Begivenheder 2019

7. jan. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Bioinformatics: Algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences

At this DIKU Bits lecture Anders Krogh, Professor at Department of Biology & Department of Computer Science, will discuss algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences.

11. jan. 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Cut Finite Element Methods for Contact Problem

Seminar by Susanne Claus, Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

25. jan. 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Machine Learning and Banking: a Model Risk Perspective

Seminar by Søren Mørk, Chief Model Risk Analyst, Nordea.

30. jan. 2019, kl. 9.30-10.30

Julio Cesar dos Reis: Advancements and Challenges in Cross-Lingual Ontology Alignment

Julio Cesar dos Reis will be visiting DIKU and give a talk during his stay. His talk will be followed by a talk by lávia Santoro on Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

30. jan. 2019, kl. 10.30-11.30

Flávia Santoro: Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

On 30 January Flávia Santoro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will present her talk Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

31. jan. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.00

Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains

​Claudia Bauzer Medeiros will be visiting DIKU and give a talk on Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains during her stay​.

4. febr. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Registering the big picture in data science

At this DIKU Bits lecture Jon Sporring will demonstrate how image analysis is used for statistical models of ultrastructures in nerve cells and give examples of how we have improved existing and developed new algorithms for image analysis.

8. febr. 2019, kl. 13.00-16.30

Kandidat Åbent Hus på SCIENCE

Er du bachelorstuderende på en naturvidenskabelig universitetsuddannelse og i tvivl om, hvor du skal tage din kandidatgrad, så vil et besøg hos Kandidat Åbent Hus på SCIENCE hjælpe dig på vej med din beslutning.

8. febr. 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Deep latent variable models: estimation and missing data imputation

Seminar by Jes Frellsen, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, IT University of Copenhagen.

18. febr. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Fremtidens søfart er datalogernes legeplads

Mikael Kirkedal Thomsen, adjunkt i Programming Languages and Theory of Computing Section (PLTC) på DIKU vil koble digitale løsninger sammen med søfart, og diskutere de datalogiske udfordringerne en sådan kobling rejser.

22. febr. 2019, kl. 9.00-10.00

MSc Thesis Defence: Jens Egholm Pedersen

On 22 February Jens Egholm Pedersen will defend his thesis on Modelling Neural Learning Systems in Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks.

22. febr. 2019, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Aske Mottelson

On 22 February, Aske Mottelson will be defending his PhD thesis "Computer-Cognition Interfaces: Sensing and Influencing Mental Processes with Computer Interaction".

22. febr. 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions

Seminar by Frank van der Meulen, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, who will present his research on Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions.

27. febr. 2019, kl. 9.00-16.05

Konference: Fremtidens digitale skole

Kom og bliv inspireret af Uddannelsesministeren, forskere, undervisere, beslutningstagere og virksomheder, der giver indblik i, hvor vi står i dag og deres bud på fremtidens digitale skole. 

27. febr. - 1. marts 2019

Åbent hus på SCIENCE 2019

Kom til Åbent Hus på SCIENCE og mød alle bacheloruddannelser, som fakultetet udbyder - inklusiv de to nye datalogiske uddannelser.

6. marts 2019, kl. 15.30-18.30

Hvilke trusler kan vi forvente fra Cyberspace? Og hvordan imødegås de af forskere og virksomheder?

Kom med til et spændende temamøde i DIKU Business Club om IT Security. Mødet er åbent for alle interesserede.

8. marts 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data

Seminar by Isabelle Augenstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

11. marts 2019, kl. 14.00-16.00

DIKU Business Club - møde for HR-ansvarlige

På dette møde i DIKU Business Club gennemgår vi praktiske forhold vedrørende karrieredagen og informerer om nyt fra uddannelsesområdet, bl.a. to splinternye uddannelser.

14. marts 2019, kl. 14.15-15.00

Talk by Martin Atzmueller

On 14 March 2019, Martin Atzmueller, Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, will give a talk at DIKU entitled "Onto Model-Based Exceptional Pattern Mining on Attributed Interaction Networks".

15. marts 2019, kl. 10.30-12.00

MSc Thesis Defence: Raluca Alexandra Fetic

On 15 March Raluca Alexandra Fetic will defend her thesis on Efficient neural encoding of large texts for stance detection.

15. marts 2019, kl. 12.15

PhD defence by Christopher Ryther

On 15 March, Christopher Ryther will defend his PhD thesis "Complex Temporal Networks: Metrics and embeddings for problems in real world complex networks"

18. marts 2019, kl. 10.00-10.45

Talk by Huiling Le

On 18 March Huiling Le, University of Nottingham, will present the talk "Stein's method  for probability measures on manifolds"

18. marts 2019, kl. 10.45-11.30

Talk by Xavier Pennec

On 18 March Xavier Pennec, INRIA and University Cote d'Azur (UCA), will present the talk "Geometric Statistics beyond the Riemannian structure and beyond the mean"

18. marts 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Motion matching at DADIU: A new paradigm in game animation

At this DIKU Bits talk Morten Pol Engell-Nørregård, Computer Graphics Specialist at the Visual Computing Lab, will present you to the concept of motion matching, which is a new method of doing animation, resulting in better and more responsive animations in computer games.

18. marts 2019, kl. 13.15

PhD defence by Line Kühnel

On 18 March, Line Kühnel will be defending her PhD thesis "Stochastic Modelling on Manifolds".

19. marts 2019, kl. 13.15

PhD defence by Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen

On 19 March, Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen will be defending his PhD thesis "Segmentation of Brains and Rocks from Tomographic Reconstructions”.

22. marts 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Algorithms for Easy and Hard Online Learning Environments

Seminar by Yevgeny Seldin, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

25. marts 2019, kl. 13.00

MSc Thesis Defence: Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen

On 25 March Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen will defend her MSc Thesis "Methods in Geometric Statistics"

28. marts 2019, kl. 11.05-12.00

Naturalness of Software: Science and Applications, by Prem Devanbu

COPENHAGEN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SEMINAR (COPLAS) TALK:
Naturalness of Software: Science and Applications, by Professor Prem Devanbu, University of California at Davis.

28. marts 2019, kl. 14.00-17.00

Double TechTalk on probabilistic programming and empirical software engineering, Arun Kumar and Prem Devanbu

Join us for a special event - the chance for a double TechTalk and networking hosted by DIKU and DIKU Business Club, featuring prominent speakers: Arun Kamar, Developer at Facebook on HackPPL and Prem Devanbu, Professor at UC Davis.

1. april 2019, kl. 13.00

MSc Thesis Defence: Artem Chupryn

On 1 April Artem Chuprynwill defend hisMSc Thesis "Convolution operator on Riemannian 2-manifold using parallel transport"

3. april 2019, kl. 15.30-18.30

Data ethics in AI research and in society - what's next?

På dette møde sætter vi fokus på (data)etik og kobler det til bl.a. kunstig intelligens og digitalisering i den offentlige sektor.

4. april 2019, kl. 12.30-14.00

Master thesis defense by Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe

On 4 April Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe will defend their master thesis Detecting Roads in Remote Sensing Data Using Deep Learning Method.

5. april 2019, kl. 14.00-15.00

COPLAS and DLT seminar talk: Marlowe - Financial Contracts on Blockchain

On Friday 5 April Simon Thompson, Professor of Logic and Computation at University of Kent, will introduce Marlowe and describe its semantics, implementation and tooling as well as give examples, including some from the ACTUS financial standard.

5. april 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Only Bayes should learn a manifold

Seminar by Søren Hauberg, Associate Professor at Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, DTU.

10. april 2019, kl. 9.00-11.00

Extra AI Seminar: The Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning: Towards Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

Seminar by Naftali Tishby, Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

26. april 2019, kl. 13.05-14.00

COPLAS Talk: Selective Applicative Functors

Selective Applicative Functors, a COPLAS Talk by Simon Marlow, Facebook, London, UK

26. april 2019, kl. 13.15

PhD defence Silas Nyboe Ørting

On Friday 26 April, Silas Nyboe Ørting will defend his PhD thesis entitled: 'Assessing emphysema in CT scans of the lungs using machine learning, crowdsourcing and visual similarity'.

29. april 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence

On 29 April Ingemar Cox, professor in the Machine Learning section, will present his talk Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence.

3. maj 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Machine Learning meets Particle Physics

Seminar by Troels Petersen, Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

9. maj 2019, kl. 16.00-18.00

Richard Stallman kommer til DIKU: Computing, freedom, and privacy

'Computing, freedom, and privacy' er titlen på Richard Stallman's foredrag på KU med DIKU og DIKU Alumneforening som værter. Foredraget er et ud af tre i København, 5 i alt i DK, som Richard Stallman og den frie software-bevægelse holder på danske universiteter i forbindelse med sit besøg i Danmark.

13. maj 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Augmented Fabrication for End-Users

On 13 May 2019 Daniel Ashbrook will present his talk Augmented Fabrication for End-Users as part of the DIKU Bits seminar series.

14. maj 2019, kl. 9.00-10.00

MATH-DIKU Lecture: Arithmetic complexity theory: determinants, permanents and the VP vs. VNP problem

Speaker: Avi Wigderson, IAS, Princeton

14. maj 2019, kl. 9.00-10.00

MATH-DIKU Lecture: Arithmetic complexity theory: determinants, permanents and the VP vs. VNP problem

On 14 May, Avi Wigderson, professor at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will give a joint MATH-DIKU lecture.

16. maj 2019, kl. 16.00-17.30

AI Seminar: The Power of Theory in the Practice of Hashing with Focus on Similarity Estimation

Seminar by Mikkel Thorup, Professor, Algorithms and Complexity Section, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

23. maj 2019, kl. 15.00-19.00

IT Karrieredag 2019

Den 23. maj 2019 inviterer DIKU Business Club endnu engang til IT Karrieredag, hvor virksomheder og studerende inden for IT kan mødes og finde fremtidige job- og samarbejdsmuligheder.

27. maj 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Udvikling af sundhedsteknologi: Living lab som tilgang til innovation

Til dette DIKU Bits foredrag vil adjunkt Tariq Osman Andersen fra SDPS sektionen fortæller om real-life prototyping i et storskala living lab, der hedder SCAUT.

3. juni 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Pricing in digital markets - Why do medicine prices often increase by over 100 %?

On 3 June assistant professor Anders Munk-Nielsen will present his talk "Pricing in digital markets: why do medicine prices often increase by over 100 %".

4. juni 2019, kl. 10.00

Talk by Troels Damgaard

On 4 June Troels Damgaard will present the talk Software Architecture in the Wild Abstract.

4. juni 2019, kl. 13.15-14.15

Talk by Amit Chopra

On Tuesday 4 June Amit Chopra will present the talk Norms and Protocols: Abstractions for Engineering Decentralized Sociotechnical Systems .

6. juni 2019, kl. 13.15

PhD defence: Paul Strohmeier

On 6 June, Paul Strohmeier will defend his PhD thesis entitled Shaping Material Experiences: Designing Vibrotactile Feedback for Active Perception.

7. juni 2019, kl. 13.00-17.30

Defence of Doctoral Dissertation: Christina Lioma

Christina Lioma will defend her Doctoral Dissertation entitled Dependencies: Formalising Semantic Catenae for Information Retrieval

13. juni 2019, kl. 15.00-16.00

Extra AI Seminar: Natural Language Generation in the Wild

Seminar by Daniel Beck, Research fellow in Natural Language Processing at University of Melbourne, Australia.

14. juni 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: A stability upgrade for data-driven models

Seminar by Jonas Martin Peters, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Copenhagen.

17. juni 2019, kl. 8.00-17.00

Copenhagen Fintech Week: Fintech Symposium on AI & Blockchain

University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Fintech host this AI and Blockchain Symposium featuring prominent experts, including a Turing award winner.

13. aug. 2019, kl. 9.00-16.30

DIKU Security Research Workshop 2019

Are you interested in the latest research in System-level Security and wish to learn more about the technical side? DIKU will be hosting a day filled with technical talks about cutting-edge topics in security research. The workshop will feature leading researchers in Systems-level Security giving scientific talks.

19. aug. 2019, kl. 9.30-10.30

MSc Thesis Defence: Alexander Richert

On 19 August Alexander Richert will present his MSc Defense on "Design and Implementation of Pessimistic Concurrency Control Methods in ReactDB"

6. sept. 2019, kl. 15.00

AI Seminar: Deep probabilistic programming and the protein folding problem

Seminar by Thomas Hamelryck, Associate Professor, The Bioinformatics Centre, UCPH.

9. sept. 2019, kl. 9.00-10.00

MSc Thesis defence by Yiran Zhang

On 9 September Yiran Zhang will present the MSc defense on Learned Regularizers in Variational Image Inpainting.

9. sept. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.00

MSc Thesis defence by Chuang Wu

On 9 September Chuang We will present the MSc Thesis defence on 2D & 3D Segmentation with Similarity Invariant Shape Prior and Smoothness Term.

10. sept. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Governmental Workflows driven by DCR Graphs from DCR Solutions & DIKU

On 10 September Thomas Hildebrandt will present his talk on Governmental Workflows driven by DCR Graphs from DCR Solutions & DIKU.

10. sept. 2019, kl. 15.15

COPLAS talk: Glynn Winskel - Concurrent games and strategies

Professor Glynn Winskel from University of Cambridge will give a COPLAS talk on concurrent games and strategies.

12. sept. - 27. sept. 2019

MSc defences

Here you can find the upcoming MSc defences. The list will continuously be updated.

12. sept. 2019, kl. 15.15

Talk by Glynn Winskel - From Probabilistic to Quantum Strategies

Professor Glynn Winskel will be giving a talk entitled From Probabilistic to Quantum Strategies

16. sept. 2019, kl. 11.00-12.00

AI Seminar: Efficient exploration in sequential decision making problems

Seminar by Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, researcher at VinAI. 

19. sept. 2019, kl. 10.00-11.00

MSc Thesis Defence by Emily Barot

On 19 September Emily Barot will present her Master Thesis defence "Optimisation of Voxelwise and Surface-Based Preprocessing Pipelines for PET Data".

20. sept. 2019, kl. 16.00-19.00

DIKU kodekonkurrence og fredagsbar med Netcompany og Jobindex

Test dine coding skills inden DM i programmering, når Netcompany og Jobindex holder en kombineret fredagsbar og kodekonkurrence som opvarmning.

24. sept. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Pocket-Size Life Quality: Are You Ready for a Call?

On 24 september associate professor Katarzyna Wac will present the DIKU Bits lecture "Pocket-Size Life Quality: Are You Ready for a Call?".

26. sept. 2019, kl. 13.15

Talk by Janus Friis Nielsen: The Journey of Uber from a Technology Point of View

On 26 September Janus Friis Nielsen, who is a senior software engineer at Uber in Denmark, will deliver a talk.

26. sept. 2019, kl. 15.00-15.30

DIKU Alumni Generalforsamling 2019

DIKU Alumneforening holder stiftende generalforsamling. Alle, der har studeret datalogi eller tilsvarende uddannelse, som udbydes af Datalogisk Institut, er velkomne til at møde op og få mulighed for at sætte deres præg på alumnearbejdet på DIKU.

26. sept. 2019, kl. 15.30-19.30

DIKU Alumnedag 2019: Sikkerhed på mange planer

DIKU alumner, studerende og ansatte samt medlemmer af DIKU Business Club inviteres til en eftermiddag fyldt med inspiration, networking, mad og drikke. Årets tema er sikkerhed, som vi adresserer på mange planer. Hør bl. sikkerhedsforsker og ny dekan på SAMF Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen give bolden op som keynote til dagens sikkerhedstema.

30. sept. 2019, kl. 15.15-16.15

Talk by Prof. Carsten Binnig: Towards Interactive Data Analytics

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2. okt. 2019, kl. 17.00-19.30

Microsoft Tech Talk: From Agile to DevOps

Microsoft Tech Talk and networking session for students and alumni. Our expert and software engineer Andrea Tino will share his knowledge on DevOps.

5. okt. 2019, kl. 10.00-16.00

DM i programmering 2019

Skal du dyste med andre universitetsstuderende om at blive Danmarks bedste programmør? Nu har du chancen.

8. okt. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Proof-Carrying Code

On 8 October Andrzej Filinski,  associate professor in the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing section at DIKU, will present his talk "Proof-Carrying Code".

8. okt. 2019, kl. 14.30-19.00

Women in Tech – Ada Lovelace Day 2019

Come and celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2019 with DIKU and 3Shape on 8 October 2019.

11. okt. 2019, kl. 18.00

Kulturnatten på Datalogisk Institut 2019

Husk at sætte kryds i kalenderen d. 11. oktober - der åbner DIKU sammen med andre institutter på SCIENCE dørene op for Kulturnatten 2019.

22. okt. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Is most published research wrong?

On 22 October Maria Maistro, postdoc in the Machine Learning section at DIKU, will present her contribution to the DIKU Bits series. More information TBA.

15. nov. 2019, kl. 13.15

PhD defence by Stina Matthiesen

Stina Matthiesen will defend her PhD thesis titled: Stereotyping in Globally distributed Collaboration - A CSCW Thesis on Global Software Development.

20. nov. 2019, kl. 9.00

PhD defence by Niklas Hjuler

On the November 20th Niklas Hjuler will defend his PhD titled 'Algorithms and AI in Education'.

20. nov. 2019, kl. 13.00-17.30

What can (AI) research do for your company? Or your research work?

En åben halvdagskonference arrangeret af DIKU Business Club, SCIENCE AI Centre og IDAS i samarbejde med bl.a. Industriens Fond, hvor vi stiller skarpt på forskningssamarbejde mellem universitet og virksomheder.

20. nov. 2019, kl. 15.30

PhD defence by Stephan Sloth Lorenzen

Stephan Sloth Lorenzen will defend his PhD thesis titled : Learning from Educational Data - Improving Methods and Theoretical Guarantees for Data Mining.

22. nov. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: A Computational Model of Intention Selection

Open seminar by Søren Kyllingsbæk, Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

29. nov. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Structured (Syntactic) Prediction without Structured Representations

Open seminar by David Vilares Calvo, Research Associate at the University of A Coruña.

3. dec. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Solving Exponentially Hard Problems in Linear Time(?)

On 3 December Jakob Nordström, associate professor in the Algorithms and Complexity section at DIKU will present his DIKU Bits talk "Solving Exponentially Hard Problems in Linear Time(?)"

5. dec. 2019, kl. 14.00-18.30

Konference: Dansk AI teknologi der skaber værdi i dag

Kom med når et udvalg af de fremmeste, danske AI virksomheder viser, hvordan deres banebrydende teknologier skaber værdi i dag.

10. dec. - 12. dec. 2019

NeurIPS Meetup in Copenhagen

At this meetup we will screen selected talks from the NeurIPS conference and complement them by a number of "live" talks by local authors of NeurIPS-2019 papers.

12. dec. 2019, kl. 9.30-10.15

HIPERFIT Talk: A Smart Contract Certification Framework in Coq

Talk by Danil Annenkov, Post-doctorial Researcher, the Concordium Blockchain Research Center, Aarhus University

17. dec. 2019, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Digital natural history: Digitizing butterflies and beetles

On 17 December Kim Steenstrup Pedersen, Associate professor in the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry section at DIKU will present his DIKU Bits talk "Digital natural history: Digitizing butterflies and beetles"

17. dec. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?

Open seminar by Adina Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Group in New York.

20. dec. 2019, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Diffeomorphic curve matching with finite elements

Open seminar by Andreas Bock, PhD student, Imperial College London.