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HPI Future SOC Lab Day - Spring 2016

The HPI Future SOC Lab Day is conducted in the main building ("Hauptgebäude") of the Hasso-Plattner-Institut on Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

On the day the projects of the previous FSOC Lab period get a chance to present the results of their research activities. Additionally, selected requestors of new projects can expand their ideas.

-> Recordings at tele-TASK

Participation is free and is open to interested persons from industry and academia. If you want to participate, please register until March 30, 2016 here.

UPDATE: All Seats are reserved. The next HPI Future SOC Lab Day will take place in fall 2016.

Agenda

Time	Title	Speaker
09:30	Registration
10:00	Welcome	Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner Institute
10:15	The SAP HANA Platform 2016	Jörg Hoffmeister, SAP SE
10:35	Gravity: A Graph Engine for HANA Vora	Dr. Christian Krause, SAP SE
11:00	Big Data in Bio-inspired Optimization Using SAP HANA	Prof. Dr. Bernd Scheuermann, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
11:30	Research and Development of Ensemble Learning Techniques for SAP HANA	Sabrina Plöger + David Müller, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts
12:00	New EMC Storage and Backup Systems at HPI Future SOC Lab	Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, Hasso Plattner Institute
12:20	Lunch and Poster Sessions	Steering Committee Meeting
14:00	Automatic assembly of training data for visual concept detection tasks using deep learning	Christian Hentschel, Hasso Plattner Institute
14:30	Tetris with Big Spatial Data	Dr. Julia Sidorova, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
15:00	Coffee Break
15:40	Optimization Techniques and Best Practices for Business-Class NUMA systems	Max Plauth, Hasso Plattner Institute
16:10	Intensive Care Patient Data Analysis	Julian Neuhaus, Hasso Plattner Institute
16:40	Closing Remarks and Good-Bye	Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze, Hasso Plattner Institute
17:00	End of Future SOC Lab Day

Getting there

The HPI Future SOC Lab Day is conducted in the main building ("Hauptgebäude") of the Hasso Plattner Institute, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482 Potsdam.

You can find detailed information about the journey here: Directions to Hasso Plattner Institute

Call for Projects

The CfP for the period Spring 2016 has been completed. Immediately all submitted project proposals will be considered for the coming period Fall 2016. More information can be found here: