I had written an earlier entry concerning summer workshops and summer schools are useful in broadening one’s research and also picking up new tools. I applied for funding for two such events and thankfully my applications were successful. Therefore, I am excited about visiting Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany and Torrino in Italy in the next couple of months.
The purpose to visit the Max Planck Institute is to take part in 10th Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science (ADFOCS):
The purpose of the ADFOCS summer school is to introduce young researchers to topics which are in the focus of current research in the field of theoretical computer science. In order to achieve this, ADFOCS brings together leading researchers from this field with international participants of graduate level and above.
The purpose of visiting Torrino will be to participate in the European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS). Incidentally, just like ADFOCS, this will be the 10th edition of EASSS. The benefit of EASSS will be to broaden interests in other topics with in multiagent systems.
EASSS 2009 aims to offer a valuable forum for knowledge exchange between various research groups in this field, for the benefit of students and researchers at both beginner and advanced level. The school provides a wide range of state-of-the-art courses given by the most prominent researchers in the area.
