- 30.7.2012: ICEE2012 International Conference on Engineering Education
The International Conference on Engineering Education 2012 (ICEE 2012) will be arranged in Turku, Finland. The main theme of the conference is Contributing to Success through Innovations in Engineering Education.
- 31.3.2012: TUCS GP Application Round 1.–31.3.2012
TUCS Graduate Programme Spring application round opens on March 1st.
- 1.2.2012: EUROWEB scholarship programme is now open for applications
EUROWEB is a scholarship programme offering fully funded scholarships for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions.
- 1.2.2012: NODES Winter School and Seminar
Network On DEpendable Systems ntework Winter School in the ICT-building, 1.-3.2.
- 31.1.2012: Apply now for Master's Programmes within TUCS
There is an application round open for several Master's Degree programmes within TUCS now.
- 27.1.2012: TUCS GP Students
We now have the lists of TUCS GP Supervisors, Alumni and Current Students on our web site.
- 9.1.2012: TUCS Courses on a Google Calendar
The TUCS Courses are now listed on a Google Calendar, especially for Master's level students convenience.
- 12.12.2011: TUCS GP student Marta Olszewska, Defense of Doctoral Thesis
On Monday, December 12th, TUCS GP student Marta Olszewska presents her Ph.D. thesis "On the Impact of Rigorous Approaches on the Quality of Development" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Olszewska is Professor Mark van den Brand from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Docent Marina Walden will act as the custos at this public defense.
Time: 12:00
Place: Auditorium Gamma, ICT Building
- 12.12.2011: TUCS GP student Antti Airola, Defense of Doctoral Thesis
On Monday, December 12th, TUCS GP student Antti Airola presents his Ph.D. thesis "Kernel-Based Ranking: Methods for Learning and Performance Estimation" for public criticism. The opponent of M.Sc. Airola is Adjunct Professor Timo Honkela from Aalto University, Finland. Professor Tapio Salakoski will act as the custos at this public defense.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Beta, ICT Building
- 8.12.2011: TUCS GP Student József Mezei, Defence of doctoral thesis
On Thursday, December 8th, TUCS GP Student József Mezei presents his Ph.D. thesis
"A Quantitative View on Fuzzy Numbers" for public criticism.
The opponent of M.Sc. Mezei is Professor Imre J. Rudas from Óbuda University, Hungary.
Professor Christer Carlsson will act as the custos at this public defense.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Gamma, ICT Building
- 8.12.2011: Microsoft and Nokia: Geeks on Wheels
Microsoft and Nokia are going on a roadtrip and visiting universities across Finland. After this seminar you’ll have the basic knowledge to get started with Windows Phone development and publishing your apps.
The roadtrip visits Turku in 8.12.2011!
- 25.11.2011:
Scholarships were awarded to the following students in TUCS:
Fredrik Abbors, Jari Björne, Stefan Grönroos, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Julia Prokhorova, Amir
Rahmani, Irum Rauf, Anton Tarasyuk, Thomas Xu and Zhiyuan Yao.
- 24.11.2011: TUCS Short Course: Quantitative Research Using LISREL and EQS
Dr. Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo will give a TUCS Short Course "Quantitative Research Using LISREL and EQS" between 24.-25.11.
This workshop is designed to familiarise with a particular software package (LISREL), which integrates a wide range of tools and enables researches to analyse complex models with quantitative data.
- 24.11.2011: Edited special issues of journals
We are currently reviewing the TUCS publication database. We have just added a new category of publications called “Edited special issues of journals”.
- 14.11.2011: New Course: E-mathematics with structured derivations
M.Sc. and Ph.D. level
Lecturers: Ralph-Johan Back and Viorel Preoteasa
First lecture Monday, November 14, 15 - 18, in auditorium Fortran
The course is intended for anyone who is interested in how mathematical arguments, proofs and computations can be written so that they are easy to understand and construct. The course is particularly suited for computer science students who are interested in E-learning applications and mathematics students who are interested in new ways to teach mathematics.
- 11.11.2011: TUCS GP Student Arho Suominen, Defence of Doctoral Thesis
On Friday, November 11th, M.Sc. Arho Suominen presents his Ph.D. thesis "Notes on Emerging Technologies" for public criticism.
The opponent of M.Sc. Suominen is Professor Klaus-Dieter Thoben from Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Germany.
Professor Aulis Tuominen will act as the custos at this public defense.
Time: 12:00
Place: Auditorium 157, Ylhäistentie 2, Salo
- 11.11.2011: Jari Kyngäs, Defence of Doctoral Thesis
On Friday, November 11th, Lic. Jari Kyngäs presents their Ph.D. thesis
"Solving Challenging Real-World Scheduling Problems" for public criticism.
The opponent of Lic. Kyngäs is Professor Jyrki Nummenmaa from Tampere School of Information Sciences.
Professor Olli Nevalainen will act as the custos at this public defense.
Time: 12 noon
Place: Auditorium Pub3, Publicum, Turku
- 10.11.2011: FiDiPro Distinguished Lecture and TUCS short course by Prof. Jeff Shallit
Thursday November 10 at 12 in Lecture Room XXIII
It is now almost 50 years since the classic paper of Nathan Fine and Herb Wilf entitled "Uniqueness theorems for periodic functions". That paper - their only joint one - led to many other interesting results in combinatorics on words and other areas. In this talk I will give a new proof of the Fine-Wilf theorem and discuss some of the progress in the last 50 years.
- 4.11.2011: UTU/IT and TUCS paper received a Best Student Paper Award
Khalid Latif and Amir-Mohammad Rahmani received the "Best Student Paper Award" at the IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT 2011) for the paper entitled "A Novel Topology-Independent Router Architecture to Enhance Reliability and Performance of Networks-on-Chip". DFT is an annual symposium providing an open forum for presentations in the field of defect and fault tolerance in VLSI systems inclusive of emerging technologies.
- 17.10.2011: PyCon Finland 2011
PyCon Finland 2011 will be held on October 17-18 in Turku. The venue for the conference is ICT Building, located at Joukahaisenkatu 3-5.
