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University programming marathon (UPM, http://tekmovanja.acm.si/upm) is a Slovenian competition for students in their knowledge of programming, data structures and algorithms. The university champions for 2018 have been determined in the final round. This year champions are: Vid Keršič, Niko Uremović, Mitja Žalik. The runners up are: Aljaž Jeromel, Gal Meznarič, Jan Mikolič. Members of both teams are students of Computer Science and Information Technologies. Both teams will participate at CERC 2018, Prague, Czech Republic (https://contest.felk.cvut.cz/18cerc/), which will be held from 30.11.18 do 2.12.18. Countries participating in CERC are Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The best teams from CERC will be participating in the world finals in Porto, Portugal, from 31.3.19 do 5.4.19.

On Friday, September 28th, 2018, a greetings to the freshmen took place at our faculty at 10 am. At the joint presentation, the students of the 1st year of study programs were welcomed by the vice-dean for education, prof. dr. Bojan Grčar, vice-dean for students, Maruša Lešnik, coordinator of teachers' tutors, assistant prof. dr. Alenka Hren, and coordinator of students' tutors, Nina Katarina Bračko. A joint presentation was carried out in the lobby of the G2 facility. The presentation of the Computer Science and Information Technology study program - academic level then took place at G2-Gama and professional level at G2-P02. After the presentation, the students' tutors showed the faculty to the freshmen. You can find a presentation on the Computer Science and Information Technology study program on the link: https://cs.feri.um.si/site/assets/files/1362/pozdravnovincem2018.pdf

On Thursday, September 27, 2018, the head of the Institute will hold talks with students' representatives of all years of study programs R-IT (VS, UNI, MAG) in order to obtain feedback from students on the implementation of the teaching process. Give your comments and praise to the students' representatives.

Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way. Code Week is going to be held from October 6 - 21, 2018. The Institute of Computer Science supports this event as it contributes to computer literacy. Last year, we conducted 17 events in elementary and secondary schools. Students of study programs Computer and Information Technologies are invited to perform an event in their home town. Please, register the event at https://codeweek.eu/events and let us know by sending an e-mail to marjan.mernik@um.si. Learn more about the event at https://codeweek.eu.

This year, we are organizing the 5th Student Computer Science Research Conference. The conference will be held as part of the conference multi-conference Information Society (IS'18), on 9 October, at Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana. We invite you to actively participate at the conference with preparation of your scientific papers. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in electronic form (CD).

More about the conference and preparation of the contributions, you can find on website http://labraj.feri.um.si/stucosrec.

Jožef Stefan Institute and the H2020 SYNERGY project partners organize a summer school on "Efficient Multi-objective Optimization" that will take place from 27 to 31 August 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The summer school will consist of lectures by internationally recognized experts in multi-objective optimization and surrogate modeling, and work in groups with the possibility of solving practical multi-objective optimization problems.

Registrations are possible until the capacity is reached. The summer school language will be English. Further information and registration at http://summerschool.synergy-twinning.eu/

On Thursday, 17th of May, at 2.00 pm in the ALFA Lecture Room, an information day for the study program Computer Science and Information Technology 2nd Bologna cycle will be held. The presentation is available at the link below

You are cordially invited!

For perspective students who will enroll in the 1st year of the academic year 2018/19 in the study programme Computer and Information Technologies (2nd Bologna cycle) the curriculum is available at the link below.

For perspective students who will enroll in the 1st year of the academic year 2018/19 in the study programme Computer and Information Technologies (1st Bologna cycle) the curriculum is available at the link below.

The Institute of Computer Science organizes a professional excursion on Monday, 16.4.18 - Dewesoft Measurement Conference 2018 (https://www.dewesoft.com/events/dewesoft-measurement-conference). Industry leaders will discuss the latest innovations and technologies from automotive, aerospace and electro industry. The visit is free for our students. More information in the attached document.

Assoc. prof. dr. Jaroslav Porubän from Tecnical University Košice, Slovakia, is visiting us from March 11 to March 16, 2018. He will give lectures on Programming Languages for students in study programme "Computer Science and Information Technologies".

UM FERI Information Days for secondary school students were held from 9.2. until 10.2.18. Please find the introduction of the "Computer Science and Information Technology" program at the link below.

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018, the head of the Institute of Computer Science will hold talks with students' representatives of study programs R-IT (VS, UNI, MAG) in order to obtain feedback from students on the implementation of the teaching process. Give your comments to the students' representatives.

You are invited to the 1st UPM workshop, which will be held on December 18th 2017 at 15:00 in G2-P02. UPM competition will be presented and the way we work. We will start with the first programming problem, as well.

We are collecting applications for ACM competition UPM 2018 (University Programming Marathon).

We invite you to participate in 2nd Fintech Hackathon, where you will develop innovative solutions in the field of banking, based on modern artificial intelligence technologies, IoT, big data, and blockchain. To apply for the event: http://startupmaribor.si/sl-si/dogodek/160/fintech-hackathon-start-up-maribor-2017.

We invite you to a presentation on the Electronic Resources, Applications and Tools available at the University of Maribor.

Assoc. prof. dr. Geylani Kardas from Ege University, Turkey, is visiting us from November 20 to November 24, 2017. He will give lectures on Multi-Agent Systems for students in study programme "Computer Science and Information Technologies.