ACM India Summer Schools 2020

ACM India Summer Schools 2020 Program Cancelled due to Covid-19

April 24, 2020: Owing to the extraordinary COVID-19 related circumstances, and in the interest of everyone's safety, the ACM India Summer Schools 2020 program is cancelled. We thank all those who were involved in the planning process as well as the students who applied to the schools. As informed earlier, we will be refunding the application fees to all the students who applied before the fees were waived.

(Note that the content below is now outdated although it has been retained for historical purposes.)

The summer schools are coming! We are pleased to announce "ACM India Summer Schools 2020". These schools offer self-motivated students in-depth knowledge and exposure to research in advanced technology areas. Each school is almost like a semester course, covers academic and applied research, and is taught by the best-in-class faculty from academia as well as industry. Each day typically comprises lectures as well as tutorial sessions with hands-on problem solving experience.

These schools are targeted at students in the pre-final year of Bachelor's program or higher, unless marked otherwise in the school’s website. Like previous years, we again have one school exclusively for women students.

Application deadline: important note regarding COVID-19: With the entire country in lockdown until 15 April and all of us focused on fighting COVID-19, one of the biggest threats to humankind, any other deadlines are hardly important right now. This includes the original deadline of 27 March for Summer School applications. So we are keeping the applications open until 17 April while we decide the next course of action, but waiving the application fee of Rs200+GST right away. We will also refund the fee to all applicants who have paid while submitting their applications so far. Also note that the inevitable delays anticipated in the academic calendars have made it logistically impossible to organize two of the schools, "Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in AI" and "Computer Architecture and Operating Systems". We may be able to offer them in winter. Also note that one school, "Programming Language Analysis and Optimization", has been pushed to July. Details in the table below. Those who have applied to those schools may apply again for remaining schools if they wish. While we are continuing with the plans for 4 schools, the schools will only be held if it is completely safe to do so.

Here are the Summer Schools planned. More details about each school available via respective school’s website below.

Dates	Title	Host Institute	Industry Sponsor
Cancelled	Programming Language Analysis and Optimization	IIT Hyderabad	NVIDIA Graphics
Cancelled	Cybersecurity	VIT Vellore	Cisco India
Cancelled	Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in AI	IIT Kharagpur	IBM Research India
Cancelled	Algorithms for Big Data and ML	Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) Chennai	Microsoft Research India
Cancelled	Computer Architecture and Operating Systems	IIT Goa	Intel Labs
Cancelled	Natural Language Processing (for Women only)	DA-IICT Gandhinagar	Amex AI Labs

The applicants have to qualify for the Summer Schools as demonstrated by most of the metrics below:

marks/grades in the relevant courses
recommendation from mentors (the application needs only some names, the selection committee will contact them if needed)
participation in programming or other contests
previous internship or research experience
any demonstrated self-study experience

Although being an ACM Student Member is not a requirement for applying to these schools, we encourage the applicants to join ACM, the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, aimed at advancing computing as a science and a profession.
Student Membership Registration Link

The link for the Summer Schools 2020 application form is provided below. You can apply for two out of the six schools in your order of preference. Remember that the seats per school are limited and the application does not guarantee acceptance. Pay attention to the pre-requisites for the particular school you are applying for, to make sure you qualify. Also keep in mind that the competition for some of the schools may be much more than others, so choose your preferences wisely.
Application form for ACM India Summer School 2020

Selected students will be required to pay additional school fees, no more than INR 2500 + GST. Payment link will be provided only to selected students. Also, all the selected students will be provided lodging and boarding at the venue without further charge. You must take care of your roundtrip travel, and bring your own laptop, but pretty much everything else is covered.

The selection list will be announced on 24 April 2020.