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[pept:125] 8th Estonian Winter School in Comp. Sci., Call for Partic.




[Lecturers: Chaitin, Cousot, Damgård, Håstad.
Place/time: Palmse, Estonia, 2-7 March 2003.
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts for student 
talks/posters: 24 January 2003.]



                      Call for Participation


          8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science
                            EWSCS'03
                 Palmse, Estonia, 2-7 March 2003

            http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003/




Background and objectives

EWSCS is a series of regional-scope international winter schools held
annually in Estonia.  EWSCS are organized by CIDEC, a joint initiative
of Inst. of Cybernetics (Tallinn), Tallinn Techn. U., and U. of
Tartu for the advancement of higher education in computer science and
information technology. EWSCS'03 is the eighth event of the series.

The main objective of EWSCS is to expose Estonian, Baltic, and Nordic
graduate students in computer science (but also interested students
from elsewhere) to frontline research topics usually not covered
within the regular curricula. The subject of the schools is general
computer science, with a bias towards theory, this comprising both
algorithms, complexity and models of computation, and semantics, logic
and programming theory. The working language of the schools is
English. This time the focus of the winter school will be on
randomness, cryptography and abstract interpretation.


Programme

The schools' scientific programme consists of short courses by
renowned specialists and a student session. The course list for
EWSCS'03 is the following:

Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J. Watson R.C.):
      Algorithmic Information Theory

Patrick Cousot (ENS, Paris):
      [Abstract Interpretation]

Ivan Damgård (Aarhus U.):
      Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation

Johan Håstad (KTH, Stockholm):
      The PCP Theorem with Some Applications to Inapproximability

The purpose of the student session is to give students an opportunity
to present their own ongoing work (typically, thesis work) and get
feedback. Registrants to EWSCS'03 are invited to propose short talks
(20 min) or posters. The selection will be based on abstracts of
150-400 words.

The social programme consists of an excursion and a conference dinner.


Venue

Palmse is a small settlement in the county of Lääne-Viru, 80 kms
to the east from Tallinn, renowned for a large manor that used to
belong to the von Pahlen family, today hosting the visitors' center of
the Lahemaa National Park, a museum, and a hotel.

Tallinn, Estonia's capital, is famous for its pictoresque mediaeval
Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. There are direct flights to
Tallinn from London, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna, Moscow, Warsaw,
Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, ferries from Stockholm and Helsinki.
From Vilnius, Riga, the Eurolines coach service is the practical
travel option.


Registration and cost

Registration is done via www using the form at
http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003/reg.php. Please register
early; the number of participants is limited.

The deadline for registration and submission of abstracts is 24
January 2003. All registrants will be notified of acceptance to school
and of acceptance of their talks/posters by 31 January 2003.

The participation fee is 3100 EEK (200 EUR) and includes the course
material, full boarding, transportation from Tallinn to Palmse,
excursion and conference dinner. The fee should be paid by bank
transfer to Institute of Cybernetics, Hansapank (SWIFT code HABA
EE2X), account No. 221007122812 (please refer to EWSCS'03 plus your
name and make sure that the payment is made in EEK or EUR with all
charges on your side) by 14 February 2003.

Participants from Tallinn Technical University and University of Tartu
may be able to get their costs paid by their universities and are
expected to contact their supervisors about this.

For participants from abroad, there is a limited number of grants
available that cover the participation fee. To apply of a grant,
please contact the organizers by email to cidec@cs.ioc.ee.


Programme committee/Organizing committee

Jaan Penjam (Inst. of Cybernetics), Jüri Vain (Tallinn Techn. U.)
(co-chairs), Monika Perkmann (Inst. of Cybernetics) (secretary),
Helger Lipmaa (Helsinki U. of Techn.), Tarmo Uustalu (Inst. of
Cybernetics), Heli Uibo (U. of Tartu), Varmo Vene (U. of Tartu),
Jaak Vilo (eGeen Inc.)


Further information

Further information will be obtainable from EWSCS'03 webpage at
http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003/. Questions should be sent to
cidec@cs.ioc.ee.