Previous DIKU Bits – Københavns Universitet

24. nov. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Effektiv beregning af histogrammer på GPU

Den 20. september 2020 vil Troels Henriksen, postdoc i sektionen Programming Languages and Theory of Computing ved Datalogisk Institut, afholde en DIKU Bits med titlen 'Effektiv beregning af histogrammer på GPU'.

6. okt. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: VeriMon - A Verified Monitoring Tool

On 6 October, Dmitriy Traytel, Associate Professor at the Software, Data, People & Society Section at DIKU, will host a DIKU Bits with the title "VeriMon - A Verified Monitoring Tool".

22. sept. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Dataanalyse på Farten med Hurtig Hashing

Den 22. september 2020 vil Anders Aamand, postdoc i Algorithms and Complexity sektionen ved Datalogisk Institut, afholde en DIKU Bits med titlen Dataanalyse på Farten med Hurtig Hashing.

8. sept. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Introduction to medical image segmentation

On 8 September, Bulat Ibragimov, PhD and Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Medical Imaging at the IMAGE Section at DIKU, will give an introduction to medical image segmentation.

2. juni 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: DIKU against Corona

Den 19. maj giver DIKUs institutleder Mads Nielsen et foredrag om DIKUs indsats mod Corona.

19. maj 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Fast Physics for Robotics and Games

On 19 May, Mihail Francu, Postdoc in the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry Section at DIKU, will give a lecture on Fast Physics for Robotics and Games.

5. maj 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Distributing loads in a dynamic system

On 5 May Mikkel Thorup, professor in the Algorithms and Complexity Section at DIKU, will present a lecture with the title "Distributing loads in a dynamic system".

3. marts 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Procedurally Generating Maps for Games

On 3 March Torben Ægidius Mogensen, Associate Professor in the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing Section at DIKU, will present his DIKU Bits lecture "Procedurally Generating Maps for Games?"

18. febr. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Meaning Representation and Parsing

On 18 February Daniel Hershcovich, postdoc in the Machine Learning section at DIKU, will present his DIKU Bits talk "Meaning Representation and Parsing".

7. jan. 2020, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: What is causality?

On 7 January Jonas Peters, Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, UCPH will present his DIKU Bits talk "What is causality?"

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"

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(?)"

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.

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".

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?".

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.

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 %".

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

17. dec. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Datalogi som menneskelig aktivitet: Et oplæg om Peter Naur

Til dette DIKU Bits oplæg vil Elisa Nadire Caeli præsentere en indføring til Danmarks første forsker i datalogi og landets eneste Turing-pris-vinder, Peter Naur. Oplægget foregår på dansk.

3. dec. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Image Analysis: Deep Learning is not the only path!

At this DIKU Bits lecture, associate professor Francois Lauze, from the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry Section (IMAGE), will discuss how inference, and especially Bayesian inference can be used to design optimization algorithms for series of task in Image Analysis.

19. nov. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Irrational guards are sometimes needed

On 19 November Mikkel Abrahamsen will present his DIKU Bits lecture "Irrational guards are sometimes needed" where he will give an insight into his research.

22. okt. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: 4 out of 10 million: How computer science helps to safely produce individualized cars

At this DIKU Bits lecture Boris Düdder will present his research on cryptographic data structures and discuss why these structures are so hyped.

8. okt. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: The Untouchables – Interaction Techniques for Novel Display Types

At this DIKU Bits lecture, Sebastian Boring will present a set of interaction techniques, that allow for touch-like interaction with distant content, e.g., through personal devices.

24. sept. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Compositionality in reversible programming

At this DIKU Bits lecture Robin Kaarsgaard will give an introduction to reversible programming and compositional semantics, and discuss how compositionality can be used as a guiding principle to design reversible programming languages.

8. juni 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Monotonicity in Logic and Complexity

At this DIKU Bits lecture Anupam Das will present a project that develops *logical* characterisations of monotone complexity classes.

18. maj 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Serving Geospatial Data: From Maps and Caches to a World of Actors

At this DIKU Bits lecture Marcos António Vaz Salles will explore resulting challenges to database systems through examples drawn from our recent and ongoing research in the Data Management Systems (DMS) group at DIKU.

4. maj 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: The Body as User Interface

At this DIKU Bits lecture Kasper Hornbæk will present work from the BodyUI project on the use of the body as user interface, and some of the associated technical and psychological research questions.

23. marts 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Your grandmother’s knees hurt – why?!

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Erik Dam will introduce you to shape modelling, texture analysis, deep learning, biomechanics, molecular biology, and machine learning to find the pain.

9. marts 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Graph Algorithms and Data Structures: From navigating road maps to finding the cheapest communication network

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Christian Wulff-Nilsen will discuss the development of smart algorithms and data structures that exploit the resources of computers more efficiently than earlier on.

23. febr. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: The Dark side of Global Agile

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Pernille Bjørn will discuss what happens when agile methods are introduced into global outsourcing set-ups.

9. febr. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Machine Learning Meets Image Analysis: From looking inside ourselves to gazing at the stars

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Christian Igel will present you to recent examples from medical imaging and astronomy.

19. jan. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Blockchain Technology

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Omri Ross will introduce you to new developments in the area of blockchain including how big corporate can utilise this technology to solve main pain points.

5. jan. 2018, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Climbing Steiner Trees

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Pawel Winter will share some highlights and also some disappointments which he encountered over the years working on Steiner trees.

8. dec. 2017, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Hvordan virker en fysiksimulator?

Til dette DIKU Bits foredrag henvendt til DIKUs bachelorstuderende vil Kenny Erleben tale om, hvordan man med datalogiske øjne bygger en hurtig og interaktiv rigid body fysiksimulator.

24. nov. 2017, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Why Computation Needs to be Reversible, and What This Implies

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Torben Mogensen will introduce you to reversible computation and what it implies in terms of chip design and programming languages.

27. okt. 2017, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Computability: why you can always compute the same things as an alien invader (maybe just a bit more slowly)

The fourth lecture adressed in a serie of lectures to DIKU bachelor students will take place 27 October, where Jakob Grue will be talking about 'Computability why you can always compute the same things as an alien invader'.

6. okt. 2017, kl. 12.00-13.00

DIKU Bits: How to learn from a confused teacher: Learning from uncertain data

The third lecture adressed in a serie of lectures to DIKU bachelor students will take place 6 October, where Aasa Feragen will be talking about 'How to learn from a confused teacher: Learning from uncertain data'.

22. sept. 2017, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Why smart contracts are neither smart nor contracts

The second lecture adressed in a serie of lectures to DIKU bachelor students will take place 22 September, where Fritz Henglein will be talking about 'Why smart contracts are neither smart nor contracts'.