The goal of this year's ADFOCS is to educate people with a TCS background on Algorithmic Game Theory. The focus of the summer school will be on the following topics:
This summer school's scope is international, and its goal is to bring together leading researchers with international participants of graduate level and above.
No prior knowledge is necessary to attend this course.
The registration is now open (see the Registration tab) and we have the preliminary schedule (see the Program tab).
ADFOCS is organized by Hannaneh Akrami, Cosmina Croitoru, Danupon Nanongkai, Nidhi Rathi, and Golnoosh Shahkarami as part of the activities of the Algorithms and Complexity Group and the International Max Planck Research School of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions via email to adfocs@mpi-inf.mpg.de.
TBA
The registration fee is EUR 130 for early registration
(deadline July 31st 2024) and EUR 180 for late registration (August 1st, 2024).
The on-site registration (only early in the morning of 26th August, 2024, and not recommended) costs EUR 200.
This fee covers course material, lunches, and the excursion; it does not cover
hotel accommodation.
We will provide some grants for graduate students and young researchers.
If you are a student (including PhD student) please register here: student registration
Otherwise please register here: regular registration
We strongly recommend to use the bank transfer option when registering.
Note: It may take some time for the Payment Status to change from "Pending", while we process and confirm your payment.
TBA
We will offer a limited number of travel grants for graduate students and young researchers.
If you wish to apply for a grant, please send an email with a brief CV (name, affiliation, complete address, education, publications, nationality, etc.);
Please have your supervisor at your institute send an email with a brief letter of recommendation, certifying in particular your relation with the topics in ADFOCS, before the deadline.
Note that the travel grant is meant to roughly cover your local expenses (hotel/youth hostel, registration); it will not be sufficient to cover flight costs!
Please send both emails to adfocs@mpi-inf.mpg.de and indicate as subject "ADFOCS grant application". You will receive a confirmation of receipt of your application.
June 30, 2024, 24:00 Central European Summer Time
(By the deadline, we must receive both the CV and the letter of recommendation)
by July 10, 2024
The participants are responsible for their accommodation. In Saarbrücken per-night prices including taxes and breakfast typically range from EURO 50 (youth hostel) to about EURO 105 (hotel, single room).
We will soon add a list of suggested hotels.
You can use this link to get route recommendations that are more accurate than Google Maps. You can also find an app with the same name to help you.
We highly recommend purchasing a Deutschlandticket. It costs EURO 49/month and gives access to buses, the tramway, and most trains. Note: The Deutschlandticket is only available by subscription. Make sure to cancel it early in advance, so that you only pay for August.
If you don't have a Deutschlandticket then:
You will probably try to reach Saarbrücken by train. If you have a flight to Frankfurt, this is extremely easy. There is a train station right in the terminal building. Trains run frequently. You have to buy a ticket before you board the train, and there you can also ask which trains to take.
If you arrive at some other airport, things are not that simple, but there are still train connections.
From the train station to your hotel you can use public transport: Buses and a tramway that is called "Saarbahn".
Specific bus queries (using the names of the bus/tram stops) can be entered here (enter the name of the origin bus/tram stop in the "von" field, the destination in the "nach" field, and in the next two, date and time).
All buses to the MPII will have "Universität" as part of their destination sign. You get off the bus at the stop "Universität Mensa". The MPI building is located on the left side a bit further down the street (Building number E1.4). You can also look at the map below. On the way back you depart from the same bus stop (other side of the road).
Websites of previous ADFOCS summer schools.
ADFOCS supports the recommendations of the SafeTOC report to combat harassment and discrimination in the Theory of Computing community.
By participating in the ADFOCS program, you agree to not exercise any demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech. More precisely, we will adhere to the guidelines as recommended by the ACM/STOC code of conduct.
If at anytime you feel unsafe, intimidated or harrassed during ADFOCS, please contact the organizers immediately and we will start an (anonymous) investigation.
The organizers reserve the right to remove any participant from the ADFOCS summer school.