This news feed aggregates content from the Research News feeds from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University Department of Computer Science, and the University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science.
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The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and Communications Technology has opened a call for 15 fully funded doctoral student positions in all areas of ICT within the two participating universities (Aalto University and the University of Helsinki). The deadline for applications is Friday 14 February. For further information about the network and application instructions for the call, see the HICT website at http://www.hict.fi/.
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The Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University is recruiting a substantial number of summer interns. The application deadline is January 31, 2014. For more information and the details of the application procedure, see the complete call published at http://dept.ics.aalto.fi/calls/summer2014/.
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Esko Ukkonen, who served as head of the department in 2010-2013, has gained a well-deserved promotion to the vice-deanery in charge of research at the Faculty of Science, and as stand-in for Dean Jouko Väänänen, so we needed a new head of the department. It is I. In fact, I’m not such a 'new head,’ since I already held this position in 2001-2006, so you might imagine that I could handle it with one hand tied behind my back, without having to learn anything new....
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M.Sc. Janne H. Korhonen will defend his doctoral thesis Graph and Hypergraph Decompositions for Exact Algorithms on Thursday 16th of January 2014 at 12 o'clock in the Arppeanum Building, Snellmaninkatu 3, Main Lecture Hall. His opponent is Professor Dieter Kratsch (University of Lorraine, France) and custos Professor Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki). The defense will be held in English. Graph and Hypergraph Decompositions for Exact Algorithms This thesis studies exact...
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Fabian Fagerholm (left) and Arto Vihavainen Laitoksen joulukahveilla 17.12.2013 luovutettiin vuoden 2013 kunniakirjat vakinaiselle ja nuoremmalle opettajalle, kahdelle nuoremmalle tutkijalle sekä vuoden henkilölle. Kunniakirjan lisäksi he saavat myös rahapalkinnon. Vakinaisten opettajien sarjassa palkittiin filosofian maisteri Fabian Fagerholm Hyvä opettajuus ei välttämättä edellytä perinteisiä kursseja luentoineen ja laskuharjoituksineen...
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The Dean of the School of Science has appointed Professor Erik Aurell as an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University for a five-year period commencing 1 January 2014. Professor Aurell holds the Chair of Theoretical Biological Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology KTH at Stockholm, and has served as a visiting professor at the Department of Information and Computer Science under the Academy of Finland's Finland Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) scheme since 2008. Professor Aurell's new...
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Docent Timo Honkela, who has served as Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Information and Computer Science, has been appointed as Professor of Research into Digital Information at the University of Helsinki beginning 1 January 2014.
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Docent Jaakko Peltonen, who has served as University Lecturer and Academy Research Fellow at the Information and Computer Science Department, has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Statistics, especially Data Analysis, at the University of Tampere beginning 1 January 2014. He still continues as an Academy Research Fellow at the ICS department on a part-time contract.
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The CS international blog has a new entry: NODES/KOPS Glögi 2013 http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/blog/nodeskops-gl-gi-2013
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M.Sc. Jefrey Lijffjit defended his doctoral dissertation Computational methods for comparison and exploration of event sequences on 16 December 2013. The opponent was Professor Bart Goethals from the Universiteit Antwerpen and the custodian was Professor Juho Rousu. The dissertation is available online at http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-60-5475-9