecturers of this workshop will come from the following Institutions:
  • Chinese Academy of Science-Max-Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai
  • University of Bochum
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • University of Bonn
  • Fraunhofer Institute FIT
  • Franhofer Institute SCAI

More Information :

Programme of the Workshop (.pdf)

Date: January 25, 2010

Time: 11:00 - 17:00 hours

Venue: Rheinsaal, B-IT Building, Dahlmannstraße 2, 53113 Bonn

Registration for PhD Students: please register through e-mail to alexandra.reitelmann (at) bit.uni-bonn.de

Registration deadline: January 21, 2010


Seminar with Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist for the Connected Action Consulting Group

7/8 December 2009

On December 7 and 8, 2009, the very renowned community technology and HCI researcher Marc Smith will visit RWTH Aachen University and the B-IT Research School. We cordially invite you to join Marc's research seminars on (tentative)

  • Social media network analysis,
  • NodeXL - A hands-on guide, and
  • Mobile social software and sociological sensors. The event will take place at the Chair of Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University.

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  • Marc Smith' CV

  • The tentative schedule

    Seminar with Professor Baudisch, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam

    17-18 December 2009

    Professor Dr. Patrick Baudisch from Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam will give a two days seminar at the Chair of Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen December 17-18, 2009.

    Professor Baudisch has worked for several years at Microsoft Research at Seattle. Recently, he has been appointed Professor at Hasso-Platten Institute in Potsdam. Professor Baudisch published extensively in CHI, ACM UIST and elsewhere and is therefore well known and highly acknowledged in the HCI community. The seminar primarily addresses stipendiates and collegiates of B-IT Research School. Other participants are welcome, if places are available.Professor Dr. Patrick Baudisch from Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam (http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/) will give a two days seminar at the Chair of Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen December 17-18, 2009, Computer Science Center, Ahornstr. 55, room 2010.

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    Bill Verplank Seminar on Sketching User Interfaces

    Bill Verplank, designer of the Xerox Star user interface and lecturer at Stanford University, will visit the Media Computing Group for a B-IT Research Seminar on Sketching User Interfaces from September 28 - October 2, 2009. The seminar will be held in English, room 2010 in 52074 Aachen, Ahornstraße 55, 3rd floor.

    Mo - Fri: 10.00 - 11.30 a.m.

    Additional classes and one-on-one signup times to meet the lecturer, Mo - Fri: 2.00 - 3.30 p.m.

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    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    16/07/2009

    Dr. Edgar Jacoby Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis, Bale, Switzerland

    In Silico Contributions to the Design of a Comprehensive Drug Discovery Screening Collection

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Research School Seminar 2009

    14/07/2009 and 15/07/2009

    Professor Dr. Jim Hollan Co-director the Distributed Cognition and Human- Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States of America

    The Cognitive Consequences of Technology and the Technological Consequences of Cognition

    The seminar will be set up as a mix of lecture, group discussion, practical workshops and some time slots for individual meetings.

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    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    09/07/2009

    Dr. Luca Toldo Knowledge & Informatics Management, Operational Excellence Research, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

    Knowledge Management in Pharmaceutical Industry: from the flop to the blog

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    25/06/2009

    Dr. David de Graaf Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany

    Integrative Biology aids in decision making in the pharmaceutical industry

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    18/06/2009

    Professor Dr. Hugo Kubinyi Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at University of Heidelberg and Scientific Advisor for BioSolveIT GmbH, Germany

    Chemical Similarity and Biological Activities

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    04/06/2009

    Dr. Michael Engels Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen, Germany

    Aspects of Discovery Informatics

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    28/05/2009

    Dr. Peter Ertl Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Novartis, Bale, Switzerland

    The Role of Chemiformatics in the Modern Drug Discovery Process

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    Tutorial

    08/05/2009

    Professor Dr. Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears

    Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Communication networks

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    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    07/05/2009

    Professor Dr. Matthias Rarey University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Computing for Medicinal Chemistry Research: From Virtual Screening to Lead Optimization

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

    More information about B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics

    B-IT Lecture Series in Life Science Informatics 2009

    30/04/2009

    Professor Dr. Hanno Wild Bayer HealthCare AG, Wuppertal, Germany

    Life Science Informatics & Drug Discovery at Bayer Schering Pharma

    More information about the lecturer and his work can be found here.

    B-IT Research School students will additionally have the opportunity to discuss their PhD projects with the lecturer before his talk.

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