Event Calendar 2015

6 Jan. 2015, 9:00

Master's Thesis defence by Jonas Stig Kämpf Hansen

Tuesday January 6th at 9 am, Jonas Stig Kämpf Hansen will defend his Master's Thesis titled "Translation of a Reversible Functional Programming Language".

12 Jan. 2015, 16:15-17:15

Talk: Position-based cryptography

Speaker: Harry Buhrman (CWI Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam). Fox Television has reported that a staggering 20 % of Americans have had doubts about the Apollo 11 mission. Could it have been a hoax staged by Hollywood studios here on Earth?

13 Jan. 2015, 17:00

Talk about Alan Turing

The Danish Society of the History of Science invites you to a talk about Alan Turing by Professor Jack Copeland, January 13th 2015 at 5 PM in aud. 10 at HCØ.

19 Jan. - 20 Jan. 2015

Quantum Information talks

Two talks by Patrick Hayden, Stanford University

29 Jan. 2015, 13:00-14:00

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is optimal for linear dimensionality reduction

EADS talk by Kasper Green Larsen on January 29th 2015 from 1-2PM.

30 Jan. 2015, 15:00

HCC talks January

Katarzyna Wac and Giovanni Maria Troiano

11 Feb. 2015, 14:00-15:00

Wed short talk: Cellular Neural Networks based Systems Science

On Wednesday Feburary 11th, Prof. Kyandoghere Kyamakya will give a short talk titled "Cellular Neural Networks based Systems Science with Selected applications in Modeling & Simulation, Image Processing, Data Mining and Graph Theory".

12 Feb. 2015, 4:30

Game Analytics: Big Data in Interactive Entertainment

13 Feb. 2015, 13:15

Analyzing, Modelling, and Designing Software Ecosystems – Towards the Danish Telemedicine Software Ecosystem

PhD defence by Konstantinos Manikas

16 Feb. 2015, 14:00-15:00

Fast Tree Approximations of Graphs

EADS Talk by Harald Räcke, Monday February 16th, 2015 14:00-15:00

25 Feb. 2015, 15:00-17:00

Info Meetings about DADIU 2015

Do you want to make computer games? DADIU is inviting future students to come and hear about DADIU 2015. The meeting in Copenhagen takes place Wednesday, February 25th at 15:00-17:00 at The National Film School of Denmark.

4 Mar. 2015, 15:15

Optimal life-time utility: the effect of retirement age

HIPERFIT Seminar, Talk by Felix Henschel, Institut für Versicherungswissenschaften, Universität Ulm

6 Mar. 2015, 14:00-15:00

Beyond the Euler characteristic: Approximating the genus of general graphs

EADS talk by Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi on Friday, March 6th, from 2-3 PM.

6 Mar. 2015, 15:00

HCC talks February

This month Naja Liengård Holten Møller is presenting her work.

13 Mar. 2015, 14:15-15:15

NetKat: A Formal System for the Verification of Networks

COPLAS/DIKU Talk by Dexter Kozen, Cornell University

17 Mar. 2015, 13:00

ML Seminar: Application of convolutional neural networks in sperm analysis

ML Seminar - speaker: Malte Nissen

17 Mar. 2015, 15:00-16:00

The HIPERFIT Prototype for Contract and Portfolio Management and Pricing

HIPERFIT Seminar, Talk by Danil Annenkov and Martin Elsman (DIKU)

19 Mar. 2015, 15:30-16:30

HIPERFIT Talk: Collective Knowledge Project: Towards Collaborative and Reproducible Computer Engineering

Talk by Grigori Fursin, CTO, cTuning foundation, at March 19, 15:30-16:30. To attend the talk, please signup by sending an email to Martin Elsman (mael at di.ku.dk).

20 Mar. 2015, 10:15-12:00

Virtualisation of external units

Jørgen S. Hansen, VMware, holder gæsteforelæsning om hardwarevirtualisering, som i stor udstræning anvendes som middel til at åbne bedre ressourceudnyttelse i datacentre samt til at lette administrationen af disse.

20 Mar. 2015, 16:00-19:00

Book Launch Party: Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation

Sarah Niebe and Kenny Erleben will present their new textbook "Numerical Methods for Linear Complementarity Problems in Physics-Based Animation.

24 Mar. 2015, 13:00

ML Seminar: Abnormal event detection in training/exercise videos

ML Talk by Huamin Ren on abnormal event detection on March 24th from 1-2 PM in the meeting Room, Sigurdsgade 41.

24 Mar. 2015, 15:01-16:00

COPLAS Talk: A Fast Compiler for NetKAT

Talk by Nate Foster, Cornell University, at Tuesday, March 24th, 15:01-16:00

27 Mar. 2015, 9:01

Data Anonymization software for healthcare organizations and data warehouse solutions

MSc Defense by By Andrea Del Popolo and Simone Leomanni

27 Mar. 2015, 15:00

HCC talks March

This month Nils G. Indahl will be presenting his work.

10 Apr. 2015, 13:00

PhD-defense by Akshay Pai

PhD-defense by Akshay Pai on "Deformation-Based atrophy estimation for Alzheimer’s disease" on Friday april 10th 2015 at 1 PM.

14 Apr. 2015, 10:00

Volume segmentation of synthetically generated data of porous chalk rocks

Master's Defense by Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen April 15th at 10 AM.

14 Apr. 2015, 15:00-16:00

The Fundamental Theorem of Derivative Trading - Exposition, Extensions, and Experiments

Talk by Rolf Poulsen, Math KU, April 14th at 15:00-16:00.

24 Apr. 2015, 15:00-16:00

Decremental Single Source Shortest Paths in Near-Linear Time

EADS talk by Danupon Nanongkai (KTH)

28 Apr. 2015, 15:00-16:00

HIPERFIT presentation: Streaming in Data Parallelism

HIPERFIT presentation by Andrzej Filinski and Frederik Meisner Madsen.

29 Apr. 2015, 13-15

Algorithms for the symmetric traveling salesman problem

EADS Talk by Ola Svensson, assistant professor in the theory group at EPFL

30 Apr. 2015, 15:00-16:00

Higher lower bounds from the 3SUM conjecture

EADS talk by Tsvi Kopelowitz, Thursday April 30th, 2015 at 15:00-16:00.

11 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Group Testing, Compressed sensing and Algorithmic applications

EADS talk by Ely Porat on Monday May 11th 2015 from 11-12 AM.

11 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

(Min,+)-Convolutions, 3SUM and Additive Combinatorics

EADS talk by Moshe Lewenstein on Monday May 11th 2015 from 1-2 PM.

12 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Aspects of Controlling Life Event Risk

HIPERFIT TALK by Mogens Steffensen (Math/University of Copenhagen)

13 May 2015, 13:00-15:00

Hollow Heaps

EADS Talk by Robert E. Tarjan, Wednesday May 13th, 2015 at 13:00-15:00.

21 May 2015, 15:15-18:00

Company Dating 2015

Meet companies and find new opportunities. Sign up for Company Dating before May 13th.

21 May 2015, 15:15-18:00

DIKU Career Fair 2015

On may 21th its time to DIKUs annual career fair. As a student, you get a unique chance to meet a wide range of companies and talk about your future career opportunities.

26 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Strategy iteration is strongly polynomial for 2-player turn-based stochastic games with a constant discount factor

On Tuesday, May 26th, assistant professor at Aarhus University, Thomas Dueholm Hansen will give an EADS talk on strategy iteration.

26 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

The Internals of the Futhark Parallel Language Compiler

HIPERFIT TALK by Troels Henriksen and Cosmin Oancea (DIKU/University of Copenhagen)

27 May 2015, 13:00-15:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Alberto La Mantia

Alberto La Mantia is defending his MSc thesis entitled "Optimization of Econometric Models using Evolutionary Algorithms"

28 May 2015, 13:00

Statistical modelling of synaptic vesicles distribution and analysing their physical characteristics

PhD-defense by Mahdieh Khanmohammadi. 13.00

28 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

Supporting Innovation in Programming Tools for Enabling Efficient Computing Everywhere

HIPERFIT TALK by Anton Lokhmotov (Dividiti)

28 May 2015, 16:30

Danish Society for Computer Science talk: Similarity Search

Similarity Search, lecturer: Postdoc Ninh Dang Pham, IT University

29 May 2015, 15:00

HCC talks May

Karen Dam Nilelsen is presenting her work.

29 May 2015, 9:30-16:15

20th ARCO 2015 ITU

The next meeting in ARCO will take place at the IT-University on the 29th of May.

1 June 2015, 14:00

Declarative and Scalable Selection for Map Visualizations

On June 1st at 2 PM, Pimin Konstantin Kefaloukos will defend his PhD thesis titled Declarative and Scalable Selection for Map Visualizations.

3 June 2015, 15:15-16:00

New Deterministic Algorithms for Solving Parity Games

EADS talk by Matthias Mnich from Bonn University on Wednesday June 3rd at 3:15 PM.

4 June 2015, 3-5pm

Event on being a teaching assistant at DIKU in bloc 1 and 2, 2015/16

Do you want to be a TA at DIKU in bloc 1 and 2? Come to this event and hear about the tasks in each course

9 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

HIPERFIT talk: Compiling APL to Accelerate through a Typed Array Intermediate Language

Talk by DIKU's Michael Budde (MSc student), Martin Dybdal (Ph.D.) and Martin Elsman (Associate Professor).

11 June 2015, 15:00-17:30

Inaugural lecture by Professor Pernille Bjørn

Future directions for CSCW: Sociomaterial-Design, Collaboration, Conflict, and Innovations

15 June - 17 June 2015

Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis

The 19th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 2015

19 June 2015, 13:00-15:00

Double DIKU talk with Thomas Jensen and John Reppy

On June 19th, Thomas Jensen from INRIA will give a talk on software security followed by a talk by John Reppy from Univ. of Chicago on programming languages for parallel computing.

24 June 2015, 9:01

Practical Session Types in Rust - Developing safe communication protocols for real-world applications

MSc Thesis Defence by Philip Munksgaard and Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen

24 June 2015, 10:00-10:30

BSc Thesis Defense by Anna Sofie Kiehn and Henrik Urms

Anna Sofie Kiehn and Henrik Urms is defending their BSc thesis entitled Compiling TAIL to Futhark - An adventure in compiling functional data-parallel constructs

25 June 2015, 9:00

BSc Thesis Defense by Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen

Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen is defending his BSc thesis entitled Fast general purpose implementation of convolutions using FFT

25 June 2015, 10:00-12:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Aske Dørge

Aske Dørge is defending his MSc thesis entitled Massively Parallel Convolutional Neural Networks in SHARK

28 June - 2 July 2015

Online Learning Summer School

The Online Learning Summer School takes place from June 28th - July 2nd, and is hosted by the Image Section at DIKU. Registration is required.

1 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Søren Dahlgaard

Søren Dahlgaard is defending his MSc thesis entitled labeling schemes for adjacency and large distances.

3 July 2015, 9:00-10:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Johs Kristoffersen

Johs Kristoffersen is defending his MSc thesis entitled School and University Dropout Prediction Revisited

3 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

Talk by Christian Lessig

Talk by Christian Lessig.

7 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Dirk Arnold

Dirk V. Arnold, Dalhousie University, CA is giving a talk entitled Towards an Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling Approach for the (1+1)-ES

13 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Talk: Supervised Learning for video summarization

Fei Sha is giving a talk entitled Supervised Learning for video summarization

7 Aug. 2015, 15:00-16:00

Pairwise Distance Preservers and Additive Spanners

Talk with Greg Bodwin from Stanford University on Pairwise Distance Preservers and Additive Spanners on August 7th at 3pm.

14 Aug. 2015, 6:00-8:00

CSCW Program Committee Meeting in Copenhagen

The meeting starts Friday 6pm-8pm with a reception including food and drinks located at University of Copenhagen - and Saturday and Sunday will be at the IT University of Copenhagen.

14 Aug. 2015, 13:30-15:30

PhD defence by Azam Khan

Azam Khan is defending his PhD entitled CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE, Exploratory Data Analysis for Critical Decision Making

14 Aug. 2015, 15:15-16:00

Toward a unified theory of sparse dimensionality reduction in Euclidean space

EADS Talk by Jelani Nelson, Harvard University, USA, starting 15.15

18 Aug. 2015, 15:00-16:00

Time Lower Bounds for Nonadaptive Turnstile Streaming Algorithms

EADS Talk by Kasper Green Larsen, Aarhus University, starting at 15:00.

24 Aug. - 27 Aug. 2015

Mobile HCI 2015

MobileHCI 2015 - the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. 

28 Aug. 2015, 15:00-16:00

HCC Talks August

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8 Sept. 2015, 13:00-16:30

Talk: Tutorial - The Space of Online Learning Problems

Talk by Yevgeny Seldin, assistant professor in the Image Section. He will introduce the space of online learning problems and describe a number of new algorithms that solve ranges of problems in the space of online learning problems.

11 Sept. 2015, 10:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Thomas Nicolaj Barnholdt

Thomas Nicolaj Barnholdt is defending his MSc thesis entitled A generic algorithm for finding multi source multi sink max flow in graphs with small separators

18 Sept. 2015, 16:00

Jobindex coding competition at DIKU

Coding, prizes and free bar? Join Jobindex coding competition at DIKU.

18 Sept. 2015, 17:15-18:00

Bottleneck Paths and Trees and Deterministic Graphical Games

EADS talk by Or Zamir, Dept. of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

23 Sept. 2015, 16:15-17:30

Double EADS-talk by Katarzyna Paluch & Matthias Mnich

Double EADS-talk from 16.15-17.30. Katarzyna Paluch on 'Maximum ATSP with weights zero and one via half-edges' and Matthias Mnich on 'On Routing Disjoint Paths in Bounded Treewidth Graphs'.

24 Sept. 2015, 15:15-16:00

On-line Approach to Off-line Graph Coloring Problems

EADS talk by Bartosz Walczak

24 Sept. 2015, 16:00-19:30

DIKU Alumni Day 2015

Participate in DIKU alumni day and meet i.a. DIKU professors Mikkel Thorup and Pernille Bear, Netcompany-founder Carsten Gomard, Esben Bistrup Halvorsen, Jonas Moll, DIKU-revytter and many more. It's on September 24, 2015 from 4pm. Foods and drinks will be served.

25 Sept. 2015, 13:00-14:00

MSc Thesis Defense: Finding Steiner Minimal Trees in Euclidean d-Space

MSc Thesis Defense by Jens Fredskov.

25 Sept. 2015, 14:15

NBIA Colloquium by Mikkel Thorup on the stacking problem

Mikkel Thorup on the stacking problem

2 Oct. 2015, 15:00-16:00

HCC Talks September

Joanna and Jean-Yves are presenting their work.

10 Oct. 2015, 10:00-19:00

The Danish Championship in Programming 2015

The competition is hosted by Netcompany, Jobindex and Computerworld and will take place at the Department of Computer Science on October 10th, 2015.

12 Oct. - 14 Oct. 2015

SIMBAD 2015

3rd International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition will be held in Copenhagen October 12-14 2015.

14 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:00

EADS talk by Alexandru Popa on The Maximum Generalized Pattern Matching Problem

Alexandru Popa, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, are visiting UCPH and will give a talk on October 14th from 15:15-16:00.

27 Oct. 2015, 15:15-16:00

HIPERFIT Seminar Talk: Analyzing the Swiss National Bank’s euro exchange rate policy: A latent likelihood approach

Talk by professor, Rolf Poulsen, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UCPH, October 27 at 3.15-4.00 pm.

28 Oct. 2015, 16:30

Presentation of the nominated Master Theses for the Master Thesis of The Year Prize in CS 2014

October 28 at 4.30PM the three nominated Master Theses for the Danish Master Thesis of The Year Prize in CS will be presented, i.a. the Master Thesis by Eva Rotenberg from DIKU who won the prize.

30 Oct. 2015, 15:00

The Cultural Narratives of Design Practice

Open Lecture by Professor Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine

2 Nov. 2015, 16:15

QDev Seminar: Krysta Svore

LIQUiD: A Software Architecture for Quantum Computing

4 Nov. 2015, 1:00

PhD thesis defense by Niels Bjørn Bugge Grathwohl

November 4th, 2015 at 1.00 pm, Niels Bjørn Bugge Grathwohl will defend his PhD thesis on Parsing With Regular Expressions & Extensions to Kleene Algebra.

6 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:00

Fully Dynamic Approximate Matching

EADS talk by Aaron Bernstein

10 Nov. 2015, 1:15

PhD thesis defense by Søren Knudsen

November 10th, 2015 at 1.15 pm, Søren Knudsen will defend his PhD thesis on Interaction techniques for information visualizations on large, high-resolution displays.

10 Nov. 2015, 15:15-16:00

HIPERFIT Seminar Talk: The HIPERmark Benchmark Toolkit

Talk by MSc student, Thorkil Værge, DIKU, November 10 at 3.15-4.00 pm.

18 Nov. 2015, 13:00

CSGB Seminar on 'Large-scale network-guided feature selection for precision medicine'

Seminar by Chloé-Agathe Azencott from MINES ParisTech at 1 pm on 'Large-scale network-guided feature selection for precision medicine'.

18 Nov. 2015, 15:15

Event on being a teaching assistant at DIKU in bloc 3 and 4, 2015/16

Do you want to be a TA at DIKU in bloc 3 and 4? Come at 3:15pm to this event and hear about the tasks in each course

20 Nov. 2015

21st ARCO-meeting 2015 at DTU

The 21st meeting in ARCO will take place at the Danish Technical University on Nov. 20, 2015. All talks will be in Blgd. 308, aud. 13

25 Nov. 2015, 14:00

Master thesis defense by Michael Budde

Wednesday November 25 at 2 pm Michael Budde is defending his master thesis in computer science on 'Synchronization of Mobile Database Systems using Operational Transformation'.

30 Nov. 2015, 16:15-18:00

The Future of our Past: Dis-Membering Social Memory into Bits and Bytes

Talk by Assistant professor Attila Marton, Department of IT Management, CBS

8 Dec. 2015, 15:15-16:00

HIPERFIT Seminar Talk: Status of the GPU-targeting Futhark compiler

Talk by PhD student, Troels Henriksen, DIKU, December 8 at 3.15-4.00 pm.

10 Dec. 2015, 10:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Ann-Sofie Fisker

On 10 December at 10:00, Ann-Sofie Fisker will defend her master thesis in Mathematics entitled 'Design and Rationalization with Ruled Surfaces'.

14 Dec. 2015, 13:15-14:00

Ph.D. Defense: Andreas Maniotis

Title: A Representation-Theoretic Approach to Reversible Computation with Applications

15 Dec. 2015, 14:00

Talk on 'Riemannian geometry of the diffeomorphism group'

On 15 December at 14:00 Martins Bruveris from Brunel University London will give a talk on 'Riemannian geometry of the diffeomorphism group'.

18 Dec. 2015, 13:00

DIKU Staff meeting

Last DIKU Staff and Student meeting in 2015