Schedule |
A list of email adresses can be found here.
session |
date |
speakers (A & B) |
topics |
0 |
Tue April 27 |
Hans |
kick off meeting |
Thu April 29 |
-- |
no session, preparing for the things to come (= reading a lot) | |
1 A |
Tue May 4 |
Kenny (A) |
disk-layout, file structures, buffering, external sorting |
2 B |
Thu May 6 |
indices (B-tree, hashing, bitmaps) | |
3 A |
Tue May 11 |
Daniel & Alberto |
introduction to query processing |
4 B |
Tue May 18 |
query optimisation | |
Thu May 20 |
examination 1 (about sessions 1-4) | ||
-- |
-- |
-- |
reexamination week for period 3; no sessions |
5 A |
Tue June 1 |
Tim & Thomas |
distribution & parallellism |
6 B |
Thu June 3 |
new hardware (SSD and/or multicore) | |
7 A |
Tue June 8 |
top-k queries | |
8 B |
Thu June 10 | Henk-Erik & Bram |
main memory databases 1 |
9 A |
Tue June 15 |
Dragos & Ondrej |
main memory databases 2 |
10 B |
Thu June 17 |
Shahin & Shirak |
implementing XML-databases |
11 * |
Tue June 22 |
Wesley & Yahya |
database support for game technology |
| Thu June 24 | examination 2 (about sessions 5-11) | ||
Note that everyone has a label (A or B). You are expected to submit questions for the sessions that match your label.
Also note that at every session, one of the speakers misses his turn to submit questions. They are expected to submit questions for session 11.