Professor Sebastian Erdweg of the Programming Languages research group received the Most Influential Paper Award for his 2011 OOPSLA paper. The award is presented by ACM SIGPLAN to the authors of the paper that had the most impact in the previous 10 years.
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Most Influential Paper Award
Thesis Offer: MSc thesis on graph databases for systems neuroscience
A topic for a master thesis is now offered under the new collaboration of the Institute of Computer Science with the Institute of Pathophysiology, University Medical Center. The thesis will investigate the modelling and the development of a graph database for systems neuroscience.
For more information, please read the description in https://seafile.rlp.net/f/0a8cdb58b91d4830901a/.
Those interested should contact Professor Bouros of the Data Management Group.
Information on the start of studies in the summer term 2021
Welcome to the Institute of Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. At the beginning of your studies, you usually have many questions and do not know exactly what student life will look like in the upcoming months. For a successful start you will find some of the most important information on this page:
General information:
In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching will continue to take a different form than usual in the sumer term 2021. In particular, most of the courses will not be held as face-to-face lectures at the university, but will take place completely or partially in digital form.
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Contact
If you have any questions about the structure or content of your study please use the following contact form:
Introductory Course
The introductory course for first-year students cannot take place in the usual form this time either, but will be replaced by digital formats. First of all, you will find a series of short videos (in German) under the following link, which deal with typical questions about the structure of the program and the first semester.
In addition, there will be an online introductory event on 6 April 2021, 10:15 am to 11:45 am, where you can get in touch with some of the lecturers.
Each Tuesday from 16 March to 30 March there will be an online-meeting Plauderecke Informatik starting at 5 pm. If you would like to get in touch with other first-year students or meet some of the lecturers of the first-term courses, you are welcome to join in the BigBlueButton room.
Important dates in the summer term
You will start your studies in the summer term 2021. Each semester consists mainly of the lecture period, during which you will attend lectures and accompanying exercises as well as seminars. The lecture period is followed by a three-week examination period during which the examinations or oral exams take place. But there is also a lot to do in the period after the examination period until the beginning of the following semester. During this time, for example, practical courses and seminar preparations take place.
- Start of the lecture period: 12 April 2021
- End of the lecture period: 17 July 2021
- Examination period: 19 July to 31 July 2021
Slides of the Presentation of Teaching Offering Summer 2021
The teaching offering for the summer term 2021 has been presented on Wednesday, 27 January at 12 p.m.. The slides of the presentation are available as download at the following link
>>> Slides of the Presentation of Teaching Offering 2021 <<<
VIDEO LIVE CHAT on Master Programmes on 20 January
You are looking for study options following your bachelor degree? Then you are welcome to join our Video Chat (MS Teams). We are going to present the master study programmes which are offered by the Institute of Computer Science as well as other programmes, e.g. the Master Programme Human Factors offered by the Institute of Psychology and a Dual Programme IT-Management of the University of Applied Science Mainz which is eligible for JGU graduates as well.
The Video Chat takes place on Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 5 p.m., please follow this link:
Presentation of Teaching Offering Summer 2021
The teaching offering for the summer term 2021 will be presented on Wednesday, 27 January by means of a Live-Chat via BigBlueButton. You are welcome to participate via the following link:
Best Paper Award for Prof. Schmidt et al.
Prof. Schmidt and his team won the best paper award for "WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs" at HiPC 2020. The Institute congratulates.
Jünger, D., Kobus, R., Müller, A., Hundt, C., Xu, K., Liu, W., Schmidt, B.:
"WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs"
Introductory course for computer science students
Next Tuesday the introductory event for the study programs B.Sc. Computer Science and B.Ed. Computer Science will take place (in German). In this term it is an online event via BigBlueButton
on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, from 10:15 to about 11:45
You can participate using the following link
All first-year students are welcome.
Information on the start of studies in the winter term 2020/21
Welcome to the Institute of Computer Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. At the beginning of your studies, you usually have many questions and do not know exactly what student life will look like in the upcoming months. For a successful start you will find some of the most important information on this page:
General information:
In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching will continue to take a different form than usual in the winter term 2020/21. In particular, most of the courses will not be held as face-to-face lectures at the university, but will take place completely or partially in digital form.
>> Information page about the start of the department 08 <<<
Contact
If you have any questions about the structure or content of your study please use the following contact form:
Introductory Course
The introductory course for first-year students cannot take place in the usual form this time either, but will be replaced by digital formats. First of all, you will find a series of short videos (in German) under the following link, which deal with typical questions about the structure of the program and the first semester.
In addition, there will be an online introductory event on 27 October 2020, where you can get in touch with some of the lecturers.
Important dates in the winter term
You will start your studies in the winter term 2020/21. Each semester consists mainly of the lecture period, during which you will attend lectures and accompanying exercises as well as seminars. The lecture period is followed by a three-week examination period during which the examinations or oral exams take place. But there is also a lot to do in the period after the examination period until the beginning of the following semester. During this time, for example, practical courses and seminar preparations take place.
- Start of the lecture period: 2 November 2020
- End of the lecture period: 13 February 2021
- Examination period: 15 Februrary to 5 March 2021
Presentation of Teaching Offering Winter 2020/21
The teaching offering of the Institute of Computer Science for the upcoming winter semester 2020/21 is briefly presented in the following videos (in German).
>>> Videos of the course offering for the winter term 2020/21 <<<
The presentation is also available for download.
>>> Presentation of the teaching offering for the winter term 2020/21 <<<