The ArtistDesign European Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design is organizing the 7th edition of it's highly successful "ARTIST Summer School in Europe", September 4-9th 2011 (http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/-ARTIST-Summer-School-Europe-2011-.ht ml - funded by the European Commission). This is the seventh edition of yearly schools on embedded systems design, and is meant to be exceptional in terms of both breadth of coverage and invited speakers. This school brings together some of the best lecturers from Europe, USA and China in a 6-day programme, and will be a fantastic opportunity for interaction. It will be held in beautiful Aix-les-Bains, near Grenoble - France (see webpage for details and photos). Past participants are also encouraged to apply! The ARTIST Summer School 2011 will be held near Grenoble by the magnificent Lac du Bourget and the French Alps in the historic city of Aix-les-Bains. It features a luxury spa with full services, pool, sauna, hammam, tennis courts and open space. The social programme includes ample time for discussion, and a visit to the historic city of Annecy with a gala dinner while touring the lake of Annecy. Deadline for applications is May 15th 2011. Attendance is limited, so we will be selecting amongst the candidates. Registration fees include the technical and social programmes, 6 days' meals and lodging (2-3 persons/room) from dinner Saturday Sept 3rd through Friday 9th lunch, social programme, and bus transport from/to the St Exupéry or Geneva airports. The registration fee only partially covers the costs incurred. The remaining costs are covered by the European Commission?s 7th Framework Programme ICT. The programme will offer world-class courses and significant opportunities for interaction with leading researchers in the area:

• Professor Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - USA) Challenges in Human-centric Sensor Networks
• Professor Sanjoy Baruah (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - USA) Certification-cognizant scheduling in integrated computing environments
• Professor Luca Benini (University of Bologna - Italy) Managing MPSoCs beyond their Thermal Design Power
• Professor Rastislav Bodik (UC Berkeley, USA) Automatic Programming Revisited
• Dr. Fabien Clermidy (CEA - France) Designing Network-on-Chip based multi-core heterogeneous System-on-Chip: the MAGALI experience
• Professor Peter Druschell (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems - Germany) Trust and Accountability in Social Systems
• Professor Rolf Ernst (TU Braunschweig - Germany) Mixed safety critical system design and analysis
• Professor Babak Falsafi (EPFL - Switzerland)
• Professor Martti Forsell (VTT - Finland) Parallelism, programmability and architectural support for them on multi-core machines
• Professor Kim Larsen (University of Aalborg - Denmark) Timing and Performance Analysis of Embedded Systems
• Professor Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University/HKUST - China) GreenOrbs: Lessons Learned from Extremely Large Scale Sensor Network Deployment
• Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley - USA) Mapping abstract models to architectures: automatic synthesis across layers of abstraction
• Professor Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University - USA) Domain Specific Modeling Languages for Cyber Physical Systems: Where are Semantics Coming From?
• Prof. Dr. Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Temperature-aware Scheduling

http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/Applications-are-open.html