Events at the Faculty Of Computer Science, Al.I. Cuza University of Iasi in 2017
We are proud to announce below our future scientific and dissemination events. Get in touch with the organisers to see how you can help, contribute or participate!
Hash Code
23rd of February 2017 (online round), the hub in Faculty of Computer Science
Hash Code is a team-based programming competition organized by Google and in 2017 our faculty is at its second participation as a hub organizer. University students and industry professionals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa compete for 4 hours in teams of two to four to solve online a real-life challenge created by Google engineers. The participants use their own computer, programming language and tools of their choice. Those gathering in the dedicated hubs will enjoy special atmosphere and goodies. Top scoring teams from the Online Qualification Round (simultaneously organised on February 23rd 2017 in almost 400 hubs in 60 countries) will be invited to participate on April 1st (and this is not a joke!) to the Final Round at Google Paris, where a variety of tech talks and presentations will also be organised.
Contact: Corina Forăscu – corina.forascu@gmail.com
SEEMOUS 2017
28 February – 5 March 2017, Ohrid, Macedonia
The 11th South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students, SEEMOUS 2017, will take place in FYR of Macedonia, organised by MASSEE - Mathematical Society of South Eastern Europe since 2007, each year in collaboration with a university in South Eastern Europe. This year the FII team consists of 6 students and a team leader to be member of the jury and the problem selection committee. The four 2nd year students participating in SEEMOUS 2017 have already prove their talent, abilities and capacities in Mathematics, during the last year 4 international competitions they took part in, whereas the two freshers proved their talent in high school Math competitions and one online international student contest. The FII teams participating in SEEMOUS since 2009 have always won medals for the university they represent.
Contact: Corina Forăscu – corina.forascu@gmail.com
Internships 2017
19th March, 2017
In March, the Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University launches the 13th edition of the annual internships for IT&C students from all over Romania. The organization of these internships will be done together with the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and it will be online live broadcasted to ensure the largest access possible.
Contact: Lenuța Alboaie – adria@info.uaic.ro
Catalysts Coding Contest
31st of March 2017 (online round), the hub in Faculty of Computer Science
CCC is an online coding contest developed by Catalysts, organised for the first time in Iasi in 2017, besides the traditional contest in Austria (which started in 2007). On 31st of March 2017, teams of no more than 3 participants compete either on a specific location in one of the 16 hubs in 8 European countries and South Africa or online, each section having a separate ranking list. During the 4 hours of the competition the participants have to solve an algorithm organised on 7 levels, using the programming language of their choice. The 30 BFS (best first 30 solutions) will be listed by name in the Hall of Fame.
Contact: Paul Diac paul.f.diac@gmail.com
The Caravan FII Admis
March - April 2017
High school pupils from the region of Moldova will learn what is a career in IT and how can it be started in Iasi with the Faculty of Computer Science. Groups of FII members and IT companies representatives will travel to various high-schools in Moldavian counties in order to meet with pupils live, present to them and discuss with them why, how, when they can start their IT career in Iasi. During the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Open Days (23-26 March 2017) various specific activities will be organised in situ.
Contact: Corina Forăscu – corina.forascu@gmail.com
FII Practic
March 1st – May 2017
The 6th edition of FII-Practic, jointly organised by ASII – the Association of Computer Science Students from Iasi and the Faculty of Computer Science of Iasi (FII), offers students and high school pupils in the North-East region of Romania the possibility to participate in 11 different trainings in hot areas (Front-End Development, Back-End Development, Database administration, Cloud Computing, Quality Assurance, Graphic Design, 3D Animations, Android Development, Agile, Project Management or Business Analysis), each of them to be finalised through the completion of a project, in the FII Practic Conference (soft skills training sessions on February 4) or the FII Practic Hackathon (24 hours of coding in teams, to solve a community problem). The event will end with the award ceremony on 6th of May 2017.
Contact: fiipractic@asii.ro
FIICode
March - May 2017
FIICode is a national Computer Science contest organised by FII and ASII, in 2017 at the 2nd edition. Around 350 high school and/or university students will compete individually in the 3 online rounds of the Algorithms section (24-26 March, 7-9 April and 21-23 April) or in teams consisting of 2-4 participants in the online round (26 March – 23 April) of the Web Technologies or Mobile sections. Each of the 3 sections, based on a specific set of rules, will announce the finalists on 30 April, such that the final round to take place in Iasi, between 5 and 7 May.
Contact: hello@fiicode.com
FII @ 25 – the quarter century jubilee of the Faculty of Computer Science
May, 18-20, 2017
The series of events, celebrating the 25 years of the Faculty, will include local and national workshops aiming to present the most important aspects of the Faculty: tradition and innovation in education, research, collaborations with the IT industry and other academic partners.
Contact: Adrian Iftene
NSOM 2017
May 2017, Bulgaria
The International Olympiad in Mathematics for University students will be organized in a Bulgarian University with the cooperation of the Ministry of the Education and Science and the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians. A team consisting of 3 students and their team leader will represent the faculty, if possible, at the 2017 edition of the contest. The FII team participating in NSOM 2016 won the “Best foreign university Award” due to the 3 medals gained by the 3 FII students.
Contact: Corina Forăscu – corina.forascu@gmail.com
ECODAM Summer School
June 17 - 23, 2017
ECODAM summer school is an international event dedicated to doctoral students in Computer Science or related fields, and for Master students with research perspectives. Each year, starting 2006, distinguished professors from three continents come for one week in Iasi to give lectures and conduct workshops. The summer school is proud to be host for Prof. Hussein Abbass, Prof. David Corne, Prof. Sorin Istrail, Prof. Kenneth de Jong, Prof. Ross King, Prof. Hans Lenz, Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz, Prof. Marc Schoenauer, Prof. Dan Simovici, Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang, prof. Dan Dumitrescu, Prof. Daniela Zaharie...
Contact: Henri Luchian – hluchian@info.uaic.ro or Lenuța Alboaie – adria@info.uaic.ro
Companies IT@FII
July 5-11, 2017
IT companies @ FII aims at offering IT&C companies with good collaboration with FII the opportunity to present their profile and job offers to the FII Bachelor and Master graduates.
Contact: Lenuța Alboaie – adria@info.uaic.ro
EUROLAN 2017 Summer School
September 11-17, 2017
The EUROLAN series of biennially summer schools are traditionally organised by FII and the Romanian Academy Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu" (RACAI), Bucharest along with the Vassar College, USA. The host of the 13th edition will be Ovidius University of Constanta, the oldest university next to Romanian’s pearl of the Black Sea. Tutorial sessions coupled with hands-on sessions on the hot and cross-disciplinary topic of Biomedicine and Language Technologies will be organised daily in order to provide about 60 participants with a comprehensive overview of the domain. In addition to the excellence of its academic program which includes also satellite workshops, EUROLAN is famous for the camaraderie among its participants. All these made it possible for EUROLAN to be the 2nd best training event in Europe dedicated to Language Technologies.
Contact: Dan Cristea – dcristea@info.uaic.ro
ConsILR
September 24th-26th, 2017
The International Conference on Linguistic Resources and Tools for Processing the Romanian Language, jointly organised by the Faculty of Computer Science (UAIC-FII), and the Romanian Academy through the Institute for Artificial Intelligence "Mihai Drăgănescu" (AR-ICIA), Bucharest along with the Institute of Computer Science Iasi (AR-IIT), is targeted to all researches, as well as students at all levels, interested about the domain of Language Technologies with a special accent on the Romanian language. The domain is vital in solving the problem of the still existing online language barriers and it is addressed in Horizon 2020 (ITC 17) and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programs.
Contact: Dan Cristea – dcristea@info.uaic.ro or Corina Forăscu – corinfor@info.uaic.ro
Consortiu Universitaria
The aim of the Consortium is the cooperation of the partner universities to raise the level of scientific and educational activities, in order to recognize their prestige at a national and international level and to classify them in the category of universities of reference in Europe, initiating the improvement of the legal framework of the university teaching process and of the university scientific research, as well as the unitary defining of the university curriculum and the minimum standard for it and the titles and qualifications earned after graduation.
Contact: Adrian Iftene – adiftene@info.uaic.ro
Build IT
November, 2017
The event aims to engage a discussion between professors and representatives of the Computer Science Faculty, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", preuniversitary teachers and representatives of IT companies in Iasi.
Contact: Lenuța Alboaie – adria@info.uaic.ro
BringITOn
November, 2017
„BringITon!” (http://bringiton.info.uaic.ro/) este un eveniment devenit tradițional organizat la inițiativa Facultății de Informatică a Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași. Aflat la ediția a IV-a, anul acesta împreună cu S.C. EXTIND S.R.L. și Institutul de Informatică Teoretică al Academiei Române din Iași, își propune să continue să ajute la dezvoltarea unor piețe de idei ce ar urma să fie preluate de industrie și finanțatori pentru punerea lor în practică și transformarea lor în afaceri de succes. În plus, studenții și tinerii noștri cercetători au oportunitatea de a învăța cum să-și dezvoltate inițiative de afaceri, care sunt tipurile de modele de afaceri ce se potrivesc ideii lor, cum pot fi create spin-off-uri universitare, care sunt posibilitățile de finanțare la care ar putea apela.
Contact: Lenuța Alboaie – adria@info.uaic.ro
