Annual Report 2011

Annual Report 2011

Events 2011


Jaakko Kurhila, Esko Ukkonen, Keijo Hämäläinen, Maija Aksela and Arto Vihavainen opened the Linkki centre at the beginning of October.

Photographer: Tuomas Puikkonen.

 

13.01.2011 Strategy day of the department in Hanasaari, Espoo

14.01.2011 Guest lecture: A combinatorial and integrated method to analyse High Throughput Sequencing reads
Researcher Eric Rivals, CNRS & Université Montpellier 2 , France

02.02.2011 Guest lecture: Identities for the Internet of Things
Robert Moskowitz, ICSAlabs , USA

03.02.2011 Docent lecture: Kolmogorov complexity
PhD Teemu Roos

10.02.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Data fusion and matching by maximizing statistical dependencies
MSc Tripathi Abhishek

17.03.2011 Science in the best company (Alumni event at Kumpula Campus)

29.03.2011 Guest lecture: Towards Pervasive and Energy-Efficient Positioning for Mobile Devices
Dr. Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard and Dr. Henrik Blunck, Aarhus University, Denmark

08.04.2011 Docent lecture: Role of the computational analysis in comprehensive understanding of human health
D.Sc. Janne Nikkilä

15.04.2011 Studia generalia: Computationally Supported Collective Science (CS^2)
Professor Samuel Kaski, senior researcher Antti Honkela, and senior researcher Antti Oulasvirta

25.05.2011 Inaugural lecture: Occam's razor and learning machines
Professor Petri Myllymäki

31.05.2011 Techila Grid Training seminar

09.06.2011 Guest lecture: Automating Biology using Robot Scientists
Professor Ross King, Aberystwyth University, UK

13.06.2011 Guest lecture: Better learning algorithms for neural networks
Professor Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada

13.06.2011 Grand opening of Millennium Youth Camp (Kumpula campus)

15.06.2011 Department's Summer Cruise to Pentala, Espoo

22.06.2011 Guest lecture: Humor, Affect and Creativity in the Computational Treatment of Language
PhD Alessandro Valitutti, University of Trento, Italy

27.06.2011 -08.07.2011 Game programming camps for children and young people

10.08.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Patterns in permuted binary matrices
MSc Esa Junttila

07.08.2011 -10.08.2011 Conference: The Fourth Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE)

17.08.2011 Summer trainee results seminar

29.08.2011 Inaugural lecture: Using Measurement as Enabler for Software-based Innovations: State of the Art and New Challenges for Software Measurement
FiDiPro Professor Jürgen Münch

29.08.2011 - 02.09.2011 Conference: EDOC 2011 - 15th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference

09.09.2011 Opening of the academic year

15.09.2011 Guest lecture: Finite State Methods for String Matching
PhD Emanuele Giaquinta, University of Catania, Italy

30.09.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Simulation and graph mining tools for improving gene mapping efficiency
MSc Petteri Hintsanen

07.10.2011 Opening of Linkki centre

05.10.2011 - 07.10.2011 Conference: The 22nd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory

10.10.2011 Guest lecture: ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in the cloud for mobile code offloading
Dr. Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom, Germany

21.10.2011 Guest lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
Dr. James Grime, University of Cambridge, UK

28.10.2011 Centre of Excellence Algodan (Algorithmic Data Analysis) seminar 2011

07.11.2011 - 11.11.2011 Autumn School on Computational Creativity

09.11.2011 Syksyn Startup: Alumni stories
TKT-alumni ry

16.11.2011 Guest lecture: Sampling Massive Online Graphs: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications to Facebook
PhD Maciej Kurant, University of California, Irvine, USA

21.11.2011 Guest lecture: Scalable Overlay Design for Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems and Fast Overlay Construction Algorithms
Professor Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway

29.11.2011 Guest lecture: De-novo motif discovery in DNA sequences using parsimonious Markov models
Ralf Eggeling, University of Halle, Germany

16.12.2011 Department's Christmas Party

19.12.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Lean Thinking in Software Development: Impacts of Kanban on Projects
MSc Marko Ikonen

20.12.2011 Department's Christmas Coffee