Event Calendar 2018

3 January 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. » Read more

5 January 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. » Read more

12 January 2018, 09:30-11:00

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. » Read more

19 January 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. » Read more

25 January 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. » Read more

8 February 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. » Read more

9 February 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. » Read more

13 February 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. » Read more

19 February 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. » Read more

22 February 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. » Read more

23 February 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. » Read more

26 February 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. » Read more

27 February 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. » Read more

27 February 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. » Read more

2 March 2018, 14:01-15:00

COPLAS Talk: Łukasz Czajka

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

9 March 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. » Read more

19 March 2018, 13:00

PhD Defence by Brian Brost

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

21 March 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. » Read more

23 March 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. » Read more

26 March 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. » Read more

4 April 2018, 15:00

M.Sc. Defence by Jacob Secher Andersen

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

6 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Thorsten Papenbrock

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

6 April 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. » Read more

12 April 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. » Read more

16 April 2018, 09:30-17:00

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. » Read more

20 April 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. » Read more

25 April 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. » Read more

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. » Read more

16 May 2018, 15:01

coplas talk milosevic

COPLAS Talk by Zoran Milošević, Deontik, Australia » Read more

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. » Read 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 » Read more

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. » Read more

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 » Read more

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. » Read more

7 June 2018, 14:15-15:00

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

MSc Defence by Anders Kiel Hovgaard. » Read more

11 June 2018, 17:00

Trifork Night at DIKU for students

A Dialogflow & Google Assistant Workshop for DIKU Students. » Read more

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. » Read more

29 June 2018, 14:01-15:00