Event Calendar 2018 – University of Copenhagen

3 Jan. 2018, 15:00-16:00

Post-Dennard Performance Scaling in it's Teenage Decade: picoJoule replaces nanosecond

Talk by Associate Professor Holger Fröning of Heidelberg University.

5 Jan. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Climbing Steiner Trees

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Pawel Winter will share some highlights and also some disappointments which he encountered over the years working on Steiner trees.

12 Jan. 2018, 9:30

Master thesis defence by Kei Man Cheng

On 12 January 2018, Kei Man Cheng will defend his Master thesis on Predicting MBTI Personality Types with Twitter Using Doc2vec.

19 Jan. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Blockchain Technology

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Omri Ross will introduce you to new developments in the area of blockchain including how big corporate can utilise this technology to solve main pain points.

25 Jan. 2018, 13:15

PhD defence by Danil Annenkov

On 25 January 2018, Danil Annenkov will defend his PhD thesis on Adventures in Formalisation: Financial Contracts, Modules, and Two-Level Type Theory.

8 Feb. 2018, 16:00-18:30

DIKU Business Club meeting for Executives and R&D staff

The theme of this meeting for DIKU Business Club premium and basic members is Artificial Intelligence.

9 Feb. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Machine Learning Meets Image Analysis: From looking inside ourselves to gazing at the stars

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Christian Igel will present you to recent examples from medical imaging and astronomy.

13 Feb. 2018, 13:35-14:35

Talk by Claudia Bauzer: Reproducibility – eScience and scientific processes

On 13 February, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, professor of Computer Science at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, will give a talk at DIKU on Reproducibility – eScience and scientific processes.

19 Feb. 2018, 13:45

MSc Thesis Defence by Sorin Adrian Robert Davidoi

On 19 February 2018, Sorin Adrian Robert Davidoi will defend his master thesis on Nearest-Neighbour Fields Computation via Propagation-Assisted Parallel KD-Trees.

22 Feb. 2018, 15:01-16:00

COPLAS talk: The Category CNOT

On 22 February 2018, professor Robin Cockett, Department of Computer Science and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada will give a talk at DIKU on The Category CNOT.

23 Feb. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The Dark side of Global Agile

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Pernille Bjørn will discuss what happens when agile methods are introduced into global outsourcing set-ups.

26 Feb. 2018, 14:00

PhD defence by Robin Kaarsgaard: The Logic of Reversible Computing - Theory and Practice

On 26 February 2018, Robin Kaarsgaard will defend his PhD thesis on The Logic of Reversible Computing - Theory and Practice.

27 Feb. 2018, 11:30-13:00

Talk by Ryan Cotterell: Musings on Linguistic Complexity and Typology

Ryan Cotterell, PhD student in the Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, will give a talk at DIKU on Musings on Linguistic Complexity and Typology.

27 Feb. 2018, 15:00-17:30

Shark: Machine Learning Framework til C++

Christian Igel, one of the architects of Shark, will present the framework at this seminar.

2 Mar. 2018, 14:01-15:00

COPLAS Talk: Łukasz Czajka

CoqHammer: A General-Purpose Automated Reasoning Tool for Coq. COPLAS talk by Łukasz Czajka

9 Mar. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Graph Algorithms and Data Structures: From navigating road maps to finding the cheapest communication network

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Christian Wulff-Nilsen will discuss the development of smart algorithms and data structures that exploit the resources of computers more efficiently than earlier on.

19 Mar. 2018, 13:00

PhD Defence by Brian Brost

Online Evaluation of Rankers Using Multileaving, PhD Defence by Brian Brost

21 Mar. 2018, 16:30-18:00

The History of UNIX in the History of Software

Talk by Tom Haigh, Associate Professor in History at University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

23 Mar. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Your grandmother’s knees hurt – why?!

At this DIKU Bits lecture addressed at DIKU's bachelor students, Erik Dam will introduce you to shape modelling, texture analysis, deep learning, biomechanics, molecular biology, and machine learning to find the pain.

26 Mar. 2018, 16:00

MSc Thesis Defence by Theis Hjalte Thorn Jakobsen

On 26 March 2018, Theis Hjalte Thorn Jakobsen will defend his Master Thesis on Convolutional Neural Network for Predicting Protein Stability by using Local Spherical Representations of Amino Acid Environments.

4 Apr. 2018, 15:00

M.Sc. Defence by Jacob Secher Andersen

Distance Oracles on planar undirected graphs, M.Sc. Defence by Jacob Secher Andersen

6 Apr. 2018, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Thorsten Papenbrock

Learn more about Data Profiling - Efficient Discovery of Dependencies at this talk by Thorsten Papenbrock.

6 Apr. 2018, 14:00-16:00

Professor Inauguration: Thomas Hildebrandt

Thomas Hildebrandt was appointed Professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen on 1 March 2018. This is celebrated by an inaugural lecture on 6 April 2018 at 2 pm.

12 Apr. 2018, 16:30-18:30

Grand Opening - SCIENCE AI Centre

The opening of the SCIENCE AI Centre will be celebrated with talks and a reception on 12 April 2018.

16 Apr. 2018, 9:30

Addressing Societal Challenges with Big Data – The annual DABAI conference 2018

At this year’s DABAI conference you will meet the people of DABAI – the largest big data center in Denmark.

20 Apr. 2018, 13:00-14:00

PhD defence by Niels Dalum Hansen

On 20 April 2018, Niels Dalum Hansen will defend his PhD thesis on Web data mining for public health purposes.

25 Apr. 2018, 17:30-21:00

Distributed Computing and TensorFlow Dev Summit Viewing Party

A ML & Beer Meetup Event: Distributed Computing and TensorFlow Dev Summit Viewing Party - hosted by Nordic. AI and DIKU.

4 May 2018, 14:00-17:00

Double Professor Inaugural Lecture by Anders Søgaard and Robert Glück

Anders Søgaard og Robert Glück were in 2017 and 2018 appointed professors at the Dept. of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen. This is celebrated on 4 May by a double inaugural lecture followed by a reception.

16 May 2018, 15:01

coplas talk milosevic

COPLAS Talk by Zoran Milošević, Deontik, Australia

17 May 2018, 15:00-19:00

IT Career Fair 2018

Participate in the annual IT Career Fair at DIKU and meet a wide range of interesting Danish and international companies – from start-ups to the big ones. The companies develop software in areas such as FinTech, transport technology, public IT, learning, business intelligence, data management, 3D scanning, game development and much more.

18 May 2018, 14:01-15:00

Probabilistic programming: A new paradigm in machine learning

COPLAS Talk by Thomas Hamelryck, BIO and DIKU, University of Copenhagen

24 May 2018, 10:00-11:00

Talk by James Herbsleb

Guest lecture by James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Institute for Software Research, School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, USA.

24 May 2018, 16:30

Lars Bak: The Art of Implementing Object-Oriented Programming Languages

DSfD Talk by Lars Bak, Director, Google Development Center, Aarhus

25 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

DLT Seminar Talk: Designing Interoperable Distributed Ledger Systems

In this talk, some of the preliminary work done in area of seamlessly integrating different blockchain based systems without the need of intermediates and compromising the distributed characteristic of the technology will be discussed. In addition, an overview will be given about a number of ongoing projects in different application areas.

7 June 2018, 14:15-15:00

Higher-order functions for a high-performance programming language for GPUs

MSc Defence by Anders Kiel Hovgaard.

11 June 2018, 17:00

Trifork Night at DIKU for students

A Dialogflow & Google Assistant Workshop for DIKU Students.

15 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

COPLAS talk by Zhoulai Fu

At this talk Zhoulai FU will present a new, general method for reasoning about program correctness. The idea is to reduce the problem of verifying/testing a program into that of minimizing a derived representing function, which avoids static or symbolic reasoning about the program semantics.

29 June 2018, 14:01-15:00

Coplas Talk by Sadayappan: Optimizing Compilers: Challenges and Opportunities

Coplas Talk by Prof. P. Sadayappan (Saday), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

3 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

PhD defence by Henrik Grønholt Jensen

PhD defence by Henrik Grønholt Jensen on Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI).

8 Aug. 2018, 13:00-14:30

MSc Thesis Defence by Mark Wulff and Mathias Schmidt Petræus

On 8 August 2018 Mark Wulff and Mathias Schmidt Petræus will defend their master thesis on Utilizing Virtual Reality to assess Collaborative Workflows and Architectural Design in Super Hospitals.

13 Aug. 2018, 10:00-11:30

M.Sc. Defense by Aslak Niclasen and Jonathan Kurish

'Video Action Recognition in Basketball' M.Sc. defense by: Aslak Niclasen and Jonathan Kurish

13 Aug. 2018, 11:30

MSc Thesis Defence by Jintao Ren

On 13 August Jintao Ren will defend his MSc Thesis on automatic detection and localization of bone erosion in HR-pQCT of hand.

13 Aug. - 17 Aug. 2018

Blockchain Summer School 2018

Join this year's Blockchain Summer School 2018 hosted by CBS.

16 Aug. 2018, 9:00

MSc Defence by Magnus Stavngaard and August Sørensen

MSc Defence by Magnus Stavngaard and August Sørensen on Authorship Verification - Deep Learning Based Methods for Authorship Verification.

16 Aug. 2018, 15:01-16:00

MSc Defense by Tobias Hallundbæk Petersen

Plan X: Towards scalable distributed ledger technology for compositional digital contracts
MSc Defense by Tobias Hallundbæk Petersen

17 Aug. 2018, 9:00

MSc Defence by Kasper Myrtue Borggren

On 17 August 2018 Kasper Myrtue Borggren will defend his MSc Thesis on Scalable Structural Health Monitoring Data Platform using Actors as a Database

21 Aug. 2018, 9:00

MSc Defence by Jack Sebastian Robinson

MSc Defence by Jack Sebastian Robinson on Unchaining REDD+? Blockchain and Climate Change.

22 Aug. 2018, 10:00

MSc Defence by Mathias Højgaard Jensen

On 22 August 2018 Mathias Højgaard Jensen will defend his MSc Thesis on Stochastic Processes in Manifolds and Fiber Bundles.

24 Aug. 2018, 13:30-15:00

MSc Defense by Frederik Bøgelund Larsen

Data-Parallel implementation of Monte Carlo Based Financial
Risk Calculations, MSc defense by Frederik Bøgelund Larsen

24 Aug. 2018, 15-16

MSc by Petur Andrias Højgaard Jacobsen

DIKU Master's thesis defense: Design of a Reversible Functional Programming Language -- And its Type System, by Petur Andrias Højgaard Jacobsen

28 Aug. 2018, 10:00-11:00

MSc Defence by Lennard Oliver Hilgendorf

Lennard Oliver Hilgendorf will defend his MSc thesis on Duelling Bandits with Weak Regret in Adversarial Environments.

30 Aug. 2018, 14:15-15:00

COPLAS talk by Jakob Rehof: Dimensional Intersection Type Calculi

On 30 August 2018, Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof, Technical University of Dortmund and Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, will give a talk on Dimensional Intersection Type Calculi.

30 Aug. 2018, 15:15-16:15

COPLAS Talk by Prof. Mark Giesbrecht

COPLAS Talk by Prof. Mark Giesbrecht, Cheriton School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada on Sparsity, Complexity and Practicality in Symbolic Computation.

30 Aug. 2018, 15:00-16:00

MSc Defence by Xiaomo Yao

Xiaomo Yao will defend his MSc thesis on Reversible Computation with Types.

31 Aug. 2018, 15:00-16:00

MSc Defence by William Jack Sprent

William Jack Lysgaard Sprent will defend his MSc Thesis on The Prize-Collecting Steiner Tree Problem and Related Problems.

4 Sept. 2018, 15:00

MSc Defence by Mikkel Storgaard Knudsen

On 4 September Mikkel Storgaard Knudsen will defend his MSc Thesis on FShark: Futhark programming in FSharp.

4 Sept. 2018, 16:00

MSc Defence by Marek Hlava and Martin Metaksov

On 4 September Marek Hlava and Martin Metaksov will defend their MSc Thesis on Accelerated Interest Rate Option Pricing using Trinomial Trees.

6 Sept. 2018, 15:15-16:00

COPLAS talk by Jacob Nordström

On the 6 September you are invited to a COPLAS talk by Jacob Nordström on Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on Quantifier Depth and Weisfeiler-Leman Refinement Steps.

12 Sept. 2018, 9:00

Deep Learning for Healthcare Genomics

In partnership with NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute and Nordic AI, Dept. of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen, DIKU, hosts this hands-on course that teaches you how to apply deep learning to detect chromosome co-deletion and search for motifs in genomic sequences.

13 Sept. 2018, 16:00-19:30

DIKU Alumni Day 2018

Meet Dennis Kayser, Søren Dahlgaard, Jon Sporring, Anders Jordan, Peter Sandøe, Leise Borg, Peter Carstensen and a lot of alumni.

24 Sept. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Compositionality in reversible programming

At this DIKU Bits lecture Robin Kaarsgaard will give an introduction to reversible programming and compositional semantics, and discuss how compositionality can be used as a guiding principle to design reversible programming languages.

25 Sept. 2018, 10:00

Seminar by Mohammed AlQuraishi

On 25 September Mohammed AlQuraishi will be presenting his work on End-to-end differentiable learning of protein structure.

28 Sept. 2018, 16:30-18:00

Seminar: Semantic technologies for mapping European research

Dr. Diana Maynard, senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

8 Oct. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The Untouchables – Interaction Techniques for Novel Display Types

At this DIKU Bits lecture, Sebastian Boring will present a set of interaction techniques, that allow for touch-like interaction with distant content, e.g., through personal devices.

9 Oct. 2018, 16:00-19:30

Women in Tech – come and celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2018

3Shape and DIKU join forces to celebrate the Ada Lovelace Day 2018 in Denmark.

10 Oct. 2018, 9:00

The next generation of animation systems - one day conference

Come learn about the newest data driven techniques in character animation and have the opportunity to broaden your network in the creative industry - and it is even free.

12 Oct. 2018, 13:00-16:00

Meeting: Co-created and Compliant Adaptive Case Management for Knowledge Workers

Is it possible to have systems that adapt to the knowledge worker - in stead of the knowledge worker adapting to the system? That is the theme at this meeting arranged by InfinIT.

12 Oct. 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLP Seminar: Prof. Robert Östling

Robert Östling, assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University, Sweden, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

22 Oct. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: 4 out of 10 million: How computer science helps to safely produce individualized cars

At this DIKU Bits lecture Boris Düdder will present his research on cryptographic data structures and discuss why these structures are so hyped.

25 Oct. 2018, 15:00-16:30

NLP Seminar: Dr. Andreas Vlachos

Dr. Andreas Vlachos will give a lecture about Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

26 Oct. 2018, 13:00

PhD defence by Joachim Bingel

On 26 October, Joachim Bingel will be defending his PhD thesis "PERSONALIZED AND ADAPTIVE TEXT SIMPLIFICATION" .

29 Oct. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Information Meeting: Join the DABAI national Big Data Center for the next phase

DABAI invites companies and public organizations to join the consortium for the next phase.

29 Oct. 2018, 15:15-16:00

COPLAS talk: Ahmad Al-Sibahi

Copenhagen Programming Language Seminar talk by Ahmad Al-Sibahi on Verification of High-Level Transformations with Inductive Refinement Types.

2 Nov. 2018, 13:00

PhD defence by Malte Stær Nissen

On 2 November 2018, Malte Stær Nissen will defend his PhD thesis on Automatic Motility Analysis of Human Sperm.

9 Nov. 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLP Seminar: Natural Language Inference with Multilingual Supervision

Jörg Tiedemann, Full professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

16 Nov. 2018, 13:15

PhD defence by Selvan Raghavendra

On 16 November, Selvan Raghavendra will defend his PhD thesis on Extraction of Airways from Volumetric Data.

16 Nov. 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLP Seminar: Emotion Ranking and Emotion Cause Detection from Text

Yulan He, full professor at University of Warwick, UK, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

19 Nov. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Irrational guards are sometimes needed

On 19 November Mikkel Abrahamsen will present his DIKU Bits lecture "Irrational guards are sometimes needed" where he will give an insight into his research.

23 Nov. 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLP Seminar: User-adaptive, interpretable language technology

Chris Biemann, Full professor and head of the Language Technology group at Universität Hamburg, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

28 Nov. 2018, 13:00

PhD defence Leise Borg

On 28 November, Leise Borg will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Analysis of synchrotron X-ray tomographic data - Reconstruction and application".

30 Nov. 2018, 13:15-14:15

PhD defence by Jacob Holm

On 30 November Jacob Holm will defend his PhD on Efficient Graph algorithms and Data Structures.

30 Nov. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Farewell Reception: Erik Frøkjær

Come and say goodbye to Erik Frøkjær who has terminated his position as associate professor at DIKU after 33 years.

3 Dec. 2018, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Image Analysis: Deep Learning is not the only path!

At this DIKU Bits lecture, associate professor Francois Lauze, from the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry Section (IMAGE), will discuss how inference, and especially Bayesian inference can be used to design optimization algorithms for series of task in Image Analysis.

7 Dec. 2018, 16:30-18:00

NLP Seminar: Human Language Understanding: Realizations and Bottlenecks

Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens, full professor at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Belgium, will give a talk at University of Copenhagen as part of the NLP Seminar Series, funded by CCC.

19 Dec. 2018, 14:00-17:00

Professor Inauguration: Jon Sporring

Jon Sporring has been appointed professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU). The appointment is marked by an inaugural lecture on 19 December 2019.

20 Dec. 2018, 13:00

MSc Thesis Defence: Susanne Truong and Bjarke Kingo Iversen

On 20 December Susanne Truong and Bjarke Kingo Iversen will present their master thesis on Optimizing Win Probability in Team Sports Using Data Analysis and Machine Learning.