Organization Information

1-Key places
This map summarizes all key places you will need to be at during your visit

From the Airport to the Hotel

The airport is connected to downtown with a bus shuttle (Flygbuss). Follow the exit signs in the airport and you should bump into a waiting bus.


Tickets can be bought as follows:

  • Download the “Ultra vill mer” app, available both on Google Play Links to an external site. and iTunes Links to an external site.. Inside the app, choose “Buy ticket”, “Ticket type: Flygbuss” and enter your payment card details. Upon entering the bus, you verify your ticket by presenting it to a glass device, a bit behind the driver.

  • Buy the ticket at the ticket machine, next to the shuttle bus stop.

  • Pay inside the bus. Note that this last option is more expensive!


Get off at “Vasaplan” and walk to Scandic Plaza Hotell.

(Please note that the App can be used for bus tickets around Umeå)

From the Hotel to the University

Lectures are going to take place in the MIT building, room MA121. You have multiple possibilities to get from the hotel to the university, depending on weather

  1. Take bus 5 (towards Strömpillen), 8 (towards Tomtebo) or 9 (towards Carlshöjd) from “Vasaplan” and get off at “Universum”. Buy tickets either using the Ultra app (see above) or in the bus (a bit more expensive). After getting off at Universum, cross the street, walk through a parking lot until you see a pond. Walk MIT building will be on your right hand side. The lecture room is in the first floor (ground floor if you are not from Sweden and the US :) ) .

  2. Take a walk along the route in the map (about a 30 to 35 minutes walk)
  3. Go via the more scenic route next to the river (4 minutes longer)

Tutorials

Tutorials will take place in the MIT building, rooms MA416 to MA446.

Lunches

Lunches will be served in the “Universum” building (see map). It is located close, but not to be confused with the “Universum” bus station. There is a sky-walk between the two buildings.

Social Event

On the evening of the 7th at 18.30, we will take a joint dinner downtown at Taj Mahal (see map). Taj Mahal is within walking distance from your Hotel.
 
2- Place to visit in case you have time
 
3- The course itself
We will distribute the updated detailed schedule later, but in general we have a confirmed speaker from Google Cloud, a confirmed speaker from Amazon AWS, and 2 speakers from two start-ups. Will update you ASAP on this.
Will also send instructions on the assignment later.
 
4- Schedule
8.00 10.00 Introduction to Cloud Computing and Datacenter Management Cristian Klein (UmU) and Erik Elmroth (UmU)
10.00 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 12.00 Introduction to Kubernetes (Lucas Käldström)
12.00 13.15 Lunch
13.15 14.30 A Google view of AI in the cloud (Ted Schönbeck, Head of Cloud Technology, Google)
14.30 15.45 DevOps (Cristian Klein, UmU)
15.45 16.45 HPC2N visit and Coffee 2 groups, 30 minutes per group, MIT building
16.45 17.45 Introduction to Data Science in the Cloud (Ahmed Ali-Eldin and Jakub Kryzwda, UmU)
 
8:45-9:00 Welcome to second day (Cristian Klein, UmU)
9.00 –10.00 Privacy and Security challenges in Kubernetes (Robert Winter, Elastisys)
9.00 –10.30 Coffee break
10.30 –12.30 An introduction to AWS cloud (Paul Ahlgren,  Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services)
12.30 13.30 Lunch
13.30 –17.00 Tutorial: Using the clouds for Data science (tutorial by multiple people)
 
 
5- Reading list:
For students with background in control theory:
2- A survey of research on cloud robotics and automation.
3- Learning Deep Control Policies for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles with MPC-Guided Policy Search.
 
 
For students working on SWE:
1- Read on the PLINY and PLINYCompute projects: 
This is a nice presentation on the project, "Bridging Formal Methods and Data Science" 
https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.rice.edu/dist/a/4090/files/2015/10/Pliny-1lugle2.pdf Links to an external site. 
 
2- Distributed CTL Model Checking in the Cloud. 
 
3- How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods. 
 
4- Programming by Examples: PL meets ML. 
 
For students in security:
 
 
3-The Dark Menace: Characterizing Network-based Attacksin the Cloud.  https://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2015/papers/p169.pdf Links to an external site.
 
4-  Host-Based Dos Attacks and Defense in the Cloud. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3092630 Links to an external site.
 
Other Readings 
In case you feel motivated.