Conferences and Workshops
The Microsoft Research Connections group participates—as both presenters and attendees—at many research and academic conferences and workshops each month. You can find members of our team at the following events:
Events
- eScience Workshop 2012The ninth annual Microsoft eScience Workshop will be held October 8–9 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Discussions and presentations will once again relate to the theme, "eScience in Action." The eScience workshop provides a forum for scientists and researchers to share their experiences and expertise with the academic and research communities. The workshop fosters collaboration, facilitates the sharing of software components and techniques, and defines rich, open scientific challenges.
Chicago, IL, U.S. ·8–9 October 2012 - Verified Software Workshop and Summer School 2012 Microsoft Research Asia partners with East China Normal University to host the second Verified Software Workshop and Summer School in Shanghai, China. Participants will explore new directions and emerging opportunities in verifiable software research with colleagues from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. This workshop will include two days of lectures from prominent scientists and researchers on topics in verification theory, practices, and tools, followed by a five-day summer school.
Shanghai, China ·23–31 August 2012 - 2012 Summer School on ConcurrencyThe 2012 Russian Summer School on Concurrency and Parallelism in Software will be held August 22–29, 2012, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. An annual Microsoft Research event, the Summer School is intended for PhD and master’s students as well as young scientists. This year, we are inviting eight of the world’s top experts in concurrency and parallelism to lecture at the school. In addition to lectures, the program will include practical sessions, homework, and students’ poster presentations.
St. Petersburg, Russia ·22–29 August 2012 - Faculty Summit 2012Technological advancement has always been driven by the need to solve real-world problems, whether social or scientific. Today, computing research and technology continue to provide novel approaches to meeting such challenges. The 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit unites academic researchers; educators; and Microsoft researchers, product group engineers, and architects to explore new opportunities in computer-science research and advances that address real-world challenges.
Redmond, WA, U.S. ·16–18 July 2012 - PhD Summer School 2012An annual Microsoft Research event, the PhD Summer School is for Microsoft Research-sponsored PhD students and other invited PhD students in their first or second year from universities and research institutions with whom Microsoft Research partners. In addition to lectures, the program includes students’ poster presentations and evening social events.
Cambridge, UK ·2–6 July 2012 - Japan CORE Project Workshop 2012Microsoft Research Asia will hold the annual workshop on collaborative research (CORE) projects in Tokyo, Japan, on June 29, 2012. Approximately 100 academics and Microsoft researchers will discuss current research topics and review Japan's collaborative research projects. Presenters will introduce some of the latest projects from Microsoft Research and Microsoft technologies, and the workshop will include demo and poster sessions as well as academic discussions about the latest research trends.
Tokyo, Japan ·29 June 2012 - F# for Education and Innovation WorkshopThis one-day workshop provides a forum for exploring the use of F# 3.0 for education, research, and industry. Topics include F# for computer science, science, and engineering education; F# in financial computing; and the latest developments in F# 3.0 for information-rich programming, delivered through Microsoft Visual Studio 11 and Try F# 3.0. The workshop will conclude with a panel session about F# adoption in academia and industry.
Pisa, Italy ·28 June 2012 - Programming Language Design and Implementation 2012Microsoft Research is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the 33rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). The first PLDI to be located in Asia, this year's event will be co-loated with the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2012. It will feature a special Asian Experience track and an open-house event introduces participants to the Microsoft Research Asia Lab.
Beijing, China ·11–16 June 2012 - Latin American Faculty Summit 2012The need to solve real-world problems, whether social or scientific, has provided the impetus for technological advancements over the years; computing research and technology provide novel approaches to meet these challenges. For the 2012 Latin American Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research unites academic researchers; educators; and Microsoft researchers, product group engineers, and architects to explore new opportunities in computer-science research and and advances that adress such challenges.
Riviera Maya, Mexico ·23–25 May 2012 - ORCID Outreach Meeting May 2012Name ambiquity and attrition are persistent, critical problems embedded in the scholarly research ecosystem. The Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) Initiative represents a community effort to establish an open, independent registry that is adopted and embraced as the industry’s de facto standard. ORCID Outreach Meetings (formerly Participant Meetings) take place about twice a year. They are a unique opportunity to learn about the progress
Cambridge, MA, U.S. ·17 May 2012 - Cloud Futures 2012Microsoft Research—in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley—held the 2012 Cloud Futures Workshop on May 7–8, 2012. The workshop brought together thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of cloud computing in various research and educational areas—including computer science, Earth sciences, healthcare, humanities, life sciences, and social sciences.
Berkeley, CA, U.S. ·7–8 May 2012 - Open Data for Open Science 2012Workshop participants learned about the latest technologies from Microsoft that can help them productively share, access, consume, and present the environmental data that they use in their research. We introduced the Environmental Research Framework (EIF), an productive strategy for Microsoft to work with the environmental research community, and successful examples of EIF.
Redmond, WA, U.S. ·4–6 April 2012 - SIGCSE 2012SIGCSE 2012 brings together colleagues from around the world to address problems that are common among educators who work to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. It provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction. This year’s theme is “Teaching, Learning, and Collaborating.” Microsoft is a Platinum Supporter of SIGCSE 2012.
Raleigh, NC, U.S. ·29 February–3 March 2012 - Pacific Northwest Waters: Gateway to Our FutureA workshop bringing together users and providers of marine information to explore how monitoring and forecasting the ocean, coast and estuaries can best deliver safety, economic and environmental benefits to industries, governments and citizens of the Pacific Northwest.
Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond WA ·2 February 2012 - Principles of Programming Languages 2012The Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2012) is a forum for discussing all aspects of programming languages and systems, with a focus on how principles underpin practice. The event welcomes theoretical and experimental papers on topics ranging from formal frameworks to experience reports, papers discussing new ideas and areas, and high-quality expositions or elucidations of existing concepts that are likely to yield new insights. Microsoft Research is a sponsor of this event.
Philadelphia, PA, U.S. ·25–27 January 2012
