WG211/M21Schedule

IFIP Working Group 2.11, Twenty-first Meeting

August 15th-18th in Odense, Denmark

The meeting will be held in Odense, Denmark, hosted by Ulrik Pagh Schultz.

The meeting will last 3.5 days; the first three days will be full-day, whereas the last day will be a half-day session.

Venue

The meeting will take place at the main campus of the University of Southern Denmark located in the city of Odense, in the meeting room Ellehammer.

To get to the main campus there is both a city bus and a tramway that leaves from the city center/train station and stops at the university. Both have frequent departures morning and afternoon, and operate most of the day. Tickets can be purchased at the train station, but you can also use a pre-paid card "Rejsekort" that works with all Danish publish transportation and can be bought at train stations (the "Anonymous" version), or the FynBus mobile phone app.

Travel

The easiest way to travel to Odense is via Copenhagen International Airport. From the airport a 2-hour direct train ride will take you to the center of Odense, with hotels located within walking distance from the train station.

Accommodation

We will recommend a hotel located in the center of Odense.

Registration

Registration is on-line and paid via credit card at the registration site https://event.sdu.dk/wg211 (note: anyone registering from a Danish university is recommended to use the EAN method to pay). The fee is paid in Danish Kroner (DKK) and is roughly equivalent to EUR 383.

COVID-19

Currently there are no covid-related restrictions in Denmark. The vaccination rate is one of the highest in the world, and the current infection rates are very low. Many studies have indicated that Denmark reached a good balance between restrictions and public safety. Given that Covid-19 so far has been seasonal similar to e.g. the flu, it currently seems unlikely that there will be any covid-related restrictions or issues in Denmark in August.

Attendance

Members: please add yourself here (in alphabetical order by last name) or email a chair-person to be added. [Guests will be added by chair-people]

Edwin Brady, Jacques Carette, Robert Glück, Ohad Kammar, Julia Lawall, Geoff Mainland, Peter Mosses, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Satnam Singh, Eric Van Wyk, Christoph Reichenbach, Vadim Zaytsev.

Talks

See below for schedule, note that the actual scheduling of talks will not be available until the meeting starts. Members: please add yourself and your topic, alphabetical order by last name:

We will follow our usual format of interactive talks with an active audience, using a chess clock for timing, as follows. For each talk the speaker and the audience each get at most 25 minutes. The audience does not have to wait until the end of a talk to ask questions; interaction and discussion is encouraged. (But experience from previous meeting shows that it is useful to let the speaker at least finish their introduction before interrupting.) To ensure fairness, administration of the time used by each party is done using a chess clock. Operation of the clock rotates among participants. Both speakers and audience are expected to contribute to make talks and discussions engaging, interesting, and useful. Therefore, we observe a policy of no use of electronic devices during talks (other than the device the speaker uses to present slides). Bring paper and pen for making notes.

Program / schedule

Social events

There will be a short visit to the main robotics lab at University of Southern Denmark and an afternoon bus excursion Wednesday afternoon to the Drone Lab located at Hans Christian Andersen Airport.

Touristy information

Odense is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, see Visit Odense for more information on sights to see in Odense and nearby. When traveling to Odense consider making a stop in Copenhagen. Copenhagen Central Station is easily accessible from the airport, and there are direct trains two times per hour during the day (and evening) from Copenhagen Central Station to Odense. Google Maps is useful for navigating Danish public transportation, but also consider using e.g. [www.rejseplanen.dk https://www.rejseplanen.dk]. An alternative travel route is to fly into Denmark via Billund airport, which is located just next to Legoland. From Billund public transportation to Odense via bus and train takes roughly 90 minutes.