Giulio Jacucci gave the traditional "porridge" talk at the Department's Christmas Party that was organised this outside the department in Berghyddan, in the area where Helsinki was originally founded.

Photographer: Arto Wikla.

 

 

9.1.2012 Docent lecture: Shortest paths in polygonal domains
PhD Valentin Polishchuk

9.1.2012 Docent lecture: Coloring networks using distributed algorithms
PhD Jukka Suomela

19.1.2012 Docent lecture: Positioning Algorithms
PhD Petteri Nurmi

19.1.2012 Docent lecture: Satisfiability checking
D.Sc.(Tech.) Matti Järvisalo

31.1.2012 Guest lecture: 3-Dimensional Random Assignment Problems
Professor Gregory Sorkin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

3.2.2012 Defence of thesis: Algorithms for Exact Structure Discovery in Bayesian Networks
MSc Pekka Parviainen

1.-2.3.2012 Departmental Strategy Seminar 2012

8.3.2012 Alumni event: Science in the best company

13.4.2012 Defence of thesis: Mixture Model Clustering in the Analysis of Complex Diseases 
Lic. Med., MSc Jaana Wessman

20.4.2012 Guest lecture: Molecular Communications: A new communication paradigm for nanoscale devices
Senior Research Fellow Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

30.4.2012 Walpurgis / May Day eve celebration: mead and doughnuts on the roof terrace

2.5.2012 Defence of thesis: Access Selection Methods in Cooperative Multioperator Environments to Improve End-user and Operator Satisfaction
MSc Petteri Pöyhönen

2.5.2012 Guest lecture: Finding Robust Itemsets Under Subsampling
Postdoctoral researcher Nikolaj Tatti, University of Antwerp, Belgium

3.5.2012 Guest lecture: User-Centric Identity Management  
Professor Audun Jøsang, University of Oslo, Norway

4.5.2012 Defence of thesis: The effect of reputation on trust decisions in inter-enterprise collaborations
MSc Sini Ruohomaa

15.5.2012 Guest lecture: rNA - a fast and accurate short DNA reads numerical aligner
PhD Alexandru Tomescu, University of Udine, Italy, and TU Berlin, Germany

16.5.2012 Algodan Center of Excellence: Algodan poster session

28.-29.5.2012 The Federated Computer Science Event (Yhdistetyt tietojenkäsittelyn päivät)

13.6.2012 Summer trip to the Billnäs and Fiskars ironworks

28.6.2012 Guest lecture: Analysis of the subsequence composition of biosequences
PhD Fabio Cunial, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

29.6.2012 Defence of thesis: Compressed Full-Text Indexes for Highly Repetitive Collections
MSc Jouni Sirén

3.-5.7.2012 CPM 2012 – Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching

4.-6.7.2012 SWAT 2012 – Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory

13.8.2012 Guest lecture: Carat: Collaborative Energy Debugging
PhD Adam Oliner, UC Berkeley, USA

15.8.2012 Guest lecture: Identifying Neuron Assemblies in Massively Parallel Spike Trains
Principal researcher Christian Borgelt, European Center for Soft Computing in Mieres, Spain

16.8.2012 Defence of thesis: Methods for Network Abstraction
MSc Fang Zhou

20.8.2012 Guest lecture: Enabling sensing-intensive mobile services: Challenges in power profiling and in the emerging area of eco-profiling
Markus Wüstenberg and Henrik Blunck. Aarhus University, Denmark

21.8.2012 Defence of thesis: Applications of Compressed Data Structures on Sequences and Structured Data
MSc Niko Välimäki

22.8.2012 Seminar on summer work projects

24.8.2012 Docent lecture: Sequencing methods for analyzing transcription
PhD Teemu Kivioja

30.8.2012 Guest lecture: The case for usable mobile security
Distinguished Researcher, Dr. N. Asokan, Nokia Research Center

7.9.2012 Opening of the academic year

10.9.2012 Docent lecture: Matrix decompositions in data mining
PhD Pauli Miettinen

27.9.2012 Guest lecture: Nanonetworks: A New Frontier in Communications
Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

3.10.2012 Guest lecture: Randomized load balancing on networks
PhD Thomas Sauerwald, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany

9.10.2012 Guest lecture: Fast Routing Table Construction Using Small Messages
Postdoctoral fellow Christoph Lenzen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

23.10.2012 Discussion event: Linus Torvalds at the department, Q&A with students and faculty
Linus Torvalds, moderator Professor Jukka Paakki

8.11.2012 Discussion event: Syksyn Startup 2012 - The rise of networked humans and machines in the world. True stories. In 3D.

9.11.2012 Guest lecture: Google SRE - Engineering Reliability
Site Reliability Engineer Heikki Orsila, Google

14.11.2012 Defence of thesis: Secure Connectivity With Persistent Identities  
MSc Samu Varjonen

23.11.2012 Department's Christmas party

4.12.2012 Guest lecture: SliceTime: Enhancing the Applicability of Network Emulation
Dipl.-Inf. Elias Weingärtner, RWTH Aachen, Germany

17.12.2012 Defence of thesis: Computational methods for small molecules
MSc Markus Heinonen

19.12.2012 Department’s Christmas coffee

21.12.2012 Guest lecture: A survey of transliteration methods
Associate Professor Edward Klyshinsky, Higher School of Economic and Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia