Annual Report 2011
Events 2011

Jaakko Kurhila, Esko Ukkonen, Keijo Hämäläinen, Maija Aksela and Arto Vihavainen opened the Linkki centre at the beginning of October.
Photographer: Tuomas Puikkonen.
13.01.2011 Strategy day of the department in Hanasaari, Espoo
14.01.2011 Guest lecture: A combinatorial and integrated method to analyse High Throughput Sequencing reads
Researcher Eric Rivals, CNRS & Université Montpellier 2 , France
02.02.2011 Guest lecture: Identities for the Internet of Things
Robert Moskowitz, ICSAlabs , USA
03.02.2011 Docent lecture: Kolmogorov complexity
PhD Teemu Roos
10.02.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Data fusion and matching by maximizing statistical dependencies
MSc Tripathi Abhishek
17.03.2011 Science in the best company (Alumni event at Kumpula Campus)
29.03.2011 Guest lecture: Towards Pervasive and Energy-Efficient Positioning for Mobile Devices
Dr. Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard and Dr. Henrik Blunck, Aarhus University, Denmark
08.04.2011 Docent lecture: Role of the computational analysis in comprehensive understanding of human health
D.Sc. Janne Nikkilä
15.04.2011 Studia generalia: Computationally Supported Collective Science (CS^2)
Professor Samuel Kaski, senior researcher Antti Honkela, and senior researcher Antti Oulasvirta
25.05.2011 Inaugural lecture: Occam's razor and learning machines
Professor Petri Myllymäki
31.05.2011 Techila Grid Training seminar
09.06.2011 Guest lecture: Automating Biology using Robot Scientists
Professor Ross King, Aberystwyth University, UK
13.06.2011 Guest lecture: Better learning algorithms for neural networks
Professor Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada
13.06.2011 Grand opening of Millennium Youth Camp (Kumpula campus)
15.06.2011 Department's Summer Cruise to Pentala, Espoo
22.06.2011 Guest lecture: Humor, Affect and Creativity in the Computational Treatment of Language
PhD Alessandro Valitutti, University of Trento, Italy
27.06.2011 -08.07.2011 Game programming camps for children and young people
10.08.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Patterns in permuted binary matrices
MSc Esa Junttila
07.08.2011 -10.08.2011 Conference: The Fourth Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE)
17.08.2011 Summer trainee results seminar
29.08.2011 Inaugural lecture: Using Measurement as Enabler for Software-based Innovations: State of the Art and New Challenges for Software Measurement
FiDiPro Professor Jürgen Münch
29.08.2011 - 02.09.2011 Conference: EDOC 2011 - 15th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
09.09.2011 Opening of the academic year
15.09.2011 Guest lecture: Finite State Methods for String Matching
PhD Emanuele Giaquinta, University of Catania, Italy
30.09.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Simulation and graph mining tools for improving gene mapping efficiency
MSc Petteri Hintsanen
07.10.2011 Opening of Linkki centre
05.10.2011 - 07.10.2011 Conference: The 22nd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
10.10.2011 Guest lecture: ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in the cloud for mobile code offloading
Dr. Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
21.10.2011 Guest lecture: Introduction to Cryptography
Dr. James Grime, University of Cambridge, UK
28.10.2011 Centre of Excellence Algodan (Algorithmic Data Analysis) seminar 2011
07.11.2011 - 11.11.2011 Autumn School on Computational Creativity
09.11.2011 Syksyn Startup: Alumni stories
TKT-alumni ry
16.11.2011 Guest lecture: Sampling Massive Online Graphs: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications to Facebook
PhD Maciej Kurant, University of California, Irvine, USA
21.11.2011 Guest lecture: Scalable Overlay Design for Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems and Fast Overlay Construction Algorithms
Professor Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway
29.11.2011 Guest lecture: De-novo motif discovery in DNA sequences using parsimonious Markov models
Ralf Eggeling, University of Halle, Germany
16.12.2011 Department's Christmas Party
19.12.2011 Doctoral dissertation: Lean Thinking in Software Development: Impacts of Kanban on Projects
MSc Marko Ikonen
20.12.2011 Department's Christmas Coffee