Euro-Par 2015 Conference

From August 24 to August 28, I attended the Euro-Par conference in Vienna which was hosted at the Vienna University of Technology.

Brief Announcement accepted at DISC 2015!

Our paper On the Voting Time of the Deterministic Majority Process has been accepted as a brief announcement to the 29th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2015! The brief announcement will be presented in Tokio in October 2015; the full paper can be found on arXiv.

Sir Lennox von Straßburg – Kärnten

Today, a lovely Labrador Retriever puppy moved in! Meet Lennox!

Mykonos, August 2015

Milos, Juli 2015

Santorini, Juli 2015

Kos, Juli 2015

ICDCS’15 Conference

From June 29th to July 3rd I attended the 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015) in Columbus, Ohio. The last flight from Toronto to Columbus was an Air Canada flight on a Bombardier Dash 8-100 Machine. I have never – ever – felt so uncomfortabe!

At the conference, I presented our recent results on diffusion based load balancing. Our paper (On Discrete Load Balancing in Heterogeneous Networks with a Focus on Second-Order Diffusion) can be obtained from arXiv. The presentation slides are also available online!

IPDPS’15 Conference

From May 25 to May 29 I attended the IPDPS’15 conference in Hyderabad, India. I also held a talk on Wednesday, May 27, where I presented our recent research in the area of randomized information dissemination. The presentation slides I used in my talk are available online and the paper can be found on arXiv.

Travel and Hotel

I had a pleasant flight since I managed to get a seat with lots of space for my legs. The hotel was nice with friendly staff and good breakfast.

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  Plenty of Space on the Airplane
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  The Hotel Lobby of Novotel Hyderabad International Convention Centre
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  The view from my hotel room. The desserted area is supposed to be a lake.
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  Birds on the Sky over Hyderabad International Convention Centre
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  The view from the lounge on 6th floor
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  Me at the pool after arriving in Hyderabad.
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  It’s HOT outside! Can you see the 45°C?
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  Once again at the pool after a long day attending many conference talks.

Hyderabad

On Tuesday evening we booked a taxi and went sightseeing in Hyderabad.

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  a temple nearby the hotel
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  A construction site with the infamous Indian Tuc-Tuc!
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  Streets of India
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  Fruit market: Cook it, boil it, peel it or forget it!
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  Sunset
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  Buddha Statue of Hyderabad
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  Bats, not birds!
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  Environmental protection

Workshop “Random Walks on Random Graphs and Applications”

From April 14th to 16th, I attended the workshop on Random Walks on Random Graphs and Applications at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands.