CP-2013: Conference Day 1: Workshops
Today was the first day [later: zeroth day] of the CP-2013 conference: The Doctorial program and Workshops day.
The venue, Uppsala University main building, is a very old (the oldest in Scandinavia, from late 15th century of so) and is beautiful and very impressive (though the quarter bell should perhaps be fixed since it's off by some minutes).
When we arrived at the morning, we met a lot of CP guys with wonderful orange T-shirts (designed by Joseph Scott) which indicate the tech and handy persons, those who do everything behind the scenes, i.e. just makes everything work. This is much appreciated!
As mentioned earlier, I was co-organizing the CP Solver workshop (the presentations are available via the link), and did also a talk (CP Solvers/Learning Constraint Programming), and was also responsible for the "5 minutes left" warning messages (a much helpful feature for the talkers I guess) so I didn't attend other workshops (from what I heard they where great as well).
Our workshop was quite well visited (perhaps in part because almost all speakers was in the audience but there are of course many non-talkers in the audience). I liked the mix of the talks: commercial systems and open source systems, old system and newer systems, and all talkers have some point of view that was interesting. The workshop ended with a hour long Panel Discussion - moderated by Hemut Simonis - with many interesting general discussions about the role and future(s) of CP solvers.
And from a personal point, it was really great to be able to at least greet to some I've only had electronic communication with earlier: Jacob Feldman, Chris Kuip, Victor Zverovich, Peter Stuckey, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Toshimitsu Fujiwara, Jean-Guillaume Fages, Guido Tack, Pierre Schaus.
The (scheduled) day ended with with a "Welcome drink" in the Chancellor room with a lot of old portrait painting (what I understood, this is one of the largest collection in Scandinavia). In all this first day was attended by about 100, about half of the total.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first "real" conference day. Some of the talks I'm looking forward to are:
The venue, Uppsala University main building, is a very old (the oldest in Scandinavia, from late 15th century of so) and is beautiful and very impressive (though the quarter bell should perhaps be fixed since it's off by some minutes).
When we arrived at the morning, we met a lot of CP guys with wonderful orange T-shirts (designed by Joseph Scott) which indicate the tech and handy persons, those who do everything behind the scenes, i.e. just makes everything work. This is much appreciated!
As mentioned earlier, I was co-organizing the CP Solver workshop (the presentations are available via the link), and did also a talk (CP Solvers/Learning Constraint Programming), and was also responsible for the "5 minutes left" warning messages (a much helpful feature for the talkers I guess) so I didn't attend other workshops (from what I heard they where great as well).
Our workshop was quite well visited (perhaps in part because almost all speakers was in the audience but there are of course many non-talkers in the audience). I liked the mix of the talks: commercial systems and open source systems, old system and newer systems, and all talkers have some point of view that was interesting. The workshop ended with a hour long Panel Discussion - moderated by Hemut Simonis - with many interesting general discussions about the role and future(s) of CP solvers.
And from a personal point, it was really great to be able to at least greet to some I've only had electronic communication with earlier: Jacob Feldman, Chris Kuip, Victor Zverovich, Peter Stuckey, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Toshimitsu Fujiwara, Jean-Guillaume Fages, Guido Tack, Pierre Schaus.
The (scheduled) day ended with with a "Welcome drink" in the Chancellor room with a lot of old portrait painting (what I understood, this is one of the largest collection in Scandinavia). In all this first day was attended by about 100, about half of the total.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first "real" conference day. Some of the talks I'm looking forward to are:
- Peter J. Stuckey's Invited talk: "Those Who Cannot Remember the Past are Condemned to Repeat it"
- Peter J, Stuckey: "MiniZinc Challenge results"
- Jun He, et.al: "Solving String Constraints: The Case for Constraint Programming"
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Pascal Van Hentenryck Invited Public Lecture: "Decide Different"[later: sorry, wrong day]