Dagstuhl Seminars,
Shonan Meetings
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wilhelm
Scientific Director

Before Dagstuhl was Dagstuhl...
Fortress
13th-18thcenturiesvon Söternmansion
18th century

de Lasallefamily mansion

19th and 20th century

Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
Construction and expansion

2012

1970

1992-1994

1761

Schloss Dagstuhl GmbH
Shareholders• Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
• Universität des Saarlandes• TU Darmstadt• Universität Trier• Universität Stuttgart• Universität Frankfurt• KIT Karlsruhe• TU Kaiserslautern• Max Planck Gesellschaft• INRIA France• CWI Netherlands

What’s next?

New projects
and partners

2012: 13000 overnight stays

Staff expansion
DBLP,
Coop. UTrier

Institutional consolidation

Dagstuhl’sfounding
1990

Leibniz
Association
membership,
federal/statefunding

2002/2006

Creationscientificstaff

open-accesspublisher

2004-present

new guesthouse

ACM Turing Award Winners
at Dagstuhl
O.-J. Dahl

R. KarpM. Rabin

R. Rivest

D. Knuth

J. Hartmanis E.W. Dijkstra

D. Scott

R.E. Stearns

A. Pnueli

E.A. Emerson

T. HoareR. Milner

A. Shamir

F. Brooks

W. Kahn

P. NaurB. Lampson

E.M. Clarke

L. Valiant

A.C. YaoFunding
Other3%Federal Gov.
39%
FundingFees
19%

States39%

Dagstuhl’s Happy DinerProblem
What is the minimum number of meals so that each of nconference participants can share at least one meal withevery other participant when eating at tables of at most t
persons? Are there simple algorithms approaching thisminimum number?
– found on Sarah Holiday’s Problem Page
attributed to Maurice Queyranne

Scientific Program• Dagstuhl Seminars (state-of-the-art research)• Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops (reflections about researchagenda)• Summer Schools, GI-Dagstuhl Seminars, Workshops• Project Meetings, Research Visits• Publications (open-access publication of proceedings, journals)

Dagstuhl Seminars• 35–50 scientists (25% junior),by invitation only

• 3–5 days at Dagstuhl• open program where ideas andongoing work take center stage• seminars are selected from proposals

Some statistics....

Seminar Proposals
by submission deadline
60
48
3624
120Apr 2008

acceptedrejectedApr 2009

Apr 2010

asked to modify
changed to meetingApr 2011April 2012asked to resubmit
under review

Internationality
Origin of participants of Dagstuhl Seminars andPerspectives WS in 2011
2% 7%
23%

WorldAsia
North AmericaGermanyEurope

41%

27%

Schedule
as of September 20122012

43210432
104
32102013
2014

1020

30

Week

40

50

EventSeminar
Perspectives
GI/Dagstuhl
SchoolMeeting

The Dagstuhl Concept

A “research monastery”

Why does Dagstuhl work?
• Fostering communication -inter-personal, not computer-mediated• Creating an atmoshere of trust no keys, consumption withself accounting• Guaranteed quality - trying toestimate the potential of proposals• Achieving interdisciplinarity

How participation in Dagstuhl developed

joining
inviting newcommunities communities
the word spreadto other communities

Oberwolfachcommunity

Dagstuhl’s Scientific Program:Two examples“The Constraint Satisfaction Problem:
Complexity and Approximability” (Dagstuhl
Seminar 12451),
November 4-9, 2012*

“Publication Culture in Computing
Research” (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop
12452), November 6-9, 2012

Limitations and challenges• Non-communicating communities high on economic incentives, low onmutual trust• The traveling-researcher problem has one project review each week

• Short-sightedness in industry D more important than R• Wars, terrorism, ash clouds, earth
quakes, ...

Can Dagstuhl be
successfully copied?

• Dagstuhl‘s full schedule, long lead time there is room for another instance• Point to the proof of concept• Build on regional area strongholds enough in Asia

• Exploit researchers‘ curiosity• So, why not?

Schloss Dagstuhl is member of the Leibniz Association, anassociation of 86 independent research organization in Germany.