March 23, 2021 –
March 24, 2021
2021 PhD Workshop on Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure
Location: Virtual
*Agenda subject to change
Day 1 | March 23, 2021
| Time (GMT) | Session | |
| 9:30-9:45 | 
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Start and welcome by Aleksandar Dragojevic & Fotini Karinou |
| 9:45-9:55 |  |
A word from Ant Rowstron |
| 9:55-10:10 |  |
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche (Short intro: Research Alliance, Internships, etc.) |
| 10:10-10:30 |  |
MSR talk, “Network Verification” by Andrey Rybalchenko |
| 10:30-10:50 |  |
MSR talk, “Optical networking innovation for the next generation cloud infrastructure” by Thomas Karagiannis |
| 10:50-11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Poster Session #1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch/Meal Break | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Crazy research ideas |
Day 2 | March 24, 2021
| Time (GMT) | Session | ||
| 9:00-10:00 |  |
Simon Peyton Jones, “How to give a great research talk” | |
| 10:00-10:20 |  |
MSR talk, “Honeycomb: Hardware offloads of distributed systems” by Junyi Liu | |
| 10:20-10:40 |  |
MSR talk, “Silica: Optical Storage” by Govert Verkes | |
| 10:40-11:00 |  |
MSR talk, “Project HSD: Holographic Storage for the cloud” by Douglas Kelly | |
| 11:00-11:10 | BREAK | ||
| 11:10-12:40 | Poster Session #2 | ||
| 12:40-13:30 | Lunch/Meal Break | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Breakout sessions | ||
| Machine Learning with Ioan Stefanovici | |||
| Computer Systems with Dushyanth Narayanan & Austin Donnelly | |||
| Custom Hardware with Junyi Liu | |||
| Verification with Andrey Rybalchenko | |||
| Optics in Computing & Computing in Optics with Francesca Parmigiani & Istvan Haller | |||
| Optical Devices (Lasers & Modulators) with Kai Shi & Fotini Karinou | |||
| Optical Regional Networking with Christos Gkantsidis & Thomas Karagiannis | |||
| Optical Switching Devices and Architectures with Paolo Costa & Hitesh Ballani | |||
| Optical Storage and Imaging with Benn Thomsen, James Clegg & Ariel Gomez Diaz | |||
| 14:30-14:35 | Thank you and goodbye |