INRIA Grenoble organizes the third winter school on Hot Topics in Distributed Computing. This winter school will take place in La Plagne, in the French Alps, from March 7th to March 12th 2010.<br><br><div>This winter school will feature a series of talks by renowned researchers in distributed computing, from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.<br>
<br></div><div>This year's topics will include theory of distributed computing, measurement and analysis of networked systems, operating systems for multicore platforms, domain specific languages, distributed data management, verification, and security.<br>
<br></div><div>Speakers:<br>- Hagit Attiya (Technion)<br>- Krishna P. Gummadi (MPI SWS)<br>- Rebecca Isaacs (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)<br>- Gilles Muller (INRIA)<br>- Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano)<br>- Andrey Rybalchenko (MPI SWS)<br>
- Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin)<br><br></div><div>PhD students will have the opportunity to get feedback on their work. Students are invited to submit a 1-page abstract motivating the main research challenge they are addressing and stating the approach being taken. A selection of proposals will be chosen for presentation. To submit an abstract, please send an email to <a href="mailto:vivien.quema@inrialpes.fr" target="_blank">vivien.quema@inrialpes.fr</a><br>
<br></div><div>Web site: <a href="http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/%7Equema/htdc2010" target="_blank">http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/~quema/htdc2010</a><br><div><div><br></div><div>The two last editions of the school were fully booked (<a href="http://proton.inrialpes.fr/%7Equema/htdc2008" target="_blank">HTDC 2008</a> and <a href="http://proton.inrialpes.fr/%7Equema/htdc2009" target="_blank">HTDC 2009</a>) and we recommend early registrations.<br>
<br></div><div>School steering committee:<br>- Lorenzo Alvisi, UT Austin<br>- Peter Druschel, MPI SWS<br>- Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL<br>- Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA<br>- Vivien Quéma, CNRS</div></div></div>