Selected talks and tutorials :

• Ioana Manolescu: "The Web in the era of Linked Open Data: towards the Universal Database", at the interdisciplinary Séminaire D'Alembert, March 2012 (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu:"Warehousing Web Data", invited talk at the Data Engineering Meets Semantic Web (DeSWeb) workshop, in conjunction with the ICDE 2011 conference, April 2011 (PDF slides).
• Ioana Manolescu and Spyros Zoupanos:"ViP2P: XML views in peer-to-peer", course at the 2010 BDA summer school, May 2010 (PDF slides).
• Ioana Manolescu: "Optimization Techniques for XML Query Processing", HDR (Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches) presentation, october 30, 2009 (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu: "Web Data Management on DHT networks", joint invited talks at the XSym (XML Symposium) and DBPL (Database Programming Languages) workshops in conjunction with the VLDB 2009 conference. (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu and Stefan Manegold: "Performance Evaluation in Database Research: Principles and Experience", tutorial at the ICDE 2008 conference, April 2008. (PDF slides)
• Andrei Arion, Veronique Benzaken, Ioana Manolecu, Yannis Papakonstantinou: "XML Access Modules: Towards Physical Data Independence in XML Databases", Stanford Seminary, January 2008 (PDF slides)
• Serge Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu and Spyros Zoupanos: "Optimizing ActiveXML Computations", at HP Labs, January 2008. (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu, Cedric Miachon and Philippe Michiels: "Towards Micro-Benchmarking XQuery", at the EXPDB 2006 workshop (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu and Yannis Papakonstantinou: "XQuery Midflight: Emerging Database-Oriented Paradigms and a Classification of Research Advances", tutorial at the ICDE 2005 conference, April 2005. (PDF slides)
• Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Ioana Manolescu and Andrea Pugliese: "XQueC: embedding XML Compression into Databases", at the "Foundations of Semistructured Data" Dagstuhl Seminar, February 2005 (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu: "XML query processing: storage and query model interplay", tutorial at the EDBT 2004 summer school, Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardegna, Italy, August 2004 (PDF slides)
• Ioana Manolescu: "XML query processing and distributed applications", tutorial at the DRUIDE 2004 summer school, Domaine de Port-aux-Rocs, France, May 2004 (also at the AlgoDis summer school in Porquerolles, France, September 2004) (PDF slides, in French)
• Alberto Lerner and Ioana Manolescu: "The nuts and bolts of DBMS construction: building your own prototype", tutorial at the SBBD 2003 conference, Manaus, Brazil, October 2003 (PDF slides)
• Stefano Ceri and Ioana Manolescu: "Constructing and integrating data-centric Web Applications: Methods, Tools, and Techniques", tutorial at the VLDB 2003 conference, Berlin, September 2003 (PDF slides).
• Ioana Manolescu: "Adaptive and self-tuning query processing",  tutorial at the EDBT 2002 summer school, Cargese, August 2002 (PDF slides).