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Computer Science Bachelor Information
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Students may also choose a seminar from the Master's program in Computer Science. It is their responsibility to make sure that they meet the requirements and conditions for this seminar.
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
252-3510-00LComputing Platforms Information Restricted registration - show details
The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SG. Alonso, M. J. Giardino, I. Müller, C. Zhang
AbstractThe seminar covers core concepts and ideas in the general area of computer systems, ranging from software and hardware architectures to system design for operating systems, data processing systems, and distributed systems.
ObjectiveThe seminar will cover core concepts and ideas in the general area of computer systems, ranging from software and hardware architectures to system design for operating systems, data processing systems, and distributed systems. The focus will be on fundamental ideas that apply across systems and application areas but with an emphasis on those ideas that apply to cloud platforms and hardware acceler
ContentThe seminar will consist on student presentations based on a list of papers that will be provided at the beginning of the course. Presentations will be done in teams. Presentations will be arranged in slots of 30 minutes talk plus 15 minutes questions. Grades will be assigned based on quality of the presentation, coverage of the topic including material not in the original papers, participation during the seminar, and ability to understand, present, and criticize the underlying technology.
252-3800-00LAdvanced Topics in Technical Human-Computer Interaction Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 24.

The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SC. Holz
AbstractWe will discuss the latest topics in HCI and related communities: interactive devices, wearable and mobile sensing, applied computer vision for gesture, hand, and body pose input, machine learning-based processing. assistive and accessible technologies, biometrics & authentication, fabrication, haptic feedback, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, projection-based systems, affective computing.
ObjectiveThe objective of the seminar is for participants to collectively learn about the state-of-the-art research in Human-Computer Interaction and closely related areas. Another objective is to collectively discuss open issues in the field, necessary follow-up work for the latest presented results in the field, and developing a feeling for what constitutes research questions and outcomes in the field of technical Human-Computer Interaction.
ContentThe seminar format is as follows: attendees individually read one recent full-paper publication, working through its content in detail and possibly covering some of the background if necessary, and present the approach, methodology, research question and implementation as well as the evaluation and discussion in a 20–25 min talk in front of the others. Each presenter will then lead a short discussion about the paper, which is guided by questions posed to the audience in advance.
Literature24 papers will be provided by the lecturer and distributed in the first seminar on a first-come, first-served basis according to participants' preferences. The lecturer will also give a brief run-down across all 24 papers in a fast-forward style, covering each paper in a single-minute presentation, and outline the difficulties of each project. The schedule is fixed throughout the term with easier papers being presented earlier and more comprehensive papers presented later in the term.
Prerequisites / NoticeAll students are welcome in the first seminar to see the overview over the papers we will discuss. After assigning papers, the seminar will be limited to 24 attendees, i.e., those students that sign up for papers first.
252-3810-00LDatacenter Network Monitoring and Management Information
The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SD. Wagenknecht-Dimitrova
AbstractThe seminar focus on network monitoring, with focus on datacenters.
ObjectiveThe seminar will focus on network monitoring, with focus on datacenters. Both distributed control planes and SDNs will be discussed. Students will look at both passive and active monitoring solutions as well as novel proposals driven by recent programmable dataplanes The seminar will discuss the design of monitoring solutions, data collection challenges and also the data processing and objectives of monitoring.
ContentThe seminar will include an intial background reading, and then cover three types of papers (1) recent publications in top tier conferences,
(2) key publications in the field albeit older, and (3) whitepapers by industry (a small portion). It will attempt to strike a balance between understanding the fundamentals and keeping up with novel developments.
252-4225-00LPresenting Theoretical Computer Science Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 24.

The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SB. Gärtner, M. Ghaffari, R. Kyng, A. Steger, D. Steurer, E. Welzl
AbstractStudents present current or classical results from theoretical computer science.
ObjectiveStudents learn to read, understand and present results from theoretical computer science. The main focus and deliverable is a good presentation of 45 minutes that can easily be followed and understood by the audience.
ContentStudents present current or classical results from theoretical computer science.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe seminar takes place as a block seminar on two Saturdays in April and/or May. Each presentation is jointly prepared and given by two students (procedure according to the seminar website).
All students must attend all presentations.
252-4303-00LTopics at the Intersection between Theoretical Computer Science and other Disciplines Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 22.

The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SP. Penna
AbstractStudents present papers in Theoretical Computer Science which have also some "interdisciplinary flavor". Methods in classical theory of computing are used to better understand some fundamental questions in other fields (biology, social science, economics, etc.). The talks give a first outlook of these type of results which typically provide rigorous analysis of algorithms ("prove theorems").
ObjectiveLearn how to understand and present the key ideas and mathematical concepts in theory papers; Develop a critical attitude to evaluate the importance of a theoretical result and its practical relevance.
ContentIn this seminar students will present papers in Theoretical Computer Science which have also some "interdisciplinary flavor". For example, they use methods in classical theory of computing to advance our understanding of some fundamental question in other fields (biology, social science, economics, etc.).

The talks will give us a first outlook of these type of results which provide rigorous analysis of algorithms ("prove theorems"). In their presentations, students should put the results into context, isolate the "computer science" or "computational" aspect, and its relation to the practical question.
252-4910-00LAlgorithmics for Hard Problems Restricted registration - show details
The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.

Number of participants limited to 24.
W2 credits2SH.‑J. Böckenhauer, R. Kralovic
AbstractThis seminar looks into modern algorithmic approaches for solving computationally hard problems; e.g., approximation algorithms, moderately exponential-time algorithms, parameterized algorithms and combinations thereof. The focus will be on approaches with provable performance guarantees.
ObjectiveTo systematically acquire an overview of the methods for solving hard problems with provable performance guarantees. To get deeper knowledge of both approximation algorithms and exact and parameterized algorithms.
ContentIn this seminar, we will discuss algorithmic approaches for solving computationally hard problems. In the kick-off meeting, we will give a brief overview of these approaches, including approximation algorithms and parameterizations.

Then, each participant will study one aspect of this topic, following a specific scientific publication, and will give a presentation about this topic. The topics will include basic design techniques for approximation algorithms as well as exponential and parameterized algorithms, and some modern approaches of combining these techniques. We will focus on techniques for which certain worst-case performance guarantees can be proven.
LiteratureThe literature will consist of textbook chapters and original research papers and will be provided during the kick-off meeting.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe participants should be familiar with the content of the lectures "Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen" (252-0026-00) and "Theoretische Informatik" (252-0057-00).

The presentations will be given in the form of a block course in the first week of June 2020.

The language can be mixed in German and English in the following sense: The teaching material will be in English, but it will be possible for at least half of the participants to give their presentations and hand in their written summaries in German.
263-2211-00LSeminar in Computer Architecture Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 22.

The deadline for deregistering expires at the end of the second week of the semester. Students who are still registered after that date, but do not attend the seminar, will officially fail the seminar.
W2 credits2SO. Mutlu, M. H. K. Alser, J. Gómez Luna
AbstractThis seminar course covers fundamental and cutting-edge research papers in computer architecture. It has multiple components that are aimed at improving students' (1) technical skills in computer architecture, (2) critical thinking and analysis abilities on computer architecture concepts, as well as (3) technical presentation of concepts and papers in both spoken and written forms.
ObjectiveThe main objective is to learn how to rigorously analyze and present papers and ideas on computer architecture. We will have rigorous presentation and discussion of selected papers during lectures and a written report delivered by each student at the end of the semester.

This course is for those interested in computer architecture. Registered students are expected to attend every meeting, participate in the discussion, and create a synthesis report at the end of the course.
ContentTopics will center around computer architecture. We will, for example, discuss papers on hardware security; accelerators for key applications like machine learning, graph processing and bioinformatics; memory systems; interconnects; processing in memory; various fundamental and emerging paradigms in computer architecture; hardware/software co-design and cooperation; fault tolerance; energy efficiency; heterogeneous and parallel systems; new execution models; predictable computing, etc.
Lecture notesAll materials will be posted on the course website: Link
Past course materials, including the synthesis report assignment, can be found in the Fall 2019 website for the course: Link
LiteratureKey papers and articles, on both fundamentals and cutting-edge topics in computer architecture will be provided and discussed. These will be posted on the course website.
Prerequisites / NoticeDesign of Digital Circuits.
Students should (1) have done very well in Design of Digital Circuits and (2) show a genuine interest in Computer Architecture.
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