About the project
Open lectures for PhD students in computer science, organized at the University of Warsaw, is a project which aims at broadening the choice of courses by invited courses given by top researchers both from other parts of Poland and from abroad.
We hope that this will result in the appearance of new research areas in the University of Warsaw, in broadeninig the perspectives of our students, and also - for some participants - scientific collaboration between them and lecturers.
Paricipants of the courses are both from the University of Warsaw and from other Polish universities.
Our speakers
So far we hosted:- Krzysztof Apt (CWI and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Michael Benedikt (Oxford University, UK)
- Marcin Bieńkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Wrocław University)
- Peter Boncz (CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
- Jan Chomicki (University at Buffalo, USA)
- Maxime Crochemore (King's College, UK & Université Paris-Est, France)
- Grzegorz Czajkowski (Google, USA)
- Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick, UK)
- Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Marek Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Peter Dybjer (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
- Stefan Dziembowski (University of Rome, Italy)
- Javier Esparza (Technische Universität München, Germany)
- Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Fedor Fomin (University of Bergen, Norway)
- David Harel (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
- Thierry Joly (Université Paris VII Denis Diderot, France)
- Assaf Kfoury (Boston University, USA)
- Lukasz Kowalik (University of Warsaw)
- Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA)
- Mirosław Kutyłowski (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Greg Malewicz (Google, USA)
- Daniel Marx (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
- Yiannis N. Moschovakis (University of California, Los Angeles)
- David Peleg (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
- Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS, France)
- Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Andrzej Salwicki (UKSW, Warsaw)
- Piotr Sankowski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
- Madhu Sudan (MIT, USA)
- Maarten van Steen (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
- Igor Walukiewicz (LaBRI, France)
- Ingmar Weber (Yahoo! Research, Barcelona)
- Michael Witbrock (Cycorp Inc., USA)
- Ronald de Wolf (CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Krzysztof Zieliński (AGH, Poland)
- Andreas Zeller (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany)
- Uri Zwick (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Details
Each semester we invite three lecturers. A semester is usually divided into three sessions, each session takes two days (Friday and Saturday) and is compound of classes of two courses. Each lecturer usually comes for two sessions. To get a credit for a course students have to take a kind of exam - usually it consists in solving problem(s) from a list given by the lecturer.
Apart from lectures we organize problem sessions and poster sessions with student presentations.