7th ReasoningWeb Summer School 2011 - Application Deadline approaching! (RW2011)

[Axel Polleres]

(apologies for cross-posting)

************* DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IN 10 DAYS !!!!! *************

3rd Call for Applications/Participation

The 7th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2011)
http://www.reasoningweb.org/2011/

23 - 27 August 2011

co-located with the 
5th Int'l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2011)
Galway, Ireland

************* DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IN 10 DAYS !!!!! *************

The Reasoning Web Summer School 2011 is primarily intended for 
postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, and other young 
researchers investigating aspects related to Reasoning on the Semantic
Web and related issues. The Summer School will also be open to senior 
researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their
own fields of research. 

For further details please visit 

http://www.reasoningweb.org/2011/

As in the previous years, we managed again to attract a distinguished
group of expert lecturers, the majority of which will - apart from
their lectures - also be  present for the duration of the school to
interact with students.

Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within
young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be
supported through social activities and an interactive, amicable 
atmosphere.

This year's summer school will be co-located with the 5th
International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2011),
29-30 Aug, cf. http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2011/) which is a great
opportunity to attend a major conference in the area directly
subsequent  to the school.


LECTURES 

1. Introduction to Linked Data, 
Soeren Auer (University of Leibzig)
2. Foundations of Description Logics 
Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
3. OWL and Rules 
Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University)
4. Using SPARQL with RDFS and OWL entailment 
Birte Glimm (Oxford University)
5. Scalable OWL2 Reasoning for Linked Data 
Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen), 
Aidan Hogan (National Unviersity of Ireland, Galway)
6. Combining Probabilistic and Logical Reasoning for Web Data Processing
Heiner Stuckenschmidt,  Mathias Niepert (Universitaet Mannheim)
7. Rules and Logic Programming for the Web 
Adrian Paschke (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
8. Trust Management Methodologies for the Web 
Denis Trcek (University of Ljubljana)
9. Models for the Web of Data 
Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile)
10. Database foundations for scalable RDF processing 
Katja Hose, Martin Theobald, Ralf Schenkel, 
Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institut) 
11. Scalabe non-standard reasoning on the Semantic Web 
Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich)
12. An Introduction to Constraint Programming and 
Combinatorial Optimisation
Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)

APPLICATIONS

The number of attendees will be limited, applications for
participation have to be made via Easychair using the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2011

The programme of the school will include a poster session where
students can present and discuss their ongoing research with 
lecturers and colleagues. Applications shall include a remark on 
whether a poster will be presented along with a short abstract. 

Applications should be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages 
(min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information:

- Name, contact details
- Affiliation
- Motivation for participation
- Summary of profile 
- Willing to present a poster? 
(yes/no, if yes, include a short poster abstract) 
- Supervisor (if applicable)
- Publications (if applicable)


*** Application Deadline:  30 April 2011 (10 DAYS FROM NOW!!!) ***
*** Notifications:         15 May   2011                       ***


REGISTRATION

Details of the registration process will be announced on the Web site,
after the application deadline. As in previous years we will keep 
the registration fee moderate (450 EUR) and provide reasonable 
accomodation packages (less than 50 EUR per night) for students. 
Registration costs include lunches, the social event and a hard copy 
of the lecture notes.

STUDENT GRANTS

There will be a limited number of student grants available for the 
summer school and for the co-located RR2011 conference.

Details on how to apply for those grants can be found at:
http://reasoningweb.org/2011/ApplicationRegistration.html

LECTURE NOTES

As in previous years, the course material used during the summer
school will be published with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in
the registration fees.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Claudia d'Amato,  Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy 
Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile, Santiago, Chile 
Siefried Handschuh DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway 
Paula Lavinia Kroner SKYTEC AG, Germany 
Sascha Ossowski Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain 
Peter Patel-Schneider Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, USA 
Axel Polleres DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

CONTACT

For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact 
the local organisers:
Axel Polleres (http://www.polleres.net)
Alessandra Mileo (http://sites.google.com/site/alessandramileoweb/)