Symposium Goals
Within
just a few hours driving distance, the midwest has an incredible
collection
of database researchers and students. The goal of the
Midwest Database Research Symposium
is
to strengthen the ties between these individuals and encourage future
discussions, interactions and collaborations,
through
a day of interaction and networking once a year. To foster on-to-one interaction, this year's Symposium will focus on poster sessions and demos. We will have three poster sessions, with sufficient room for every attendee to have a poster. There will also be room for attendees to present demos along with their posters.
Registration
Attendees will register on site to receive a name tag. No preregistration is needed, other than a headcount of attendees from each school's coordinator. Each school's coordinator should also send a headcount of demo presenters, as there is limited demo space. Information will be available at the registration desk on the day of the symposium about where to set up demos and posters, how to get wireless access, and where to go for lunch.
Attendees
We expect attendees this year from the following institutions. (Institutional coordinators, please email donnakc@cs.uiuc.edu with any changes in your headcounts.)
| School |
Attendees |
| IIT | 10 |
| Indiana | 9 |
| Michigan | 5 |
| Nebraska | 1 |
| Northwestern | 3 |
| Ohio State | 5 |
| Purdue | 15 |
| Spring Arbor | 1 |
| UC | 2 |
| UIC | 33 |
| UIUC | 17 |
| Wisconsin | 1-3 |
| TOTAL | 104 |
Preliminary Program
9:00
AM Registration and continental breakfast9:40 AM Opening Remarks
9:45 AM Keynote Presentation
Jon Trowbridge, Google
Large Scientific Datasets: From the Laboratory to the Cloud
10:40 AM -- 11:00 AM Break
11:00-12:00 AM Demo and Poster Session I
Michigan, IIT and Ohio State
12:00 PM -- 1:30 PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30 PM -- 2:30 PM Poster and Demo Session II
2:30 PM -- 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM Poster and Demo Session III
UIUC, Northwestern, and UIC
4:00 PM -- 4:15 PM Planning next year's event (faculty only)
No
proceedings will be published.
Keynote Event
Jon Trowbridge, Google
Large Scientific Datasets: From the Laboratory to the Cloud
Abstract:
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This talk will discuss the technology behind Google's current efforts to organize a particularly important subset of the world's information: scientific datasets.Bio
Jon Trowbridge is a software engineer at Google, where his work to
date has focused on building highly-scalable systems for data storage
and distribution. Prior to joining Google, Jon worked on desktop
search and other end-user applications for the Linux desktop at Ximian
and Novell. Before he devoted himself to a life of ones and zeros,
Jon studied algebraic topology at the University of Chicago.
Symposium Location and Parking
All sessions of the Symposium will be held at UI-Chicago's sparkling new Forum, located near downtown Chicago at the corner of Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street. Ample parking is located two blocks west of the UIC Forum at 1135 South Morgan Street, Lot 5.
Driving directions:
You can find public transit information and maps online. In particular, you can find the Forum location at position 10U and Lot 5 location at position 8S and 9S on the campus east side map.
From the South
Get on I-94 West (the Dan Ryan Expressway).
Take Exit 52B toward Roosevelt Rd./Taylor St.
Stay straight to go onto Ruble St.
Turn left onto W. Roosevelt Rd.
End at 725 W. Roosevelt Rd.
From the North
Get on I-90 East (the Kennedy Expressway).
Take the Taylor St. exit 52A – toward Roosevelt Rd.
Stay straight to go onto S. Union Ave.
Turn right onto Roosevelt Rd.
From the East
Get on US 41 South (the Edens Expressway), which becomes I-94 East.
Merge onto I-90 East / I-94 East
Take the Taylor St. exit – Exit 52 A – toward Roosevelt Rd.
Stay straight to go onto S. Union Ave.
Turn right onto W. Roosevelt Rd.
From the West
Get on I-290 East (the Eisenhower Expressway).
Merge onto I-90 East / I-94 East
Take the Taylor St. exit 52A – toward Roosevelt Rd.
Stay straight to go onto S. Union Ave.
Turn right onto Roosevelt Rd.
Rules
for Demos and Posters
- Demos
- Each person presenting a demo should bring a laptop that can run the demo.
- Wireless internet access will be available for demos. Power may not be available in the demo area, so precharge laptop batteries.
- Everyone who wants to do a demo can do one, subject to space limitations. Each school should choose their own demos and send a headcount of demo presenters to donnakc@cs.uiuc.edu, to ensure that there is sufficient table space for all demo presenters.
- Posters
- Print out your poster, attach it to a stiff backing of foam board or cardboard, and bring it to the Symposium with you. We will set up easels to hold your posters.
- The easels have an A-frame shape and will accept a poster on stiff poster board. If your poster is floppy, then bring some small clips with you so that you can clip it to the back of someone else's (stiff) poster to keep it from falling off the easel.
- The exact size and form of the poster is up to the presenter.
Symposium
Organization
Organizing
committee co-chairs
Chris Clifton, Purdue University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bob Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Local arrangements chair
Bob Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Organizing committee
Chris
Clifton, Purdue University
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University
Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan
Melanie Wu, Indiana University
Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin
Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology