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Event Calendar 2016

• 8 January 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. » Read more

• 8 January 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'. » Read more

• 11 January 2016, 15:30-16:00

  Accenture Guest Lecture

  

  A demonstration of a system that implements an online PCA algorithm, and uses it to track production machines in real time. » Read more

• 12 January 2016, 15:15-16:00

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

  

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

• 26 January 2016, 15:15-16:00

  HIPERFIT Seminar Talk: Automated Loan Credit Rating

  

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

• 29 January 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”. » Read more

• 29 January 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 » Read more

• 4 February 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 » Read more

• 4 February 2016, 15:15-16:15

  DIKU/HIPERFIT talk: Brad Chamberlain

  

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

• 5 February 2016, 14:15-15:00

  EADS Talk by Alan Roytman

  

  Zero-One Laws for Sliding Windows and Universal Sketches » Read more

• 10 February 2016, 11:00

  COPLAS Talk: Boris Düdder/Technical University Dortmund

  COPLAS Talk by Boris Düdder, Technical University of Dortmund » Read more

• 23 February 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. » Read more

• 24 February 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'. » Read more

• 26 February 2016, 02:00

  PhD thesis defence by Katrine Hommelhoff Jensen

  

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

• 3 March 2016, 15:30

  M.Sc. Defense: Kinetic Alpha Complexes with CGAL

  

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

• 11 March 2016, 09:30

  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. » Read more

• 31 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

  HCC talk: Easy Music E-Learning, EasyMEL

  

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

• 4 April 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. » Read more

• 4 April 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'. » Read more

• 5 April 2016, 15:00-16:00

  HIPERFIT/COPLAS TALK: Gabriele Keller

  

  Accelerate by Gabriele Keller, University of New South Wales. » Read more

• 13 April 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'. » Read more

• 18 April 2016, 10:00

  Master Thesis Defence by Rune Carlsen

  

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

• 25 April 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'. » Read more

• 27 April 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'. » Read more

• 28 April 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'. » Read more

• 29 April 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'. » Read more

• 29 April 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'. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 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.  » Read more

• 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'. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 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'. » Read more

• 8 June 2016, 09:00-10:00

  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. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 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. » Read more

• 23 June 2016, 14:01

  Real Time Light Scattering using Unity by Florent Guinier, Unity3D

  

  Talk by Florent Guinier, Unity3D » Read more

• 23 June 2016, 14:05

  COPLAS TALK by Lasse Nielsen

  

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

• 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. » Read more

• 16 August 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'. » Read more

• 19 August 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'.

  » Read more

• 19 August 2016, 13:00-15:00

  PhD defence by Jan Kremer

  

  Active and Adaptive Learning from Biased Data With Applications in Astronomy » Read more

• 26 August 2016, 08:30-09:30

  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". » Read more

• 29 August 2016, 09:00-10:00

  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" » Read more

• 29 August 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". » Read more

• 29 August 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". » Read more

• 30 August 2016, 09:15-10:15

  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". » Read more

• 30 August 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". » Read more

• 31 August 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".  » Read more

• 31 August 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". » Read more

• 31 August 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. » Read more

• 31 August 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".  » Read more

• 6 September 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. » Read more

• 9 September 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. » Read more

• 29 September 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. » Read more

• 30 September 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'.

  » Read more

• 3 October 2016, 14:20

  Master's Thesis Defense by Disha Singh

  

  On 21 October at 14:20-15:20, Disha Singh will defend her master's thesis on Global Software Development. » Read more

• 6 October 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? » Read more

• 7 October 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. » Read more

• 10 October 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'. » Read more

• 13 October 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'. » Read more

• 14 October 2016, 09:00-10:30

  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'. » Read more

• 24 October 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. » Read more

• 26 October 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'. » Read more

• 27 October 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. » Read more

• 27 October 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. » Read more

• 1 November 2016, 15:15

  COPLAS Talk: Monads on Dagger Categories

  

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

• 1 November 2016, 09:00-10:30

  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'.   » Read more

• 15 November 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. » Read more

• 21 November 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. » Read more

• 22 November 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. » Read more

• 23 November 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! » Read more

• 25 November 2016, 09:30

  23rd ARCO 2016/2 at DIKU

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

   

  » Read more

• 28 November 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'. » Read more

• 29 November 2016, 09:30

  24th ARCO at ITU

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

   

  » Read more

• 2 December 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. » Read more

• 7 December 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! » Read more

• 9 December 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. » Read more

• 12 December 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 » Read more

• 12 December 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. » Read more

• 15 December 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'. » Read more