Informatics Europe Bulletin - May 2018

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	Dear Members, We are happy to send you the latest Informatics Europe bulletin, our bi-monthly newsletter for members. In this issue: ECSS 2018 Call for Participation Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads Submissions to the 2018 Awards - Deadline June 1st New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform Association News New members Membership renewals Board Meetings Member News ECSS 2018 Call for Participation Informatics Transforms and Renews is the main theme of the 14th European Computer Science Summit – ECSS 2018. Informatics has become a pervasive element of our reality that is transforming essentially all areas of science, technology and society, bringing with it new insights and new opportunities, yet also new risks and challenges. ECSS 2018 aims to explore this continuing process of transformation and renewal set in motion by Informatics, and its future outlook, from three perspectives: Informatics transforms science and technology: What radical changes are being brought about by Informatics in other sciences, and even in the scientific process itself? How is Informatics transforming our fundamental technologies and industries, e.g. through digitalisation and artificial intelligence? Informatics transforms society and life: Is an open society ideal sustainable in a world of big data and social media? What is the effect of artificial intelligence on the future of work? The reciprocal relationship between art and Informatics. The technics and ethics of autonomous systems. Informatics in transformation: What are the radical Informatics ideas emerging now and impacting the future? How to maintain the momentum in Informatics research and education, especially in Europe? The summit is co-chaired by Ivica Crnkovic and Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, and Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe President, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata". The Program Chairs are Letizia Jaccheri, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Pekka Orponen, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University. ECSS 2018 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden (Chalmers Conference Center), October 8-10, and will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, jointly between Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg. Confirmed Speakers Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology Georgi Dimitrov, Deputy Head of Unit Innovation and EIT, European Commission Amy Loutfi, Örebro University Wendy Mackay, INRIA Judith Simon, University of Hamburg Klaus Tochtermann, ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Follow the ECSS 2018 website for regular updates. Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads Every year, jointly with the ECSS main Summit, Informatics Europe organises a special Workshop for Deans and Heads of Informatics Departments to address specific challenges they encounter in their role. The workshop is a unique networking forum for leaders of Informatics institutions, and focuses on concrete issues and practical solutions. The theme of the 2018 Pre-Summit Workshop is Personal Development, with main focus on special skills and management training needed by deans and professors on the one hand; and PhD strategy and career training on the other hand. The workshop will be a mixture of talks, discussions/knowledge sharing/exchange in smaller groups and a consolidation and presentation of the results to all participants. The workshop will be held on Monday, October 8, co-chaired by Erika Abraham, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Gregor Engels, Department of Computer Science, Paderborn University, and Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano. Confirmed Speakers • Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Vienna University of Technology. Follow the Pre-Summit Workshop website for regular updates. Registration to ECSS 2018 will open by end of June. Submissions to the 2018 Awards - Deadline June 1st Informatics Europe is still accepting submissions for its 2018 Best Practices in Education Award devoted to ‘initiatives transforming Informatics education’. The Award recognises outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of Informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can be applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin. Examples include course results, traditional and online courses, learners’ projects, textbooks, professional development, and influence on the curriculum of other institutions/countries. Contributions should focus on innovative Informatics teaching practice. Innovation may be technology-based (for example using instructional technologies, MOOCs, learning analytics, etc.) or pedagogical. Experiences and reports showing how to use software or hardware tools in order to improve learning in other disciplines will not be considered. The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of EUR 5,000. Further inquiries: education-award@informatics-europe.org Further details on the Best Practices in Education Award page. Informatics Europe is still accepting submissions for the third Minerva Informatics Equality Award. This year the award is devoted to initiatives encouraging female students to enrol in Computer Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them. It celebrates successful contributions that have had a measurable impact on the recruitment and support of female students within the institution. Examples of impact could include fostering gender balance in all aspects of students’ education, better admission, recruitment and graduation rates for female students, better gender ratio of students receiving stipends, scholarships and other financial support, improved curriculum, designed based on gender analysis, as recorded in objective surveys of staff and student experience, etc. The Award is sponsored by Google and carries a prize of EUR 5,000. Further inquiries: minerva-award@informatics-europe.org Further details on the Minerva Informatics Equality Award page. Deadlines: Full submissions: June 1, 2018 Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2018. The Awards will be presented at the 14th ECSS in Gothenburg (Sweden), October 8-10, 2018, where a representative of the winning institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their achievements. New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform Current openings on the Informatics Europe online Job Platform: Research Associate - University of Edinburgh, UK Senior Researcher and Project Manager (SICSA Cyber Nexus project) - University of Edinburgh, UK Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer Science and Software Engineering - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Postdoc on Machine Learning (H2020 Project ‘AIDA’) - CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands PhD Student on Dynamic Data Analysis on distributed Clusters - CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands Full Professor in the area of Security by Design - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Several Research Fellowships (Health Data Analytics; Information Security; Machine Learning; AI in Medical/Cellular Imaging; Business Data Analytics; Virtual Reality; Software Engineering) - University of Tartu, Estonia PhD position in Visualising Topic Threads in News Data - University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Information Assurance and Security - University of Groningen, the Netherlands Research Associate / PhD Scholarships (Software Engineering/Machine Learning) - SnT Centre, Luxembourg PhD position on Automated Black-box Verification of Networking Systems - University College London, UK. Association News New members We are glad to have the School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) on board! Their membership widens our representation in Europe to 125 university departments and research institutes, all committed to excellence in Informatics research and education. For an overview of our network, visit our member’s list. Membership renewals The invoices for the 2018 Membership renewal will be sent to current members at the beginning of June. We thank you for your contribution and trust! For any question regarding your annual fee please contact: administration@informatics-europe.org Board Meetings The Informatics Europe Board held a Skype meeting on 27 April and met in Amsterdam on 9 May hosted by the CWI. Several issues were on the agenda: implementation of the high level activities, long term planning, ECSS organisation, reports and ongoing activities from the Working Groups, membership drive. Next Board Meetings: Friday, June 29, 16:00-17:00, Skype Friday, August 31, 16:00-17:00, Skype Friday, September 28, 16:00-17:00, Skype Sunday, October 7, (14:30-17:30) @ECSS 2018, Gothenburg. Don’t forget: as a member representative, you can submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in Board meetings. Let us know! Member News This space is available to include relevant news from our member institutions. If you would like to share your news (courses, awards, nominations…), please contact pepa.echanove@informatics-europe.org. Deadline for the July issue is before the 5th July 2018. §§§ The youngest member of Informatics Europe family arrived on 8th May in Zurich... We congratulate our Executive Director Cristina Pereira for the birth of baby Ariel!



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