Review of the Second Sankt Petersburg Summer School on Practice and Theory of Distributed Computing (SPTDC 2019)

Abstract

The second Summer School on Practice and Theory of Distributed Computing (SPTDC 2019) took place on July 8-12, 2019, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In addition to graduate and undergraduate students from all around the world, the audience featured a considerable presence of industrial researchers and software engineers. The program offered a wide range of classes on practical and theoretical aspects of distributed systems, given by renowned experts: Leslie Lamport, Michael Scott, Maurice Herlihy, Eli Gafni, Danny Hendler, Achour Mostefaoui, Ittai Abraham, and Trevor Brown.