This is a crosspost from: mooqita.org
I was humbled and extremely excited to be selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2017. The event is organized by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) in cooperation with the ACM and multiple other partners. In the spirit of the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings the event brings together laureates from computer science and mathematics. Since the Nobel prize is not awarded in these disciplines, the event brings ACM A.M. Turing Prize and ACM Prize in Computing winners, as well as Fields Medal, Abel Prize, and Nevanlinna Prize winners together with up to 200 young researchers. Based on our prior work at the University of Bremen and our ongoing work at Berkeley I was able to - together with Markus Krause (a colleague from the Mooqita project) - attend the meeting and to engage in a once-in-a-lifetime week of intense exchange and networking.