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Perspectives of Computer Science
Lectures: The lecture is a first orientation towards different research areas in Computer Science and related fields, covered by local world-class experts. Different PIs of Saarland Informatics Campus and CISPA present their various research topics (in English).
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Sven Rahmann, Nima Amini
Time: Every Monday, starting 21.10.2024, at 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Lecture hall 1 in E2.5 (math lecture hall building)
Lectures will also be recorded (at least some of them) and available for viewing until (at leat) the end of the week.
Prerequisites: none; the lecture is for beginning students in computer science.
Passing the course:
- This is a mandatory but ungraded course for 2 ECTS credits.
- After every lecture, there will be an online quiz that must be taken by each student. A certain number of correct answers (60%) must be given in the quizzes to pass the course. (Students whose study plan counts this course with only 1 ECTS credit need to get half of that, i.e. 30%).
- The quizzes are in here in the CMS (called "online tests").
- Quizzes consist of approximately 10 multiple-choice questions.
- Quizzes are open till Friday after the lecture, 23:59. Results will be available after the quiz closes.
- You can revisit and edit your answers until the deadline.
Important registration information:
- You must register for this course on this website (CMS) in order to access the recorded lectures and other material.
- You must register for the exam of this course separately in HIS/POS (LSF) until 30.11.2024; otherwise you cannot get credit. No exceptions; no late registrations. If you forget the HIS/POS registration, you cannot get credit even if you get 60% of all quiz points!
(Note: LL.M. students and some other groups, like junior students, cannot register in LSF, HIS/POS. Only in these cases it is sufficient to be registered here (in the CMS). You will get a written confirmation if you pass the course to hand over to your examination office, or your exam office will be informed directly).
Questions?
- Please read the FAQ below first, then use the "Forum".
- To connect with each other, we may also set up a discord server for everyone. However, it will not be monitored by the organization team.
Schedule
| Date | Presenter: Topic |
| 21.10.2024 | Sven Rahmann: Introduction, Organziation, short talk on Bioinformatics (with a practice quiz) |
| 28.10.2024 | Martina Maggio: Verification of Control Systems |
| 04.11.2024 | Jilles Vreeken: The Lecture of Why |
| 11.11.2024 | Benjamin Kaminski: Ancient and Modern (Quantitative) Verification |
| 18.11.2024 | Jürgen Steimle: Human-Computer Integration |
| 25.11.2024 | Andrea Volkamer: Computer-Aided Drug Design |
| 02.12.2024 | Verena Wolf: Does Mechanistic Modeling Become Obsolete in the Era of Deep Learning? |
| 09.12.2024 | Kerstin Reese: Teaching Computer Science to Young People |
| 16.12.2024 | Derek Dreyer: Rust without Trust |
| (holidays) | --- |
| 06.01.2025 | |
| 13.01.2025 | Jan Reineke: Synthesizing Leakage Contracts |
| 20.01.2024 | Thorsten Herfet: On the 5G Campus Network |
| 27.01.2024 | Philipp Slusallek: Trusted AI |
| 03.02.2024 | --- (spare slot in case something has to move) |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- How do I register in LSF / HISPOS ?
Registration has to be completed till 30.11.2024 !
Please choose exam number 10036 in "Prüfungsstrukturbaum" -> "Informatik" -> "Bachelor" -> "Lecture Series on Topics in Computer Science". (This does not apply to LL.M students, who cannot register in HISPOS/LSF. They will receive a written confirmation letter at the end of the course.) -
I forgot to finish a quiz in time. Can I do a late submission?
No; you'll get 0 points for this quiz. Don´t worry, you only need 60%, so it's enough to make sure you do well in the following weeks. - I started the quiz, then time ran out, and I never submitted. What now?
The questions that you have answered within the time frame will be graded; the remainder will be scored with zero.
Earlier versions of "Perspektiven der Informatik"
- WS 2023/24 (CMS)
- WS 2022/23 (CMS)
- WS 2021/22
- WS 2019/20
- WS 2011/12