Event Calendar 2016

8 Jan. 2016, 10:01

Double DIKU Talk with Nikolaus Hansen and Laurenz Wiskott

Nikolaus Hansen and Laurenz Wiskott will talk about topics within Data Science and Machine Learning.

8 Jan. 2016, 13:00

PhD thesis defense by Oswin Krause

8 January at 13.00 Oswin Krause will defend his PhD thesis on 'Distribution Learning in Evolutionary Strategies and Restricted Boltzmann Machines'.

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12 Jan. 2016, 15:15-16:00

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

Presenter: Troels Henriksen, PhD. Student, DIKU/University of Copenhagen.

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26 Jan. 2016, 15:15-16:00

HIPERFIT Seminar Talk: Automated Loan Credit Rating

Presenter: Omri Ross, Post-doctorial Researcher, IMF/University of Copenhagen

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29 Jan. 2016, 10:30-12:00

HCI Joint Talk: Dan Vogel (U. Waterloo) & Per Ola Kristensson (U. Cambridge)

The talks are entitled “Subtle Interaction for Increased Expressivity” and “The surprisingly narrow design space of interaction techniques: a case for information engineering blended with behavioural design”.

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29 Jan. 2016, 13:05-15:00

Interacting On and Around Large Displays - PhD Defense by Anders Markussen

Interacting On and Around Large Displays - Towards Improved Mid-Air Text Entry, Improved Understanding oflnput Modalities, and Extended Boundaries of Interaction

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4 Feb. 2016, 14:15-15:00

EADS Talk by Ilan Reuven Cohen, Tel Aviv Univ.

Serving in the Dark should be done Non-Uniformly, EADS Talk

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4 Feb. 2016, 15:15-16:15

DIKU/HIPERFIT talk: Brad Chamberlain

The talk is entitled 'Chapel: Parallel Programmability from Desktops to Supercomputers'

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5 Feb. 2016, 14:15-15:00

EADS Talk by Alan Roytman

Zero-One Laws for Sliding Windows and Universal Sketches

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10 Feb. 2016, 11:00

COPLAS Talk: Boris Düdder/Technical University Dortmund

COPLAS Talk by Boris Düdder, Technical University of Dortmund

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23 Feb. 2016, 15:00-16:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Silas Nyboe Ørting

Silas Nyboe Ørting will defend his master thesis entitled Automatic estimation of emphysema extent in low-dose CT scans of the lungs.

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24 Feb. 2016, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Wouter M. Koolen

Wouter M. Koolen from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands will give a talk on 'MetaGrad: Faster Convergence Without Curvature in Online Convex Optimization'.

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26 Feb. 2016, 2:00

PhD thesis defence by Katrine Hommelhoff Jensen

Katrine Hommelhoff Jensen will defend her PhD thesis on "Statistical Methods for Single-Particle Electron Cryomicroscopy".

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3 Mar. 2016, 15:30

M.Sc. Defense: Kinetic Alpha Complexes with CGAL

M.Sc. Defense by Dan Alex Constantin Brasovean and Georgi Muerov

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11 Mar. 2016, 9:30

PhD course: Theoretical Foundations in Collaborative Work and Computer Supported Practice (CSCW)

This course will focus on the core knowledge and basic insights of the fundamentals of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Next course date is 11 March 2016.

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31 Mar. 2016, 15:00-16:00

HCC talk: Easy Music E-Learning, EasyMEL

HCC talk by Kristoffer Jensen, Ph.D. Research Assistent, DIKU

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4 Apr. 2016, 10:00-16:15

22nd ARCO Meeting 2016 SDU

The main event takes place from 10:00 - 16:15, with morning coffee before that and dinner at a downtown restaurant afterwards.

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4 Apr. 2016, 15:00-16:00

COPLAS talk: Checking Cloud Contracts in Azure

COPLAS talk by Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA on 'Checking Cloud Contracts in Azure'.

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5 Apr. 2016, 15:00-16:00

HIPERFIT/COPLAS TALK: Gabriele Keller

Accelerate by Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales.

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13 Apr. 2016, 10:00-11:00

Talk by Ninh Dang Pham

Ninh Dang Pham, postdoctoral researcher at ITU, will give a guest talk on 'Scalability and Total Recall with Fast CoveringLSH'.

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18 Apr. 2016, 10:00

Master Thesis Defence by Rune Carlsen

Rune Carlsen will defend his Master Thesis entitled “Vision Control in Ice Cream Production".

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25 Apr. 2016, 15:15-16:30

EADS talk by Katherine St. John

Katherine St. John, professor at City University of New York & American Museum of Natural History, will give an EADS talk on 'Improving Searches for Evolutionary Trees'.

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27 Apr. 2016, 15:00

Talk by Sean Cleary on 'Expected common edges in random pairs of ordered trees'

Wednesday 27 April 2016 at 15:00, Sean Cleary, City University of New York, will give a talk on 'Expected common edges in random pairs of ordered trees'.

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28 Apr. 2016, 15:00

DIKU Talk by Donald Tournier on 'Advanced diffusion MRI methods for robust tractography and group-wise analysis of microstructure'

Thursday 28 April 2016 at 15:00, Donald Tournier, King's College London, will give a DIKU Talk on 'Advanced diffusion MRI methods for robust tractography and group-wise analysis of microstructure'.

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29 Apr. 2016, 11:00

DIKU Talk by Bertrand Thirion on 'Functional connectomicts: from large-scale estimators to empirical validation'

Friday 29 April 2016 at 11:00, Bertrand Thirion, INRIA/Neurospin, will give a DIKU Talk on 'Functional connectomicts: from large-scale estimators to empirical validation'.

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29 Apr. 2016, 15:00-16:00

Two HCC Talks: Teaching Kids Programming + Public Design in HCI

Friday 29 April at 15:00-16:00 there will be two HCC talks. The first by Martin Dybdal, PhD student at DIKU on 'Coding Pirates: Teaching kids programming and IT-creativity' and the second by Maria Menendez Blanco, PhD student Trento University, Italy, visiting DIKU on 'Public Design in HCI'.

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2 May - 4 May 2016

LEGO - DIKU Student Competition

Participate in a LEGO competition - deadline for registering was Monday 2 May at 5 p.m.

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11 May 2016, 14:15-16:00

Double EADS Talk by Antonios Antoniadis and Tobias Mömke

Antonios Antoniadis, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrucken, Germany, and Tobias Mömke, from Saarland University, Germany give a double EADS Talk on May 11.

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12 May 2016, 15:00-19:00

DIKU Career Fair 2016 - meet your future employer

An afternoon for both bachelor, master and international students at DIKU as well as associated study programmes at UCPH to network with a diverse range of companies.

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20 May 2016, 14:59-16:00

Public Lecture by Professor Geoffrey C. Bowker on Infrastructuring

Professor Geof Bowker, University of California, Irvine and Velux Visiting Professor.

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31 May 2016, 15:15

EADS Talk by Kim Stachenfeld on 'How to shrink your MDPs'

May 31 at 15:15, Kim Stachenfeld, Google Deepmind + Princeton Dept. of Neuroscience, will give an EADS talk on 'How to shrink your MDPs'.

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2 June 2016, 14:00-16:00

Text mining and machine learning

InfinIT invites you to an after-work meeting where we will look at how we use machine learning and natural language processing today, and what the future holds.

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2 June 2016, 15:15

EADS Talk by Greg Bodwin on 'The 4/3 Additive Spanner Exponent is Tight'

2 June 2016 at 15:15, Greg Bodwin, Stanford Dept. of Computer Science, will give an EADS talk on 'The 4/3 Additive Spanner Exponent is Tight'.

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8 June 2016, 9:00

MSc defense by Niklas Thiemann: PAC-Bayesian ensemble learning

On 8 June at 9:00-10:00 am, Niklas Thiemann will defend his Master Thesis on PAC-Bayesian ensemble learning.

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8 June 2016, 11:00

MSc defense by Erik John Partridge: Quantum Control in a Time Reversible Language

On 8 June at 11:00 am, Erik John Partridge will defend his Master's Thesis on Quantum Control in a Time Reversible Language.

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16 June 2016, 15:30-18:00

Inaugural lecture by Professor Jakob Grue Simonsen

As of 1 December 2015, Jakob Grue Simonsen was appointed professor in computer science at University of Copenhagen. This is celebrated by an inaugural lecture on 16 June 2016 in the Lundbeckfond-Auditorium.

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20 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Alexis Arnaudon: Noise and dissipation on coadjoint orbits

On 20 June 2016 at 1:00-2:00 pm, Alexis Arnaudon from Imperial College London will give a talk on Noise and dissipation on coadjoint orbits.

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23 June 2016, 14:01

Real Time Light Scattering using Unity by Florent Guinier, Unity3D

Talk by Florent Guinier, Unity3D

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23 June 2016, 14:05

COPLAS TALK by Lasse Nielsen

HAPI: Happy Asynchronous Pi-Calculus - COPLAS Talk by Lasse Nielsen

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30 June 2016, 16:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Henrik Bendt: Approximate Vertex-Label Distance Oracles

Henrik Bendt will defend his master's thesis entitled Approximate Vertex-Label Distance Oracles.

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16 Aug. 2016, 14:15

MSc Thesis Defense by Johannes de Fine Licht

On 16 August 2016 Johannes de Fine Licht will defend his master thesis entitled 'Modeling and Implementing High Performance Programs on FPGA'.

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19 Aug. 2016, 10:00-10:30

Talk by Wadim Kehl

On Friday 19 August 2016, Wadim Kehl, TU München, will give a talk on 'Deep Learning of Local RGB-D Patches for 3D Object Detection and 6D Pose Estimation'.

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19 Aug. 2016, 13:00-15:00

PhD defence by Jan Kremer

Active and Adaptive Learning from Biased Data With Applications in Astronomy

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26 Aug. 2016, 8:30-9:30

Master's Thesis Defense by Mads Christian Lund

On 26 August 2016, Mads Christian Lund will defend his Master's Thesis on "An Investigation of Parametrized Features vs Pre-training in Convolutional Neural Networks".

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29 Aug. 2016, 9:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Aleksandar Ivanov Dalemski

On 29 August 2016, Aleksandar Ivanov Dalemski will defend his Master's Thesis on "Extending C# with General-Purpose Metaprogramming Features"

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29 Aug. 2016, 10:00-11:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen

On 29 August 2016, Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen will defend his Master's Thesis on "Infinite-dimensional Linear Algebra for Efficient Query Processing".

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29 Aug. 2016, 11:00-12:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Peter Rosenberg Troelsen

On 29 August 2016, Peter Rosenberg Troelsen will defend his Master's Thesis on "Approximate Grammar-Based String Transduction by Transformation".

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30 Aug. 2016, 9:15

Master's Thesis Defense by Nicolae Mariuta

On 30 August 2016, Nicolae Mariuta will defend his master's thesis on "Detecting and modelling Ferritin and vessel boundaries in EM images".

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30 Aug. 2016, 10:30-11:30

Master's Thesis Defense by Niels Liljedahl Christensen

On 30 August 2016, Niels Liljedahl Christensen will defend his Master's Thesis on "Automatic Detection of Vesicles in FIB-SEM Generated Images".

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31 Aug. 2016, 10:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Thomas Jensen

On 31 August 2016, Thomas Jensen will defend his Master's Thesis on "Global Selections with Fine-Grained Access Control".

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31 Aug. 2016, 11:15

Master's Thesis Defense by Samy Naji

On 31 August 2016, Samy Naji will defend his Mater's Thesis on "Improving the Performance and Increasing the Consistency of an OLTP Inventory Management Application through Production Simulation Analysis".

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31 Aug. 2016, 13:30

Master's Thesis Defense by Jakob Hanehøj

On 31 August 2016, Jakob Hanehøj will defend his Master's Thesis on "Evaluating throughput scalability of multi-core in-memory hash indices.

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31 Aug. 2016, 14:45

Master's Thesis Defense by Hauke Jan Lübbers

On 31 August, Hauke Jan Lübbers will defend his Master's Thesis on " A Performance Comparison between Open Source Database Management Systems on Transactions on Spatial Data".

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6 Sept. 2016, 10:00-11:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Jens Dahl Møllerhøj

Jens Dahl Møllerhøj will defend his MSc Thesis on Extraction of Required Capabilities from Danish Job Postings using Pattern-based Bootstrapping.

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9 Sept. 2016, 10:00-14:45

Cybersecurity in Europe

A half day event on Europe’s cyber security research agenda. Listen to expert views on future European cooperation to support and provide innovative solutions for cyber security and exchange ideas and best practices on how to move European cybersecurity forward.

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29 Sept. 2016, 16:00

DIKU Alumni Day 2016

At the DIKU Alumni Day old and young DIKU Alumni meet up and get together. All DIKU Staff and students are welcome.

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30 Sept. 2016, 13:30-14:30

Master's Thesis Defense by Jacob Grevald

On September 30 Jacob Grevald will defend his Master's thesis on 'Steiner Trees in Minkowski d-space'.

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3 Oct. 2016, 14:20

Master's Thesis Defense by Disha Singh

On 21 Octoberat 14:20-15:20, Disha Singh will defend her master's thesis on Global Software Development.

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6 Oct. 2016, 19:00-21:30

Design Disruptors - The Movie

Digitalized communication is setting the pace for future business. But healthcare is lacking behind. What can healthcare disruptors incorporate from the way Google, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and the whole sharing economy?

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7 Oct. 2016, 17:30

Distributed processing of large graphs in Python

Jose Quesada from Berlin based Data Science Retreat visits Copenhagen to talk about distributed processing of large graphs in Python.

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10 Oct. 2016, 13:00-15:00

PhD defense by Giovanni M. Troiano

On 10 October at 13:00, Giovanni M. Troiano will defend his PhD thesis on 'After Rigid Faces'.

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13 Oct. 2016, 16:30-18:00

Members meeting for Dansk Selskab for Datalogi

On the members meeting On 13 October at 16:30, there will be a lecture about 'Social Set Analysis: A Theoretic Approach to Big Data Analysis'.

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14 Oct. 2016, 9:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Oliver Hammer Boda

Friday 14 October, Oliver Hammer Boda will defend his Master thesis on 'Automatic detection of repetitions in exercise videos and automatic synthesis'.

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24 Oct. 2016, 16:30-18:00

Members meeting for Dansk Selskab for Datalogi

On 24 October at 16:30 the nominees for the thesis' price will be presented.

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26 Oct. 2016, 16:00-18:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Yuezhu Men & Andreas Lynge

Wednesday 26 October, Yuezhu Men og Andreas Lynge will defend their Master thesis on 'A domain-specific language for banking'.

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27 Oct. 2016, 15:15

EADS Talk: The Parameterized Hardness of the Art Gallery Problem

On 27 October 2016, Tillmann Miltzow will give a talk on The Parameterized Hardness of the Art Gallery Problem.

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27 Oct. 2016, 15:15

EADS Talk: The Parameterized Hardness of the Art Gallery Problem

On 27 October 2016, Tillmann Miltzow will give a talk on The Parameterized Hardness of the Art Gallery Problem.

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1 Nov. 2016, 15:15

COPLAS Talk: Monads on Dagger Categories

On 11 November 2016, Martti Karvonen will give a talk on Monads on Dagger Categories.

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1 Nov. 2016, 9:00

Master's Thesis Defense by Lou Nørgaard Rudd

On Monday, 7 November at 9:00 Lou Nørgaard Rudd will defend her Master's Thesis on 'Patch-Based Segmentation of Hippocampus and Ventricles in T1 Brain MR-Images'.

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15 Nov. 2016, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Julian Zimmert: Generalized Linear Bandits revisited

On 15 November 2016 at 1:00-2:00 pm, Julian Zimmert from Humboldt-University of Berlin will give a talk on Generalized Linear Bandits revisited.

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21 Nov. 2016, 15:15-16:00

EADS talk by Amir Abboud: Hardness in P

On 21 November 2016 at 3:15-4:00 pm, Amir Abboud will give a talk about hardness in P at DIKU.

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22 Nov. 2016, 15:15-16:00

EADS Talk by: Mira Shalah

On 22 November 2016 at 3:15-4:00 pm, Mira Shalah will give a talk about A Method for Generating Formulae for n-cell Polycubes Proper in n-k Dimensions at DIKU.

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23 Nov. 2016, 11:30-14:00

Palantir Quiz

Meet, Greet over Coffee & Chocolate, and take a Palantir Quiz to enter raffle where you can win an Apple Watch!

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25 Nov. 2016, 9:30

23rd ARCO 2016/2 at DIKU

The next ARCO meeting will be at DIKU in Copenhagen on 25 November 25 2016.

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28 Nov. 2016, 10:00-12:00

PhD defense by Casper Petersen

On 28 November 2016, Casper Petersen will defend his PhD Thesis on 'The Estimation and Use of Statistical Modelling in Information Retrieval'.

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29 Nov. 2016, 9:30

24th ARCO at ITU

The next ARCO meeting will be at ITU in Copenhagen on November 29, 2017.

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2 Dec. 2016, 17:00-18:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Julia Batkiewicz

On Friday 2 December 2016 Julia Batkiewicz will defend her master thesis entitled Mechanizing translations of modal, lax, and effect logics.

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7 Dec. 2016, 17:30

Palantir problem solving event

Palantir invites DIKU Students to participate in a hands-on problem solving event in the Canteen on Wednesday evening. There will be foods and drinks!

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9 Dec. 2016, 14:00-16:00

BIO/Bioinformatics and DIKU

On 9 December there will be a joint meeting for DIKU and BIO researchers to explore possible topics of collaboration and funding.

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12 Dec. 2016, 14:01

SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2016 to Martin Dybdal

PhD-student Martin Dybdal, Department of Computer Science, receives the SCIENCE Dissemination Award 2016 for his efforts to establish and maintain a local DIKU Coding Pirates group for children of approx. 9-15

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12 Dec. 2016, 17:00-18:30

Talk by Parinaz Sobhani on Extending LSTM over Recursive and DAG Structures

On 12 December, Parinaz Sobhani, PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Canada, will present her work on deep learning of non-linear input structures.

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15 Dec. 2016, 13:15-15:15

PhD Thesis defense by Frederik Meisner Madsen

On 15 December at 13:15, Frederik Meisner Madsen will defend his PhD on 'Streaming for Functional Data-Parallel Languages'.

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