Dan Olteanu: Invited Talks (September 2007 - May 2020)

A more up to date list of my (and my group's) recent invited talks can be found here, some with slides and videos.


  • From Joins to Aggregates and Optimization Problems: One idea to rule them all and at their core factorize them!
    • PhD Open lectures (6h lectures + 2h classes), University of Warsaw, November 2018. [slides part 1 part 2 part 3, video ]
    • Tutorial (3h lectures) at Alan Turing Institute, London, March 2018. [ slides, video]
    • Tutorial (3h lectures) at LogiCS/RiSE Summer School, TU Vienna, July 2017.
  • Trade-offs in Static and Dynamic Query Evaluation
    • Dagstuhl Seminar 20071 "Foundations of Composite Event Recognition", February 2020. [slides]
  • Learning Models over Relational Data
    • (To come) Keynote at Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Tokyo, September 2020.
    • Keynote at FG DB Symposium "ML for Systems and Systems for ML", TU Darmstadt, March 2020. [symposium link, slides]
    • Invited Tutorial at International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), Compiègne, December 2019.
    • IC Colloquium: Learning Models over Relational Databases, EPFL, Lausanne, October 2019. [video]
    • Dagstuhl Seminar "Logic and Learning", September 2019.
    • Keynote at Int Conf on Database Theory (ICDT) and Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Lisbon, March 2019. [slides]
    • Keynote at 34ème Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications (BDA), Bucharest, October 2018.
    • Invited Talk in Special Session on Logic and Learning, Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata. Berlin, September 2018.
  • Incremental Techniques for Large-Scale Dynamic Query Processing
    • Tutorial (3h lectures, with Ahmet Kara, Stijn Vansummeren, Iman Elghandour) at CIKM 2018 Int Conf on Information and Knowledge Management, Turin, October 2018. [tutorial]
  • In-Database Linear Algebra
    • RelationalAI Iceland Conference, Dalvik, July 2018.
  • Factorised Databases: 26-Minute Overview [slides, video]
    • Fellow Short Talks Series, Alan Turing Institute, November 2017, London.
  • A Unified Approach to Incremental View Maintenance of In-Database Analytics
    • Computer Science Seminar, Free University of Brussels, December 2017, Brussels. [ slides]
    • TorontoCon, RelationalAI, October 2017, Toronto (Canada). [ slides]
  • Taming Large Answers to Keyword Queries
    • Keynote at KEYNOTE conference, Cluj, September 2016.
  • Probabilistic Databases and Reasoning
    • Invited tutorial, Knowledge Representation (KR) conference, Cape Town, April 2016.
  • Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Datalog Engines..
    (so we put a datalog engine in your datalog engine so you can derive while you derive!)
    • OAK seminar, INRIA Saclay, Paris, October 2014.
    • Oxford Information Systems Seminar, Oxford, October 2014.
    • Stanford CS 346 (as part of industry talk series), May 2014.
    • LogicBlox compiler/runtime seminar, Berkeley (California), April 2014.
    • Invited Speaker, NorCal DB Day, IBM Almaden Research, San Jose (California), April 2014.
  • Learning Regression Models over Factorised Joins [pdf]
    • SystemML and DB Seminar, IBM Almaden, Oct 2016.
  • A Dichotomy for Queries with Negation in Probabilistic Databases [pdf, video]
    • Uncertainty in Computation workshop, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, Oct 2016.
    • Algorithms Seminar, Oxford CS, Nov 2015.
  • Cultural Learnings of Factorized Databases for Make Benefit Glorious Family of Regression Tasks
    • Data Science Seminar, LogicBlox, Oct 2015.
    • Tech Seminar, Palantir, Palo Alto, Aug 2015.
    • Tech Seminar, LogicBlox, Berkeley, Aug 2015.
    • Database Seminar, Université Lille 1 and INRIA Lille - Nord Europe. July 2015, Lille.
  • Factorized Databases: A Knowledge Compilation Perspective
    • Symposium on New Frontiers in Knowledge Compilation, June 6, 2015, Vienna.
  • Factorised Relational Databases (on various content within the FDB project)
    • Keynote at Alberto Mendelzon Workshop, May 6, 2015, Lima.
    • LSDS (Large-Scale Distributed Systems) seminar, Imperial College London, November 2014.
    • Google MapReduce Infrastructure Seminar, February 7, 2014, Mountain View (California).
    • Pivotal Colloquium Series, January 24, 2014, Palo Alto (California).
    • LogicBlox Internal Online Seminar, December 17, 2013, Berkeley (California).
    • Google Ads Infrastructure Seminar, November 20, 2013, Mountain View (California).
    • Database Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, November 18, 2013, Santa Cruz (California).
    • Database Seminar, U Washington, November 8, 2013, Seattle (Washington).
    • AmpLab Seminar, UC Berkeley, October 30, 2013, Berkeley (California).
    • EECS Seminar, UC Merced, October 11, 2013, Merced (California).
    • Birkbeck Computer Science Departmental Seminar, March 2012, London.
    • Systems Seminar, EPFL, Feb 2012, Lausanne.
  • Beyond Query Evaluation in Probabilistic Databases (on various aspects of the SPROUT, ENFrame, and Pigora projects)
    • Invited Speaker, Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), Sept 2014 (upcoming).
  • Probabilistic Databases are Dead, Long Live Probabilistic Databases! (on various aspects of the SPROUT, ENFrame, and Pigora projects)
    • Invited Speaker, Big Uncertain Data Workshop at PODS, Snowbird, June 21, 2014.
    • Knowledge World Research Seminar, Google, February 21, 2014, Mountain View (California).
  • Write-Optimized Data Structures
    • LogicBlox BamaCon, Sehoy Plantation, June 18, 2014.
  • Readability of Query Provenance
    • CS Colloquium, UC Davis, August 30, 2013, Davis (California).
  • Factorised Representations of Query Results
    • Database Seminar, University of Edinburgh, March 2011, Edinburgh.
    • Dagstuhl Seminar on "Foundations of Distributed Data Management", Oct 2011, Dagstuhl.
  • The Case of Relational Algebra Queries in Probabilistic Databases
    • IC Colloquium, EPFL, January 2011, Lausanne.
  • A Look at Probabilistic Databases through SPROUT glasses
    • Statistics Departmental Seminar, November 2010, Oxford.
  • Probabilistic XML via Markov Chains
    • FOX annual meeting, April 2010, Amsterdam.
  • A Toolbox of Query Evaluation Techniques for Probabilistic Databases [pdf]
    • Invited speaker at Management and mining Of UNcertain Data (MOUND), In conjunction with ICDE, March 2010, Long Beach.
    • Invited speaker at Logic in Databases (LID), October 2009, Copenhagen.
  • Incomplete and Probabilistic Data Management [pdf]
    • Tutorial at FOX training week, October 2009, Dortmund.
  • Scalable Query Processing in Probabilistic Databases with SPROUT
    • Database Group of Technical University of Vienna, September 2009, Vienna.
    • Invited speaker at EPFL Summer Research Institute, June 2009, Lausanne.
    • CS department of Technical University of Munich, March 2009, Munich.
    • Database Group of University of Washington, January 2009, Seattle.
  • Using OBDDs for Efficient Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases
    • Dagstuhl Seminar no. 08421: Uncertainty Management in Information Systems, October 2008, Dagstuhl.
  • MayBMS: A Database Management System for Uncertain and Probabilistic Data
    • CS Department of University of Lugano, Feb 2008, Lugano.
  • 10^10^6 Worlds and Beyond: Efficient Processing of Uncertain Data
    • Database Group of University of Edinburgh, December 2007, Edinburgh.