Seminar Database Systems (PhD, MSc, BSc)
| Organization: | Michael Böhlen and Peter Widmayer |
| Teaching language: | English |
| Level: | PhD, MSc and advanced BSc students |
| Academic Year: | Spring 2016 |
| Dates: | Tuesday 23.2.2016 14.00-16.00h ETHZ CAB H 52 Saturday 7.5.2016 UZH BIN 2.A.01 |
Overview and objectives: The area of this year's seminar is data streaming. Students learn how to critically read and study research papers, how to summarize the contents of a paper, and how to present it in a seminar.
Teaching format: Each participant writes a self-contained report of about 10 pages and gives a 30 minutes presentation (blackboard, without a computer). Each participant has a buddy. Buddies read the report, make suggestions for improvements, and help with the presentation (e.g., dry runs). The first version of the report is due two weeks before the date of the presentation, and will be discussed with the buddy and the professor about one week before the presentation. The final versions of the report are due at the end of the semester (June 4, 2016).
Setup and Organization: The setup of the seminar will be discussed Tuesday February 23, 2016 from 14:00 until 15:00 in room CAB H52 at ETHZ. At the first meeting the available slots for the seminar will be distributed and papers will be assigned. The presentations take place during Saturday May 7, 2016 (all day). Participation at both meetings is compulsory. The assessment depends on the quality of the report, presentation, active participation during the seminar, and input as a buddy.
| topic | presenter | buddy | professor |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams | Markus Göckeritz | Dominik Stammbach | Przemyslaw Uznanski |
| (2) Distributed Stream Join Processing | Thomas Preu | Demjan Grubic | Michael Böhlen |
| (3) Spark Streaming | Dominik Stammbach | Bernard Schroffenegger | Michael Böhlen |
| (4) spanner construction | Bernard Schroffenegger | Thomas Preu | Przemyslaw Uznanski |
| (5) graph sparsification | Demjan Grubic | Kolitsas Nikolaos | Przemyslaw Uznanski |
| (6) counting triangles | Jayaram Vivek | Markus Göckeritz | Peter Widmayer |
| (7) counting triangles better | Kolitsas Nikolaos | Jayaram Vivek | Peter Widmayer |
The assignment of papers for the May 7 meeting is as listed in the above table (each presentation lasts 30 minutes; the presentations take place in room BIN 2.A.01 and start at 8:15am; since the building will be locked we meet at 8:05 am at the front entrance of the Binzmühlestr 14, roughly in the middle between tram Nr 10 stops Bahnhof Oerlikon Ost and Leutschenbach).