Dear all UH CS staff

A bus transportation to the event below is arranged as follows:

14.30 Depart from Kumpula, Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2, to Otaniementie 19

16.45 Depart from Otaniemi, Otaniementie 19, to your Little Christmas
party location Berghyddan, Vanhankaupungintie 3

Please do not miss this event! It is not an HIIT internal thing but all of
you are cordially welcome. You do not need to register for the bus, but
please be on time. Pirjo Moen has kindly promised to host the bus.

But please remember to register to the event itself by Nov 20 to
HelsinkiITLectures@hiit.fi. Thank you!

Ella Bingham, HIIT
 

KUTSU - INVITATION - Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology

Welcome to the opening of a new high level lecture series on Friday 23 November,

2012 at 3 p.m. at Open Innovation House (OIH) in Otaniemi (Otaniementie 19-21, Espoo).

Helsinki Distinguished Lecture Series on Future Information Technology (https://www.hiit.fi/HelsinkiITLectures)

kicks off with an invited lecture from Professor Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), entitled

"Modern Dynamic Kidney Exchanges"

Prof. Sandholm is one of the most highly cited Finnish Computer Scientists, a

recipient of the NSF Career Award, the inaugural ACM Autonomous Agents

Research Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Carnegie Science Center

Award for Excellence, and the Computers and Thought Award.

See https://www.hiit.fi/node/1625 for the abstract and biography of the speaker.

We use the same occasion to celebrate the opening of new facilities of Helsinki

Institute for Information Technology HIIT (http://www.hiit.fi), a joint

research institute of University of Helsinki and Aalto University.

The lecture is is preceded by opening cocktails and followed by exhibition of HIIT research.

The event is free of charge and open to all interested in the leading research

in information technology. For planning purposes, we request registering the attendance to the event via

email to HelsinkiITLectures@hiit.fi no later than Tuesday 20 November, 2012.

The lecture series will continue in the Spring and follow a bi-monthly schedule.

Confirmed speakers include Turing Award winner Leslie Valiant and Knuth Prize

winner Christos Papadimitriou. See details from:

https://www.hiit.fi/HelsinkiITLectures

Best regards,

Prof. Juho Rousu

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology

Host of the seminar series

Prof. Samuel Kaski

Director

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology