Helsinki ICT Research Events

Aalto University organizes the first world wide Conference on Computational Social Science at Finlandia Hall in Helsinki.

IC2S2 (International Conference on Computational Social Science) is an interdisciplinary event, where scientists of different areas will have the opportunity to meet and discuss about works where social systems and dynamics are investigated in a quantitative way...

Over the past 30 years, DNA has been adopted as a novel nanoscale construction material because of its programmable sequence and its exquisitely specific Watson-Crick base pairing rules. DNA origami is a popular recent technique in DNA nanotechnology for the design and
synthesis of nanoscale shapes and patterns. DNA origami operates by
the...

The Rector of the University of Helsinki Jukka Kola will visit the Faculty of Science at 2 on Tuesday, 2nd June, 2015.  Welcome to the event, the theme of which is the preparation of the Strategic Plan for the University for the period from 2017 to 2020.

The university's current Strategic Plan: https://university....

Abstract

In exploratory search, when a user directs a search engine using uncertain relevance feedback, usability problems regarding controllability and predictability may arise. One problem is that the user is often modelled as a passive source of relevance information, instead of an active entity trying to steer the system based on evolving information...

Jaakko Luttinen, M.Sc. (Tech.), will defend the dissertation ”Bayesian Latent Gaussian Spatio-Temporal Models” on 28 May 2015 at 12 noon in Aalto University, School of Science, Computer Science Building, lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The dissertation develops efficient statistical methods for modelling large spatio-temporal datasets.

Opponent: Professor Mark Girolami, University of Warwick, UK

The 18 new professors of the University of Helsinki will outline the main challenges of their fields in general terms at 14-16 on Wednesday, 27 May.

The lectures will last 20 minutes and are given in eight different lecture halls in the Main Building of the university, at Aleksanterinkatu 5. There will be a short pause between each lecture so that members of the audience can change lecture halls. At 16 o’clock, after...

With ten start-ups under his belt, serial entrepreneur Clive Jackson will share some of his experiences and learnings and provide some of insights that might be useful when embarking on you own start-up venture.

Launched his first start-up at the age of 21, since then he has ten start-up’s under his belt, two acquisitions (8 are profitable/sold ) (2 loss...

Abstract: FM-indexes lie at the heart of most modern DNA aligners and thus play an important role in genomics.  In this lecture we will first review the Burrows-Wheeler Transform and Suffix Arrays (which we covered in previous lectures), then discuss what FM-indexes are and how they work, and finally look at important applications.

Bio: I'm an Academy post-doc in Veli Mäkinen's "Genome-Scale Algorithmics"...

Sanni Siltanen, Lic.Sc. (Tech.), will defend the dissertation “Developing augmented reality solutions through user involvement” on 22 May 2015 at 12.15 in Aalto-University, School of Science, Computer Science Building, lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. The main research aim of this work was to enable wide use of augmented reality in consumer-level applications. Applications, methods and...

May 19, 2015, at 8:00-9:30 o'clock
Location: Open Innovation House (OIH), Otaniementie 19, Espoo

In the Digi Breakfasts, Aalto university's key digi themes are discussed within the Aalto community and with outside stakeholders. The events are open for everyone.

Digitalization of the cultural...