Event Calendar 2017 – University of Copenhagen

4 Jan. 2017, 15:15-16:00

EADS Talk by Rasmus Kyng: Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians

On 4 january 2017 at 3:15-4:00 pm, Rasmus Kyng will give a talk about Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians at DIKU.

11 Jan. 2017, 4:00-7:00

Meeting in DIKU Business Club on Blockchain

This is an open DIKU Business Club meeting for both existing and potential new members. Participation is free - but registration is neccessary.

13 Jan. 2017, 15:01

Cantor Meets Scott: Semantic Foundations for Probabilistic Networks - by Dexter Kozen

DIKU/MATH Talk by Dexter Kozen, Cornell University.
NB! New time: starting at 3 pm.

14 Jan. 2017, 9:00-10:00

Fast and Powerful Hashing using Tabulation

Keynote talk by Mikkel Thorup at the FOGA (Foundations of Genetic Algorithms) workshop. This keynote talk is open to the public - participation in other parts of the workshop requires formal registration and payment.

19 Jan. 2017, 14:00

PhD defense by Noy Rotbart: New Ideas on Labeling Schemes

On 19 January 2017, Noy Rotbart will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "New Ideas on Labeling Schemes".

23 Jan. 2017, 13:15

PhD defense by Ulrik Terp Rasmussen: Stream Processing Using Grammars

On 23 January 2017, Ulrik Terp Rasmussen will defend his PhD entitled "Stream Processing Using Grammars".

26 Jan. 2017, 15:15-16:00

Talk by Tillmann Miltzow

On 26 January 2017, Tillmann Miltzow will give a talk on 'Intersection
Graphs of Rays and Grounded Segments'.

23 Feb. 2017, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Torben Hagerup: On-the-Fly Array Initialization in Less Space

On Thursday 23 February, Professor Torben Hagerup from Universität Augsburg, will give a talk at DIKU entitled On-the-Fly Array Initialization in Less Space.

23 Feb. 2017, 18:00-21:00

MF#K + CopenhagenR: Machine Learning with F# and R (with 2 × F# MVPs)

The F#unctional Copenhageners and CopenhagenR Meetup Groups in collaboration with DIKU Business Club, Laboratory for Applied Statistics and PROSA are hosting this meetup with talks by Evelina Gabasova and Mathias Brandewinder.

28 Feb. 2017, 13:15-14:00

EADS Talk by Arnold Filtser

On 28 February, Arnold Filtser will give a talk 'On Notions of Distortion and an Almost Minimum Spanning Tree with Constant Average Distortion'.

10 Mar. 2017, 14:00-15:00

Open House: Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science

Are you considering to study a MSc in Computer Science at University of Copenhagen? Join this information session to get more information about the academic contents, research and study environment.

13 Mar. 2017, 14:00-15:30

UCPH MakerSpace Start-up Meeting

Do you see the benefits of a joint, interdisciplinary UCPH MakerSpace? And are you filled with good ideas as to how such a MakerSpace should be? Now you have the opportunity to be a part of creating a room for creativity, innovation and cooperation for the benefit of research and education on all of UCPH.

16 Mar. 2017, 14:15-15:00

EADS Talk by Rasmus Pagh: Set Similarity Search Beyond Minhash

On 16 March, Rasmus Pagh, professor at IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), will give a talk on Set Similarity Search Beyond Minhash.

17 Mar. 2017, 9:30

MSc Thesis Defense by Michael Feveile Mariboe: Sampling in reinforcement learning

On 17 March 2017, Michael Feveile Mariboe will defend his Master's Thesis on Sampling in reinforcement learning.

20 Mar. 2017, 15:00

MSc thesis defense by Rasmus Wriedt Larsen: Generating Efficient Code for Futhark's Segmented Redomap

On 20 March 2017, Rasmus Wriedt Larsen will defend his Master's thesis on Generating Efficient Code for Futhark's Segmented Redomap.

20 Mar. 2017, 17:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Michael Bang: Improving the performance of global selections

On 20 March, Michael Bang will defend his Master's Thesis on Improving the performance of global selections - An experimental evaluation of system level techniques.

29 Mar. 2017, 9:00-16:00

Data Science DK - Conference

Come experience leading Danish data scientists on recent progress in algorithms, machine learning and visualization for data-driven innovation at the annual DABAI conference.

3 Apr. 2017, 12:00-14:00

EADS Mini-Workshop on Computational Geometry

EADS is hosting a mini-workshop on Computational Geometry consisting of four talks by Mehran Mehr (Eindhoven University of Technology), Eva Rotenberg (DIKU), Mikkel Abrahamsen (DIKU) and Anna Adamaszek (DIKU).

3 Apr. 2017, 12:00

PhD defense by Dídac Rodríguez Arbonès

On 3 April 2017, Dídac Rodríguez Arbonès will defend his PhD Thesis on Evolution strategies with Optimal Covariance Matrix Update Applied to Sustainable Wave Energy.

6 Apr. 2017, 9:00-17:00

FemTech DIKU event for STX/HTX students

A one-day FemTech workshop, where 24 STX/HTX students are invited to participate. The participants will create an interactive product combining textile materials and digital technologies, utilizing the potentials of microcontrollers and sensors created by conductive fabric.

26 Apr. 2017, 10:15

MSc Thesis Defense by Mads Thoudahl

On Wedneysday April 26, Mads Thoudahl will defend his Master's Thesis on 'Machine Learning for Naval Search and Rescue - by Distance, Intensity and Behavior Features'.

26 Apr. 2017, 15:00-17:00

DSfD Faglig dag 2017: An Introduction to Data Science

At the annual Faglig Dag event, organised by Dansk Selskab for Datalogi, the focus will be on the discipline of Data Science. Three selected speakers will provide an introduction to the subject followed by example applications from their respective domains.

3 May 2017, 15:15-16:15

COPLAS talk: Fast and Precise Retrieval of Forward and Back Porting Information for Linux Device Drivers

COPLAS talk by Julia Lawall, Inria Paris, on 'Fast and Precise Retrieval of Forward and Back Porting Information for Linux Device Drivers'.

8 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

EADS Talk by Sebastian Krinninger

On 8 May 2017 at 1-2 pm, Sebastian Krinninger will give a talk at DIKU on Approximate Single-Source Shortest Paths in Distributed Networks.

10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

EADS Talk by Aaron Bernstein

On 10 May 2017 at 13:00-14:00, Aaron Bernstein will give a talk about 'An improved deterministic algorithm for dynamic single source shortest paths' at DIKU

18 May 2017, 15:00-19:00

DIKU Career Fair 2017 - the start to your future in it

Participate in the annual DIKU Career Fair and meet a wide range of interesting Danish and international companies that develop software in areas such as financial it, transport technology, public it, learning, business intelligence, data management, 3D scanning, game development and much more.

30 May 2017, 13:15-14:00

EADS talk by Viktor Zamaraev on Forbidden induced subgraphs for unit disk graphs

On 30 May 2017, Viktor Zamaraev will give a talk on Forbidden induced subgraphs for unit disk graphs.

31 May - 2 June 2017

Digital Health Innovation - A Masterclass for Industry Managers

Understand the changing landscape of digital healthcare, find new business opportunities and learn tools for more valuable and robust innovations.

1 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

EADS talk by Arnaud de Mesmay: Complexity of optimal homotopies

On 1 June 2017, Arnaud de Mesmay will give a talk about 'Complexity of optimal homotopies'.

1 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

EADS talk by Arnaud de Mesmay: Complexity of optimal homotopies

On 1 June 2017, Arnaud de Mesmay will give a talk about 'Complexity of optimal homotopies'.

9 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

EADS talk by Mikkel Abrahamsen: The Art Gallery Problem is $\exists R$-complete

On 9 June 2017, Mikkel Abrahamsen, PhD student at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give an EADS talk on The Art Gallery Problem is $\exists R$-complete.

12 June - 16 June 2017

International PhD Course in Nonlinear Statistics

We invite you to participate in the international PhD course on Nonlinear Statistics at University of Copenhagen, 12-16 June 2017.

21 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

EADS Talk by Arindam Khan: Pseudo-polynomial-time approximation of strip

On 21 June 2017 at 1:00-2:00 pm, Arindam Khan will give a talk about Pseudo-polynomial-time approximation of strip at DIKU.

3 Aug. 2017, 15:30

Double DIKU Talk by Tarjan and Italiano

On 3 August 2017 DIKU hosts a double DIKU talk on algorithmic themes by Robert Tarjan, Princeton and Giuseppe Italiano, Rome.

4 Aug. 2017, 14:00

Phd Defense by Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen

On 4 August 2017 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen is defending his MSc Thesis entitled 'New Results on Hashing, Labeling Schemes and Algorithms'.

4 Aug. 2017, 14:00

PhD Defense by Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen: New Results on Hashing, Labeling Schemes and Algorithms

On 4 August at 2:00 pm, Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen will defend his PhD Thesis.

9 Aug. 2017, 13:15

Array abstractions for GPU programming - PhD Defense by Martin Dybdal

PhD Defense by Martin Dybdal

10 Aug. 2017, 13:00-15:00

EADS talk by Dmitry Chistikov

On 10 August 2017, Dmitry Chistikov, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, will give a talk on Ultimately periodic sets, Presburger arithmetic, and integer programming with quantifiers.

14 Aug. - 18 Aug. 2017

Blockchain Summer School

This year's Blockchain Summer School will focus on educating students in blockchain technology and innovation to develop solutions within three focal industries.

15 Aug. 2017, 14:00-15:00

Talk by Thomas Dueholm Hansen

On 15 August 2017, Thomas Dueholm Hansen, Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science Aarhus University, will give an EADS talk about Decremental Single-Source Reachability and Strongly Connected Components in \tilde{O}(m\sqrt{n}) Total Update Time.

17 Aug. 2017, 11:00-12:00

Talk by Alexandr Andoni: Near Neighbor Search under General Symmetric Distances

On 17 August 2017, Alexandr Andoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, will give a talk on Near Neighbor Search under General Symmetric Distances.

17 Aug. 2017, 13:00

PhD Defense by Søren Dahlgaard

Søren Dahlgaard defends his PhD degree on 17 August 2017

18 Aug. 2017, 10:45

MSc Thesis Defense by Zarathustra Goertzel

Friday 18 August Zarathustra Goertzel will defend his master thesis entitled 'Offer Networks Simulation and Dynamics'.

18 Aug. 2017, 13:00-16:30

2nd Nordic Blockchain Summit 2017 - now with link for live streaming

The Summit is streamed live from 1 p.m.

By clicking this link, you will get access to the conference.

18 Aug. 2017, 9:30

MSc Thesis Defense by Tyler Huffman

Friday 18 August Tyler Huffman will defend his master thesis entitled 'A Survey of Dynamic Tree Data Structures and an Implementation of an Amortized Top Tree'.

21 Aug. - 22 Aug. 2017

Workshop on Big Graph Analysis Systems

This workshop will bring together experts from several relevant communities that are actively addressing the problems related to big graph data analysis to identify commonalities and synergies and to stimulate cross-collaboration that can be expected but yet to be explored.

21 Aug. 2017, 16:00-17:30

Master thesis defence by Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen

Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen defends his Masters degree on 21 August 2017

22 Aug. - 10 Sept. 2017

FemTech.dk at Copenhagen Maker 2017

All DIKU students: Become a part of this year’s Copenhagen Maker. Take part in developing an installation as well as organising and executing the event by the DIKU based research project FemTech.dk.

22 Aug. 2017, 17:00-18:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Adam Honore

Tuesday 22 August Adam Honore will defend his master thesis entitled 'Understanding Factors Influencing Loneliness And Corresponding Quality Of Life via Interviews, Smartphone Sensing And Data Modeling.'

24 Aug. 2017, 9:00-10:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Rasmus Willigenburg Andersen

Thursday 24 August Rasmus Willigenburg Andersen will defend his master thesis entitled 'Predicting Radiography Dose Plans using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks'.

24 Aug. 2017, 9:00-10:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Rasmus Willigenburg Andersen

Thursday 24 August Rasmus Willigenburg Andersen will defend his master thesis entitled 'Predicting Radiography Dose Plans using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks'.

24 Aug. 2017, 13:45

Brain Segmentation in Rodent MR-Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks

M.Sc. Defense by Björn Sigurdsson

25 Aug. 2017, 10:00-10:45

MSc Thesis Defense by Yibo Dang

Friday 25 August Yibo Dang will defend his master thesis entitled 'Image analysis of farmland field based on homography'.

25 Aug. 2017, 11:00-11:45

MSc Thesis Defense by Yue Ben

Friday 25 August Yue Ben will defend his master thesis entitled 'Railroad Catenary Detection'.

25 Aug. 2017, 16:00-17:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Sune Andreas Dybro Debel

Friday 25 August Sune Andreas Dybro Debel will defend his master thesis entitled 'Deep Multi-Task Learning For Relation Extraction'.

25 Aug. 2017, 9:00-9:45

MSc Thesis Defense by Jesper Lundsgaard

Friday 25 August Jesper Lundsgaard will defend his master thesis entitled 'Drone image analysis of cereal fields'.

1 Sept. 2017, 15:00-16:00

BARC/EADS Talk by Karl Bringmann

On 1 September, Karl Bringmann will give a talk on SETH-Based Lower Bounds for Subset Sum and Bicriteria Path.

5 Sept. 2017, 14:30-16:00

Talk by Kyunghyun Cho: Deep Learning, Where are you going?

On 5 September 2017, Kyunghyun Cho, assistant professor at New York University, will give a talk at DIKU on Deep Learning, Where are you going?

21 Sept. 2017, 12:45-13:45

Master thesis defense by Malte von Mehren

Thursday 21 September Malte von Mehren will defend his master thesis entitled "Accelerating Break Detection Methods for Remote Sensing Using GPUs".

21 Sept. 2017, 13:00-14:00

BARC/EADS talk by Chris Schwiegelshohn

On 21 September 2017, Chris Schwiegelshohn, postdoc at the university la Sapienza in Roma, will give a talk at DIKU on Incremental Matching in Amortized Linear Time.

22 Sept. 2017, 12:15-13:00

Friday Lecture: 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'.

27 Sept. 2017, 15:15

PhD defense by Eva Rotenberg: Algorithms and Data Structures for Graphs

On 27 September 2017, Eva Rotenberg will defend her PhD thesis on Algorithms and Data Structures for Graphs.

28 Sept. 2017, 13:30

Talk by Panagiotis Karras: Content Recommendation for Viral Social Influence

On 28 September, Panagiotis Karras (Panos), Associate Professor in Computer Science at Aarhus University, will give a talk at DIKU.

28 Sept. 2017, 16:30-18:00

DSfD: Presentation of nominated theses for the best thesis award 2016

On Thursday 28 September, the nominated theses for the best thesis award 2016 will be presented by the authers.

29 Sept. 2017, 14:00-15:00

BARC/EADS talk by Uri Zwick

On 29 September 2017, Uri Zwick, professor at Tel Aviv University, will give a talk about Selection from heaps, row-sorted matrices and $X+Y$ using soft heaps.

6 Oct. 2017, 12:00-13:00

Friday Lecture: 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'.

7 Oct. 2017, 10:00-19:00

DIKU host this year's Danish Championship in programming

With Netcompany and Jobindex as event managers DIKU hosts this year's Danish Championship in programming, which takes place on Saturday 7 October 2017 at 10am - 7 pm.

9 Oct. 2017, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Alex Bronstein: Geometry and learning in 3D correspondence problems

On Monday 9 October Associate Professor Alex Bronstein from Department of Computer Science,Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, will give a talk at DIKU entitled 'Geometry and learning in 3D correspondence problems'.

13 Oct. 2017, 14:15-15:15

BARC/EADS Talk by Cornelius Brand

Cornelius Brand, PhD student at Saarland University, Germany, will give a talk at DIKU on A unified algebraic approach to the longest path problem.

26 Oct. 2017, 12:45-13:45

Master thesis defense by Nicholas Indrehus

Thursday 26 October 2017, Nicholas Indrehus will defend his master thesis entitled "Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of Remote Sensing Data"

27 Oct. 2017, 12:15-13:00

Friday Lecture: 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'.

31 Oct. - 24 Nov. 2017

Student Matchmaking Events in November 2017

Find an overview of planned matchmaking and career events for DIKU students in November 2017 as well as links for signing up.

8 Nov. 2017, 16:00-17:00

MSc Thesis Defense by Dandan Xue

On 8 November 2017, Dandan Xue will defend his MSc thesis entitled Formalizing the implementation of Streaming NESL.

15 Nov. 2017, 13:15

PhD defense by Troels Henriksen

On 15 November 2017, Troels Henriksen will defend his PhD thesis on Design and Implementation of the Futhark Programming Language.

16 Nov. 2017, 8:30-17:30

HIPERFIT Final Workshop - Technical Day

At this final Technical Workshop, the HIPERFIT project partners present results from six years of research in Fin-Tech and points to best practice for Computation and Finance in the 21st Century.

17 Nov. 2017, 13:00-16:15

HIPERFIT Summit: Computation and Finance for the 21st Century

At this HIPERFIT Summit, the HIPERFIT project partners wrap up results from six years of research in Fin-Tech and points to best practice for Computation and Finance in the 21st Century. The event is livestreamed on Friday from 13.00 / 1 p.m.

22 Nov. 2017, 14:00-15:00

MSc thesis defence by Venelin Banov

On 22 November 2017 Venelin Banov will defend his master thesis about predicting structural features of proteins using convolutional neural networks.

24 Nov. 2017, 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.

24 Nov. 2017, 15:00-16:00

PhD defense by Mikkel Abrahamsen

On 24 November 2017, Mikkel Abrahamsen will defend his PhD thesis entitled New results on classical problems in computational geometry in the plane.

1 Dec. 2017, 11:30-12:30

Talk by Tiziano De Matteis

On 1 December Tiziano De Matteis will give a talk entitled Parallel and Elastic Operator for Data Stream Processing

1 Dec. 2017, 13:00-14:00

Master thesis defense by Emma Høst Fowler

On 1 December 2017 Emma Høst Fowler will defend her master thesis about exploring suicide related language on Twitter.

1 Dec. 2017, 14:00-17:00

VILLUM Investigator Grant Inauguration of BARC

On 1 December 2017, the official inauguration of the new research centre Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) will take place.

5 Dec. 2017, 15:00-16:00

Talk by Maria Maistro

On 5 December 2017, Maria Maistro from University of Padua will give a guest talk entitled Exploiting User Signals and Stochastic Models to Improve Information Retrieval Systems and Evaluation.

8 Dec. 2017, 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.

11 Dec. 2017, 16:30

Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the SIMULA 67 Programming Language

Dansk Selskab for Datalogi, Ingeniørforeningen, IDA, and Dansk Datahistorisk Forening invites you to celebrate the event with a series of talks and a poster exhibition about the language and its influence in the past as well as today.

11 Dec. 2017, 17:00-19:30

Two Talks: Factored Bandits for online learning and Aha moments in deep learning at Zendesk

Chris Hausler from Zendesk is visiting Copenhagen and will give a talk on some of the exciting stuff they are working on in Deep Learning, a talk he recently presented at the Strata conference in Singapore.
A Data Science and Machine Learning Meetup Event.