These are invited talks and tutorials given by the members of the FDB project.

Overviews and lectures

• Factorised Databases: 26-Minute Overview
  
  • Fellow Short Talks Series, The Alan Turing Institute, London, November 2017. [ slides , video ]

• Efficient Algorithms
  
  • MSc+PhD course, University of Zurich, February - June 2021.
    Topics: (1) Unifying language and computation for: databases, constraint satisfaction problems, satisfiability, probabilistic graphical models, linear algebra matrix computation, gradients and cost functions for mac hine learning; (2) Commutative semirings; (3) Functional aggregate queries; (4) Decompositions; (5) Width measures; (6) Solving joins optimally; (7) Worst-case optimal size bounds for joins; (8) Solving SAT; (9) Solving functional aggregate queries
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• From Joins to Aggregates and Optimization Problems: One idea to rule them all and at their core factorize them!
  
  • PhD Open lectures (6h lectures + 2h classes), University of Warsaw, November 2018.
  [slides part 1 part 2 part 3 , video ]
  • Turing Data Science Course (3h lectures), The Alan Turing Institute, January 2018. [ slides , video ]
  • Tutorial at LogiCS/RiSE Summer School (3h lectures), TU Vienna, July 2017.

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Talks and keynotes

• The Relational Data Borg is Learning
  
  • Database seminar, UC San Diego, June 2021.
  • Alumni Informatik, University of Zurich, May 2021.
  • Colloquium, Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, December 2020.
  • Keynote at VLDB 2020 , Virtual Tokyo, Sept 2020. [Slides: part 1 , part 2 , paper ]

• Machine Learning over Static and Dynamic Relational Data
  
  • Tutorial at Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) conference, June 2021.

• Structure-Aware Learning over Relational Data
  
  • Microsoft Gray Systems Lab Series, February 2021.

• Trade-Offs in Incremental Maintenance for Conjunctive Queries
  
  • Spotlight on Logic & Databases Workshop at HIGHLIGHTS conference, May 2021.

• Multi-layer Optimizations for End-to-End Data Analytics
  
  • RelationalAI Inc, April 2020.

• Learning Models over Relational Data
  
  • Keynote at FG DB Symposium "ML for Systems and Systems for ML", TU Darmstadt, March 2020. [ symposium link , slides ]
  • Invited Tutorial at International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), Compiègne, December 2019.
  • IC Colloquium: Learning Models over Relational Databases, EPFL, Lausanne, October 2019. [ video ]
  • Dagstuhl Seminar "Logic and Learning", September 2019.
  • Keynote at Int Conf on Database Theory (ICDT) and Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Lisbon, March 2019. [ slides ]
  • Keynote at 34ème Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications (BDA), Bucharest, October 2018.
  • Invited Talk in Special Session on Logic and Learning, Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata. Berlin, September 2018.

• A Layered Aggregate Engine for Analytics Workloads
  
  • UW DB Affiliates Workshop 2019, University of Washington, July 2019. [ slides , workshop link ]

• Incremental Techniques for Large-Scale Dynamic Query Processing
  
  • Tutorial at CIKM 2018 Int Conf on Information and Knowledge Management, Turin, October 2018. [ tutorial ]

• Counting Triangles Under Updates in Worst-Case Optimal Time
  
  • Highlights of Logics, Games and Automata, Berlin, September 2018. [ slides , latest slides ]

• In-Database Linear Algebra
  
  • RelationalAI Iceland Conference, Dalvik, July 2018.

• Experiences with Implementing In-Database Machine Learning
  
  • RelationalAI Iceland Conference, Dalvik, July 2018.

• Open Problems in Factorized Databases (informal talk)
  
  • Dagstuhl Seminar Synergies between Adaptive Analysis of Algorithms, Parameterized Complexity, Compressed Data Structures and Compressed Indices , Dagstuhl, July 2018.

• A Unified Approach to Incremental View Maintenance of In-Database Analytics
  
  • Computer Science Seminar, Free University of Brussels, December 2017, Brussels. [ slides ]
  • Information Systems Seminar , University of Oxford, November 2017.
  • TorontoCon, RelationalAI, October 2017, Toronto (Canada). [ slides ]
  • Workshop Big Graph Analysis Systems , University of Copenhagen, August 2017.

• In-Database Factorized Learning
  
  • Spring workshop on Mining and Learning 2018, Titisee, March 2018.
  • Logic for Data Science Seminar Series, The Alan Turing Institute, London, December 2017. [ slides , video ]
  • TorontoCon, RelationalAI, October 2017, Toronto (Canada). [ slides ]
  • Dagstuhl Seminar Recent Trends in Knowledge Compilation , Dagstuhl, September 2017.
  • Workshop Big Graph Analysis Systems , University of Copenhagen, August 2017.
  • Seminar, CDT Data Science, University of Edinburgh, March 2017.
  • Computer Science Colloquium, University of Warwick, March 2017.

• Covers of Query Results
  
  • Workshop Aggregate Queries , INRIA Lille and University of Lille, June 2017. [ slides ]

• Learning Regression Models over Factorized Joins
  
  • SystemML and DB Seminar, IBM Almaden (San Jose), Oct 2016. [ pdf ]

• Cultural Learnings of Factorized Databases for Make Benefit Glorious Family of Regression Tasks
  
  • University of Twente, June 2016.
  • VCLA International Student Awards Ceremony, TU Vienna, May 2016.
  • Information Systems Seminar, Oxford, November 2015.
  • Data Science Seminar, LogicBlox, October 2015.
  • Tech Seminar, Palantir, Palo Alto, August 2015.
  • Tech Seminar, LogicBlox, Berkeley, August 2015.
  • Database Seminar, Université Lille 1 and INRIA Lille - Nord Europe. July 2015, Lille.

• Factorised Relational Databases
  
  • Keynote talk, Alberto Mendelzon Workshop (AMW), Lima (Peru), May 2015.
  • LSDS (Large-Scale Distributed Systems) Seminar, Imperial College London, November 2014.
  • Google MapReduce Infrastructure Seminar, February 7, 2014, Mountain View (California).
  • Pivotal Colloquium Series, January 24, 2014, Palo Alto (California).
  • LogicBlox Internal Online Seminar, December 17, 2013, Berkeley (California).
  • Google Ads Infrastructure Seminar, November 20, 2013, Mountain View (California).
  • Database Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, November 18, 2013, Santa Cruz (California).
  • Database Seminar, U Washington, November 8, 2013, Seattle (Washington).
  • AmpLab Seminar, UC Berkeley, October 30, 2013, Berkeley (California).
  • EECS Seminar, UC Merced, October 11, 2013, Merced (California).
  • Constraints Seminar, Oxford, March 2012.
  • Birkbeck Computer Science Departmental Seminar, London, March 2012.
  • Systems Seminar, EPFL, February 2012, Lausanne.
  • Information Systems Seminar, Oxford, November 2011.
  • Database Seminar, University of Edinburgh, March 2011, Edinburgh.
  • Dagstuhl Seminar Foundations of Distributed Data Management , Octover 2011, Dagstuhl.

• Readability of Query Provenance
  
  • Computer Science Colloquium, UC Davis, August 2013, Davis (California). [ slides ]

• Factorised Relational Databases: Results So Far and Open Questions
  
  • Tutorial, Symposium on Relational Data Analysis , Olomouc University, September 2013, Olomuc (Czech Republic). [ Part I , Part II , Part III ]