Deadline: 30 May 2011
Open to: Undergraduate and post-graduate students in Computer Science and Engineering
Costs: No fee, meals and accommodation provided by the organizers
The school is a part of the Yandex Summer School Series (YSSS), started in 2010 with the Summer School in Machine Translation, and will be held annually. The mission of the series is to help social and professional networking among the best young talents in the areas of Computer Science and Software Engineering and foster collaborations between industry and academia.
The primary purpose of the school is to educate students in different “hot” areas of the modern IT, with the help of leading researchers and engineers from the most innovative companies and universities. This year’s school is meant to introduce students to the concepts of Distributed Computing and its applications to different areas, as well as to highlight the next generation research directions. A set of practical problems and the infrastructure to solve them on-site will be probided. The working languages of the school are English and Russian.
The Summer School in Distributed Computing will offer courses on such topics as scaling computation with MapReduce (Hadoop), computational load balancing, distributed web search and caching of web search results.
Dolgoprudny is a small campus area near Moscow (30 minutes by train), where Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, one of the best and well-known Russian technical universities, is located. The university has its original system of education and training, known as “PhysTech system”, which fosters both fundamental research and enterpreneurship. MIPT produced several Nobel Prize winners and many successful businessmen among its graduates.
Eligibility
The target audience of the school are undergraduate and post-graduate students. The organizers plan to select about 70 qualified and motivated participants.
Application
Applications should be sent to ysss2011@yandex.ru and include a detailed CV and examples of publications, both in PDF format.
The deadline for applications: 30 May 2011.
Please, note, that in case of the need in the letter of invitation to apply for the Russian Visa, you will be asked to provide the organizers with the scan of your passport. It is strongly advised to arrange the application for the Visa as early as possible. It might take more than a month to get Russian visa in some cases.
Costs
The participation is completely free for selected candidates. The organizers will provide accomodations, meals and handout materials. We also plan to organize a few social events.