Summer School Marktoberdorf

The International Summer School Marktoberdorf is an annual two-week summer school for international computer science and mathematics postgraduate students and other young researchers, held annually since 1970 in Marktoberdorf, near Munich in southern Germany.^[1] Students are accommodated in the boarding house of a local high school, Gymnasium Marktoberdorf.^[2] Proceedings are published when appropriate.^[3]

Status

This is a summer school for theoretical computer science researchers,^[4] with some directors/co-directors who are Turing Award winners (the nearest equivalent to the Nobel Prize in computer science).^[5]

The summer school is supported as an Advanced Study Institute of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Program.^[6] It is administered by the Faculty of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich.^[7]

Directors

Prof. Dr Manfred Broy, a leading director of the School^[3]

Past academic directors and co-directors include:

• Manfred Broy^[3]
• Robert Lee Constable
• Javier Esparza
• Orna Grumberg
• David Harel
• Tony Hoare*
• Orna Kupferman
• Tobias Nipkow
• Doron Peled
• Amir Pnueli*
• Alexander Pretschner
• Peter Müller
• Shmuel Sagiv
• Helmut Schwichtenberg
• Helmut Seidl
• Stanley S. Wainer

^* Turing Award winners.^[5]