First DFG/GENI Doctoral Consortium

The first DFG/GENI doctoral consortium is being held March 13-15, 2011, in conjunction with the 10th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC10) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The consortium is jointly organized by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The co-chairs are Paul Müller of the University of Kaiserslautern and Mike Zink of the University of Massachusetts. Participation is by invitation only.

Tentative Schedule

The planned schedule for the consortium is shown below.

Sunday 13th March 2011
6:00 PM	Poster Session and Reception
8:00 PM	Cluster Selection
Monday 14th March 2011
07:30 – 08:30	Plenary Session
	Co-chair welcome
	Consortium "faculty" introductions
	Consortium structure discussion
08:30 – 09:30	Cluster assignments
09:30 – 11:30	Parallel cluster discussions
11:30 – 2:30	Plenary Session
	Team presentations on preliminary ideas
	Faculty critiques of preliminary ideas
	Faculty panel on great experiments
2:30 – 4:30	Parallel cluster discussions
4:30 – 6:30	Break
6:30 – 8:30	Plenary Session
	Questions from students on experiment ideas
	Faculty round-table on great experiments
8:30 – ????	Students work on experiment presentations
Tuesday 15th March 2011
07:30 – 08:30	Plenary Session
	Co-chair welcome
	Presentation structure discussion
08:30 – 11:30	Student presentations
	Faculty critique
11:30 – 12:00	Co-chairs, students – vote on best experiment
	Final remarks
12:00	Adjourn to GEC10

Clusters

Participants will divide into small groups, based on shared technical interests. The list of clusters is subject to change, based on participants' interest. The current candidate set of clusters is:

• Cloud Computing
• Security in future networks
• Routing
• Mobility
• Monitoring and management
• Cyberphysical systems

Posters

Participants' posters are available at FirstConsortiumPosters.