Before 8 pm: Arrival at the hotel Belvedere in Locarno

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8 pm: Dinner at the hotel

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9 am - 1 pm:

• Sachin Basil John (EPFL): Interactive Speed Querying on High-Dimensional Data with Partially Materialized Data Cubes

• Tian Zilu (EPFL): Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

• Christoph Mayer (University of Zurich): Reinforcement Learning for Factorized Databases

• Moe Kayali (University of Washington): Quasi-stable Coloring for Graph Compression

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1:30 pm: Lunch at the hotel

3 pm - 6 pm: Walk to Ascona

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8:00 am: Hike in Valle Verzasca

19:00 pm: Dinner at restaurant Blu in Locarno

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9 am - 9:45 am:

• Nils Vortmeier (Ruhr-University): Teaching reductions: Formal foundations

• Peter Lindner (EPFL): Probabilistic Query Evaluation with Bag Semantics

• Moe Kayali (University of Washington): Unifying Data Discovery and Exploration with Foundation Models

• Anton Lykov (University of Washington): ExpressQuery: Query Answering with Knowledge Graphs

• Niko Göbel (RelationalAI): Challenges of putting IVM into production

• Ahmet Kara (University of Zurich): Ranking Database Facts by their Shapley Values

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1:30 pm: Lunch at the hotel

3:00 pm: Closing

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• Sachin Basil John (EPFL)
• Niko Göbel (RelationalAI)
• Ahmet Kara (University of Zurich)
• Moe Kayali (University of Washington)
• Peter Lindner (EPFL)
• Anton Lykov (University of Washington)
• Milos Nikolic (University of Edinburgh)
• Christoph Koch (EPFL)
• Christoph Mayer (University of Zurich)
• Dan Olteanu (University of Zurich)
• Cédric Renggli (Apple Zurich)
• Amir Shaikhha (University of Edinburgh)
• Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
• Nils Vortmeier (Ruhr-University Bochum)
• Tian Zilu (EPFL)