General Information

The Summer School on Foundations of Information Technologies, FIT, will be held in Novi Sad, in Serbia, between June 14 and June 27, 2009. It will offer a number of PhD courses for all the students, from Serbia and abroad, interested in this field. In addition to the lectures on selected topics related to the theory and applications of Information technologies, students will have an opportunity to work in small teams on specific scientific assignments. Such an approach supports the main idea of modern doctoral education – training for research by doing research.

The organizer of FIT is Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. The FIT Summer School is supported by the TEMPUS Programme through the Project “Doctoral School towards European Knowledge Society – DEUKS”. All the partner institutions in the DEUKS Project are giving valuable contribution to the Summer School, ensuring its high scientific and educational quality. The lecturers are professors from Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, and INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France.

Tempus project DEUKS aims at promotion of the current European landscape of doctoral education in Serbia. The developed and implemented Pilot Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, jointly ran with the Mathematical institute, SANU, Belgrade, strongly relies on the European innovative recommendations and improved and new teaching methods. Summer School FIT is an important step on the way towards modern and efficient doctoral education in Serbia, and our further integration into the European knowledge society.

Course Lecturers

Prof. Furio Honsell, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Pietro Di Gianantonio, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Salvador Lucas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Prof. Marina Lenisa, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Ivan Scagnetto, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

Prof. Gian Luca Foresti, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Roberto Ranon, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Dott. Christian Micheloni, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Guest Lecturers

Prof. Pierre Lescanne, École normale supèrieure de Lyon, France

Prof. Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini, Università di Torino, Italy

Prof. Pawel Urzyczyn, University of Warsaw, Poland

Prof. Joakim Lindblad, Centre for Image Analysis SLU, Uppsala, Sweden

How to apply

Send an e-mail to: fit2009@imft.ftn.uns.ac.rs

Providing your name, address, institution and level of studies.

A Recommendation letter written and signed by your scientific supervisor is required. It can be sent by e-mail.

There is no fee for the lectures. Costs of accommodation and meals are to be covered by participants. Accommodation in a student dormitory and meals in a student restaurant can be organized upon request.

Important dates

Deadline for applications: May 15, 2009.

Opening: June 14, 2009.

Closing: June 27, 2009.

Schedule

Time	14/06	15/06	16/06	17/06	18/06	19/06	20/06
9-10³⁰	arrival	1.1	1.2	1.1	2.1	2.2	research novelties
10⁴⁵-12¹⁵		1.1	1.2	1.2	2.1	2.2
12³⁰-14		lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch
14-15³⁰		1.2	1.1	indiv. res.	2.2	2.1
15⁴⁵-17¹⁵		indiv. res.	indiv. res.	indiv. res.	2.2	2.1

Time	21/06	22/06	23/06	24/06	25/06	26/06	27/06
9-10³⁰	excursion to Viminacium	indiv. res.	3.1	3.2	3.1	students’ presentation session	departure
10^45-12¹⁵		indiv. res.	3.1	3.2	3.2
12³⁰-14		lunch	lunch	lunch	lunch
14-15³⁰		indiv. res.	3.2	3.1	indiv. res.
15⁴⁵-17¹⁵		indiv. res.	indiv. res.	indiv. res.	indiv. res.