1. SAARBRÜCKEN
International Research Center
for Computer Science

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CS
Department
MPI-SWS
DFKI
CISPA
CBI
Schloss
Dagstuhl
Intel VCI
Graduate
School
Cluster of
Excellence
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6. Cluster of
Excellence
Cluster of
Excellence
Department MMPPII - -IINNFF
MPI-SWS
MPI-SWS
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Lecture
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Lecture
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DFKI
VIS-Center
DFKI
VIS-Center
CS
Department
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7. MMaannyy HHiigghh LLeevveell SScciieennttiiffiicc AAwwaarrddss
6 DFG Leibniz Award (highest German Reasearch Award)
Kurt Mehlhorn, Wolfgang Paul, Günter Hotz,
Manfred Pinkal, Hans-Peter Seidel, Joachim Weickert
4 Zuse-Medals
Future Award of the Federal President
Wolfgang Wahlster (the only prize winner in informatics)
This concentration
is unique among
German universities.
This concentration
is unique among
German universities.
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Kurt Mehlhorn, Günter Hotz, Thomas Lengauer, Reinhard Wilhelm
1 Philip Morris Research Award
August-Wilhelm Scheer
… and many others

8. SSeeccoonndd PPhhaassee ffoorr GGrraadduuaattee SScchhooooll aanndd
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45 million €

9. RReecceenntt DDeevveellooppmmeennttss
New Institutes
2012 Second Phase Funding for the Cluster of Excellence
and the Graduate School
2011 CISPA - Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability
2010 BMBF Cluster Software Research
2009 IVCI - Intel Institute for Visual Computing
Recent Awards
2013 IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award to Wolfgang Wahlster
2013 Frank-Olaf Schreyer Fellow of the AMS
2012 DAGM-German Pattern Recognition Award for Christian Theobalt
2012 Distinguished Career Award for Computer Graphics to Hans-Peter Seidel
2012 Matthias Hein ERC Starting Grant (1,27 Mio EUR)
2011 ERC Grant to Andreas Zeller (2.3 Mio EUR, 5 years)
2011 Joachim Weickert Member of the Academia Europaea
2011 Thomas Lengauer receives Heinz-Ansmann-Preis for AIDS Research
2011 DAGM-German Pattern Recognition Award for Matthias Hein
2009 Leibniz-Prize to Joachim Weickert

10. OOuurr LLooccaall SSttuuddyy PPrrooggrraammss
 Informatics / Computer Science (BSc & MSc)
 Bioinformatics (BSc & MSc)
Computer & Communication (BSc & MSc) (Fac. 6&7)
 Visual Computing (MSc)
Media Informatics (BSc & MSc)
 Information Systems (Fac. 1 &6)
 EIT International Security Master (MSc)
Characteristics:
All Master programs in English
PhD possible right after bachelor studies (+ stipend)
Courses and seminars during semester breaks
Student-to-teacher-ratio: 1 teacher / 4 students

11. SSttuuddyy rraannkkiinnggss
CHE rankings - SB always top ranked*
in the categories student feeback, research,
infrastructure, national and world wide reputation
Recommended for both,
determined and research oriented students
Nationwide Research Landscape**
1. Place: Number of scientific publications
1. Place: Number of journal publications
1. Place: „Scientific impact“ (citations)
Sources
* Focus 2007, Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung (CHE) 2012/2011/2009/2006/2003;
** Prof. Nebel, 2001

12. FFaaccttss aabboouutt CCSS iinn SSaaaarrbbrrüücckkeenn
41+33 Professors and Senior Researchers
belong to the faculty and the cluster of excellence
>330 PhD Students at Saarbrücken Graduate School
thereof more than 50% from abroad
160 PostDocs belong to the CS faculty
and the CS institutes on campus
senior researchers from SB appointed to tenured positions
70 (during the last 7 years)
19 million € / year
third party funding
6 new buildings on campus during the last 5 years

13. CCuurrrreenntt RReesseeaarrcchh FFiieellddss
Theory &
Algorithms
Formal Methods
Software
and Hardware
Systems
Information
Systems
Visual and
Geometric
Computing
Artificial
Intelligence &
Machine Learning
Computational
Biology & Life
Sciences
Computational
Linguistics

14. CCooooppeerraattiioonnss wwiitthh IInndduussttrryy
Microsoft
IBM
SAP
Intel
NVIDIA
Motorola
SAP Retail Solutions
Infineon
SGI
AMD
T-Systems
Beiersdorf
IDS Scheer (SAG)

15. CS DEPARTMENT
Since 1969. Wide range of research topics and study courses, highest
publication rate per professor in Germany. Comprises the
Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science with more than
330 PhD candidates and about 1 Mio EUR budget per year.

16. NEW LECTURE HALL
New auditorium maximum (Günter Hotz Lecture Hall) for the
Computer Science Department

17. JOINT LIBRARY
The joint Library of the CS Dept., Mathematics Dept., the
Max-Planck-Institutes and the DFKI.

18. CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE
MMCI
This building is the home of the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing
and Interaction. Founded in 2007, it hosts currently 17 Research Groups that
work on algorithms to efficiently understand, process, search and store
multimodal data. The budget ranges about 7 Mio EUR per year.

19. MPI FOR INFORMATICS
Founded in 1990, about 180 researchers in 5 departments work on
fundamental research topics in the field of informatics. Highest citation
rank in Germany. Promotion of young people (IMPRS und MPC-VCC)

20. MPI FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
Founded in 2004, two sites (KL + SB), currently hosts about 60
Researchers in 7 Departments. The researchers pursue fundamental
research in the field of software systems

21. DFKI
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Founded in 1988, the home of about 400 employees. Mostly applied
research. 35 Mio € annual budget and 4 sites.
(SB, KL, Bremen and Berlin)

22. CBI & IVCI
Center for Bioinformatics.
Founded in 2001, 7 groups, research on
algorithms for the simulation of
biochemical processes and for the
analysis of biomolecular data.
Intel Visual Computing Institute. Founded
in 2009, partially financed by Intel. Focus on
visual computing and many-core hardware.

23. LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR INFORMATICS
at Schloss Dagstuhl, managed by UdS. Center for international workshops
and seminars on cutting edge topics in computer science and related
research fields. More than 2000 participants per year.

24. Thank You.