The summer school is now over. It was attended by over 80 individuals. Thanks to everyone for their contribution!
During the week of 17-21 July 2023, the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam will host a Summer School on Computational Social Choice. This should be nice. Join us!
The school is specifically intended for individuals pursuing a PhD in or related to social choice (not only of the computational variety). But others—from different fields or at different career stages—are also very welcome. The international team of lecturers is composed of leading figures in the field. They will be covering axiomatic, algorithmic, and behavioural aspects of social choice, discussing both foundations and applications. Besides a rich set of lectures, the programme will include a poster session, a session dedicated to experiments, and a number of social activities.
Coming from far away? In particular when travelling from outside of Europe, consider turning this into a round trip: EC-2023 will take place in London the week before, and COMSOC-2023 in Beersheba the week before that.
PROGRAMME
LECTURERS
Zoi Terzopoulou
Saint-Etienne
Dominik Peters
Paris-Dauphine
Reshef Meir
Technion
Vincent Conitzer
CMU & Oxford
Britta Dorn
Tübingen
Piotr Faliszewski
AGH Kraków
Clemens Puppe
KIT Karlsruhe
Anaëlle Wilczynski
Paris-Saclay
SLIDES
Below you will find all of the slide sets used during lectures:
Ulle Endriss: Welcome & Introduction
Zoi Terzopoulou: Axiomatic Social Choice (Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3)
Dominik Peters: Computing Desirable Collective Decisions (Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3)
Reshef Meir: Behavioural Social Choice (Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3)
Britta Dorn: Computational Complexity for COMSOC
Clemens Puppe: Frugal Aggregation
Anaëlle Wilczynski: Fairness and Optimality in Matching
Vincent Conitzer: Social Choice for Moral AI
Piotr Faliszewski: Using the Map of Elections
POSTERS
The scientific programme will include a poster session, where interested participants will have the opportunity to present their own work. This could be published work or work in progress.
Registerd particpants will receive instructions for how to submit a poster proposal (one paragraph of text). Presenting a poster is optional. Hopefully, roughly half of you will want to do so. Proposals are due by 31 May 2023. We will check them for relevance only. Posters should have size A0 and portrait format (or size A1 and landscape format). We can print your poster for you (for free), provided we receive a trouble-free PDF of at most 3MB by 30 June 2023.
EXPERIMENTS
The school will also feature a session devoted to experiments in computational social choice. The idea is to allow participants to experience first-hand what it is like to be a subject in a social choice experiment, to see what designing and running such an experiment involves, and to get an impression of the kind of experimental research currently taking place in our community. Besides, it also should be a lot of fun to try things out.
PHOTOS
REGISTRATION
The registration fee of €100 covers access to all parts of the scientific and the social programme, including coffee breaks and the social dinner. You will need to organise your own accommodation, which in Amsterdam can be expensive. You might want to book something (you can still cancel) even before registering for the summer school.
The number of spots is limited. We hope to accept everyone interested but cannot guarantee that this will be possible.
Registration and grant application deadline: 31 March 2023
Notifications of acceptance sent: 15 April 2023
Registration fee due: 30 April 2023
GRANTS
We will be able to support a number of participants with travel grants between €600 and €1,000 per person, depending on where you are travelling from. Please note that only PhD students (and individuals who will start a PhD by October 2023) are eligible to be considered for such grants. The number of grants is limited and they are intended for people whose home institutions do not have adequate funding for this kind of travel.
You can apply for a travel grant at the time you fill in the registration form. In addition, your PhD supervisor needs to email a short letter (as PDF attachment, signed and on official letterhead) to Ulle Endriss in which they confirm that (a) you are (or are about to become) a PhD student under their supervision and (b) your institution is unable to fund your participation in the summer school. We must receive this letter by the registration deadline.
LOCATION
The summer school will be held at Amsterdam Science Park, to the east of the city centre. Most activities will take place in lecture hall L1.01 in the brand new LAB42, the home of (part of) the ILLC. Science Park offers modern lecturing facilities, green surroundings, and several affordable lunch options (including vegetarian and vegan options). It's far enough from the city centre to avoid distraction but close enough to visit whenever you want to.
Arrival. Amsterdam is one of the best-connected cities in the world. Please consider travelling by train where that is reasonably possible. Doing so is fairly convenient from lots of places in Europe: Brussels (2h), Paris (3.5h), London (4h), Berlin (6.5h), Munich (7.5h), Zurich (8h), Prague (11h), Vienna (11h), Copenhagen (11.5h), and so forth.
Public transport. At the airport or train station, buy an 'anonymous OV-chipkaart' from a machine and put some cash on it (at least €20 if you want to use trains). With this card, individual trips are much cheaper than single-use tickets. Or try the new OVpay system. Remember to check in and out for every train/metro/tram/bus you use.
Bikes. Consider renting a bike while you are here. This is by far the fastest and most convenient way of getting around. There are bike rental places all over town. Expect to pay around €15 per day.
Where to stay? We do not have recommendations for specific hotels. Anything between the city centre and Science Park would be very convenient. But also look beyond that area. And don't worry: Amsterdam is a safe city.
SPONSORS
CONTACT
The summer school is organised by Ulle Endriss, with help from Julian Chingoma, Federico Fioravanti, and Simon Rey.
Questions? Just send any one of us an email.