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Vikas Garg uses deep learning to solve complex real-world problems
Assistant Professor Vikas Garg finds meaning in solving real-world problems and working with inspiring stakeholders.

Aalto RDM & Open Science Training Attracted 2,800 Registrations This Academic Year
The webinars continue to be highly rated and most are already publicly available on YouTube.

'Mentoring is inspiring and fun' - Aalto International Talent Program offers a meaningful way to support international students
This year the group mentoring initiative brought together over 180 international students and 17 companies.

Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ’22 granted development funding for five creative industry projects
The winners of the open call represent different branches of the creative industry.

An atomic-scale window into superconductivity paves the way for new quantum materials
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique to measure the quantum excitations in superconducting materials with atomic precision for the first time. Detecting these excitations is an important step towards understand exotic superconductors, which could help us improve quantum computers and perhaps even pave the way towards room-temperature superconductors.

Professors got together to reflect on the future
The themes of this year's Professors' Summit included a preliminary idea of a cross-disciplinary bachelor's programme and the changing campus

Making colours out of gold and DNA
Gold nanoparticles are arranged by custom DNA molecules to produce colours

The first draft of quality audit self-evaluation report is ready – read and comment!
The report is written based on discussions and materials gathered during the University Review

2022 TUTA Awards granted for outstanding performance
Frank Martela, Mikko Heiskanen, Niina Nurmi, Robin Gustafsson and Timo Seppälä were recognized for their outstanding performance with Tuta Awards.

New semantic portal gives meaning to parliamentary data
Researchers have amassed every speech ever held in the Finnish parliament into a semantic portal called ParliamentSampo to help journalists, researchers and the public to understand and oversee democracy

The participatory budgeting project culminated in a happy planting workshop
One Euro for Every Student project culminated in a planting workshop in mid-May on the new garden benches

Back to the future products
The 25th anniversary gala of the PDP course took place on the 13th of May at Design Factory. Many interesting future products such as electric wooden boat, extremely precise factory crane and edible packing material were presented at the Gala.

Thank you for being part of the Aalto community – here’s your Aalto Kit!
Aalto Kit with a special edition hoodie and water bottle is offered to all current and new employees.

Your invitation to Life 1.5
Save the date/planet: Welcome to our fourth Designs for a Cooler Planet festival, 7.9–12.10.2022 in Otaniemi, Espoo.

Growth and responsibility in business discussed at the Prodeko seminar
Can business growth be responsible? How did corona change the operations of a software company? Responsibility and growth were discussed at the 2022 Prodeko seminar on 6 May.

Researchers developed invisible, machine-washable solar cell technology for clothing
The discrete nature of the cells protects them – and makes the clothes more attractive, the physics and design researchers say. Promising applications include work and outdoor clothing, and curtains which react to changes in the amount of light.

Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ‘22 received a record number of applications
Art & Tech Open Call ‘22 winners will be selected at the Media Lab Demo Day event on 1.6.2022.

International academic - A survey on societal engagement
A research project asks for your insights by a survey, answers are requested by 31 May.

Introducing the university's art collection and the A Grid community - take a tour!
I love campus tours for Aalto community began in May 2022

President’s letter 17 May – We defend truth, critical thinking, equality and human rights
We need to pay attention to our online behaviour and how we handle different messages
