Intro

• Computer Science courses given at Saarland University in the Winter Semester 2006-2007
• List of all courses with short description: http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.de/downloads/Studium/VV/VV_WS0607.pdf
• Timetable with all courses: http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.de/downloads/Studium/VV/Kollision_WS0607.pdf

1. Core Lectures - 9 CP

1.1. Computer Graphics

• Information on the course: http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/Courses/ws0607/cg/index.html
• News: You should register on the website! First Lecture: Monday 23.10.2006
• When: Monday, Thursday 09:00 - 11:00, First Lecture: 23. 10. 2006
• Where: Building E1 3, lecture hall 2
• What you know about it:
  • It's time consuming, due to complex C++ programming assignments. But your ray tracer looks cool at the end
  • http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~phil/GI/#download the link is broken on the website
  • The exam at the end is pretty hard, but the grading is on a curve.

1.2. Image Processing and Computer Vision

1.2.1. The course

• Information on the course: http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Teaching/ipcv06.shtml
• When: Tuesday and Thursday, 11-13 c.t.
• Where: Building E13, Lecture Hall 002
• What you know about it:
  • The theoretical assignment are quite hard.
  • It is an applied math course, that says it all.
  • The final exam requires extremely fast mental arithmetics for three hours plus some relatively simple proofs.

1.2.2. Study Group

• When: Just drop by, one of us is usually at room 016 (unless we are eating in the 'Mensa' ; )
• Where: MPI
• Who: Richard, Minko, Miguel, Henning, Rossen
• Tips:
  • http://www.swisseduc.ch/informatik/interaktiv/dft/index.html - I finally got what the Fourier Transform is about ^^

1.3. Artificial Intelligence Core Lecture

• When: Di, Do, 14-16,
• Where: E1.3, HS 001
• Website: http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/
• The lecture itself seems not very demanding.

1.4. Verification

• Website: http://depend.cs.uni-sb.de/index.php?439

2. Advanced and Specialized Lectures

2.1. Introduction to Image Acquisition Methods - 4 CP

• website: http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/welk/iam06.shtml

2.2. Elements of Statistical Learning - 6 CP

• Information on the course: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/departments/d3/teaching/sl1_06_07.html
• News: Starting October 18th, 2006, the first tutorial is on 27th
• When: Wednesday, 11:00 - 12:45, Tutorials: 9-11 every second friday starting 26th
• Where: Building 46, Room 024 (MPI Building)
• What you know about it:
  • Really hard, but important in many areas and interesting.
  • Almost impossible assigments with proofs and some R programming

2.3. Language Based Security - Advanced Course - 6 CP

• Information on the course: http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/teaching/WS06/lbs_06.html
• When: Wed. 9-11, Tutorial: Wed. 11-13
• Where: E 1.3, HS 003

2.4. Semantics of Higher Order Logics (HOL) - Advanced Course - 6 CP

• Web page of the course: http://gtps.math.cmu.edu/cebrown/SEMHOL-06/
• What you know about it:
  • Very nice lecturer who listens to its students.

2.5. Stochastic Hybrid Systems

• When: Blockcourse, 2 Weeks. 13. to 23. March 2007
• Website: http://depend.cs.uni-sb.de/index.php?444

2.6. Computation in Systems Biology -Seminar - 7 CP

• http://fred.bioinf.uni-sb.de/seminar_ws0607/index.php

2.7. Graph Theory - Advanced Course

• Website: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~doerr/teaching/graphtheory.html
• What you know about it:
  • The assigments, the midterm and the final are only about proofs.

2.8. Evolutionary Algorithms

• Website: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~doerr/teaching/evolutionary_algorithms.html

2.9. Pattern and Speech Recognition - 6 CP

• News: This is a legitimate course for credits in computer science.
• http://www.lsv.uni-saarland.de/e_speech_ws0607.htm

2.10. Numerical Algorithms for Visual Computing II - 6 CP

• Website: http://www.mia.uni-saarland.de/Teaching/navc-ws0607.shtml
• When: Wednesday 11–13
• Where: Building E13, Lecture hall 001

3. Seminars

3.1. Searching With Suffix Arrays - Seminar - 8 CP

• Web page of the course: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~bast/ir-seminar-ws06/
• When: Friday, (starting October 27th), 2.15 pm in
• Where: MPI-I room 024
• What you know about it:
  • Very time intensive with weekly assigments (programming and theory)
  • The lecturer does a very good job
  • Final grade based merely on your talk

3.2. Security and Privacy in Decentralized Networks - Seminar - 7/8 CP

• There was a meeting on Monday the 16th, where all possible papers were distributed. Thus this seminar is full now.
• Website: http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/teaching/WS06/sem-decentralized_w06.html

3.3. Game Theory - Seminar (German talks) - 8 CP

• Website: http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~klusch/seminar-SKV06/
• Principally in German. However I talked to Prof. Klusch and he said, that if 1) you can speak English really well, 2) can articulate complex mathematical ideas well in English and 3) are really interested in the topic you may also give your report in English.

3.4. AI - Tools - Seminar

• Information on the course: http://www2.dfki.de/~kipp/seminar_ws0607/
• In German
• When: Thursday, 16-18 c.t.
• Where: Building E13, SR 014

3.5. Seminar on Computational Topology

• Website: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~jgiesen/sem06.html