Kalender 2025

6. jan. 2025, kl. 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, kl. 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, kl. 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, kl. 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, kl. 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, kl. 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, kl. 13.00-16.00

Styrk virksomhedens ESG-rapportering

Projektet Scoped Carbon Accounting har udviklet en ny og pålidelig metode til ESG-rapporteringen - kom og hør oplæg  og tal om samarbejde med forskere og energispecialister.

5. febr. 2025, kl. 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".

10. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 12.15-13.15

DIKU Bits: Providing directions using efficient algorithms

Join us when Mikkel Thorup from the AC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture, titled: Providing directions using efficient algorithms.

17. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 15.00-17.30

DIKU Business Club Symposium

Join us for this Symposium on experiences and future directions of DIKU Business Club. 

27. febr. 2025, kl. 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. febr. 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts - 7. marts 2025

FemTech krypterer beskeder

I denne FemTech-workshop dykker vi ned i krypteringens verden.

6. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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'.

11. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 13.01-14.00

SDPS / PLTC talk by Magnus Madsen

Join us for this talk by Magnus Madsen from Aarhus University

13. marts - 30. april 2025

MSc Defences Spring 2025

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

14. marts 2025

Tværfaglig anvendelse af machine learning i informatik

På dette kursus for gymnasielærere bliver du klogere på den rivende udviklingen inden for machine learning, får opøvet nogle grundlæggende, tekniske færdigheder – og bliver inspireret til, hvordan du kan anvende machine learning på en kritisk og konstruktiv måde i din undervisning.

18. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts - 28. marts 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 12.15-13.15

DIKU Bits: From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching

Join us when Bob Pepin from the ML section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled: 'From Machine Learning to Machine Teaching'.

26. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts - 28. marts 2025

Nordic Pre-CHI Event 2025

Join us for this year’s Nordic Pre-CHI Event.

28. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. marts 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april - 11. april 2025

IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning

Join us for the 3rd IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning!

9. april - 11. april 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 17.30-19.00

Flere hjerner, bedre løsninger: Når inklusion giver innovation

Hvorfor forlader kvinder stadig videnskabelige felter hurtigere end mænd? Hvorfor har neurodivergente studerende en højere risiko for at opleve isolation og udbrændthed? 

25. april 2025, kl. 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. april 2025, kl. 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. 

29. april 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Navid Eslami

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, Navid Eslami, PhD student at the University of Toronto, Canada, will give a talk on "Range Filters".

30. april 2025, kl. 12.15-13.15

DIKU Bits: Dating Apps: Why Looking at Care and Gender Matters

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. maj 2025, kl. 12.00-13.00

DIKU Bits: Machines Have Learned to Speak—What Are You Worried About?

Join us when Antonia Karamolegkou from the NLP section will give a DIKU Bits lecture. 

9. maj 2025, kl. 13.00-18.00

IT Karrieredag 2025

Vi afholder IT Karrieredag for virksomheder og studerende med IT og programmering på Københans Universitet. Se programmet, og læs mere om tilmelding. 

13. maj 2025, kl. 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".

19. maj 2025, kl. 14.01-16.00

MIAO/BARC talk by Artur Riazanov

Monday, 19 May 2025, Artur Riazanov, PhD student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, will give a talk on "Generalised Linial--Nisan Conjecture is False for DNFs".

20. maj 2025, kl. 12.00-13.00

DIKU Bits: The end of programming?

Join us when Hans Hüttel from the PLTC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture. 

21. maj 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Chris Schwiegelshohn 2025

Wednesday, 21 May 2025, Chris Schwiegelshohn, Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, will give a talk on "Almost Optimal PAC Learning for k-Means".

22. maj 2025, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Sumit Pandey

From Deep Learning to Deep Consciousness

27. maj 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Deborah Haun

Tuesday, 27 May 2025, Deborah Haun, master's student at KIT in Germany, will give a talk on "Product Structure and Treewidth of Hyperbolic Uniform Disk Graphs".

28. maj 2025, kl. 9.00-12.00

PhD defence by Rodrigo Nunes Laigner

A Scalable and Consistent Database System for Event-driven Architectures

30. maj 2025, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Sepideh Amiri

Application of AI for pancreatic surgery planning

3. juni 2025, kl. 12.15-13.15

DIKU Bits by Laouen Fernet

Join us when Laouen Fernet from the SDPS section will give a DIKU Bits lecture. 

12. juni 2025, kl. 14.00

PhD defence by Jonas Østergaard Klausen

Realistic Hashing, Online Sorting, and Constrained Correlation Clustering

30. juni 2025, kl. 13.00

Phd defence by Elizabeth Louise Baker

Conditioning Stochastic Processes in Infinite-Dimensional Shape Spaces

14. juli 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Evangelos Pipis

Monday, 14 July 2025, Evangelos Pipis, master's student at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, will give a talk on "Fitting Tree Metrics and Ultrametrics in Data Streams".

20. aug. - 10. okt. 2025

Kunstig intelligens i gymnasiets STEM-fag

På dette kursus for gymnasielærere bliver du klogere på den rivende udviklingen inden for kunstig intelligens, får opøvet nogle grundlæggende, tekniske færdigheder – og bliver inspireret til, hvordan du kan anvende kunstig intelligens på en kritisk og konstruktiv måde i din undervisning.

25. aug. 2025, kl. 10.00-19.00

Career day for data science professionals

Launching your data science career in Denmark: Networking skills, career paths & community building

26. aug. - 27. aug. 2025

Danish Digitalization, Data Science and AI 3.0

On August 26-27, 2025, we will bring together researchers, students, and professionals from the fields of computer science, data science and AI to share cutting-edge research and insights, exchange ideas, gain new insights, and build valuable connections across geographical and scientific boundaries.

28. aug. 2025, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Li Quan

Quality Bounds and Efficient Samplers for Data Availability Sampling

29. aug. 2025, kl. 10.00-11.00

BARC talk by Nikita Kalinin

Friday, August 29, 2025, Nikita Kalinin, PhD student at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, will give a talk on "Banded Inverse Matrices for Multi-Epoch Private Training with Correlated Noise".

5. sept. 2025, kl. 10.01-11.00

BARC talk by Dhara Thakkar

Friday, September 5, 2025, Dhara Thakkar, Designated Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Japan, will give a talk on "Group Order is in QCMA".

8. sept. 2025, kl. 10.00-13.00

PhD defence by Phillip Rust

Visual and Multilingual Representations: Towards Inclusive and Trustworthy Language Processing

9. sept. 2025, kl. 9.15

PhD defence by Theresia Veronika Rampisela

Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems

9. sept. 2025, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Measuring, Understanding and Modelling Human Label Variation in Legal NLP

Join us when Shanshan Xu from the NLP section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 'Measuring, Understanding and Modelling Human Label Variation in Legal NLP'. 

9. sept. 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Joachim Gudmundsson

Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Joachim Gudmundsson, Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, will give a talk on "Efficient algorithms for realistic geometric graphs".

16. sept. 2025, kl. 14.01-16.00

MIAO/BARC talk by Dmitry Sokolov

Tuesday, September 16, 2025, Dmitry Sokolov, Scientist at EPFL, Switzerland, will give a talk on "Searching for falsified clause in random log n-CNFs is hard for randomized communication".

23. sept. 2025, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Designing Rejection in Dating Applications

Join us when Sara Sigurðardóttir from the HCC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture titled 'Designing Rejection in Dating Applications'. 

26. sept. 2025, kl. 9.00-12.00

PhD defence by Jonas Færch Lotz

Overcoming Vocabulary Constraints with Pixel-based Representations of Text

30. sept. 2025, kl. 14.01-15.00

BARC talk by Antonia Kalb

Tuesday, September 30, 2025, Antonia Kalb, PhD student at TU Dortmund University, Germany, will give a talk on "Oriented Spanners".

1. okt. 2025, kl. 10.01-11.00

BARC talk by Mong-Jen Kao

Wednesday, October 1, 2025, Mong-Jen Kao, professor in the National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, will give a talk on "Handling LP-Rounding for Hierarchical Clustering and Fitting Distances by Ultrametrics".

1. okt. 2025, kl. 14.00

PhD defence by Wenyan Li

Understanding Multimodal Interactions: from Data Variations to Model Behavior

1. okt. - 15. okt. 2025

BARC talk by Madhu Sudan

Join us for this five-lecture mini course on coding theory, presented by Gordon McKay Professor Madhu Sudan.

7. okt. 2025, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits by Rasmus Pagh

Join us when Rasmus Pagh From from the AC section will give a DIKU Bits lecture. 

7. okt. 2025, kl. 13.00

PhD defence by Frederik Lizak Johansen

Generative Machine Learning in Materials Science From Powder Diffraction to Crystal Structures

8. okt. 2025, kl. 8.30

PhD defence by Richard Michael

Model, Acquire, and Measure under Uncertainties - Principled Bayesian Optimization and Active Learning for Data-efficient Protein Engineering

9. okt. 2025, kl. 13.15-16.00

PhD defence by Ole-Christian Galbo Engstrøm

Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging Applications in Food Analysis: Improving Algorithms and Methodologies

10. okt. 2025, kl. 10.00-17.00

WAVE 2025

BARC is excited to announce the upcoming WAVE Workshop (Women in Algorithms, Venture into Exploration), which will be held at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on Friday, October 10th, 2025.

15. okt. 2025, kl. 13.00-14.00

BARC talk by Aleksander Łukasiewicz

On thursday, 16 October 2025, Aleksander Łukasiewicz, Postdoc at the Computer Science Institute of Charles University in Prague, will give a talk on "SplineSketch: Even More Accurate Quantiles with Error Guarantees". 

16. okt. 2025, kl. 14.00-15.00

BARC talk by Geert van Wordragen

On thursday, 16 October 2025, Geert van Wordragen, PhD in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University, will give a talk on "Near-Optimal Dynamic Steiner Spanners for Constant-Curvature Spaces". 

21. okt. 2025, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits by Yannis Siglidis

Join us when Yannis Siglidis from the P1AI section will give a DIKU Bits lecture. 

24. okt. 2025, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Michele Rocca

Policy-space Character Animation - A walk through the parameters of motion policy networks

30. okt. 2025, kl. 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.

31. okt. 2025, kl. 14.00-16.00

CS4ALL event: Female talents in academia

Join us for this CS4ALL Networking Event about female talents in academia.

5. nov. - 6. nov. 2025

Digital Tech Summit 2025

For femte år i træk slår de danske universiteter i samarbejde med Teknologiens Mediehus dørene op til Digital Tech Summit, Nordens største deep tech-konference og -messe.

11. nov. 2025, kl. 9.00

PhD defence by Axel Kjeld Fjelrad Christfort

Declarative Process Mining: Advancements in Process Mining for DCR Graphs