Event Calendar 2012

26 Jan. 2012, 13:15

Physics-Based Models for Human Motion Analysis

Image Group Talk by David J Fleet, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

30 Jan. - 31 Jan. 2012

PhD Course in Applied Nonsmooth Analysis and Multilevel Methods

The Copenhagen eScience PhD School offers a PhD Course, which will give you a basic working understanding of nonsmooth analysis and multiscale methods, and which you will be able to apply on your own research problems. The course provides theory lectures on the elements of nonsmooth analysis and multiscale methods, supported by study group exercises.

1 Feb. 2012, 10:00

Join Algorithms for Distributed Databases

Master thesis defence by Martin Ljørring, Wednesday February 1, 2012 at 10:00

1 Feb. 2012, 13:15

Regular Expressions and Multiparty Session Types with Applications to Workflow Based Verification of User Interfaces

PhD defence by Lasse Nielsen

2 Feb. 2012, 15:00

Realization of Coinductive Types

Coplas Talk by Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, New York

17 Feb. 2012, 13:00

Faster Treasure Hunt and Better Strongly Universal Exploration Sequences

APL Group Talk by Qin Xin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroe Islands

2 Mar. 2012, 13:15

Contract Formalisation and Modular Implementation of Domain-Specific Languages

PhD Defence by Thomas Hvitved Friday, March 2, 2012 at 13:15

6 Mar. 2012, 15:00

HIPERFIT Monthly Seminar in March

The seminar will be held on Tuesday, March 6 , 3pm in Mødelokale A/B at DIKU.

9 Mar. 2012, 12:00

Open House: SCIENCE Master study programs

Do you consider taking a master within computer science or another SCIENCE based study at University of Copenhagen? Then you should visit us at the Open House event on Friday the 9th March. It's in HC Ørsteds Institutet, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen Ø. From 12.00 - 15.30.

9 Mar. 2012, 13:00

An in-depth study of local image descriptors and their performance

 Master Defense by Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen. It's at 13.00.

12 Mar. 2012, 15:00

Computer Aided Breast Cancer Risk Assessment using Shape and Texture of Breast Parenchyma in Mammography

PhD-defense by Gopal Karemore at March 12 2012, NB: New time: 15.00

15 Mar. 2012, 15:00

From Robust Design to Evolvable Systems Engineering

DIKU talk by Bernhard Sendhoff

16 Mar. 2012, 14:00

Preparing for ESS: Visions for data analysis software at ESS

The eScience center is initiating a series of talks with the general topic “preparing for ESS”. The series is planned to run every third Friday of the month starting in March. The first speaker is Linda Udby, NBI. Friday March 16^th 14.00

21 Mar. 2012, 15:00

An Uncertainty-aware Query Selection Model for Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems

The Human-Centered Computing (HCC) group of DIKU jointly with the Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) are happy to announce a talk by Prof. Ingemar J. Cox on the evaluation of information retrieval systems. The talk is open to all.

22 Mar. 2012, 15:00

Resource Analysis for Parallel and Distributed Coordination

COPLAS Talk with H-W. Loidl, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

22 Mar. 2012, 9:00-10:30

Imagining the Future - Thoughts on Computing

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28 Mar. 2012, 13:15

Estimation of covariance matrices using incomplete data

Guest talk by Kristjan Jonasson, professor of applied mathematics and head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iceland. It's at 13.15

28 Mar. 2012, 14:00

Anatomy in Curved Spaces - Non-linear Modeling of Deformation and Shape for Medical Imaging

PhD-defence by Stefan Sommer. It's at 14.00 p.m.

12 Apr. 2012, 15:00-17:00

Inaugural lecture by Martin Zachariasen

Professor inaugural lecture by Martin Zachariasen, Head of the Computer Science Department at KU.

12 Apr. 2012, 17:15

Real-time Auralisation of the Lower Frequency Sound Field using Numerical Methods on the GPU

Master defence by Nikolas Borrel-Jensen

13 Apr. 2012, 14:15

Two talks (Moduli Spaces and Automorphisms of Manifolds) and a reception

On April 13, 4pm there will be a reception on the occasion of Ib Madsen's winning the 2012 Ostrowski prize. The reception will be preceded by talks

18 Apr. 2012, 15:00

Visualization in research

DIKU Talk by professor Kasper Hornbæk, DIKU, and Chris North, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech, USA.

25 Apr. 2012, 16:00

Facebook Tech Talk & Coding Challenge

Facebook will be visiting DIKU on April 25 for a Tech Talk and Coding Challenge

27 Apr. 2012

Accenture's IT Consultant for a Day

Apply your education and skills in a team case competition

27 Apr. 2012, 12:30

A secure and flexible backup system in Haskell

Specialeforsvar ved Johan Sejr Brinch Nielsen & Morten Brøns-Pedersen

1 May 2012, 14:00

Bayesian Image Segmentation with Multiscale Feature Learning

PhD-defense by Kersten Petersen. It's at 14.00 p.m.

3 May 2012, 9:30

Library for Simulation of Hyper Elastic Materials under Large Deformations using GPU

Master thesis defense by Kasper Steenstrup

7 May 2012, kl. 12 - 13

Native Client - A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted Native Code

Talk by Christian Stefansen from Google. It's at 12.00

8 May 2012, 15:00

HIPERFIT Monthly Seminar

Monthly seminar with two talks

11 May - 13 May 2012

Startup Weekend Finance

The best idea within the web, mobile and software application wins DKK 10.000 and fame and glory!

11 May 2012, 13:00

Asynchronous circuits in Industry

Talk by Andrew Lines, cofounder and ex-VP of R&D of Fulcrum Microsystems, now a division of Intel.

11 May 2012, 14:00

ESS Talk: Data analysis in real time?

Presented by Robert Feidenhans'l at Friday May 11th 14.00.

14 May 2012, 13:15

Double lecture in the course Topics in Programming Languages: Parallel Functional Programming.

Double lecture by Geoffrey Mainland from Microsoft Research in Cambridge

14 May 2012, 14:00-15:15

Automatic Boolean Query Generation for Biomedical Information Retrieval

Master's Defense by Brian Søborg Mathiasen. Its at 14.00 at KUA

18 May 2012, 14:00

Quantification of Biomechanical Imaging Biomarkers

PhD-defence by Sudhakar Tummala at Friday 18th of May, 14:00.

22 May 2012, 12:00

Microsoft Research distinguished researcher and managing director Andrew Blake visits DIKU

DIKU enjoys the visit of professor Andrew Blake, distinguished researcher and head of Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Andrew Blake will give a talk on what's running at  Microsoft right now. The talk is open to all interested parties. It begins at 12.00 sharp!

24 May 2012, 15:00

Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines

Coplas Talk by Claus Brabrand, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Its at DIKU, at 15.00 p.m.

25 May 2012, 11:15

Combining Deduction~Modulo and Logics of Fixed-Point Definitions

Coplas Talk by Gopalan Nadathur, University of Minnesota and IT University of Copenhagen. It's at 11.15 - 12.00.

25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Project Roslyn - Compilers and Services for the Masses

Brian Rasmussen visits DIKU at Friday May 25th, 13:00-14:00, to give a presentation of Project Roslyn

31 May 2012, 15:00

Automatic IO filtering for optimizing cloud analytics

Joint HIPERFIT and COPLAS talk by Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, England.

31 May 2012, 15:00

Combining multi-touch and mid-air gestures

Master thesis defence by Marc Framvig Antonsen and Juri Rosenkilde

7 June - 8 June 2012

SDU days of Scientific Computing

7-8th June 2011 at IMADA in Odense, Denmark

8 June 2012, 10:00

On the Path to Performance -- Using Greedy and Exact Seriation Algorithms to Increase the Kernel Instruction Count for a CUDA back-end for Numerical Python

Master Thesis Defence by Clara Bettina Behrmann, it starts at 10.00

22 June 2012, 14:00

Face it: Your notebook is not enough!

Preparing for ESS Talk by Brian Vinter, NBI, professor and Head of the eScience Center. It's at 14.00

22 June 2012, 14:00

Application of Particle Filtering to the G-SLAM Problem with Visual Occlusion and Tactile Sensing

DIKU Talk by Jeff Trinkle, Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. It's at 14.00 in Small UP1

27 June 2012, 13:00-14:30

Pierus, an IT System for Qualitative Studies of Digitized Sources

Master's Defense by Jeppe Eimose Larsen at Wednesday, June 27 2012, 1300-1430

27 June 2012, 14:30

Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends

Talk by Prof. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University USA. It's at 14.30 - 15.30. Cake is served in the kitchen after the talk.

28 June 2012, 9:00-18:30

One Day Workshop on Single Assignment C (SaC) and APL Programming

On June 28, 2012, DIKU and HIPERFIT host a one day workshop on Single assignment C (SaC) and APL programming. Participants will have a chance to try out both SaC and APL in practice through separate tutorial/exercise sessions. An overall theme of the workshop is to investigate the possibilities for using SaC as a target for realizing a subset of APL, so as to utilize SaC's possibilities for parallel computations on modern hardware.

2 July 2012

4th Workshop on Reversible Computation

The 4th Workshop on Reversible Computation will take place on July 2nd and 3rd, 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark and is organized by the University of Copenhagen.

9 July 2012, 14:00

Rewriting The Finite and The Infinite

Doctoral thesis defence by Jakob Grue Simonsen at 2 PM at July 9th 2012

16 Aug. 2012, 15:30

Using statistical models, network metrics and semi-structured interviews to analyze a friendship network in goSupermodel

Master's defence by Casper Petersen, DIKU, SC on 16/8/2012 at 15:30

16 Aug. 2012, 9:00

An analysis of the structure of the Eclipse ecosystem

Master's defense by David Schor, DIKU on 16/8/2012 at 9:00 a.m.

17 Aug. - 18 Aug. 2012

PCC 2012 - Proof, Computation, Complexity

International Workshop

17-18 August 2012 at DIKU, Universitetsparken 1

17 Aug. 2012, 10:00

Computational Modeling of Frequency Responses in the Outer Ear

Master's defence by Jonas Due Vesterleden, DIKU on 17/8/2012 at 10:00 a.m.

20 Aug. - 24 Aug. 2012

Summer School on Domain Adaptation in Image Analysis

The school will present basic and advanced topics in domain adaptation through theoretical and practical lectures given by distinguished researchers in the field.

23 Aug. 2012, 15:00

The Leeds Virtual Microscope

Talk by Ruy Ruddle, Leeds University on 23/8/2012 at 15:00, DIKU SC, room 24.2.02.

29 Aug. 2012, 9:15

3D Reconstruction with Prior Knowledge

Master's defence by Axel E. Jensen, DIKU on 29/8/2012 at 9:15 a.m.

30 Aug. 2012, 14:00

Interactive Modelling and Simulation of Human Motion

PhD-defence by Morten-Engell Nørregård, DIKU on 30/8/2012 at 14:00.

7 Sept. 2012, 13:00-15:00

Two DIKU Talks: DBToaster and and Languages for Mathematical Computing

Attend two exciting DIKU Talks: DBToaster: Higher-Order Delta Processing for     Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views, by Yanif Ahmad, Johns Hopkins University and A Cluster of Languages for Mathematical Computing, by Stephen M. Watt, Western University, Canada. From 13.00 - 15.00.

7 Sept. 2012, 15:15

Design of Reversible Computing System Logic, Languages and Circuits

PhD Defense by Michael Kirkedal Carøe. It starts at 15.15

10 Sept. - 12 Sept. 2012

ICFP 2012

Join in at the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming.

13 Sept. 2012, 13:45

Conditional Random Fields for Object Localization

Master's defence by Danielsen and Andreas Eilschou, DIKU, on September 13, at 13:45.

14 Sept. 2012, 14:00-16:30

Automatic video summary generation using multiple sources

MSc thesis defence by Anders Spælling and Lauge Jepsen at Friday September 14 at 14:00-16:30

15 Sept. 2012, 10:00

DICON boardgame day

Students, faculty members and friends are invited to join us in the canteen for a day of boardgames.

27 Sept. 2012, 14:00

Parameterized Parallel Complexity

Master's defense by Noy Rotbart

28 Sept. 2012, 14:00-16:00

DIKU Alumni Day - Theme: Innovation and Newbiz

In 2010 we celebrated DIKU’s 40th anniversary as a day conference with international speakers from the childhood of computer science. This has inspired us to institute an annual – more informal – DIKU Alumni Day.

3 Oct. 2012, 3 pm

Guidance days for DM in programming

Participate in DM in Programmering 2012 for students and get the chance to win a travel gift card worth 10,000 DKK! As an extra service we offer our students three afternoons with guidance before the contest.

4 Oct. 2012, 17:00-19:00

Cassandra as a Big Data Platform

A talk with Matt Dennis at Issuu. Registraton needed, seats are limited.

4 Oct. 2012, kl. 14-16

Meeting in DIKU Business Club

Tema: Finansiel støtte og know-how til udviklingsprojekter i din virksomhed

9 Oct. 2012, 11:30-15:30

The Alumni Association Kubulus' 10th Career Fair - Get to know your future plans

Get inspiration for student jobs and business cooperation during your study at the alumni association's 10th career fair.

9 Oct. 2012, 15:45

Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Credit Scoring

NEW DATE FOR MASTER'S DEFENCE BY KASPER NYBO HANSEN:             OCTOBER 9 AT 15:45

16 Oct. 2012, 9:45-16:30

Digital data – lost, found, and made

Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) hosts a seminar on internet research.

23 Oct. 2012, 15:15

Improving the efficiency of priority-queue structures

Using data-structural transformations and number systems. PhD thesis defence by Claus Jensen

23 Oct. 2012, 13:00

Prototyping Matters of Concern

On Productive Relations of Participatory Design and STS in Patient-Centered Healthcare. PhD-defence by Jonas Moll

29 Oct. 2012, 15:15-17:15

Reducing the Search Space in Protein Structure Prediction

PhD defense by Rasmus Fonseca

29 Oct. 2012, 2 pm

The computational analysis of the human genome: Old and new problems

DIKU Talk by Anna Tramontano on October 29th 2012 at 2.00 pm.

30 Oct. 2012, 11:00

RSA Cryptanalysis and factorization algorithms

Master’s defense by Tommy Bülow, it's at 11.00 am

5 Nov. 2012, 9:00

TechTalk: Async in C# 5.0 - No More Callbacks!

By Mads Torgersen, Program Manager for the C# Language at Microsoft

9 Nov. - 11 Nov. 2012

DIKULAN 9. to 11. november

DIKULAN this season will take place from the 9th to the 11th of November 2012 in DIKUs cantine.

The tickets will be sold in DIKUs cantine monday to friday between 12 and 13. The price is 50 kr pr. ticket.  

9 Nov. 2012, 14:00

Information Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis for Scientific Literature

Master’s defense by Youhui Shi, it's at 14.00 p.m.

9 Nov. 2012, 9:00

Specific Star Formation Rate Estimation and Classification Using Adaptive Learning Techniques

MSc thesis defense by Marcho Markov and Traian Popa. It's at 9.00

12 Nov. 2012, 15:00

Language-integrated querying for efficient payment matching

MSc thesis defence by Simon Christiansen, it's at 15.00

15 Nov. 2012, 11:00

Accentures High Performance Business Forum for students

Opportunities in the new reality  - November 15

16 Nov. 2012, 15:00-16:00

The Future of Looking Back

Open and free talk by Abigail Sellen - CANCELLED

16 Nov. - 18 Nov. 2012

Copenhagen Startup Weekend

Participate in the Copenhagen Startup Weekend! Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers, with a chance to see your idea come to life.

19 Nov. 2012, 16:00

Adaptive Auto-Partitioning in Distributed Transaction based Data Storage Models

M.Sc. defense by Vivek Shah, it's at 16.00

22 Nov. 2012, 14:15

Hierarchical Kernel Methods for Medical Image Analysis

MSc thesis defense by Pengfei Diao on November 22 at 14:15.

23 Nov. 2012, 14:00

Prototyping a Collective - on ethnography, design, and use of a personal health record

PhD defense by Tariq Andersen. It starts at 14.00

30 Nov. 2012, 15:15

Modular Implementation of Programming Languages and a Partial-Order Approach to Infinitary Rewriting

PhD defence by Patrick Bahr

19 Dec. 2012, 10:30-11:30

Investigating Just-In-Time Compilation of Vector Bytecode

Master's defence by Johannes Lund, DIKU on 19/12/2012 at 10:30