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| Latest news at CS Aalto |
Heli Julkunen developed a machine learning method that predicts how different drug combinations kill cancer cells, and now she helps advance preventive healthcare as a data scientist The grants were allocated to 31 Aalto University applicants and working groups. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas was interviewed in Wired. Sami Kaski was interviewed in Tekniikka & Talous (in Finnish, only for subscribed readers).
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| HR corner |
HR Corner – tips and news from HR team Aalto has updated employees’ ancillary activities related practices and you all have received an email about this. It is required from all our employees (excluding teaching assistants and hourly paid employees) to report the ancillary activities whether or not you have those. So please remember to complete this task in Workday by March 5th. You can find the instructions on the front page when you log in to Workday. Please note that also the previously declaredancillary activities must be declared again. With these declarations Aalto will ensure that all operations are transparent and that the employees’ outside interests do not collide with the rules binding the university. More information. There will be a short introduction about the new guidelines and practices on 1 March at 15:00-16:00. Please join by clicking the link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69277813950. We in HR are also happy to help if you have any questions about this. If you are going to be on holiday next week, have a relaxing holiday! (And if you are service personnel or research assistant please remember to request the holiday days in Workday.) BR, Laura, Maikki, Liisa & Sanni
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| Events - next week |
Juho Rousu, Aalto University: Machine Learning of Drug Combination Responses
Monday, 22 February at 9:15-10:00, join URL https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/67132997241 Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine: A less Artificial Intelligence
Monday, 22 February at 15:00-16:00, join URL https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62422958785 Luigi Acerbi, University of Helsinki: Probabilistic machine and biological learning under resource constraints
Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience: Title TBA
Tuesday, 23 February at 10:00-11:15, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67072679004 (passcode: brainmind) Michele Scquizzato: Tight Bounds for Parallel Paging and Green Paging
Wednesday, 24 February at 14:15-15:00, subscribe to receive a weekly mail on the current topic and a link for Zoom HiDATA/FCAI AIX Forum webinar on computational neuroscience: New Frontiers in Neuroscience
Thursday, 25 February at 11:00-13:00, please register to get the Zoom link Kimmo Svinhufvud, Language Centre in University of Helsinki: Surviving the PhD process
Friday, 26 February at 10:00-11:00, please register to get the Zoom link and calendar invitation
Need help with your research? Join our daily SciComp garage to get help with Triton, CS-IT, or other data or computing tools in your research. Focus days: Thursdays are Triton/HPC, Fridays are CS, and Tuesdays are research software. But you can usually get help on any topic any day.
Every day at 13:00-14:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65371910202 Mondays: CS Coffee BreakVirtual and very informal coffee break meeting with the head of the department.
Mondays at 14:00-14:30, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/s/63178036956 Would you like to increase your presence on social media, but don’t know where to start? Are you constantly struggling with fitting your tweet in those 280 characters? Would you like to take better photos or videos for your Instagram or YouTube account? Or do you have any other questions related to social media communication? Our communication specialists Matti and Anu are waiting you to join them in the CS Social Media Garage. Send your questions in advance (communications-cs@aalto.fi) or just take a cup of coffee/tea and come to chat with us without a specific agenda over Zoom.
Tuesdays at 14:00-14:30, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63928308374 (passcode 242097) Mentoring space is an initiative started by Aalto’s computer science department postdocs, to help guide researchers. The aim of this relaxed program is to promote cooperation and exchange experiences among researchers to shape and enrich their careers at Aalto CS Department.
Thursdays at 15:00-16:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61217739462 Weekly Deep Learning reading & informal discussion circle. Recent deep learning papers (NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, ICLR, etc) on a wide range of topics (supervised learning, density estimation, generative models, deep Bayesian methods, variational inference, etc).
Fridays at 11:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61172508435 Fridays: Meet the DeanAn informal event where you can discuss with the Dean Jouko Lampinen without any official agenda.
Fridays at 13:00-14:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/576548703 Fridays: Knitting ClubWelcome to CS Knitting Club! The idea is to gather together every Friday for 30 minutes to knit and share some thoughts and ideas related to knitting/crochet/all kind of handicrafts/life/universe/you name it 😊
Fridays at 13:30-14:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68215351549 (passcode 150940)
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| Events - save the date |
Teachers' dialogue is a way to get your pedagogical voice heard at Aalto level. The Teachers' dialogues are monthly meetings each with their own topics. The events are organized by LES Teacher services, and also ITS school responsible persons join the events to learn what teachers need. The theme of the first event is pedagogical trainings - supporting my teaching skills.
Tuesday, 2 March at 14:00-15:30, please register to get the Zoom link Rethinking Exams in remote teaching: rules and legislation
Wednesday, 3 March at 12:00-13:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/128333494 In the event we review and discuss last year’s performance and examine the development of the key indicators.
Thursday, 4 March at 9:00-10:00, further information and the participation link to Zoom will be added to the event website Session 1 - David M. Hall, NVIDIA: AI in Atmospheric Science
Thursday, 4 March at 16:00, join URL https://ut-capitole-fr.zoom.us/j/97141698758 Deploying deep learning-based models in projects and real-world cases – challenges and solutions
Thursday, 11 March at 14:00-16:00, please register by 8 March Nice and relaxed introduction event to Finland and Finnish seasons, culture and habits for the newly arrived international staff and their families.
Tuesday, 16 March at 16:30-18:00, please register to get the Zoom link
Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Tampere University: Fostering Playful Experiences with Wearables
Monday, 29 March at 15:00-17:00, join URL https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi
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| DSc defences |
Opponent: Dr. Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Custos: Professor Aki Vehtari
Friday, 12 March at 12:00, join URL https://aalto.zoom.us/j/63889388791 Opponent: Professor Jayantha Prasanna Liyanage, University of Stavanger, Norway
Custos: Professor Marko Nieminen
Friday, 26 March at 12:00, Zoom link will be updated to the event website
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| Funding calls |
Upcoming research funding calls see the Aalto RIS funding calendar - Two topics: Advanced Brain-Computer Interfaces for Novel Interactions and Towards Sustainable ICT
- Academy of Finland is the funder of Finnish participants. See Aalto page.
- Multidisciplinary Research Projects on personalised Medicine – Development of Clinical Support Tools for Personalised Medicine Implementation.
- Academy of Finland is the funder of Finnish participants. See Aalto page.
- ERA PerMed fosters research and innovation activities that build close linkages between clinical research, computer science/medical informatics (e.g. AI & Machine learning) and research on ethical, legal, and social aspects.
- AI and wireless communication technologies
- Applicants from Finland can participate via proposals submitted to the NSF between 10.3.-7.5.2021. Intention to submit should be sent to AoF eight weeks before NSF submission.
- See Aalto web page.
- Note ERC Calls in 2021 will be delayed due to the late adoption of the EU Budget 2021-2027.
- ERC Starting Grant for promising early-career researchers with 2 to 7 years experience after PhD.
Call opens in February and DL 24 March 2021 (tentative). - ERC Consolidator Grant for excellent researchers with 7 to 12 years experience after PhD.
Call opens in February and DL 20 April 2021 (tentative). - ERC Advanced Grant for established researcher leaders.
Call opens in May and DL 31 August 2021 (tentative). - Aalto ERC info page
- Joint call pilot: thematic areas of the Finnish Research Flagships
- Grants to support young doctors get research and industrial experience.
- Grants to support ambitious technology researchers to conduct research at a high-level foreign university or research institute.
__ See more funding calls from RIS calendar and from CS wiki Funding Calls.
The national research funding database for science, art and culture: Aurora Trainings for project management and research funding, organized by RIS: See page Training to support research.
Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University can be found here.
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| CS yearbook online version |
To take look back at the academic year 2019-2020, we at CS communications have prepared a beautiful yearbook that gathers all the research and other relevant news and profile articles of our staff and students together. A nice memory of the very memorable year! We have now published the online version of the yearbook - read the PDF version. You can also order the printed version of the yearbook free of charge by filling the form behind this link. Thanks and happy reading!
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| CS department chats |
Teams purpose is to increase our informal communication and enhance the sense of community, especially during this time of extended remote working. Everyone from the department is welcome to start and join discussions. As always, we encourage using your freedom of speech, but remember to be correct and follow Aalto code of conduct. Teams is department’s supportive communication channel and joining is voluntarily, join here. Department’s main information channels are still CS News and mailing lists. Chat can be a great way to quickly talk with others, share tips, and quickly get feedback on if a problem is large or small, you should ask or you should figure out yourself, etc. This is a good place to ask both from us and from other researchers, but for longer questions we’ll direct you to our issue tracker so we won’t lose track. The SciComp Zulipchat, scicomp.zulip.cs.aalto.fi is where we most often hang out. You can ask triton questions in #triton, general questions in #general, research software engineering questions in #rse, etc. The main point of Zulip is topics, which allow you to name threads and easily find old information. You can also chat with us on Aalto Microsoft Teams. The invite code is e50tyij.
Aalto Computer Science channels in social media: Follow us and do not hesitate to tag/mention @CSAalto in your posts. We appreciate if you share CSAalto posts too. We have a Telegram channel which reaches computer science students (bachelor and master's level) quite well.
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| Mailing lists |
See all CS mailing lists in wiki. Please note that messages to the whole staff should be communicated through CS News (using the address communications-cs@aalto.fi), released every Friday. If the matter is urgent and cannot wait until Friday, then go ahead.. |