Annual Report 2013
Events 2013
At the department's Christmas coffee on the 17th of December 2013 some teachers and researchers were awarded. Among the people receiving an award this time were, for example, Fabian Fagerholm (left) and Arto Vihavainen (right).
11.1.2013 Orientation event for new students in Spring 2013 (in Finnish)
25.1.2013 Defence of thesis: Term Weighting in Short Documents for Document Categorization, Keyword Extraction and Query Expansion
M.Sc. Mika Timonen
28.1.2013 Morning coffee for the department staff
29.1.2013 Department council meeting 1/2013
5.2.2013 Guest lecture: ALFALFA: a Novel Algorithm for Long Fragment Mapping and Alignment using Maximal Exact Matches
Doctoral student Michaël Vyverman, Ghent University (UGent), Belgium
8.2.2013 Opening of the ZEN room (A219)
9.2.2013 Defence of thesis: Probabilistic, Information-Theoretic Models for Etymological Alignment
M.Sc. Johannes Wettig
22.2.2013 Defence of thesis: A Model-Driven Approach to Service Ecosystem Engineering
Ph.Lic. Toni Ruokolainen
25.2.2013 Monthly meeting - staff meeting (cooperation meeting)
26.2.2013 Department council meeting 2/2013
1.3.2013 Department's Winter Sport Day 2013
20.3.2013 Guest lecture: Density Ratio Estimation in Machine Learning
Associate Professor Masashi Sugiyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
21.3.2013 The annual alumni event of the Kumpula Campus
22.3.2013 Guest lecture: Redesigning Viral Genomes
Distinguished Teaching Professor Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University, USA
25.3.2013 Morning coffee for the department staff
2.4.2013 Department council meeting 3/2013
16.4.2013 Guest lecture: Hexagon crypto
D.Sc. Billy Brumley, Qualcomm Technologies, USA
23.4.2013 Docent lecture: Information-centric Networks
Ph.D. Pasi Sarolahti
23.4.2013 Department council meeting 4/2013
29.4.2013 Monthly meeting - unit meeting (staff + students)
8.5.2013 Defence of thesis: Discovering Causal Relations in the Presence of Latent Confounders
M.Sc. (Tech) Antti Hyttinen
21.5.2013 Guest lecture: Current situation with the study and R&D on the Math. Faculty and Dept. of CS at PetrSU
Professors Iurii Bogoiavlenskii and Alexei Varfolomeev, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
28.5.2013 Department council meeting 5/2013
29.5.2013 Inagural lecture: What it is worth to understand of software?
Professor Tomi Männistö
30.5.2013 Strategy seminar
6.6.2013 Guest lecture: Evolution and Computation
Professor Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA
12.6.2013 Guest lecture: RNA-Seq data analysis: a combinatorial approach based on local transcriptome assembly
Doctoral student Francesca Nadalin, Applied Genomics Institute in Udine, Italy
24.6.2013 Department present at Think Corner: Game changers in science communications
27.6.2013 Defence of thesis: Dynamic Aspects of Knowledge Bases
Ph.Lic. Satu Eloranta
21.8.2013 Seminar on summer work projects
23.8.2013 Defence of thesis: Creativity Supporting Learning Environments: Two Case Studies on Teaching Programming
M.Sc. Mikko Apiola
26.8.2013 Afternoon seminar for Principal Investigators of the Department of Computer Science
27.8.2013 Orientation event for new students in Autumn 2013 (in Finnish)
27.8.2013 Guest lecture: OpenPAT: Analysing Programs the Easy Way
Dr. Simon Spacey, Waikato University, New Zealand
3.9.2013 Department council meeting 6/2013
6.9.2013 Guest lecture: CS Unplugged
Professor Bengt Aspvall, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sweden
6.9.2013 Opening of the academic year
9.9.2013 Defence of thesis: Enabling Multipath and Multicast Data Transmission in Legacy and Future Internet
M.Sc. Tatiana Polishchuk
11.9.2013 Department present at Think Corner: Music from breathing (in Finnish)
14.9.2013 Defence of thesis: Normalized maximum likelihood methods for clustering and density estimation
M.Sc. Panu Luosto
20.9.2013 Defence of thesis: Computational methods for augmenting association-based gene mapping
M.Sc. Lauri Eronen
27.9.2013 Guest lecture: Facebook tech talk on Graph Search & Cryptography Facebook engineering staff
1.10.2013 Department council meeting 7/2013
2.10.2013 CS Alumni: Syksyn Startup 2013
7.10.2013 Morning coffee for the department staff
7.10.2013 Guest lecture: Quantum computers are here!
Docent Mika Hirvensalo, University of Turku, and docent Mikko Möttönen, Aalto University
16.10.2013 Guest lecture: ConXsense: Context sensing for adaptive usable access control
Research assistant Markus Miettinen, TU Darmstadt, Germany
29.10.2013 Department council meeting 8/2013
31.10.2013 Department administration team visits Aalto University
8.11.2013 Tekis Talks lecture event
9.11.2013 TKO-äly 25th anniversary
11.11.2013 Guest lecture: Privacy and Trust in Pervasive Social Networking
Professor Valtteri Niemi, University of Turku
14.11.2013 Guest lecture: Text mining for creative cross-domain knowledge discovery
Professor Nada Lavrač, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
18.-22.11.2013 Autumn School on Computational Creativity
19.11.2013 Guest lecture: Tracking down repeats in strings
Professor Maxime Crochemore, King's College London, UK
19.11.2013 Department council meeting 9/2013
20.11.2013 Defence of thesis: Causal Structure Learning and Effect Identification in Linear Non-Gaussian Models and Beyond
Dipl.-Ing. Doris Entner
22.11.2013 Department's staff meeting/ general assembly
28.11.2013 Employer seminar: Career relevance of studies
4.12.2013 Defence of thesis: Methods for Redescription Mining
Ingénieur diplômée Esther Galbrun
10.12.2013 Department council meeting 10/2013
12.12.2013 Defence of thesis: Data Center Energy Retrofits
M.Sc. Mikko Pervilä
13.12.2013 Defence of thesis: Self-Organizing Software Architectures
M.Sc. Pietu Pohjalainen
13.12.2013 Department's Christmas party for the staff
14.12.2013 Global code retreat for students
17.12.2013 Department's Christmas coffee