Workshop 2017

Workshop EPFL-Inria 2017

The third annual EPFL-Inria workshop will take place on February 7 & 8, 2017 in Lausanne.
The afternoon of February 8 will be dedicated to a 2nd workshop about Moocs and e-learning.

  • Registration: the registration is free but please register to the event. A registration form is available here
  • Venue: EPFL – School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) – building BC – room 420. Look at EPFL campus printable map here
  • Access and practical information: you can find maps and information here 
  • Program: see program below
EPFL-Inria workshop, February 7 & 8

Tuesday February 7

14:00: opening

14:15 – 15:30
Wenzel Jakob, EPFL: “Exploiting coherence in light transport simulations” – abstract
Camille Jeunet, Inria (postdoc Epfl/Inria):”Using Brain-Computer Interfaces as a Tool to Improve Ahtletes’ Performance” – abstracttalk

15:30 : coffee break

16:15 – 17:30
Roberto Di Cosmo, Inria Paris: “What would you do with billions of source code files? Challenges and opportunities from software archival” – abstracttalk
Baptiste Lepers, Inria (postdoc Inria/EPFL): “Verifying high level properties on multicore schedulers” – abstracttalk

Wednesday February 8

9:30 -10:45
Nicolas Holzschuch, Inria Grenoble: “Beyond the micro-facet model: can we get more realistic materials?” – abstract – talk
Mahsa Taziki, EPFL: “What can a click really reveal? Quantifying the utility and privacy effects of a click” – abstracttalk

10:45 – 11:15: coffee break

11:15 – 12:30
Jad Hamza, EPFL (Postdoc EPFL/Inria): “What are the strongest consistency criteria?” – abstracttalk
Michael Kapralov, EPFL: “An Adaptive Sublinear-Time Block Sparse Fourier Transform” – abstracttalk

12:30 : lunch on your own

MOOCs and e-learning workshop, February 8 – Salle BC – 410

13:30: introduction – objectives and presentation of the program

13:40-15:40: Session 1: Educational partnership with Africa 
Each slot is 15 min talk + 10 min discussion
13:40 : Wandida (Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL & Gilles Dowek, Inria) – talk 1 – talk 2
14:10: MOOCs & Africa (Dimitrios Noukakis, EPFL) – talk
14:40: MOOCs & Handicap (Pascal Guitton & Anke Brock, Inria) – talk 1talk 2
15:10: THYMIO (Francesco Mondada, EPFL & Didier Roy, Inria) – talk

15:40: walk to the Rolex Learning Center where coffee will be served

16:00-17:00: Session 2: Research on learning technologies
16:00: Demos (Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL, D. Gillet, EPFL, ….)
16:30: Discussion on joint research projects

17:00: End of the day

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