BARC/EADS Talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak: Pattern-avoiding Access in Binary Search Trees

On 24 April, Thatchaphol Saranurak, PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, will give a talk on Pattern-avoiding Access in Binary Search Trees.

4 May 2018, 13:15-14:15

BARC/EADS Talk by Matteo Ceccarello

On 4 May, Matteo Ceccarello, a PhD in 2017 from the University of Padova, will give a talk on Making Big Data Small.

1 June 2018, 14:15

BARC/EADS Talk by Yufei Tao

On 1 June 2018, Professor Yufei Tao from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong will be Rasmus Pagh’s BARC guest and give a talk at BARC.

7 June 2018, 15:15-16:15

BARC Distinguished Lecture by Robert Tarjan

On Thursday 7 June 2018, Turing Award Winner and elected ACM Fellow Professor Robert Tarjan is visiting BARC at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, and will give a talk on finding and verifying Dominators in Flow Graphs.

8 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

SODAS Lecture: AI Alignment and Human Normativity

SODAS Spring Lecture Series 2018.
Lecture by Professor Gillian Hadfield, University of Southern California: 'AI Alignment and Human Normativity'

15 June 2018, 13:15-14:15

BARC/EADS Talk by Petteri Kaski

On Friday 15 June 2018 , assistant professor Petteri Kaski from Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland will give a talk at BARC on "How proofs are prepared at Camelot".

26 Oct. 2018, 14:15-15:15

BARC Talk by Vera Traub

On Friday October 26, Vera Traub, PhD student at the University of Bonn, will give a talk in BARC "Beating the integrality ratio for s-t-tours in graphs".

26 Oct. 2018, 15:15-16:15

BARC talk by Danupon Nanongkai

On Friday, October 26th associate professor Danupon Nanongkai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, will give a talk in BARC "Distributed Shortest Paths, Exactly"

7 Nov. 2018, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Claire Mathieu

Wednesday, November 7th, Claire Mathieu, Professor and research director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Paris, France, will give a talk in BARC "Approximation schemes for rank aggregation"

16 Nov. 2018, 15:00

AI Seminar: Towards an AI-Human Symbiosis Using Information Visualization

Seminar by Luana Micallef, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

29 Nov. 2018, 14:15-15:00

BARC talk by Valerie King

Thursday, November 29th, Valerie King, Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada, will give a talk in BARC

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

BARC talk by Debarati Das

Thursday, November 29th, Debarati Das, PhD student at Charles University, Prague, will give a talk in BARC "Approximating Edit Distance Within Constant Factor in Truly Sub-Quadratic Time"

30 Nov. 2018, 15:00

AI Seminar: Multilingual multimodal language understanding

Seminar by Desmond Elliott, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

18 Dec. 2018, 17:00-18:30

Manuela Veloso: The robot is your friend

Manuela Veloso, Professor at J.P.Morgan AI Research and one of the leading researchers in the field of AI, will visit University of Copenhagen to give a talk in the free lecture series #DetViVed by Politiken, Carlsberg Foundation and University of Copenhagen.

18 Dec. 2018

PhD course Algebraic Graph Algorithms

BARC PhD course in Algebraic Graph Algorithms, 2018

11 Jan. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Cut Finite Element Methods for Contact Problem

Seminar by Susanne Claus, Postdoc, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

17 Jan. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Bartosz Walczak

Thursday, January 17th, Bartosz Walczak, guest researcher from Theoretical Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Poland, will give a talk in BARC "Sparse Kneser graphs are Hamiltonian"

25 Jan. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Timothy Chu

Friday, January 25th, Timothy Chu, graduate research assistant, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, will give a talk in BARC "Graph Sparsification via Short Cycle Decomposition"

25 Jan. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Machine Learning and Banking: a Model Risk Perspective

Seminar by Søren Mørk, Chief Model Risk Analyst, Nordea.

1 Feb. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Nikos Parotsidis

Friday, 1 February, our new colleague Nikos Parotsidis joins BARC and AC section and will give a talk "Connectivity in directed Graphs: static, fault-tolerant, and dynamic"

7 Feb. 2019, 10:15-11:15

BARC talk by Kasper Green Larsen, Feb 2019

On Thursday, 7 February, associate professor, ph.d. Kasper Green Larsen, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, will give a talk "Exponential Lower Bounds for Secret Sharing"

8 Feb. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Deep latent variable models: estimation and missing data imputation

Seminar by Jes Frellsen, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, IT University of Copenhagen.

14 Feb. 2019, 15:15-16:15

BARC talk by Aurélien Ooms

On Thursday 14 February, PhD student Aurélien Ooms, Algorithms Research Group, Université libre de Bruxelles, will give a talk "Sorting-like problems"

21 Feb. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Konrad Swanepoel

Thursday 21 February, professor Konrad Swanepoel, Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science, will give a talk "A survey of combinatorial distance problems in normed spaces"

22 Feb. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions

Seminar by Frank van der Meulen, Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology, who will present his research on Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions.

8 Mar. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data

Seminar by Isabelle Augenstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

22 Mar. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Algorithms for Easy and Hard Online Learning Environments

Seminar by Yevgeny Seldin, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

5 Apr. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Only Bayes should learn a manifold

Seminar by Søren Hauberg, Associate Professor at Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, DTU.

10 Apr. 2019, 9:00-11:00

Extra AI Seminar: The Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning: Towards Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

Seminar by Naftali Tishby, Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

15 Apr. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Mika Göös

On Monday 15 April, Postdoc Mika Göös, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, will give a talk "Adventures in Monotone Complexity"

3 May 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Machine Learning meets Particle Physics

Seminar by Troels Petersen, Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

14 May 2019, 14:15-15:30

BARC-QMATH talk by Avi Wigderson

Tuesday, May 14th, Avi Wigderson, professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will give a talk "Optimization, Complexity and Math (through the lens of one problem and one algorithm)"

16 May 2019, 16:00-17:30

AI Seminar: The Power of Theory in the Practice of Hashing with Focus on Similarity Estimation

Seminar by Mikkel Thorup, Professor, Algorithms and Complexity Section, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.

7 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak

Friday, 7 June, Thatchaphol Saranurak, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, will give a talk "Breaking Quadratic Time for Small Vertex Connectivity"

11 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Chris Schwiegelshohn

Tuesday, 11 June, Chris Schwiegelshohn, assistant professor at DIAG Faculty of Sapienza University, will give a talk "Oblivious Dimension Reduction for k-Means"

12 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Cornelius Brand

Wednesday, 12 June, Cornelius Brand, PhD student at Saarland University, Germany, will give a talk "Algorithms for the wedge product: Making nothing from something"

13 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Extra AI Seminar: Natural Language Generation in the Wild

Seminar by Daniel Beck, Research fellow in Natural Language Processing at University of Melbourne, Australia.

14 June 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: A stability upgrade for data-driven models

Seminar by Jonas Martin Peters, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Copenhagen.

18 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Till Miltzow

Tuesday, 18 June, Till Miltzow, assistant professor, Utrecht, will give a talk "Smoothe Analysis of the Art Gallery Problem"

9 July 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by John Kallaugher

Tuesday, 9 July, John Kallaugher, PhD student, Department of Computer Science at UT Austin, will give a talk "Exponential Separations Between Turnstile Streaming and Linear Sketching"

16 July 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Jakub Łącki

Tuesday, 16 July, Jakub Łącki, research scientist at Google Research, New York, will give a talk "Massively Parallel Algorithms for Finding Connected Components"

27 Aug. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Daniel Dadush

Tuesday, 27 August 2019, Daniel Dadush, a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, will give a talk "A Friendly Smoothed Analysis of the Simplex Method".

6 Sept. 2019, 15:00

AI Seminar: Deep probabilistic programming and the protein folding problem

Seminar by Thomas Hamelryck, Associate Professor, The Bioinformatics Centre, UCPH.

16 Sept. 2019, 11:00-12:00

AI Seminar: Efficient exploration in sequential decision making problems

Seminar by Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori, researcher at VinAI.

17 Sept. 2019, 10:15-11:15

BARC talk by Shou Pang

Tuesday, 17 September 2019, Shou Pang, a Graduate Student at the University of Chicago, will give a talk "Large clique is hard on average for resolution".

3 Oct. 2019, 14:00-15:00

BARC talk by Petteri Kaski

Thursday, 3 October 2019, Petteri Kaski, Associate Professor at Aalto University, will give a talk on "Probabilistic tensors and opportunistic Boolean matrix multiplication".

8 Oct. 2019, 13:30-14:30

BARC talk by Vincent Cohen-Addad

Tuesday, 8 October 2019, Vincent Cohen-Addad, permanent researcher at Sorbonne Université, Paris, will give a talk on "From Local to Global: Local Search Algorithms Beyond the Worst-Case Analysis".

15 Oct. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Susan Margulies

Tuesday, 15 October 2019, Susan Margulies, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the US Naval Academy, USA, will give a talk on "Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Linear Algebra: An Algorithm for Determining Combinatorial Infeasibility".

17 Oct. 2019, 13:15-14:15

BARC talk by Marc Vinyals

Thursday, 17 October 2019, Marc Vinyals, Postdoc at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, will give a talk on "Equality Alone Does not Simulate Randomness".

23 Oct. 2019, 9:15-11:00

Expanders Learning Seminar

Expanders Learning Seminar, a collaborative event between the Mathematics Department (the Operator Algebras/Functional Analysis group) and the Computer Science Department (the BARC group).

31 Oct. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Loukas Georgiadis

Thursday, 31 October 2019, Loukas Georgiadis, Associate Professor at the University of Ioannina, Greece, will give a talk on "Dynamic Dominators, Low-High Orders, and Related Problems".

14 Nov. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Daniel Neuen

Thursday, 14 November 2019, Daniel Neuen, PhD student at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, will give a talk on "Faster Isomorphism Tests for Graphs of Bounded Degree and Beyond".

19 Nov. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Kevin Pratt

Tuesday, 19 November 2019, Kevin Pratt, Doctoral Research Assistant at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, will give a talk on "Waring rank, parameterized and exact algorithms".

20 Nov. 2019, 15:00-16:00

BARC talk by Silvio Lattanzi

Wednesday, 20 November 2019, Silvio Lattanzi, research scientist at Google Zurich, Switzerland, will give a talk on "Residual Based Sampling for Online Low Rank Approximation".

21 Nov. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Vincent Liew

Thursday, 21 November 2019, Vincent Liew, PhD student at the University of Washington, USA, will give a talk on "Proof complexity with multiplier circuits".

22 Nov. 2019, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: A Computational Model of Intention Selection

Open seminar by Søren Kyllingsbæk, Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

27 Nov. 2019, 14:00-15:00

BARC talk by Daniela Kaufmann

Wednesday, 27 November 2019, Daniela Kaufmann, PhD student at the Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University, Austria, will give a talk on "Combining SAT and Computer Algebra to successfully verify Large Multiplier Circuits".

29 Nov. 2019, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Structured (Syntactic) Prediction without Structured Representations

Open seminar by David Vilares Calvo, Research Associate at the University of A Coruña.

5 Dec. 2019, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Holger Dell

Thursday, 5 December 2019, Holger Dell, Associate Professor at ITU who joined the BARC team in june, will give his introduction talk on "Counting and Sampling Small Structures in Large Networks".

10 Dec. - 12 Dec. 2019

NeurIPS Meetup in Copenhagen

At this meetup we will screen selected talks from the NeurIPS conference and complement them by a number of "live" talks by local authors of NeurIPS-2019 papers.

17 Dec. 2019, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?

Open seminar by Adina Williams, Postdoctoral Researcher at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Group in New York.

20 Dec. 2019, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Diffeomorphic curve matching with finite elements

Open seminar by Andreas Bock, PhD student, Imperial College London.

10 Jan. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?

Open seminar by Sune Hannibal Holm, Associate Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen.

23 Jan. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: What is the best atomic unit to represent text?

Open seminar by Matthias Galle, Group Lead of the Natural Language Processing group, Naver Labs Europe.

23 Jan. 2020, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by Maarten Löffler

Thursday, 23 January 2020, Maarten Löffler, Associate Professor at Utrecht University, will give a talk on "PLEACHING PENCIL & PAPER PICTURE PUZZLES: A puzzling story of design, geometry, and algorithms".

24 Jan. 2020, 8:30-17:30

Workshop: Algorithmic Fairness

Full-day workshop organized by the Responsible AI project at University of Copenhagen.

21 Feb. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Bayesian inversion for tomography through machine learning

Open seminar by Ozan Ötkem, Strategic Coordinator at KTHs Center for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (CIAM)

3 Mar. 2020, 15:00-16:00

BARC talk by Jan van den Brand #1

Tuesday, 3 March 2020, Jan van den Brand, third year PhD student at KTH in Stockholm, will give a talk on "Dynamic algorithms for algebraic and graph problems".

5 Mar. 2020, 14:15-15:15

BARC talk by John Lapinskas

Thursday, 5 March 2020, John Lapinskas, lecturer at the University of Bristol, will give a talk on "Fine-grained reductions from approximate counting to decision".

6 Mar. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: How can we use advanced decision-making Deep Learning for optimization of complex neutron experiments?

Open seminar by Heloisa N. Bardallo, Associate Professor in X-rays and Neutron Science at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

10 Mar. 2020, 15:15-16:00

BARC talk by Jan van den Brand #2

Tuesday, 10 March 2020, Jan van den Brand, third year PhD student at KTH in Stockholm, will give another talk at BARC. This time on "A Deterministic Linear Program Solver in Current Matrix Multiplication Time".

19 Mar. 2020

BARC talk by Kuan Yang - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Thursday, 19 March 2020, Kuan Yang, fourth year PhD student at the University of Oxford, will give a talk on "Counting solutions to random CNF formulas".

25 Mar. 2020

BARC talk by Shahbaz Khan - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Wednesday, 25 March 2020, Shahbaz Khan, Postdoc at the University of Helsinki, will give a talk on "Incremental DFS algorithms: a theoretical and experimental study".

12 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Online AI Seminar: Deep learning for multi-omics data integration

Open seminar by Simon Rasmussen, Associate Professor, PhD, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

19 Aug. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Safe Testing

Open seminar by Rianne de Heide, PhD Candidate, Leiden University.

28 Aug. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Robust k-means Clustering for Distributions with Two Moments

Open seminar by Nikita Zhivotovskiy, Postdoctoral Researcher at Google Research, Brain Team, Zürich.

3 Sept. 2020, 11:00-12:00

BARC talk by Kasper Green Larsen, Sep 2020

Thursday, 3 September 2020, Kasper Green Larsen, Associate Professor at the University of Aarhus, will give a talk on "Near-Tight Margin-Based Generalization Bounds for Support Vector Machines".

11 Sept. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: A New Workflow for Collaborative Machine Learning Research in Biodiversity

Open seminar by Serge Belongie, Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Associate Dean at Cornell Tech.

30 Sept. 2020, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Sequence Generation and Graph AI

Open seminar by Carolin Lawrence, research scientist at NEC Labs Europe.

11 Dec. 2020, 15:00-16:00

AI Seminar: Mapping all of Denmark

Open seminar by Andrew Flatman, Ask Holm Carlsen and Bjarke Skjødt from the Geodata Office at the Danish Agency for Data Supply and Efficiency.

5 Jan. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Brain-computer Interfacing for Cognitive Modeling

On 5 January Tuukka Ruotsalo, Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Section, will present a lecture with the title Brain-computer Interfacing for Cognitive Modeling.

6 Jan. - 14 Jan. 2021

MSc Defences

Here is a list of the upcoming MSc defences at DIKU. The list will continuously be updated.

8 Jan. 2021, 13:00-14:00

COPLAS talk: Alexandre Bartel, CONFUZZION: Towards Efficient JVM Fuzzing

Alexandre Bartel from DIKU will give a COPLAS talk on CONFUZZION.

19 Jan. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Modeling financial and commercial contracts in a domain-specific language

On 19 January Ulrik Rasmussen, Software Developer and Researcher at Deon Digital will present a lecture with the title 'Modeling financial and commercial contracts in a domain-specific language'.

29 Jan. 2021, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Dongsheng Wang

On 29 January Dongsheng Wang will defend his PhD thesis titled "Semantic Representation and Inference for NLP".

29 Jan. 2021, 13:00-14:00

DS talk: Meng Yang, Distributed Ledger Technology and Privacy-preserving Computing Technology for Genomics and Healthcare

Decentralizes Systems Seminar Talk by Meng Yang from MGI Tech and University of Copenhagen.

11 Feb. 2021, 14:00-15:30

Applying Advanced Simulation in the Health Sector

Join this webinar to learn about AI-based simulation models using 3D scanners and data analysis.

12 Feb. 2021, 13:00-15:00

MSc Open House 2021

Learn more about the Master’s programme in Computer Science as well as other master’s programmes at the Faculty of Science (SCIENCE) at this virtual open house.

16 Feb. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Algorithms and Privacy, a case study

On 16 February Rasmus Pagh, professor in the Algorithms and Complexity section at DIKU, will present a DIKU Bits lecture with the title "Algorithms and Privacy - A Case Study".

16 Feb. 2021, 15:05-16:00

COPLAS TALK: A Type-Safe Structure Editor Calculus

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23 Feb. 2021, 14:05-15:00

COPLAS TALK: Carbon Manifolds - A Calculus for Molecular Origami

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2 Mar. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Conquering Irregular Parallel Problems on Massively Data-Parallel Hardware

On 2 March 2021, Martin Elsman, professor in the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing section at DIKU, will present a lecture titled "Conquering Irregular Parallel Problems on Massively Data-Parallel Hardware".

12 Mar. 2021, 12:15-13:00

AI Seminar: An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

Open seminar by Ankit Kariryaa titled 'An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel'.

16 Mar. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Data Analysis in Curved Spaces

On 16 March Stefan Horst Sommer, Professor in the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry section, will present a lecture with the title "Data Analysis in Curved Spaces".

18 Mar. 2021, 14:00-15:30

Fighting Harmful Content on the Web

Join this webinar to get insights in automatic fact checking using NLP, e.g. for combatting harmful content on the web.

6 Apr. 2021, 14:00-15:00

Launch Event: Elements of AI in Denmark

More people need to understand artificial intelligence. Participate in this one hour live streaming of the launch of Elements of AI in Denmark.

14 Apr. 2021, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Vlad Manea

On 14 April 2021, Vlad Manea will defend his PhD thesis titled "From Participation Factors to Co-Calibration of Patient- and Wearable-Reported Outcomes in Behavioural, Health, and Quality of Life Studies".

16 Apr. 2021, 13:05-14:00

DS talk: Pourpounehnajafabadi, Fair Auctions via Secret Transactions

Decentralizes Systems Seminar Talk by Mohsen Pourpounehnajafabadi from Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen.

29 Apr. 2021, 15:00

AI Seminar: Beyond supervised learning: generalization, few-shot learning, and robustness

At this seminar, Jonathan Berant will describe the recent work that goes beyond the traditional paradigm of natural language understanding. The seminar is relevant to people who are interested in machine learning and natural language processing.

4 May 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The System says No! How do digital processes observe my rights as a citizen?

On 4 May Hugo Andrés Lòpez, Assistant professor in the Software, Data, People & Society Section at DIKU will present a lecture with the title The System says No! How do digital processes observe my rights as a citizen?

6 May 2021, 17:00-20:00

PhD defence by Simon Hellemann Flachs

On 6 May, Simon Hellemann Flachs will defend his PhD thesis titled "Computational Grammatical Error Correction: Bridging the Gap from Academia to Industry".

7 May 2021, 13:05-14:00

DS talk by Jens Gudmundsson: Enabling reciprocity through blockchain design

Decentralizes Systems Seminar Talk by Jens Gudmundsson from Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen.

10 May 2021, 10:00-13:00

PhD defence by Wojciech Michal Pawlak

On 10 May 2021, Wojciech Michal Pawlak will defend his PhD thesis titled "Accelerated Financial Algorithms: Derivative Pricing and Risk Management Applications".

18 May 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Learning Analytics for Humans

On 18 May Daniel Spikol, Associate Professor in the Machine Learning Section, will give a lecture with the title Learning Analytics for Humans.

21 May 2021, 10:00-13:00

PhD defence by Yova Radoslavova Kementchedjhieva

On 21 May, Yova Radoslavova Kementchedjhieva will defend her PhD thesis titled "Methods, Evalutations and Resources for Multilingual Transfer Learning".

21 May 2021, 12:15-13:00

AI seminar: How do life events impact life trajectories? On methods for causal learning of time-dynamic event systems

Open seminar by Niels Richard titled 'How do life events impact life trajectories? On methods for causal learning of time-dynamic event systems'.

21 May 2021, 13:00-16:00

IT Career Day 2021

On 21 May 2021, DIKU Business Club will once again host IT Career Day, where companies and students in IT can meet and find future job and collaboration opportunities.

21 May 2021, 13:05-14:00

DS Talk by Stefan Voigt: Building trust takes time: limits to arbitrage in blockchain-based markets

Decentralizes Systems Seminar Talk by Stefan Voigt from Department of Economics (ECON), University of Copenhagen.

25 May 2021, 15:00-18:00

PhD defence by Ana Valeria González

On 25 May, Ana Valeria González will defend her PhD thesis titled "Towards Human-Centered Natural Language Processing".

28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Responsible AI Seminar: How I failed machine learning in medical imaging

On 28 May, Veronika Cheplygina, Associate Professor, ITU, will give an online talk as part of a new interdisciplinary, inter-university seminar series on responsible AI.

1 June 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Leveraging Wikipedia Hyperlinks to Ground Word Representations Across Languages

On 1 June, Tommaso Pasini, Postdoc in the Natural Language Processing Section, will give a lecture with the title Leveraging Wikipedia Hyperlinks to Ground Word Representations Across Languages.

3 June 2021, 15:00

AI seminar: Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

On 3 June, SCIENCE AI Center invites to a seminar by Jasmijn Bastings titled "Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing".

3 June - 28 Sept. 2021

MSc Defences

See the list of the MSc defences at DIKU. The list will continuously be updated.

8 June 2021, 9:30-12:30

PhD defence by Christoffer Olling Back

On 8 June, Christoffer Olling Back will defend his PhD thesis titled "Hybrid Process Mining: Inference & Evaluation Across Imperative & Declarative Approaches".

10 June 2021, 16:00-19:00

PhD defence by Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen

On 10 June, Hans Jacob Teglbjærg Stephensen will defend his thesis titled "Geometrical Models and Stochastic Geometry of
Subcellular Structures".

17 June 2021, 15:00

AI Seminar: The EU “Artificial Intelligence Act” (AIA) Proposal

On 17 June, Henrik Palmer Olsen and Sebastian Felix Schwemer, from the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, will give an online talk titled "The EU “Artificial Intelligence Act” (AIA) Proposal".

18 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Black-box decision making in medicine: some thoughts and questions

On 18 June, Jens Chistian Krarup Bjerring, AU, will give an online talk as part of a new interdisciplinary, inter-university seminar series on responsible AI.

21 June 2021, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Aryeh Kontorovich

On 21 June the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Functions with average smoothness: structure, algorithms, and learning' by Aryeh Kontorovich.

7 July 2021, 14:01-15:01

BARC talk by Till Miltzow, July 2021

Wednesday, 7 July 2021, Till Miltzow, PostDoc at Utrecht University, will give a talk on "A Practical Algorithm with Performance Guarantees for the Art Gallery Problem".

16 July 2021, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Yiwen Wang

On 16 July, Yiwen Wang will defend her PhD thesis titled "Scalable and Reactive Data Management for Mobile Internet-of-Things Applications with Actor-Oriented Databases".

13 Aug. 2021, 13:00-14:00

Data Management Systems Seminar: A Data Management Infrastructure for Data Science and AI Innovation

On 13 August Jorge Quiané, Principal Researcher at the DIMA group (TU Berlin), holds a seminar at the Department of Computer Science titled 'AGORA: A Data Management Infrastructure for Data Science and AI Innovation'.

16 Aug. 2021, 14:00

PhD defence by Casper Hansen

On 16 August Casper Hansen will defend his PhD thesis titled "Representation Learning for Efficient and Effective Similarity Search and Recommendation".

17 Aug. 2021, 13:00-16:00

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Joanna Bergström

On 17 August, Joanna Bergström will do her Final Appraisal Seminar titled "Movement in Human-Computer Interaction".

17 Aug. 2021, 14:00

PhD defence by Christian Hansen

On 17 August Christian will defend his PhD thesis titled "Sequential Modelling with Applications to Music Recommendation, Fact-Checking, and Speed Reading".

20 Aug. 2021, 11:05-12:00

COPLAS talk: Proof-directed program transformation: A functional account of efficient regular expression matching

On 20 August, Andrzej Filinski, associate professor at DIKU, will give a COPLAS talk.

20 Aug. 2021, 13:00-14:00

Data Management Systems Seminar: FoundationDB at Snowflake: Architecture and Internals

On 20 August Markus Pilman, software engineer from Snowflake, holds a seminar at the Department of Computer Science titled 'FoundationDB at Snowflake: Architecture and Internals'.

23 Aug. 2021, 10:00-11:00

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship

On 23 August, Pong C Yuen, Associate Dean of Science Faculty, Hong Kong Baptist University., will give a talk about the research and PhD programme at Hong Kong Baptist University.

25 Aug. 2021, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Joakim Blikstad

Wednesday, 25 July 2021, Joakim Blikstad, Ph.D. student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, will give a talk on "Breaking the quadratic barrier for matroid intersection".

30 Aug. 2021, 17:00

DeLTA seminar by Haipeng Luo

On 30 August the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'The best of both worlds: stochastic and adversarial episodic MDPs with unknown transition' by Haipeng Luo.

1 Sept. 2021, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Yuval Efron

Wednesday, 1 September 2021, Yuval Efron, Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto in Canada, will give a talk on "Hardness of Distributed Optimization".

3 Sept. 2021, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Design and prediction of biological sequences with neural machines

Open seminar by Debora Marks, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, about what can we do with billions of genomes.

6 Sept. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA seminar by Ola Rønning

On 6 September, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'General and Integrated Stein Variational Inference with EinStein' by Ola Rønning.

13 Sept. - 14 Sept. 2021

DIREC Seminar 2021

On 13-14 September 2021, DIREC is hosting a seminar 2021 at Hotel Nyborg Strand in Nyborg.

13 Sept. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA seminar by Shinji Ito

On 13 September, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'Parameter-Free Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms with Hybrid Data-Dependent Regret Bounds' by Shinji Ito.

14 Sept. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The vertex connectivity problem

On 14 September, Danupon Nanongkai from the Algorithms and Complexity (AC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled "The vertex connectivity problem".

15 Sept. 2021, 11:15-12:00

COPLAS: Annenkov, Extracting functional programs from Coq, in Coq

On 15 September, Danil Annenkov, Aarhus University, will give a COPLAS talk about code extraction.

17 Sept. 2021, 11:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Sharing synthetic medical images - a way to circumvent GDPR?

On 17 September, Anders Eklund from the Linköping University will give a talk for the inter-university seminar series on responsible AI titled 'Sharing synthetic medical images - a way to circumvent GDPR?'.

22 Sept. 2021, 13:15-15:15

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Tariq Osman Andersen

On 22 August, Tariq Osman Andersen, Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Software, Data, People and Society section, will do his Final Appraisal Seminar titled "Co-Design and Use in Health Informatics".

23 Sept. 2021, 16:00-20:00

DIKU Alumni Day 2021

Join us for a very special anniversary version of DIKU Alumni Day.

24 Sept. 2021, 15:00-16:30

Farewell reception for Jørgen Bansler

Jørgen Bansler will retire on 1 October - help us celebrate his time at DIKU.

27 Sept. 2021, 14:00-20:00

PhD defence by Lucas Chavez Lima

On 27 September, Lucas Chavez Lima will defend his PhD thesis titled "Semantic Classification and Evaluation".

28 Sept. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: 3D printing the best video game controller

On 28 September, Valkyrie Arline Savage from the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 3D printing the best video game controller.

30 Sept. 2021, 16:00-19:00

Master class in programming for students at UCPH

Do you plan to participate in the Danish championship in Coding on 9 October? Then join this coding master class organized by DIKU and get fit for the coding competition.

1 Oct. 2021, 13:00-14:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Reconciling medical AI & patient-centered care

On October 1, Julia Amann from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, will give a talk titled 'Reconciling medical AI & patient-centered care'

6 Oct. 2021, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Carlos Eduardo Tejada

On 6 October 2021, Carlos Eduardo Tejada will defend his PhD thesis titled "Print-And-Play Fabrication".

9 Oct. 2021, 10:00-16:00

DM in Programming for students

The Danish Championship in Programming is one of the biggest programming contests of the year. So if you are crazy about programming, mathematics, or algorithms, don't miss it!

11 Oct. 2021, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Yi-Shan Wu

On 11 October, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Chebyshev-Cantelli PAC-Bayes-Bennett Inequality for the Weighted Majority Vote' by Yi-Shan Wu.

12 Oct. 2021, 12:15-13:00

CANCELLED - DIKU Bits: Programming Languages and Theory of Computation

On 12 October the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

12 Oct. 2021, 13:00-16:00

Ada Lovelace Day: Combatting the Gender Gap in Tech

Join us this afternoon for inspirational talks, cases, debate and networking to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day.

20 Oct. 2021, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Parinya Chalermsook

Wednesday, 20 October 2021, Parinya Chalermsook, Assistant Professor at Aalto Unioversity in Finland, will give a talk on "Algorithms, Extremal Combinatorics, and Rectangles ".

25 Oct. 2021, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Niklas Pfister

On 11 October, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Chebyshev-Cantelli PAC-Bayes-Bennett Inequality for the Weighted Majority Vote' by Yi-Shan Wu.

26 Oct. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Natural Language Processing

On 26 October, Sagnik Ray Choudhury from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

29 Oct. 2021, 12:30-16:00

Matchmaking Event: Artificial Intelligence Across Sectors and Sciences

On 29 October, UCPH students will have the opportunity of meeting relevant companies and organizations within AI.

5 Nov. 2021, 15:00-16:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Enzo Ferrante

On November 5, Enzo Ferrante from CONCET, Argentina, will give a talk.

8 Nov. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA seminar by Rasmus Pagh

On 8 November, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'Efficient differential privacy in the shuffle model' by Rasmus Pagh

8 Nov. 2021, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Joachim Spoerhase

Monday, 8 November 2021, Joachim Spoerhase from Würzburg University in Germany, will give a talk on "Constant-Factor Approximation for Ordered k-Median".

10 Nov. 2021, 13:00-18:30

Anniversary celebration: 50 Years of Computer Science in Denmark

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of computer science in Denmark at a large-scale event in collaboration with the Confederation of Danish Industry.

11 Nov. 2021, 16:00-19:00

PhD defence by Peter Rasmussen

On 11 November 2021, Peter Rasmussen will defend his PhD thesis titled "Graphs, Algorithms, and Discrete Probabilities".

12 Nov. 2021, 14:01-16:30

BARC/MIAO talk by Nutan Limaye

Friday, 12 November 2021, Nutan Limaye, Associate Professor at ITU in Copenhagen, will give a talk on "Superpolynomial lower bounds for low-depth circuits".

15 Nov. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA seminar by Sorawit Saengkyongam

On 15 November, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar.

15 Nov. 2021, 10:00-16:00

Matchmaking Event for M.Sc. Students at Computer Science

Looking for a study job? Or want to discuss career perspectives with wellknown companies such as NNIT, Halfspace,
BEC financial technologies, BCG Platinion, Topdanmark, Deon Digital, MAERSK, Nuuday and Novo Nordisk?

22 Nov. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA Seminar by Nicklas Werge

On 22 November, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Stochastic Streaming Algorithms' by Nicklas Werge.

22 Nov. 2021, 14:01-17:00

PhD defence by Nina Mesing Stausholm Nielsen

PhD Defence at ITU: Differential Privacy in Distributed Settings

23 Nov. 2021, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Sagnik Mukhopadhyay

Tuesday, 23 November 2021, Sagnik Mukhopadhyay, Postdoc recently transferred to DIKU and hostet by Danupon Nanongkai, will give a talk on "A(n almost) Universal Algorithm for Global Minimum Cut".

23 Nov. 2021, 15:30-16:30

COPLAS: Hejlsberg, TypeScript: Static types for JavaScript

On 23 November, Anders Hejlsberg, IT University of Copenhagen, will give a COPLAS talk about Static types for JavaScript.

24 Nov. 2021, 10:30-11:30

Pioneer Centre for AI talk: Semantic Manipulation of Visual Content

On 24 November 2021, Sagie Benaim will speak at the first talk in the Pioneer Centre for AI's Colloquium Talk series, titled 'Semantic Manipulation of Visual Content'.

29 Nov. 2021, 8:00-11:00

PhD defence by Victor Petrén Bach Hansen

On 29 November, Victor Petrén Bach Hansen will defend his PhD thesis titled "Towards Fairness in Conversational Natural Language Processing".

29 Nov. 2021, 10:00

DeLTA Seminar by Hippolyte Raymond Bourel

On 29 November 2021, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science at UCPH holds a seminar titled "Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Exploiting State-Action Equivalence" by Hippolyte Raymond Bourel.

30 Nov. 2021, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Reducing the need for general anesthesia in children undergoing neuroimaging by preparation and motion correction

On 30 November the IMAGE Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

30 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2021

Digital Tech Summit 2021

Join us when Denmark's universities hold the Digital Tech Summit in Øksnehallen, where companies and researchers can meet and be inspired.

6 Dec. 2021, 13:00

Doctoral dissertation defence by Isabelle Augenstein

On 6 December 2021, Isabelle Augenstein will defend her doctoral dissertation titled "Towards Explainable Fact Checking".

7 Dec. 2021, 15:00-15:45

COPLAS: Albert, Superoptimization of (Optimized) Smart Contracts

On 7 December, Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, will give a talk about the Superoptimization of Smart Contracts.

7 Dec. 2021, 15:45-16:30

COPLAS: Rubio, Formal Methods in Zero-Knowledge Protocols: Challenges in the circom Programming Language

On 7 December, Albert Rubio, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, will give a COPLAS talk about formal Methods in Zero-Knowledge Protocols.

8 Dec. 2021, 15:00-18:00

PhD defence by Rahul Rajendra Arailkatte

On Wednesday, 8 December 2021, at 15:00 - 18:00, PhD student Rahul Rajendra Arailkatte will defend his PhD thesis titled "Towards Better Neural Coreference Resolution".

8 Dec. 2021, 15:15-16:15

BARC talk by Boel Nelson

Wednesday, 8 December 2021, Boel Nelson, Postdoc at Aarhus University, will give a talk on "Examining the Balancing Act of Differential Privacy".

9 Dec. 2021, 10:00-13:00

PhD defence by Klemen Lilja

On Thursday, 9 December 2021, at 10:00-13:00 PhD student Klemen Lilja will defend his PhD thesis titled "Hand-based Interaction in Mixed Reality: Manipulating, Navigating and Learning".

14 Dec. 2021, 12:15-13:00

CANCELLED - DIKU Bits: Why search engines are (unintentionally) designed to spread fake news

On 14 November the Machine Learning Section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

10 Jan. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar: Yanlin Chen

On 10 January the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Linear Regression with Norm Constraints' by Yanlin Chen.

11 Jan. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy: How algorithmic tools change the Public Sector

On 11 January the Software, Data, People & Society (SDPS) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

14 Jan. 2022, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Kasra Arnavaz

On 14 January 2022, Kasra Arnavaz will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Segmentation of the Tubular Network in the Pancreas'.

21 Jan. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: Exploring the Limits of Large Scale Pre-training

On January 21, the AI Seminar Series continues with a talk by Samira Abnar from the University of Amsterdam titled 'Exploring the Limits of Large Scale Pre-training'.

8 Feb. 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cosponsored Pioneer Centre Talk: Computational Methods to Address Upcoming Health Challenges with Everyday XR Interaction

On 8 February, join the AI Pioneer Centre and the Human-Centred Computing Section at DIKU for a talk by Teresa Hirzle titled 'Computational Methods to Address Upcoming Health Challenges with Everyday XR Interaction'.

9 Feb. 2022, 10:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Timothy Miller

On February 9, Timothy Miller from the University of Melbourne will give a talk.

9 Feb. 2022, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA Seminar by Jalal Etesami

On 9 February the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Foundations of Causal Inference: Challenges and Opportunities' by Jalal Etesami.

9 Feb. 2022

MSc Defences Winter 2021/2022

See the list of the MSc defences at DIKU this fall/winter. The list will continuously be updated.

10 Feb. 2022, 15:00-16:00

DIREC Talk: Graph Models for Knowledge, Regulations, Rules and Processes

On 10 February 2022, Thomas Hildebrandt from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen will give an online talk for Digital Research Centre Denmark.

11 Feb. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: What can we learn from subtitled sign language data?

SCIENCE AI Centre hosts an open seminar with speaker Gül Varol from École des Ponts ParisTech.

15 Feb. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Visually Grounded Reasoning across Languages and Cultures

On 15 February the Natural Language Processing (NLP) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

21 Feb. 2022, 15:00-18:00

PhD defence by Mostafa Abdou

On 21 February 2022, Mostafa Abdou will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Language Understanding in Humans and Artificial Neural Networks: Parallels and Contrasts'.

25 Feb. 2022, 13:00-14:00

COPLAS Talk: Purity Polymorphism: Peaceful Cohabitation of Side-Effects, Laziness, and Parallelism

Magnus Madsen from Aarhus University will give a COPLAS Talk titled 'Purity Polymorphism: Peaceful Cohabitation of Side-Effects, Laziness, and Parallelism'.

28 Feb. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar by Krikamol Muandet

On 28 February 2022, Krikamol Muandet will host a DeLTA Seminar titled 'Toward Reliable Machine Learning with Instruments'.

28 Feb. - 12 May 2022

MSc Defences Spring 2022

See the list of the MSc defences at DIKU this spring. The list will continuously be updated.

1 Mar. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: It's Provably Impossible - But We Code It Anyway

On 1 March the Programming Language & Theory of Computation (PLTC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

1 Mar. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by André Nusser

Tuesday, 1 March 2022, our new colleague André Nusser, Postdoc at BARC and newest addition to the AC section at DIKU, will give a talk on "Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithm Engineering in Computational Geometry".

2 Mar. 2022, 13:00

Responsible AI Seminar: A journey through the disorderly world of diagnostic and prognostic models for covid-19

On March 2 2022, Laure Wynants of Maastricht University will give a talk titled 'A journey through the disorderly world of diagnostic and prognostic models for covid-19: A living systematic review'.

3 Mar. 2022, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Amir Yehudayoff

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'A characterization of multiclass learnability' by Amir Yehudayoff.

7 Mar. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Jalal Kazempour

On 7 March the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Regression Markets and Application to Energy Forecasting' by Jalal Kazempour.

11 Mar. 2022, 17:00

AI Seminar: Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models

Please join us for an invited talk by Vered Shwartz from the University of British Columbia on Friday March 11. The talk will take place on zoom and will start at 17:00.

15 Mar. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: The halting problem: when self-driving cars halt in traffic.

On 15 March the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

18 Mar. 2022, 13:00

PhD defence by Carl-Johannes Vincent P. Johnsen

On 18 March 2022, Carl-Johannes Vincent P. Johnsen will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Automated AI Learning for X-Ray Based Classification'.

18 Mar. 2022, 14:00-15:00

BARC talk by Thore Husfeldt

Friday, 18 March 2022, BARC core researcher Professor Thore Husfeldt from ITU, will give a talk on algorithmic fairness.

18 Mar. 2022, 14:00-15:00

BARC Talk: An introduction to algorithmic fairness

Friday, 18 March 2022, BARC core researcher Professor Thore Husfeldt from ITU, will give a talk on algorithmic fairness. No registration is required.

21 Mar. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Julian Zimmert, Google Research

On 21 March the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled ''Efficient Methods for Online Multiclass Logistic Regression" by Julian Zimmert, Google Research

22 Mar. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC/MIAO talk by Allan Sapucaia

Tuesday, 22 March 2022, Allan Sapucaia, PhD at the University of Campinas, Brasil, will give a talk on "Solving Large Scale Instances of a Geometric Set Cover Problem with Coloring Conflicts".

23 Mar. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Laszlo Kozma

Wednesday, 23 March 2022, Laszlo Kozma, Assistant Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, will give a talk on "Search trees on trees".

25 Mar. 2022, 13:00

PhD defence by Mette Bjerg Lindhøj

On 25 March 2022, Mette Bjerg Lindhøj will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Dynamic Tomography Imaging of Biological Structures'.

30 Mar. 2022, 13:00

Responsible AI Seminar: Algorithmic encoding of protected characteristics

Ben Glocker from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London will give a talk titled 'Algorithmic encoding of protected characteristics'.

30 Mar. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Nikhil Ayyadevara

Wednesday, 30 March 2022, Nikhil Ayyadevara, student at Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, will give a talk on "The Randomized Competitive Ratio of Weighted k-Server Is at Least Exponential".

31 Mar. 2022, 13:00-17:30

Take your green business development one step further

CANCELLED What role does computer science play to help to reduce CO² emissions or minimize the deployment of our scarce resources? Learn more at this exclusive event for DIKU Business Club members.

31 Mar. 2022, 16:00-19:00

PhD defence by Lasse Borgholt

On 31 March 2022, Lasse Borgholts will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Semantic Speech Processing with Neural Networks'.

8 Apr. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: Interpreting Character Embeddings With Perceptual Representations

On 8 April, please join us for an invited talk by Nora Hollenstein from the Center for Language Technology at the University of Copenhagen. The talk will take place [in person, location to be announced] at 13:00.

20 Apr. 2022, 14:00-15:00

Pioneer Centre for AI Virtual Seminar: Jia Deng

On 20 April, Pioneer Centre for AI will host a seminar by Jia Deng titled 'Toward Dense 3D Reconstruction in the Wild'.

22 Apr. 2022, 10:00-13:30

Digital Challenges and Solutions in the Energy Sector

Join us for a day of knowledge exchange, and find new collaboration partners for your next project about digitalization in the Energy Sector.

22 Apr. 2022, 14:00-16:00

PhD defence by Lys Sanz Moreta

On 22 April 2022, Lys Sanz Moreta will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Deep probabilistic programming applied to proteins'.

22 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2022

TOUCHLESS Hackathon 22 - 24 April

How can a touch be touchless? Mid-air haptics has the answer. Mid-air haptics refers to the activation of the sense of touch at a distance; the effect of feeling an invisible touch on your skin. Join this years Touchless Hackathon event.

25 Apr. 2022, 12:00-16:00

PhD defence by José David Tascon Vidarte

On 25 April 2022, Jose David Tascon Vidarte will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Real-time Deformable Image Registration Applied to Tumor Tracking in 2D Cine-MRI'.

25 Apr. 2022, 15:30-16:30

COPLAS Talk: Liam O'Connor, Quickstrom: Property-based Acceptance Testing with LTL Specifications

On 25 April, COPLAS will host a talk by Liam O'Connor of Edinburgh University titled 'Quickstrom: Property-based Acceptance Testing with LTL Specifications'.

26 Apr. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Learning Explainable Models of Behaviour

On 26 April the Software, Data, People, & Society (SDPS) Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

29 Apr. 2022, 13:01-14:00

BARC talk by Francesco Silvestri

Friday, 29 April 2022, Francesco Silvestri, Associate Professor at the University of Padova, Italy, will give a talk on "Algorithm design for emerging architectures".

4 May 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Carsten Baum

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, Carsten Baum, Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, will give a talk on "Efficient Designated-Verifier Zero-Knowledge and Cheese Puns".

4 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

COPLAS talk: Quantum Information Effects

On 4 May 2022 Robin Kaarsgaard will give a COPLAS Talk titled 'Quantum Information Effects'

6 May 2022, 10:30

27th ARCO 2022 at Malmö University

The next (27th) ARCO meeting will be held at Malmö University.

6 May 2022, 13:00-18:00

IT Career Day 2022

On 6 May 2022, DIKU Business Club will once again host IT Career Day, where companies and students in IT can meet and find future jobs and collaboration opportunities.

6 May 2022, 14:00-16:00

Pioneer Centre Science Talk: Guandao Yang

On 6 May, the Pioneer Centre for AI will host a Science Talk by Guando Yang, titled 'Geometry Processing with Discretization-Free Representation and Prior'.

9 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar by Stefan Sommer

On 9 May, the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, UCPH, holds a seminar titled 'Stochastic shape analysis and probabilistic geometric statistics' by Stefan Sommer.

10 May 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: "Why search engines are (unintentionally) designed to spread fake news"

On 10 May the Machine Learning Section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

11 May 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: A Distribution-Aware Decision Rule for Neural Machine Translation

On 11 May Bryan Eikema from the University of Amsterdam will give a talk titled 'A Distribution-Aware Decision Rule for Neural Machine Translation'

12 May 2022, 13:00-16:00

Inaugural Lectures: Glynn Winskel & Thomas Jensen

On 12 May 2022, Professors Glynn Winskel and Thomas Jensen will give their inaugural lectures titled 'Making Concurrency Functional' and 'Software Security from Program Analysis', respectively.

12 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

DIREC Talk: How corona changed distributed work – The future challenges in hybrid work

On 12 May, Professor Pernille Bjørn, will give af DIREC talk about how corona changed distributed work and what future challenges there might be in hybrid work

16 May 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Stefan Walzer

Monday, 16 May 2022, Stefan Walzer, a Postdoc at the University of Cologne, Germany, will give a talk on "Insertion Time of Random Walk Cuckoo Hashing below the Peeling".

18 May 2022, 15:15-16:15

BARC talk by Joakim Blikstad

Wednesday, 18 May 2022, Joakim Blikstad, a PhD student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, will give a talk on "Sublinear-round Parallel Matroid Intersection".

18 May 2022, 16:00-18:00

DIKU Alumni Event for PhD/Post doc

Three life stories from former DIKU PhD students reflecting on the question: What I would like to have known before moving into my career after DIKU?

20 May 2022, 12:00-17:30

Pre-CVPR Seminar at the Pioneer Centre for AI

On 20 May the Pioneer Centre for AI are hosting a Pre-CVPR Seminar - See the full program below.

23 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

DIKU Bits Extra: ATARI WOMEN - retro gaming and the women pioneers behind them

On 23 May the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a extra DIKU Bits lecture.

23 May 2022, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Faezeh Moshfeghifar

On 23 May 2022, Faezeh Moshfeghifar will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Hip Joint Finite Element Modeling'.

23 May 2022, 15:30-16:30

COPLAS talk: Quickstrom: Property-based Acceptance Testing with LTL Specifications

On 25 April, COPLAS will host a talk by Liam O'Connor of Edinburgh University titled 'Quickstrom: Property-based Acceptance Testing with LTL Specifications'.

24 May 2022, 9:00-13:00

PhD defence by Renfei Liu

On 24 May 2022, Renfei Liu will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Group and Pseudo-group Convolutional Neural Networks - Learning on Curved Spaces with the Application to DWI Segmentation'.

24 May 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Dynamic Graph Algorithms

On 24 May the Algorithms and Complexity (AC) Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

25 May 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Linda Kleist

Wednesday, 25 May 2022, Linda Kleist, research scientist at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Department of Computer Science, Germany, will give a talk on "Ringel’s circle problem".

30 May 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar by Andres Masegosa

On 30 May the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled ''Diversity and Generalization in Neural Network Ensembles" by Andres Masegosa, Aalborg University.

1 June 2022, 14:01-16:30

BARC/MIAO talk by Stephan Gocht

Wednesday, 1 June 2022, Stephan Gocht, PhD student at Lund University, Sweden, will give a talk on "Certifying Correctness for Combinatorial Algorithms by Using Pseudo-Boolean Reasoning".

7 June 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Automatic analysis of microscope images

On 7 June the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling, and Geometry Section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

8 June - 10 June 2022

Workshop on Stochastic Morphometrics

On 8-10 June 2022, the Center for Computational Evolutionary Morphometry (CCEM) and the connected Stochastic Morphometry Project is hosting a 3-day workshop.

10 June - 1 July 2022

MSc Defences Summer 2022

See the list of the MSc defences at DIKU this summer. The list will continuously be updated.

13 June 2022, 14:00-15:30

Pioneer Centre Science Talk by Marco De Nadai

On 13 June the Pioneer Centre for AI is hosting a Pioneer Centre Science Talk by Marco De Nadai titled 'Efficient Training of Vision Transformers'

15 June 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Ivor van der Hoog

Wednesday, 15 June 2022, Ivor van der Hoog, postdoc at Technical University of Denmark, will give a talk on "Worst-case deterministic fully-dynamic biconnectivity in planar embedded graph".

17 June 2022, 9:15-13:00

PhD defence by Evangelos Kipouridis

On 17 June Evangelos Kipouridis will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Clustering, Weighted Sequences, and Shortest Paths'

20 June 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar by Tomer Koren

On 20 June the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Benign underfitting of Stochastic Gradient Descent, and some other peculiarities' by Tomer Koren.

21 June 2022, 14:00-17:30

AI Meets Life Science and Biotech Symposium

On 21 June the Novo Nordisk Foundation is hosting a workshop organised by the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence (P1), the Danish Data Science Academy (DDSA), and the Center for Basic Machine Learning in Life Science (MLLS).

22 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Pioneer Centre for AI Seminar by Ronald C. Arkin

On 22 June the Pioneer Centre for AI is hosting a seminar by Ronald C. Arkin (Georgia Tech) titled 'Robots that Need to Mislead: Biologically-inspired Machine Deception'. .

24 June 2022, 14:00

Responsible AI Seminar: From Attribution Maps to Concept-Level Explainable AI

On 24 June the Pioneer Centre for AI is hosting a talk titled 'From Attribution Maps to Concept-Level Explainable AI - A joint seminar with the Pioneer Centre for AI'

27 June 2022, 13:01-14:00

BARC talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak

Monday, 27 June 2022, Thatchaphol Saranurak, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, USA, will give a talk on "All-pairs minimum cuts in nearly quadratic time: a tutorial".

1 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

DIKU Talk: Self-Adjusting Data Structures by Robert Tarjan

On 1 July 2022, BARC will host a talk by Robert Tarjan titled 'Self Adjusting Data Structures'. The talk is open to all students and researchers.

13 July 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Shyam Narayanan

Wednesday, 13 July 2022, Shyam Narayanan, PhD student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, will give a talk on "Improved Approximations for Euclidean k-means and k-median, via Nested Quasi-Independent Sets".

8 Aug. 2022, 15:00-16:30

Pioneer Centre Science Talk: Effects Talk by Professor Nathan Kallus

On 6 May, the Pioneer Centre for AI will host a Science Talk by Professor Nathan Kallus, titled 'What's the Harm? Bounding Disparities in Treatment'.

19 Aug. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA Seminar by Stefan Bauer

On 19 August the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'Towards Learning Causal Representations & Interactive Benchmarks' by Stefan Bauer.

25 Aug. - 26 Aug. 2022

HPC Curriculum Seminar

Contemporary competences in High Performance Computing are crucial for industry and research.

2 Sept. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: Putting Words in BERT's Mouth: Navigating Contextualized Vector Spaces with Pseudowords

On 2 September Taelin Karidi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will give a talk titled 'Putting Words in BERT's Mouth: Navigating Contextualized Vector Spaces with Pseudowords'

13 Sept. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: What do multilingual language models learn about language?

On 13 September the Natural Language and Processing (NLP) Section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

20 Sept. - 7 Oct. 2022

MSc Defences Fall 2022

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this fall. The list will continuously be updated.

21 Sept. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Niv Dayan

Tuesday, 21 September 2022, our new colleague Niv Dayan, Postdoc at BARC and newest addition to the AC section at DIKU, will give a talk about his past and current research.

23 Sept. 2022, 12:00-18:00

Pioneer Centre Seminar: Pre-ECCV Seminar

On 23 September the Pioneer Centre for AI is hosting a Seminar

23 Sept. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: AI tools for the child and youth psychiatry - focused on OCD

On 23 September Associate Professor Line Katrine Harder Clemmensen, DTU Compute, will give a talk titled 'AI tools for the child and youth psychiatry - focused on OCD'.

26 Sept. 2022, 8:00-17:00

Nordic Fintech Symposium 2022

Join Nordic Fintech Symposium Monday 26 September 2022 and you will experience the world's top fintech researchers, giving you access to groundbreaking research directly applicable to companies in the industry.

27 Sept. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Carbon Footprint of Deep Learning

On 27 September the Machine Learning (ML) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

29 Sept. 2022, 17:00-21:00

DIKU Alumni Day 2022

You can meet the AI Pioneer Center director Serge Belongie, Associate Professor Boris Düdder, Assistant Professor Valkyrie Savage, and Professor Barry Brown from DIKU as well as Carsten Lassen, CEO of Specialisterne.

30 Sept. 2022, 13:00-16:00

Master class in programming for CS students

Will you participate in the Danish Championship in programming on 8 October? Strengthen your skills when DIKU hosts two master classes for UCPH students on Tuesday, 20 and Friday 30. September respectively.

30 Sept. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: Big data for predicting student success - limits and policy potential

On 30 September 2022, Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Associate Professor at Department of Economics and member of SODAS, University of Copenhagen, will give a talk titled 'Big data for predicting student success - limits and policy potential'.

30 Sept. 2022, 14:15-18:00

PhD defence by Mathias Højgaard Jensen

On

30

September Mathias Højgaard Jensen will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Stochastic Bridge Sampling on Manifolds'.

3 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Saeed Masoudian

On 3 October the DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds a seminar titled 'A Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Bandits with Delayed Feedback' by Saeed Masoudian.

4 Oct. 2022, 13:15

DIKU Talk by Stephen Kobourov: Visualizing Data with Familiar Metaphors

On 4 October, the HCC section organizes a talk titled 'Visualizing Data with Familiar Metaphors' with a visit from Professor Stephen Kobourov.

4 Oct. 2022, 14:01-16:30

MIAO/BARC talk by Robert Andrews

Matrix multiplication and polynomial identity testing

6 Oct. 2022, 11:45-13:00

Pioneer Centre for AI Lunch Talk: Robert Jenssen

Pioneer Centre for AI Lunch Talk, Robert Jenssen: Learning from limited data - few shot learning for medical image segmentation and prototype-based Explainability.

6 Oct. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by prof. Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona

Contact Representation of Planar Graphs in 2D and 3D

7 Oct. 2022, 13:00

AI Seminar: Human-Centered Natural Language Processing

On 7 October 2022, Andrew Schwartz, Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, will give a talk titled 'Human-Centered Natural Language Processing'.

7 Oct. 2022, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Pengfei Diao

On 7 October Pengfei Diao will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Automated Mammographic Risk Scoring and Domain Adaptation for X-ray Image'.

7 Oct. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Karl Bringmann

Fine-Grained Complexity of Distance Oracles

10 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Yi-Shan Wu

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Split-kl and PAC-Bayes-split-kl Inequalities ' by Yi-Shan Wu.

10 Oct. 2022, 15:30-20:00

PhD defence by Viktor Fredslund-Hansen

On 10 October Viktor Fredslund-Hansen will defend his PhD thesis titled 'On shortest path algorithms: Decremental and planar embedded graphs'.

11 Oct. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Du har øget risiko for hjertestop i 30 dage: Hvorfor er ML i sundhed så svært?

On 11 October the Software, Data, People & Society (SDPS) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture in Danish.

11 Oct. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Piotr Sankowski

Improved Feature Importance Computation for Tree Models Based on the Banzhaf Value

12 Oct. 2022, 13:00-16:00

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Mikkel Abrahamsen

On the 12th of October, Mikkel Abrahamsen will do his Final Appraisal Seminar titled "Geometric packing and decomposition problems".

13 Oct. 2022, 13:00-14:30

Pioneer Centre for AI Talk: Fisher Yu

Pioneer Centre for AI Talk by Fisher Yu: Towards Complete 4D Scene Understanding

14 Oct. 2022, 16:00

NLP seminar talk by Julia Kreuzter (Google)

Join us for an NLP seminar talk with Julia Kreuzter from Google. The talk will take place on Zoom.

18 Oct. 2022, 14:01-16:30

MIAO/BARC talk by Emre Yolcu

Exponential separations using guarded extension variables

24 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Aviv Rosenberg

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Delay and Cooperation in Reinforcement Learning' by Aviv Rosenberg.

24 Oct. 2022, 15:15-18:30

PhD defence by Heather Christine Lent

On 24 October Heather Christine Lent will defend her PhD thesis titled 'NLP Across the Resource Landscape: Development in Creole NLP & Evaluation in Semantic Parsing'.

25 Oct. - 26 Oct. 2022

Digital Tech Summit 2022

KU er stærkt repræsenteret med talere til dette års Digital Tech Summit konference 25. og 26. oktober i Bella Center

25 Oct. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits by Omri Ross (PLTC)

On 25 October the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

26 Oct. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Sampson Wong

Improving the dilation of a metric graph by adding edges

3 Nov. 2022, 14:30-15:30

Full Stack Visualization: From Vision to Insight

Join us for a talk by Niklas Elmqvist!

4 Nov. 2022, 15:00-16:00

Pioneer Centre for AI Talk: Dr. Enzo Ferrante

Pioneer Centre for AI talk by Enzo Ferrante: Fairness of machine learning in medical image analysis

7 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2022

DDSA Conference: Danish Data Science 2022

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8 Nov. 2022, 9:00-13:00

PhD defence by Pepa Kostadinova Atanasova

On 8 November Pepa Kostadinova Atanasova will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text'.

8 Nov. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Marcin Pilipczuk

Flow-augmentation

11 Nov. 2022, 9:30-17:00

Learning through XR

Hear cases and exchange best practice on how we can create the best learning experiences in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality or Mixed Reality – the world of XR.

11 Nov. 2022, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Mysteries in multi-task learning and input representations for language models

On 11 November Rob van der Goot will give a talk titled "Mysteries in multi-task learning and input representations for language models".

14 Nov. 2022, 10:00-14:30

Matchmaking event for M.Sc. Students and Companies

Matchmaking Event for Computer Science students and companies / Insights & Technology Seminar

21 Nov. 2022, 14:01-16:30

MIAO Talk by Kilian Risse

Bounded depth proof for Tseitin formulas on the grid; revisited

22 Nov. 2022, 15:15-17:00

MSc Course Presentation

On Tuesday, Nov 22, at 3:15 pm, we invite you to hear about the elective courses and study tracks available on your MSc in Computer Science. See the program here.

23 Nov. 2022, 13:30-14:30

Pioneer Centre for AI Talk: Sergio Escalera

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24 Nov. 2022, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Torkan Gholamalizadeh

On 24 November, Torkan Gholamalizadeh will defend her PhD titled "Computational modeling and analysis of tooth movement".

24 Nov. 2022, 16:00-19:00

DIKU Alumni Annual General Meeting and Christmas-hygge

General Meeting of the DIKU Alumni Association and subsequent presentations and Christmas hygge. The annual general meeting will be convened in October.

25 Nov. 2022, 12:00-13:00

AI Seminar: Transforming the power grid to a zero-carbon future with data, machine learning and automation

Casper Kaae Sønderby, Co-founder of twig.energy, will give a talk titled "Transforming the power grid to a zero-carbon future with data, machine learning and automation".

25 Nov. 2022, 12:00-15:00

CS4ALL Network Meeting

The first event by CS4ALL, DIKU's community for women and gender minorities in computer science.

25 Nov. 2022, 14:01-16:30

MIAO Talk by Shuo Pang

SoS degree lower bound for exact clique

29 Nov. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: DADIU

On 29 November the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling, and Geometry (IMAGE) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

30 Nov. 2022, 12:00-16:00

HCC Open House

Come to Open House at the HCC section! Try exciting demos, see our labs, meet the researchers, hear about HCC courses, and much more.

1 Dec. 2022, 14:01-16:30

BARC/MIAO talk by Srikanth Srinivasan

Lower bounds for algebraic formulas

5 Dec. 2022, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Tzvika Geft

On Two-Handed Planar Assembly Partitioning with Connectivity Constraints

6 Dec. 2022, 14:01-16:30

MIAO Talk by Matti Järvisalo and Jeremias Berg

The implicit hitting set approach and its instantiation for pseudo-Boolean optimization

7 Dec. 2022, 9:25-12:00

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Naja Holten Møller

On 7 December, Naja Holten Møller will do her Final Appraisal Seminar titled "Confronting Differential Power in Data - Designing Futures of Public Technologies".

13 Dec. 2022, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: How do you Control a Quantum Computer?

On 13 December the Machine Learning (ML) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

23 Dec. 2022 - 30 Jan. 2023

MSc Defences Winter 2022/2023

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this winter. The list will continuously be updated.

4 Jan. 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Christian Thygesen

Join the first PhD defence of the year, where Christian Thygesen will defend his thesis "Accelerating vaccine development through a deep probabilistic programming approach to protein structure prediction".

10 Jan. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: What's the deal with ethics in computing (and AI)?

Join us when Irina Shklovski from the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

18 Jan. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Erik Jan van Leeuwen

Complexity Framework For Forbidden Subgraphs and Beyond

26 Jan. 2023, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Emilie Kaufmann

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits' by Emilie Kaufmann, INRIA Lille.

26 Jan. 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Chloé Alice Florence Rouyer

On 26 January Chloé Alice Florence Rouyer will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Theoretical Foundations of Learning with Worst-Case and Easy Data'.

27 Jan. 2023, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Gábor Lugosi

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Learning the structure of graphical models by covariance queries' by Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University.

27 Jan. 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Explaining molecular properties with natural language

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew White! Everybody is welcome to attend.

27 Jan. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Farewell reception for Finn Kensing

Finn Kensing will retire on 31 January 2023 - join us to celebrate his time at DIKU.

1 Feb. 2023, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Yuhu Liang

On 1 February Yuhu Liang will defend his PhD thesis titled 'In pursuit of gene variation of consequence to human health and disease'.

1 Feb. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Justin Chen

Online Bipartite Matching with Degree Information

2 Feb. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Sandeep Silwal

Sublinear Hypothesis selection

3 Feb. 2023, 11:00-12:00

AI Seminar: Accurate somatic mutation detection using weakly supervised deep learning

Anders Skanderup, Principal Investigator at the Genome Institute of Singapore, will give a talk. Everybody is welcome to attend.

3 Feb. 2023, 14:15-16:15

Inaugural Lectures: Rasmus Pagh & Jakob Nordström

On 3 February 2023, Professors Rasmus Pagh and Jakob Nordström will give their inaugural lectures titled '' and '', respectively.

7 Feb. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Pavel Veselý

Streaming Facility Location in High Dimension via Geometric Hashing

8 Feb. 2023, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Mladen Kolar

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'An Adaptive Stochastic Sequential Quadratic Programming with Differentiable Exact Augmented Lagrangians'.

10 Feb. 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Platform intelligence in news

Join us for a talk by Stine Lomborg and Rasmus Helles, Associate Professors in the Department of Communication and part of Center for Tracking & Society, University of Copenhagen will give a talk. Everybody is welcome to attend.

10 Feb. 2023, 13:30-15:00

MSc Virtual Open House 2023

Learn more about the Master’s programmes in Computer Science when University of Copenhagen presents each of the Master of Science programmes at Virtual Open House on 10 February 2023.

14 Feb. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Mapping Brains with Language Models

Join us when Antonia Karamolegkou from DIKU's Natural Language Processing (NLP) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

24 Feb. - 12 May 2023

Executive Masterclass – Ethical and Responsible AI

This Masterclass is for decision makers and professionals working in the Finance and Fintech industry, who seek insights in working with Artificial Intelligence in a responsible and trustworthy way.

24 Feb. 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Data governance and transparency for Large Language Models: lessons from the BigScience Workshop

Join us for this AI Seminar by Anna Rogers, Assistant Professor in the Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. Everybody is welcome to attend.

27 Feb. 2023, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Amartya Sanyal

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Trustworthy Machine Learning under statistical limitations' by Amartya Sanyal, ETH.

28 Feb. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Cutting Cotton Compactly – a Computational Conundrum

Join us when Mikkel Abrahamsen from DIKU's Algorithms and Complexity section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

1 Mar. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Yi Li

The $\ell_p$-Subspace Sketch Problem

9 Mar. 2023, 15:00-18:00

PhD defence by Dustin Brandon Wright

Join us when Dustin Brandon Wright will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Machine Understanding of Scientific Language'.

10 Mar. 2023, 9:00-15:30

QIM Celebration and Workshop - From Foundation to Vision

We are celebrating the advances that we have made in 3D image analysis in the QIM Center’s first five years.

14 Mar. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Data and Categorization in Asylum Decision-making

Join us when Trine Rask Nielsen from the Software, Data, People and Society (SPDS) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

20 Mar. 2023, 11:00-12:00

BARC Talk by Elena Pagnin

Progressive Verification for Cryptographic Schemes

24 Mar. 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: XAI for representation learning

Join us for an online talk by Robert Jenssen, Director of SFI Visual Intelligence and Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Everybody is welcome to attend.

28 Mar. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Efficient Robot Learning under Uncertainty

Join us when Hang Yin from the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling, and Geometry section (IMAGE) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

29 Mar. 2023, 13:01-14:00

BARC Talk by Jacob Imola

Counting Triangles in a Graph under Local Differential Privacy

29 Mar. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Jacob Imola

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31 Mar. 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Interpreting Training

Join us for a talk by Naomi Saphra, Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University. Everybody is welcome to attend.

12 Apr. 2023, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Julian Zimmert

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits' by Emilie Kaufmann, INRIA Lille.

12 Apr. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Tamalika Mukherjee

How to Make Your Approximation Algorithm Private

14 Apr. 2023, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Andreas David Lauritzen

Join us when Andreas David Lauritzen will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Development and Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening'.

17 Apr. 2023, 10:00-11:00

AI Seminar: Inferring selection effects in SARS-CoV-2 with Bayesian Viral Allele Selection

Join us for this AI Seminar by Martin Jankowiak, machine learning scientist at Generate Biomedicines. Everybody is welcome to attend.

17 Apr. 2023, 13:30-17:00

PhD defence by Ola Rønning

Join us when Ola Rønning will defend their PhD thesis titled 'A Probabilistic Approach to the Protein Folding Problem'.

26 Apr. 2023, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Per Steffen Czolbe

Join us when Per Steffen Czolbe will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Development and Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening'.

27 Apr. 2023, 16:30-18:00

DIKU Alumni event on cybersecurity

DIKU ALUMNEFORENING: Vi sætter fokus på sikkerhed til dette medlemsevent.

28 Apr. 2023, 12:30-13:30

AI Seminar: Machine Learning Powered Inference in Cosmology

Join us for a talk by Pablo Lemos. Everybody is welcome to attend.

2 May - 4 May 2023

XR Symposium & Summer School 2023

The summer school on XR invites participants to Copenhagen, Denmark for three days. The participants will learn about a wide range of topics across Human–Computer Interaction with Extended Reality.

2 May 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Deception is OK when you gotta go fast

Join us when Troels Henriksen from the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing section (PLTC) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

10 May 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Weiming Feng

A Markov chain approach to the sampling Lovász local lemma

11 May 2023, 9:00-15:30

Natural Language Symposium

Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) with the purpose of fostering collaboration among researchers.

12 May 2023, 13:00-18:00

IT Career Day 2023

Join us at IT Career Day, kicking off 12 may 2023. It is a unique opportunity for companies and students within IT at the University of Copenhagen to meet and find future job and collaboration opportunities.

16 May 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Why the Body is Not a Neutral Design Space When It Comes to Self-Tracking Technologies

Join us when Sarah Homewood from the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

16 May 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Fabrizio Grandoni

Unsplittable Flow on a Path

17 May 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Philip Munksgaard

Join us when Philip Munksgaard will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Static and Dynamic Analyses for Efficient GPU Execution'.

23 May 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Asbjørn William Ammitzbøll Flügge

Join us when Asbjørn William Ammitzbøll Flügge will defend his PhD thesis titled "Where the Practice is - a study of humans and machines in public employment services".

26 May 2023, 12:30-15:00

CS4ALL network meeting: DIKU’s journey towards more diversity

Join DIKU’s community for women and other gender minorities for a nice afternoon, where we will eat lunch together and talk about diversity and equity in computer science.

30 May 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Deep learning and remote sensing for ecosystem monitoring

Join us when Christian Igel from the Machine Learning section (ML) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

30 May 2023, 15:01-16:00

BARC talk by Vincent Cohen-Addad

To celebrate the renewal of the BARC grant, we are happy to welcome a BARC alumni, Vincent Cohen-Addad to give a talk on Tuesday 30 May 2023.

1 June 2023, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Yi-Shan Wu

Join us when Yi-Shan Wu will defend their PhD thesis titled "Second-Order Concentration Inequalities with Application to the Weighted Majority Vote".

1 June 2023, 14:01-16:30

MIAO Talk by Malte Helmert

Lower bound functions for optimal classical planning

2 June 2023, 14:30-15:30

BARC Talk by Samuel McCauley

Online List Labeling with Predictions

6 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

AI Talk: Fact-checking Online Information Using The Crowd

Join us when Assistant Professor Kevin Roitero from the University of Udine will give a talk titled 'Fact-checking Online Information Using The Crowd'.

7 June 2023

Copenhagen Programming Language Workshop (COPLAW) 2023

CoPLaWS is a series of annual workshops for programming language researchers working in the greater Copenhagen area (DTU, KU, ITU, RUC, but also open to researchers in industry and other institutions).

12 June - 6 Oct. 2023

MSc Defences Summer 2023

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this summer. The list will be continuously updated.

14 June 2023, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Marloes Elisabeth Arts

Join us when Marloes Arts will defend their PhD thesis titled "Generative Models for Proteins: Ensembles, Dynamics and Evolution".

14 June 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Sabine Storandt

Polyline Bundles: Simplification, Segmentation and Selection

23 June 2023, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Rasmus Kær Jørgensen

Join us when Rasmus Kær Jørgensen will defend their PhD thesis titled "Multilingual Natural Language Processing for Applications in the Financial Domain".

28 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

AI Seminar: Developing and deploying time series models in healthcare

Join us for a talk by Anna Goldenberg, professor in the departments of Computer Science and the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Everybody is welcome to attend.

30 June 2023, 13:05-14:00

COPLAS talk: Tail recursion transformation for invertible functions

Join us for this COPLAS talk by Joachim Tilsted Kristensen, PhD student at Oslo University.

28 July 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Jiaheng Wang

Towards derandomising Markov chain Monte Carlo

7 Aug. 2023, 11:00-14:00

PhD defence by Nils Rethmeier

Join us when Nils Rethmeier will defend their PhD thesis titled "Efficient, Adaptable and Interpretable NLP".

10 Aug. - 11 Aug. 2023

Appreciating AI

In this two-day course, offered by the Data Science Laboratory, we will provide an overview of ML/AI methods with a focus on their applications to the sciences within the University of Copenhagen.

14 Aug. 2023, 11:01-12:00

BARC Talk by John Kallaugher: Sublinear Algorithms and Quantum Computing

Join us for John Kallaughers talk about Sublinear Algorithms and Quantum Computing.

15 Aug. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Giorgio Vinciguerra

Learned Monotone Minimal Perfect Hashing

21 Aug. 2023, 9:00-10:00

AI Seminar: Feedback in Quantum Algorithms: Bridging Quantum Information and Machine Learning

Join us for a talk by Jacob Biamonte, Distinguished Faculty Scholar in Quantum Sciences at the NASA Ames Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Everybody is welcome to attend.

21 Aug. 2023, 10:00-11:00

AI Seminar: ML for the sciences - towards understanding

Join us for a talk by Klaus-Robert Müller, professor of computer science at Technische Universität Berlin. Everybody is welcome to attend.

21 Aug. 2023, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Mathias Perslev

Join us when Mathias Perslev will defend his PhD thesis titled "Segmentation of medical images and time series using fully convolutional neural networks".

23 Aug. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Noga Ron-Zewi: Highly-efficient local proofs

Join us Noga Ron-Zewi's talk on Highly-efficient local proofs

25 Aug. 2023, 10:00-13:30

Workshop: Get ready for ESG and Energy Sector Coupling

Collaboration and knowledge exchange: Join us for a workshop addressing the upcoming ESG-reporting requirements, and presenting cases for collaboration on Scoped Carbon Accounting and energy sector coupling

28 Aug. 2023, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Abraham George Smith

Join us when Abraham George Smith will defend his PhD thesis titled "Deep-Learning Image Segmentation with Corrective Annotation".

7 Sept. 2023, 12:00-13:00

Applied AI Lunch Talks: The Law School of UCPH & Novozymes

Applied AI Lunch Talks are back after a summer break, and there are two exciting talks lined up for you. Here you can learn about how to "Navigate the AI Act" and "Use AI to Create Value From the Data Haystack".

12 Sept. 2023, 12:15-13:00

(CANCELLED) DIKU Bits: Digital twinning in agriculture and healthcare

This edition of DIKU Bits has unfortunately been cancelled. A new date to follow.

15 Sept. - 20 Sept. 2023

Get ready for the Danish Championship in Programming at two master classes

Do you have ambitions to win the next Danish Championship in programming? Then get ready for a 2 x masterclass with Jonas Klausen and David Lolck, former champion-competition programmers as coaches.

18 Sept. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talks by Carolin Rehs and Kevin Buchin: Oriented Spanners & Uncertain Points and Trajectories

Join us for Carolin Rehs' talk on Oriented Spanners and Kevin Buchin's talk on Uncertain Points and Trajectories

21 Sept. 2023, 16:00-18:00

ReWork Artistic Exploratory: Research and Art Exhibition (RAE²)

Come and join us when we are presenting art prototypes and research exploring the future of work. Join artists along with researchers from the ReWork research project, for this multidisciplinary art event, research exhibit, and reception.

22 Sept. 2023, 13:45-16:00

PhD defence by Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen

Join us when Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen will defend their PhD thesis titled 'New Results on Hash Functions and Hashing-Based Algorithms'.

28 Sept. 2023, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by PhD defence by Carl Victor von Wachter

Join us when Carl Victor von Wachter will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Decentralized Finance: Building and Analyzing Financial Infrastructure on Blockchain Technology'.

28 Sept. 2023, 17:00-21:00

DIKU Alumni Day 2023: AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential

DIKU ALUMNI ' ASSOCIATION: DIKU Business Club and DIKU Alumni invite you to the annual Alumni day about 'AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential '.

2 Oct. - 3 Oct. 2023

The Nordic AI Meet 2023

The Nordic AI Meet is an annual conference where researchers in early careers can meet and learn about new ideas, methods, and theories within AI and build a professional network that will be useful in developing knowledge-based applications of AI.

3 Oct. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Neurodiversity in Computer Science - Accessibility Breakdowns & Bottom-up Micro-Interventions

Join us when Valeria Borsotti from the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

4 Oct. 2023, 8:30-16:00

Workshop: AI Research Moonshots

This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in learning more about how to envision and execute grand ideas for your own research.

9 Oct. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Katharina Klost: Shortest Path in general disk graphs... & Sarita de Berg: The Complexity of Geodesic Spanners

Join us for Katharina Klost's talk on Shortest Path in general disk graphs and an algorithmic framework for SSSP and Sarita de Berg's talk on The Complexity of Geodesic Spanners.

10 Oct. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Randomly finding bugs

Join us when Ken Friis Larsen from the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

12 Oct. 2023, 13:00-14:00

DeLTA Seminar by Xiaoyan Hu: (More) Sample-Efficient Offline RL with Options

The DeLTA Lab from DIKU presents this seminar by Xiaoyan Hu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

12 Oct. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Leonid Reyzin: Approximate Lower Bounds Arguments

Join us for Leonid Reyzin's talk: Approximate Lower Bounds Arguments on Thursday the 12th of October!

13 Oct. 2023, 10:00-11:00

Pioneer Centre Talk: Why Fostering Inclusive NLP needs More Inclusion

Before Anne Lauscher, Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Hamburg will speak at the CS4ALL Talks, she will deliver a talk at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

13 Oct. 2023, 12:00-14:00

CS4ALL Talks: Bias and inclusiveness in computer science

Join us for two inspiring talks, lunch, and discussion.

13 Oct. 2023, 18:00-23:59

Culture Night 2023

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invites you to fun, educational, and creative activities for the whole family on Culture Night. Our researchers and students will guide you through the wonderful world of computer science.

18 Oct. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Weiqiang Yuan: One-Way Functions vs. TFNP: Simpler and Improved

Join us for Weqiang Yuan's talk: One-Way Functions vs. TFNP: Simpler and Improved on Wednesday the 18th of October 2023!

24 Oct. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Cultural Adaptation of Large Language Models

Join us when Yong Cao from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

25 Oct. 2023, 14:00-17:00

HCC Open House

Visit DIKU’s Human-Centred Computing section and get thesis ideas, try exciting demos, hear about the HCC courses, and enjoy drinks, snacks, and great company.

26 Oct. 2023, 13:00-14:00

DeLTA seminar by Kasper Green Larsen: Bagging is an Optimal PAC Learner

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Bagging is an Optimal PAC Learner' by Kasper Green Larsen, Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University.

30 Oct. - 9 Nov. 2023

Dive into the latest AI technologies and join a knowledge exchange course

How can your company gain insights about the latest AI technologies - and how can you use AI in the business yourself?

2 Nov. 2023, 13:00-14:00

DeLTA seminar by Kaixin Wang: Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning: Approximation, Reachability, and Beyond

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning: Approximation, Reachability, and Beyond' by Kaixin Wang, postdoctoral researcher at the Technion.

6 Nov. 2023, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Saeed Masoudian: Best-of-Both-Worlds Learning in Bandits with Delayed Feedback

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Best-of-Both-Worlds Learning in Bandits with Delayed Feedback' by Saeed Masoudian, postdoc in the ML section at DIKU.

6 Nov. - 10 Nov. 2023

Workshop on Verifiable and Robust AI

This interdisciplinary conference will consist of a combination of invited talks, panel discussions, working groups, and contributed talks and poster presentations.

8 Nov. - 9 Nov. 2023

Digital Tech Summit 2023: AI Transforming Business

For the third year in a row, the Danish universities in collaboration with Teknologiens Mediehus open the doors to Digital Tech Summit, the Nordic region's largest deep tech conference and fair.

9 Nov. 2023, 14:01-15:00

Providentia Talk by Boel Nelson: Towards Provable Transport Layer Privacy

Come and join us for Boel Nelson's talk: Towards Provable Transport Layer Privacy

11 Nov. 2023, 13:00-14:00

COPLAS Talk: Lambda-Superposition: From Theory to Trophy

Join this COPLAS talk by Jasmin Blanchette from LMU München. All are welcome. No registration is required.

13 Nov. 2023, 9:30-14:00

DIKU Business Club Matchmaking event for M.Sc. Students and companies

Matchmaking Event for Computer Science students and companies

13 Nov. 2023, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif : Bayes meets Bernstein in meta-learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Bayes meets Bernstein in meta-learning' by Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif, CNRS researcher at Sorbonne Université & Université Paris Cité.

16 Nov. - 17 Nov. 2023

Tech Policy Days

You are invited to Tech Policy Days on 16 – 17 November – two days where researchers from here and abroad together with decision makers from companies, civil society and political life meet to develop new insights and discuss a rapidly changing tech agenda.

20 Nov. 2023, 15:30-18:30

PhD defence by Concetto Emanuele Bugliarello

Join us when Concetto Emanuele Bugliarello will defend his PhD thesis titled "On Multimodal Representations Learned at Scale".

21 Nov. 2023, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Tuukka Korhonen: Dynamic treewidth

Come join us for Tuukka Korhonen's BARC talk on Dynamic treewidth

23 Nov. 2023, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Saeed Masoudian

Join us when Saeed Masoudian will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Best-of-Both-Worlds Learning in Bandits with Delayed Feedback'.

27 Nov. 2023

DeLTA seminar by Andrea Tirinzoni: On Instance-optimal PAC Reinforcement Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'On Instance-optimal PAC Reinforcement Learning' by Andrea Tirinzoni, postdoctoral researcher in the FAIR team at Meta (Paris).

28 Nov. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Machine Learning for the Control of Spin Qubits

Join us when Oswin Krause from the Machine Learning (ML) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

5 Dec. 2023, 10:00-11:00

DeLTA seminar by Nirupam Gupta: Machine Learning in Untrusted Environment

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled Machine Learning in Untrusted Environment' by Nirupam Gupta, postdoc at Computer Science Department at EPFL.

5 Dec. 2023, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Stochastic convex optimization

Join us when Amir Yehudayoff from the Algorithms and Complexity (AC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

7 Dec. 2023, 16:30-18:00

MSc Virtual Open House on 7 December

Join us for MSc Virtual Open House on 7 December

8 Dec. 2023, 13:15-16:00

PhD defence by Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen

Join us when Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen will defend his PhD thesis titled "The Programming of Algebra ".

14 Dec. 2023, 15:00-16:00

DIKU Talk: An abridged history of DuckDB: database tech from Amsterdam

Join this talk by Peter Boncz, Professor at VU Amsterdam and researcher at CWI.

18 Dec. 2023, 14:15-15:00

BARC Talk by Dani Dorfman: Expander Decomposition with Fewer Inter-Cluster Edges Using a Spectral Cut Player

Join us for the last BARC talk of the year by Dani Dorfman: Expander Decomposition with Fewer Inter-Cluster Edges Using a Spectral Cut Player

19 Dec. 2023, 12:15-13:00

(CANCELLED) DIKU Bits: Studying microbes with deep learning

Join us when Svetlana Kutuzova from the Pioneer AI (P1AI) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

19 Dec. 2023, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Suraj Srinavas: On The (Missing) Foundations of Interpretable Machine Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'On The (Missing) Foundations of Interpretable Machine Learning' by Suraj Srinavas, postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University.

5 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2024

MSc Defences Winter 2024

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this winter. The list will be updated continuously.

8 Jan. 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Daniil Dmitrievs: Lower Bounds for Online Private Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Lower Bounds for Online Private Learning' by Daniil Dmitriev, ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellow at ETH Zürich.

9 Jan. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: AI in Healthcare: Should we be worried?

Join us when Boris Düdder from the Software, Data, People & Society (SDPS) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

15 Jan. 2024, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Andreea-Anamaria Muresan

Join us when Andreea-Anamaria Muresan from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Building Blocks of Future Interfaces Concept-Driven Interaction Design in Virtual Reality'.

17 Jan. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Pavel Hrubes: Witnessing for non-negative rank and communication complexity

Come join us for Pavel Hrubes' talk: Witnessing for non-negative rank and communication complexity

23 Jan. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Andreas Björklund: Another Hamiltonian Cycle in Bipartite Pfaffian Graphs

Come join us for Andreas Björklund's introduction talk on Another Hamiltonian Cycle in Bipartite Pfaffian Graphs

24 Jan. 2024, 11:00-12:00

P1 Guest Talk: An Incredibly Short Introduction to Modular Deep Learning

Join this talk by Ivan Vulić at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

24 Jan. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Karolina Stańczak

Join us when Karolina Stańczak from the NLP section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'A Multilingual Perspective on Probing Gender Bias'.

26 Jan. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Jon Eklöf

Join us when Jon Eklöf from the PLTC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'AI Transformation in the Manufacturing Industry'.

1 Feb. - 2 Feb. 2024

Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI – D3A 1.0

On 1-2 February 2024, we are bringing together researchers, students, and professionals from a wide range of fields to share the latest research and insights, gain new knowledge, exchange ideas, and make valuable connections across geography, scientific domains, and sub-fields.

6 Feb. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: 3D Reconstruction with Neural Networks

Join us when Robin Bruneau from the IMAGE section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

8 Feb. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Paul Schreiner

Join us when Paul Schreiner from the IMAGE section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'ADAM: Auto-Animation of Digital Humans Using AI Methods'.

9 Feb. 2024, 13:30-15:00

MSc Virtual Open House 2024

Learn more about the Master’s programmes in Computer Science when University of Copenhagen presents each of the Master of Science programmes at Virtual Open House on 9 February 2024.

20 Feb. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: You Can't Do That

Join us when the Srikanth Srinivasan from the AC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

27 Feb. 2024, 13:00-14:15

Talk: NLP at the Cross-Roads of Digital Humanities and the Social Sciences

Join us for this talk at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence by Steffen Eger and his research group.

27 Feb. 2024, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Thomas van Gemert

Join us when Thomas van Gemert from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Whole-body Movement in Virtual Reality: Creating Better Experiences through Walking and Maneuvering'.

4 Mar. 2024, 13:30-16:30

PhD defence by Trine Rask Nielsen

Join us when Trine Rask Nielsen from the SDPS section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'ENCODING CARE IN CASEWORK: The Role of Data in Asylum Decision-making from a Practice Perspective'

5 Mar. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Your Code Works — But Can You Prove It Beyond Doubt?

Join us when Ken Friis Larsen from the PLTC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

7 Mar. 2024, 16:20-19:00

Pioneer Centre for AI & Danish Data Science Community Meetup

We've gathered experts and researchers in the field of AI from P1 to share their knowledge and insights and network at their beautiful headquarters in the Copenhagen Botanical Gardens Observatory.

13 Mar. 2024, 13:00-17:00

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Oswin Krause

Join us for Oswin Krause's final appraisal seminar and reception before becoming an Associate Professor.

19 Mar. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Retrieval-augmented Image Captioning

Join us when Rita Ramos from the NLP section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

22 Mar. - 18 Apr. 2024

MSc Defences Spring 2024

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this winter. The list will be updated continuously.

5 Apr. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Lorenzo Beretta

Join us when Lorenzo Beretta from the AC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Sublinear Algorithms, Online Packing, Hashing and Clustering'.

8 Apr. - 10 Apr. 2024

International workshop on AI and Topology

Join us for an International workshop in Copenhagen on the Theoretical Foundations and Applications of Topology in Machine Learning with Extensions to Image Processing and back!

8 Apr. 2024, 14:00-15:00

Re-centering AI for Health Towards Patients - with Great [Computing] Power, Comes Great Responsibility

Join us for the first Distinguished Lecture Series, where Natalie Benda talks on AI and Health

10 Apr. 2024, 16:00-20:00

Final Appraisal Seminar for Tenure Track Assistant Professor Desmond Elliott

Join us for Desmond Elliott's final appraisal seminar and reception before becoming an Associate Professor.

12 Apr. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Hubert Dariusz Zając

Join us when Hubert Dariusz Zając from the SDPS section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'It takes a village to raise clinical AI. Towards clinical usefulness of AI in healthcare'.

12 Apr. 2024, 16:00-19:00

PhD defence by Valeria Borsotti

Join us when Valeria Borsotti from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Making Trouble: Reconfiguring Equity & Accessibility in Computer Science'.

15 Apr. - 16 Apr. 2024

Generative AI in Life Science conference

Join us on the 15th and 16th of April where we will be hosting a conference with lots of interesting talks about generative AI in life science.

16 Apr. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC Talk by Dan Halperin

Join us for Dan Halperin's talk: From snapping fixtures to multi-robot coordination:
Geometry at the service of robotics

22 Apr. 2024, 15:15-16:15

MATH Talk by László Lovász

On Monday the 22nd of April 2024, our colleagues in the MATH Department are hosting Professor Emeritus László Lovász who will be giving a Harald Bohr Lecture and Danish Mathematical Society Abel Prize Lecture with the title: Discrete or continuous?

23 Apr. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Empowering Students to Achieve Their Device Use Goals With the Reduce Digital Distraction Workshop

Join us when Ulrik Lyngs from the HCC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

3 May 2024, 13:00-18:00

IT Career Day 2024

On 3 May 2024 we once again host the IT Career Day at the University of Copenhagen where you get the chance to meet the students from our computer science study programmes as well as other IT-related study programmes

3 May 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Lei Li

Join us when Lei Li from the MLsection will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Contributions to deep learning for computer vision applied to environmental remote sensing and human face and pose analysis'.

6 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Amir Yehudayoff: On the cost of making concept classes nice

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'On the cost of making concept classes nice' by Amir Yehudayoff, Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Copenhagen University.

7 May 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Theresia Veronika Rampisela

Join us when Theresia Veronika Rampisela from the ML section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

8 May 2024, 9:30-17:00

BARC Celebration

Join us for the celebration of the renewal of the research centre BARC.

20 May - 24 May 2024

Networking week: Proof logging and certifying algorithms

During the week May 20-24 we will host a networking week dedicated to proof logging and certifying algorithms for combinatorial solving and optimization.

21 May 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: A visual tour of shape analysis

Join us when Morten Akhøj Pedersen from the P1AI section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

22 May 2024, 15:00-16:00

COPLAS talk: Julia Lawall: Towards Verification of Linux Kernel Code

On 22 May, COPLAS will host a talk by Julia Lawall of Inria Paris titled 'Towards Verification of Linux Kernel Code'.

27 May 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Amrita Roy Chowdhury

Monday, 27 May 2024, Amrita Roy Chowdhury, CRA/CCC CI Fellow at University of California, USA, will give a talk on "Data Privacy in the Decentralized Era".

4 June 2024, 10:30-13:30

PhD defence by Anna Katrine van Zee

Join us when Andreea-Anamaria Muresan from the NLP section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'NLP Across Social Groups'.

4 June 2024, 12:20-13:00

DIKU Bits: Compact Computing - Data Management Strategies for Space Efficiency

Join us when Panagiotis Karras from the SDPS section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 'Compact Computing: Data Management Strategies for Space Efficiency'

5 June - 10 Oct. 2024

MSc Defences Summer 2024

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this summer. The list will be continuously updated.

10 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

P1 Guest Talk: Interactions in real and virtual worlds

Join this talk by Wendy Ju at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

10 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Julian Zimmert: PRODuctive bandits: Importance Weighting No More

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'PRODuctive bandits: Importance Weighting No More' by Julian Zimmert, Google Research.

13 June 2024, 13:15-16:15

PhD defence by Vlad Paul Cosma

Join us when Vlad Paul Cosma from the SDPS section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Declarative process models as explainable and verifiable Artificial Intelligence'.

17 June - 18 June 2024

BARC talks by S P Suresh

Monday and Tuesday, June 17 and 18 , 2024, S P Suresh, Professor of Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India, will give two lectures on "Introduction to Forcing".

19 June 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Navigating the Right to Explanation in AI: Methods and Technical Challenges

Join us when Pepa Kostadinova Atanasova from the Natural Language processing (NLP) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 'Navigating the Right to Explanation in AI: Methods and Technical Challenges'.

19 June 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Arindam Khan

Wednesday, 19 June 2024, Arindam Khan, Associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, will give a talk on "Recent Trends in Rectangle Packing and Covering".

20 June 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Zhan Su

Join us when Zhan Su from the PLTC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Information Propagation in Modular Language Modeling and Web Tracking'.

20 June 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Venkata Naga Sreenivasulu Karnati

Thursday, 20 June 2024, KVN Sreenivas, PhD Student at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, will give a talk on "Bin Packing under Random Order: Breaking the Barrier of 3/2".

24 June - 28 June 2024

Programming Language Design and Implementation 2024

PLDI is the premier forum in the field of programming languages and programming systems research, covering the areas of design, implementation, theory, applications, and performance.

25 June 2024, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Peidi Xu

Join us when Peidi Xu from the IMAGE section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Virtual Kidney - Full-scale reconstruction and simulation of the renal nephron-vascular network'.

28 June 2024, 14:30-17:30

PhD defence by Simone Borg Bruun

Join us when Valeria Borsotti from the ML section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Learning Recommendations from Sparse and Heterogeneous Data'.

3 July 2024, 9:00-10:00

AI Seminar: Environmental monitoring with remote sensing and deep learning

Join us for a talk by Jan Dirk Wegner! Everybody is welcome to attend.

4 July 2024, 9:00-10:00

AI Seminar: Designing AI models for impact, the case of Clay, from idea to deployment

Join us for a talk by Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño! Everybody is welcome to attend.

31 July 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Justin Chen 2024

Wednesday, July 31, 2024, Justin Chen, PhD Student at MIT, US, will give a talk on "Profile Estimation in Data Streams ".

5 Aug. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Niv Dayan 2024

Monday, August 5, 2024, Niv Dayan, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, will give a talk on "Expandable Filter Data Structures".

12 Aug. 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Nikita Zhivotovskiy: Improving Risk Bounds with Unbounded Losses via Data-Dependent Priors

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Improving Risk Bounds with Unbounded Losses via Data-Dependent Priors' by Nikita Zhivotovskiy, UC Berkley.

15 Aug. 2024, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Jessica Sorrell: Replicability in Machine Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Replicability in Machine Learning' by Jessica Sorrell, John Hopkins University

19 Aug. - 22 Aug. 2024

IEEE Blockchain 2024 conference

The 2024 IEEE Cybermatics Congress is held in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 19-22, 2024. Cybermatics is to build systematic knowledge about new phenomena, behaviors, properties and practices in the cyberspace, cyberization and cyber-enabled hyper worlds.

20 Aug. 2024, 9:00-17:00

Symposium on Machine Learning and Ancient and Environmental DNA Analyses

Join us at the AI Centre for an insightful symposium about Machine Learning and Ancient and Environmental DNA Analyses.

21 Aug. 2024, 15:00-18:00

PhD defence by Tor-Salve Dalsgaard

Join us when Tor-Salve Dalsgaard from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'How Haptic Experiences Are Made'.

23 Aug. 2024, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Amin Karbasi: The Revolution of Light Language Models: Acceleration, Application, Adversary

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'The Revolution of Light Language Models: Acceleration, Application, Adversary ' by Amin Karbasi, Chief Scientist at Robust Intelligence and a professor at Yale University

25 Aug. 2024, 9:30-17:00

Workshop on AI in microscopy

Join us for a one-day workshop where you will get hands-on experience with free or cheap AI tools for image analysis.

27 Aug. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Tamalika Mukherjee 2024

Tuesday, August 27, 2024, Tamalika Mukherjee, Postdoc at Columbia University, US, will give a talk on "Differential privacy and Sublinear time are incompatible sometimes".

28 Aug. 2024, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Oscar Sprumont

Wednesday, August 28, 2024, Oscar Sprumont, PhD Student at the University of Washington, US, will give a talk on "List decoding capacity implies BSC capacity".

10 Sept. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Sure, your algorithm is really fast, but is it really correct?

Join us when Jakob Nordström from the Algorithms and Complexity (AC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

13 Sept. 2024, 11:00-14:00

PhD defence by Roberta Hunt

Join us when Roberta Hunt from the Imagesection will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Deep Learning Derived Traits for Phylogenetic Inference'.

16 Sept. 2024, 10:01-12:15

BARC double talk by Mohar and Kawarabayashi

Monday, September 16, 2024, Bojan Mohar and Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi will give talks on Random embeddings of graphs in surfaces and on Three-edge-coloring projective planar cubic graphs.

17 Sept. 2024, 14:01-15:00

MIAO talk by Morgan Shirley

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, Morgan Shirley, postdoc at the University of Victoria, Canada, will give a talk on "Large corner-free sets in high dimensions".

23 Sept. 2024, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Mirabelle Jones

Join us when Mirabelle Jones from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'The Data is of Us But Not Us: Exploring Relations to Responsive AI Systems Through Speculative Participatory Research'.

24 Sept. 2024, 8:30-17:15

Nordic Fintech Research Symposium 2024

Join Nordic Fintech Symposium Tuesday 24 September 2024 and you will experience the world's top fintech researchers, giving you access to groundbreaking research directly applicable to companies in the industry.

26 Sept. 2024, 16:30-20:30

DIKU Alumni: Join the DIKU Alumni Day 2024 - live streaming from 4.30 pm

We celebrate the DIKU Alumni Day on 26th September 2024.

27 Sept. 2024, 9:30-17:00

Data readiness workshop - Unlock the Power of AI

This full day workshop will give you useful insights in which data is necessary to meet the goals of your company and how to get your data ready for AI – also for companies with small datasets.

1 Oct. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits: The Trouble of Putting AI Ethics into Practice

Join us when Sonja Rattay from the HCC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled 'The Trouble of Putting AI Ethics into Practice'.

3 Oct. 2024, 9:00-12:00

PhD defence by Martin Aabo Maunsbach

Join us when Martin Aabo Maunsbach from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Reinventing the Haptics Lost in Mid-Air Interactions'.

4 Oct. 2024, 10:00-15:00

Join SCIENCE Career Horizons 2024

Become part of the SCIENCE Career Horizons career fair and connect with potential future colleagues and partners even before they graduate.

7 Oct. 2024, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Jakub Tětek

Join us when Jakub Tětek from the BARC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Randomized Algorithms for Large Datasets - Graphs, Streams, and Sums: The Sublinear Trilogy'.

8 Oct. 2024, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Data-driven simulation

Join us when Sune Darkner from the IMAGE section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled 'Data-driven simulation'.

9 Oct. 2024, 15:00-19:00

PhD defence by Sonja Rattay

Join us when Sonja Rattay from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled '"You are doing it wrong" - The Trouble with Ethics in Practice for Designing AI'.

16 Oct. 2024, 13:00-17:00

PhD defence by Robin Bruneau

Join us when Robin Bruneau from the IMAGE section will defend their PhD thesis titled '3D Reconstruction with Refraction'.

16 Oct. 2024, 16:00-17:00

AI Seminar: Probabilistic Numerics: Computational Uncertainty in Machine Learning

Join us for a talk by Philipp Hennig, Chair for the Methods of Machine Learning at University of Tübingen. Everybody is welcome to attend.

22 Oct. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits: A visual tour of shape analysis

Join us when Morten Akhøj Pedersen from the P1AI section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled 'A visual tour of shape analysis'.

22 Oct. - 23 Oct. 2024

Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI – D3A 2.0

On 22-23 October 2024, we are bringing together researchers, students, and professionals from a wide range of fields to share the latest research and insights, gain new knowledge, exchange ideas, and make valuable connections across geography, scientific domains, and sub-fields.

23 Oct. 2024, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Prahladh Harsha

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, Prahladh Harsha, professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India, will give a talk on "An Improved Line-Point Low-Degree Test".

28 Oct. 2024, 13:15

PhD defence by Henrik Bjørn Axelsen

Join us when Henrik Bjørn Axelsen from the PLTC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'DAOs and Blockchain for Regulated Finance - Transformative decentralization'.

30 Oct. 2024, 14:00-17:00

Explore the Future of Human-Centred Computing

The Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section at the University of Copenhagen is thrilled to invite you to our annual Open House event.

30 Oct. 2024, 14:30

PhD defence by Ruixiang Cui

Join us when Ruixiang Cui from the PLTC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Evaluating Language Models: From Multilingual Compositional Semantic Parsing to Human-level Complex Reasoning'.

30 Oct. - 31 Oct. 2024

Digital Tech Summit 2024

For the fourth consecutive year, Danish universities in collaboration with Teknologiens Mediehus open the doors to the Digital Tech Summit, the largest deep tech conference and exhibition in the Nordic region.

31 Oct. 2024, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Varun Ramanathan

Thursday, October 31, 2024, Varun Ramanathan, PhD student at TIFR Mumbai, India, will give a talk on "Towards Deterministic Algorithms for Constant-Depth Factors of Constant-Depth Circuits".

5 Nov. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Taro Spirig

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Taro Spirig, PhD student at University of Copenhagen in the Department of Mathematics, will give a talk on "Approximation algorithms for noncommutative CSPs".

6 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2024

Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory

Join us for the for the 35th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory!

8 Nov. 2024, 9:00

CS4ALL: Open(ing) Science Makes Science Better

Join this event on Friday, 8 November by CS4ALL, DIKU's community for women and gender minorities in computer science.

8 Nov. 2024, 14:00-15:00

P1 Guest Talk: Multimodal biodiversity monitoring with images and DNA barcodes

Join us for this talk on Multimodal biodiversity monitoring with images and DNA barcodes by Scott C. Lowe

11 Nov. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Hongxun Wu

Monday, November 11, 2024, Hongxun Wu, PhD student at UC Berkeley, USA, will give a talk on "Relative error streaming quantiles via resizable sketches".

12 Nov. 2024, 9:30-14:00

DIKU Business Club Matchmaking event for MSc / PhD students and companies

Matchmaking Event for Computer Science students / PhD Students and companies

14 Nov. 2024, 11:00

AI Seminar: Machine Learning for Earth System Science

Join us for a talk by Björn Lütjens, postdoctoral associate in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Everybody is welcome to attend.

14 Nov. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Mikael Møller Høgsgaard

Thursday, November 14, 2024, Mikael Møller Høgsgaard, PhD student at Aarhus University, Denmark, will give a talk on "Majority-of-Three: The Simplest Optimal Learner?".

15 Nov. 2024, 10:30-11:30

BARC talk by Prateek Dwivedi

Friday, November 15, 2024, Prateek Dwivedi, Postdoc at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, will give a talk on "Presentable Version of Border Complexity and Applications to Circuit Factoring".

18 Nov. 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Yijun Bian: Study of Fair ML Models from a Theoretical Perspective

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Study of Fair ML Models from a Theoretical Perspective' by Yijun Bian.

19 Nov. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Dustin Brandon Wright

Join us when Dustin Brandon Wright from the NLP section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled: LLM-Tropes: Revealing Fine-Grained Values and Opinions in Large Language Models

19 Nov. - 11 Dec. 2024

MSc Defences Fall/Winter 2024

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this fall and winter. The list will be updated continuously.

27 Nov. 2024, 16:00-19:00

DIKU Alumni: Christmas event, general assembly and guided tour

Join the DIKU Alumni Association for Christmas fun .

28 Nov. 2024, 13:00

PhD defence by Nora Jarrett Forbes

Join us when Nora Jarrett Forbes from the IMAGE section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Cardiac Dose Trends & Toxicity in Radiotherapy: Evaluating Registry, Dosimetry, and Imaging Data with AI and Statistical Methods'.

28 Nov. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Kunal Mittal

Thursday, November 28, 2024, Kunal Mittal, PhD student at Princeton University, USA, will give a talk on "Polynomial Bounds on Parallel Repetition For All 3-Player Games with Binary Inputs".

2 Dec. 2024, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Pierre Alquier: Optimistic Estimation of Convergence in Markov Chains with the Average Mixing Time

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Optimistic Estimation of Convergence in Markov Chains with the Average Mixing Time' by Pierre Alquier, Professor of Statistics at ESSEC Business School.

3 Dec. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits: Polynomials: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Join us when Tong Chen from the ML section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled: Polynomials: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

3 Dec. 2024, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Yijie Zhang

Join us when Yijie Zhang from the HCC section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'On Cold Posteriors of Probabilistic Neural Networks: Understanding the Cold Posterior Effect and A New Way to Learn Cold Posteriors with Tight Generalization Guarantees'.

12 Dec. 2024, 14:05-15:00

COPLAS talk: Jaco van de Pol: Optimal Quantum Circuits

On 12 December, COPLAS will host a talk by Jaco van de Pol titled 'Optimal Quantum Circuits'.

16 Dec. 2024, 11:15-12:00

COPLAS talk: Sven Karlsson: Integrating High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing

On 16 December, COPLAS will host a talk by Sven Karlsson titled 'Integrating High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing'.

17 Dec. 2024, 9:00-11:00

Qrisp Tutorial

Join us on 17 December for a Qrisp Tutorial by Raphael Seidel and Sebastian Bock titled 'Fraunhofer FOKUS'

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17 Dec. 2024, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits: The Problem of Measuring Energy Usage in Software and IT Systems: How We Can Help Future Programmers?

Join us when Michael Kirkedal Thomsen from the PLTC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled: The Problem of Measuring Energy Usage in Software and IT Systems: How We Can Help Future Programmers?

17 Dec. 2024, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Hanzhi Wang

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, Hanzhi Wang, our new Postdoc at BARC, will give a talk on "Local Algorithms for Random-Walk Probability Estimation on Large Graphs".

17 Dec. 2024, 14:15-15:00

COPLAS talk: Raphael Seidel & Sebastian Bock

On 17 December, COPLAS will host a talk by Raphael Seidel and Sebastian Bock titled 'Qrisp: A Framework for High-Level Programming of Gate-Based Quantum Computers'.

20 Dec. 2024, 13:05-14:00

COPLAS talk: Phil Wadler: ChatGPT is Bullshit

On 20 December, COPLAS will host a talk by Phil Wadler titled 'ChatGPT is Bullshit'.

6 Jan. 2025, 11:15-12:00

COPLAS talk: Mark Jones: High Performance Quantum Circuit Simulations

On 6 January, COPLAS will host a talk by Mark Jones titled 'High Performance Quantum Circuit Simulations'.

7 Jan. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Asta Halkjær From

Join us when Asta Halkjær From from the SDPS section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

7 Jan. 2025, 14:15-15:00

COPLAS talk: Mohammad Mousavi: Taming Spooky Actions at a Distance: A Discipline of Quantum Software Testing

On 7 January, COPLAS will host a talk by Mohammad Mousavi titled 'Taming Spooky Actions at a Distance: A Discipline of Quantum Software Testing'.

8 Jan. - 29 Jan. 2025

MSc Defences Winter 2025

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this winter. The list will be updated continuously.

17 Jan. 2025, 10:00

PhD defence by Yijian Liu

Join us when Yijian Liu from the SDPS section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Scalable and Transactional Actor-Oriented Databases'.

17 Jan. 2025, 13:00

PhD defence by Sebastián Garcia Lopez

Join us when Sebastián Garcia Lopez from the ML section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Representation Learning in Protein Science: From Sequence Alignments to Deep Embedding Spaces'.

28 Jan. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Rohan Goyal

Tuesday, January 28, 2025, Rohan Goyal, PhD student at MIT, USA, will give a talk on "Fast list-decoding of univariate multiplicity and folded Reed-Solomon codes".

29 Jan. 2025, 13:00-16:00

Improve your company's ESG reporting

The project Scoped Carbon Accounting has developed a new and reliable method for ESG reporting - come join us and hear presentations, and discuss possible collaboration with our researchers and energy specialists.

5 Feb. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Manon Blanc

Wednesday, February 5, 2025, Manon Blanc, PhD student at École Polytechnique, France, will give a talk on "Robustness in complexity over the reals: describing complexity classes".

7 Feb. 2025, 13:30-15:00

MSc Virtual Open House 2025

Learn more about the Master’s programmes in Computer Science when University of Copenhagen presents each of the Master of Science programmes at Virtual Open House on 7 February 2025.

10 Feb. 2025, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Nitin Vaidya

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Distributed Consensus and Optimization in Presence of Adversarial Agents: A Journey Through Recent Results' by Nitin Vaidya.

11 Feb. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Mikkel Thorup

Join us when Mikkel Thorup from the AC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled: Providing directions using efficient algorithms.

17 Feb. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Benjamin Rossman

Monday, February 17, 2025, Benjamin Rossman, Associate Professor at the Duke University, USA, will give a talk on "Formula Size-Depth Tradeoffs for Iterated Permutation Matrix Multiplication".

18 Feb. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Jacob John Imola

Tuesday, February 18, 2025, Jacob Imola, Postdoc here with us at BARC, KU, will give a talk on "Metric Differential Privacy at the User-Level Via the Earth-Mover’s Distance".

25 Feb. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC Talk by Marcin Pilipczuk

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, Marcin Pilipczuk, Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland, will give a talk on "Faster diameter computation in graphs of bounded Euler genus".

25 Feb. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits: Movement as an interface: Lessons for designing cars and robots

Join us when Barry Brown from the HCC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled: Movement as an interface: Lessons for designing cars and robots.

26 Feb. 2025, 15:00-17:30

DIKU Business Club Symposium

Join us for this Symposium on experiences and future directions of DIKU Business Club.

27 Feb. 2025, 13:00-16:00

PhD defence by Thomas Michael Alscher

Join us when Thomas Michael Alscher from the IMAGE section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'On a Collision Course'.

27 Feb. 2025, 14:05-15:00

BARC talk by Tuukka Korhonen

Thursday, February 27, 2025, Tuukka Korhonen, PostDoc at BARC, University of Copenhagen, will give a talk on "Faster diameter computation in graphs of bounded Euler genus".

4 Mar. 2025, 11:00-12:00

BARC talk by Alessio Mazzetto

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Alessio Mazzetto, PhD student at Brown University, USA, will give a talk on "Learning with Drifting Input Distributions".

4 Mar. 2025, 14:01-16:30

MIAO/BARC talk by Duri Janett

Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Duri Janett, PhD student with MIAO at the University of Copenhagen, will give a talk on "Truly Supercritical Trade-offs for Resolution, Cutting Planes, Monotone Circuits, and Weisfeiler–Leman".

6 Mar. 2025, 15:15-16:15

COPLAS talk: Wolfgang Maaß

On 6 March 2025, COPLAS will host a talk by Wolfgang Maaß titled "Quantum-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks for Scalable Manufacturing Simulations"

7 Mar. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Anup Rao

Friday, March 7, 2025, Anup Rao, Professor at the University of Washington, USA, will give a talk on "XOR lemmas for communication complexity".

10 Mar. 2025, 11:00-12:00

SDPS / PLTC talk by Alberto Lerner

Join us for this talk by Alberto Lerner on 'Harnessing Network Power for Data Processing'.

10 Mar. 2025, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Lei You

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11 Mar. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Quentin Hillebrand

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, Quentin Hillebrand, PhD student at the University of Tokyo, Japan, will give a talk on "Private Cycle Counting for Degeneracy-bounded Graphs".

12 Mar. 2025, 13:01-14:00

SDPS / PLTC talk by Magnus Madsen

Join us for this talk by Magnus Madsen from Aarhus University

13 Mar. - 30 Apr. 2025

MSc Defences Spring 2025

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this spring. The list will be updated continuously.

18 Mar. 2025, 14:00

PhD defence by Robert Schenck

Join us when Robert Schenck will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Two Things I Did: Parallel Differentiation and Rank Polymorphism'.

19 Mar. 2025, 15:30-16:30

MIAO/BARC talk by Antonina Kolokolova

Wednesday, March 19, 2025, Antonina Kolokolova, Associate Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, will give a talk on "Learning from Proofs".

24 Mar. - 28 Mar. 2025

Conference: AI4Quantum - Accelerating Quantum Computing with AI

Join the AI4Quantum conference by Novo Nordisk Foundation Science Cluster, with the goal of solving significant problems in life science with a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

25 Mar. 2025, 11:00-12:00

DeLTA seminar by Eduard Gorbunov

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen invites you to a seminar with Eduard Gorbunov.

25 Mar. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Bob Pepin

Join us when Bob Pepin from the ML section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled: 'From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching'.

26 Mar. 2025, 13:00-14:00

Talk by Tiago Pimentel

Join us for this talk by Tiago Pimentel on 'Theory vs. Practice: How much does Tokenisation Impact Language Models?'

27 Mar. - 28 Mar. 2025

Nordic Pre-CHI Event 2025

Join us for this year’s Nordic Pre-CHI Event.

28 Mar. 2025, 14:15-15:15

COPLAS talk: Dmitriy Traytel: Binding-aware datatypes and inductive predicates in Isabelle/HOL

On 28 March, COPLAS will host a talk by Dmitriy Traytel titled 'Binding-aware datatypes and inductive predicates in Isabelle/HOL'.

31 Mar. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Jacobus Conradi

Monday, March 31, 2025, Jacobus Conradi, PhD student at the University of Bonn, Germany, will give a talk on "On Research on Curve Similarities - Coresets, Partial matchings, and more".

31 Mar. 2025, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Liam Schramm: Exponentially faster exploration in MCTS through state occupancy measure regularization

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Exponentially faster exploration in MCTS through state occupancy measure regularization' by Liam Schramm, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

1 Apr. 2025, 10:00

PhD defence by Erik Arakelyan

Join us when Erik Arakelyan from the NLP section will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Reasoning Inconsistencies and How to Mitigate Them in Deep Learning'.

7 Apr. 2025, 15:00-16:00

DeLTA seminar by Diksha Gupta

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen invites you to a seminar with Diksha Gupta.

8 Apr. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Matthew Regehr

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Matthew Regehr, PhD student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, will give a talk on "A Bias-Accuracy-Privacy Trilemma for Statistical Estimation".

8 Apr. 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Harold Nieuwboer

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Harold Nieuwboer, Postdoc with QMATH at the University of Copenhagen, will give a talk on "Computing moment polytopes of tensors, with applications to algebraic complexity theory and quantum information."

9 Apr. - 11 Apr. 2025

IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML)

Join us for the 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning!

9 Apr. - 11 Apr. 2025

Quantum Computing for Natural Science

The conference brings together excellent researchers from within chemistry, quantum information, physics, and computer science to discuss the application of quantum computing to problems within natural science, both in the near term and with a longer perspective.

16 Apr. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Christian Lebeda

Wednesday, April 16, 2025, BARC alumni Christian Lebeda, now a postdoc at Inria, Montpellier, France, will give a talk on "Better Gaussian Mechanism using Correlated Noise".

22 Apr. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Svetlana Kutuzova

Join us when Svetlana Kutuzova from the P1AI Section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

22 Apr. 2025, 14:01-16:00

MIAO/BARC talk by Ian Mertz

Tuesday, April 22, 2025, Ian Mertz, postdoc at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, will give a talk on "Catalytic Computing: A Primer".

23 Apr. 2025, 10:45-11:45

BARC talk by Christoph Hertrich

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, Christoph Hertrich, tenure-track Professor at the University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany, will give a talk on "Understanding Neural Networks via Polyhedral Geometry ".

24 Apr. 2025, 13:30-14:30

BARC talk by Matthias Christandl

Thursday, April 24, 2025, Matthias Christandl, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, will give a talk on "Asymptotic tensor rank is characterized by polynomials".

24 Apr. 2025, 14:00-15:00

Talk by Ewan Birney

Join us for this double talk by Ewan Birney on 'AI modelling of Healthcare trajectories & Danish and UK history with genetics'.

25 Apr. 2025, 10:00-16:00

International workshop on Image analyses and simulation 3 and 4 dimensions

Join us for an International workshop in Copenhagen on Image Processing and Graphics in 3-space and time with top speakers Canada, Sweden, and Denmark.

25 Apr. 2025, 14:00-18:00

UCPH Quantum Hub Annual Meeting

Mark your calendar on Tuesday 25 April. 2025, when UCPH Quantum Hub is hosting the Quantum Hub Annual Meeting.

30 Apr. 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Sara Sigurðardóttir

Join us when Sara Sigurðardóttir from the HCC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 'Dating Apps: Why Looking at Care and Gender Matters'.

6 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

DIKU Bits by Antonia Karamolegkou

Join us when Antonia Karamolegkou from the NLP section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

9 May 2025, 13:00-18:00

IT Career Day 2025

On 9 May 2025, we once again host the IT Career Day at the University of Copenhagen where companies get the chance to meet the students from our computer science study programmes and other IT-related study programmes.

13 May 2025, 14:01-15:00

BARC talk by Arindam Khan 2025

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, Arindam Khan, Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, will give a talk on "Improved Approximation Algorithms for Three-Dimensional Packing".

20 May 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Hans Hüttel

Join us when Hans Hüttel from the PLTC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

3 June 2025, 12:15-13:15

DIKU Bits by Laouen Fernet

Join us when Laouen Fernet from the SDPS section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

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23rd ARCO 2016/2 at DIKU

24th ARCO at ITU

BARC/EADS Talk by Kasper Green Larsen

BARC/EADS Talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak

VILLUM Investigator Grant Inauguration of BARC

BARC/EADS Talk by Michael Kapralov

Similarity Search Seminar Spring 18

BARC/EADS Talk by Charalampos Tsourakakis

BARC/EADS Talk by Kasper Green Larsen

BARC/EADS Talk by Radu Curticapean

25th ARCO 2018 at Malmö University

Grand Opening - SCIENCE AI Centre

BARC/EADS Talk by Holger Dell

BARC/EADS Talk by Matteo Ceccarello

BARC/EADS Talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak: Pattern-avoiding Access in Binary Search Trees

BARC/EADS Talk by Matteo Ceccarello

BARC/EADS Talk by Yufei Tao

BARC Distinguished Lecture by Robert Tarjan

SODAS Lecture: AI Alignment and Human Normativity

BARC/EADS Talk by Petteri Kaski

BARC Talk by Vera Traub

BARC talk by Danupon Nanongkai

BARC talk by Claire Mathieu

AI Seminar: Towards an AI-Human Symbiosis Using Information Visualization

BARC talk by Valerie King

BARC talk by Debarati Das

AI Seminar: Multilingual multimodal language understanding

Manuela Veloso: The robot is your friend

PhD course Algebraic Graph Algorithms

AI Seminar: Cut Finite Element Methods for Contact Problem

BARC talk by Bartosz Walczak

BARC talk by Timothy Chu

AI Seminar: Machine Learning and Banking: a Model Risk Perspective

BARC talk by Nikos Parotsidis

BARC talk by Kasper Green Larsen, Feb 2019

AI Seminar: Deep latent variable models: estimation and missing data imputation

BARC talk by Aurélien Ooms

BARC talk by Konrad Swanepoel

AI Seminar: Continuous-discrete smoothing of diffusions

AI Seminar: Natural Language Understanding with Limited Training Data

AI Seminar: Algorithms for Easy and Hard Online Learning Environments

AI Seminar: Only Bayes should learn a manifold

Extra AI Seminar: The Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning: Towards Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

BARC talk by Mika Göös

AI Seminar: Machine Learning meets Particle Physics

BARC-QMATH talk by Avi Wigderson

AI Seminar: The Power of Theory in the Practice of Hashing with Focus on Similarity Estimation

Talk by Thatchaphol Saranurak

BARC talk by Chris Schwiegelshohn

BARC talk by Cornelius Brand

Extra AI Seminar: Natural Language Generation in the Wild

AI Seminar: A stability upgrade for data-driven models

BARC talk by Till Miltzow

BARC talk by John Kallaugher

BARC talk by Jakub Łącki

BARC talk by Daniel Dadush

AI Seminar: Deep probabilistic programming and the protein folding problem

AI Seminar: Efficient exploration in sequential decision making problems

BARC talk by Shou Pang

BARC talk by Petteri Kaski

BARC talk by Vincent Cohen-Addad

BARC talk by Susan Margulies

BARC talk by Marc Vinyals

Expanders Learning Seminar

BARC talk by Loukas Georgiadis

BARC talk by Daniel Neuen

BARC talk by Kevin Pratt

BARC talk by Silvio Lattanzi

BARC talk by Vincent Liew

AI Seminar: A Computational Model of Intention Selection

BARC talk by Daniela Kaufmann

AI Seminar: Structured (Syntactic) Prediction without Structured Representations

BARC talk by Holger Dell

NeurIPS Meetup in Copenhagen

AI Seminar: Is the association of nouns to gender classes truly arbitrary?

AI Seminar: Diffeomorphic curve matching with finite elements

AI Seminar: What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?

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