News from the School of Science
President's letter 20 March: Our values carry us through state of emergency
President Ilkka Niemelä encourages members of the Aalto community to try out new forms of interacting and feeling the power of our community.
School of Science awards best doctoral theses of 2019
Out of the 59 dissertations awarded by the School of Science last year, 6 were celebrated for their especially high quality, impact and originality.
Neuroscience conference avoids cancellation by taking place online
The OHBMX conference takes place online, giving it a low carbon footprint and making it perfect for allowing collaboration while following social distancing rules
The European Commission offers significant support to Europe’s AI excellence
The European Commission has decided to fund ELISE, a project proposal that specifically focuses on fundamental research in artificial intelligence, driven by machine learning, with 12 million euros.
New scanner can improve the detection of cancer tissue and brain disease diagnoses
Researchers aim to have the technology ready for hospital use and commercialisation by the end of next year.
EIT Manufacturing Match Making Event 2020
The Match Making Event 2020 was arrangenged over the web as a number of sessions. You can watch the web sessions here
Aalto's experts in questions related to coronavirus
Aalto University provides expert and research knowledge about the corona virus pandemic. Please note the coronavirus situation is monitored and assessed by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, THL.
Secondary school girls celebrate Women’s Day by exploring the world of technology
The Women's Day celebrations continued at the schools of technology on Monday 9 March, when Aalto University received a group of eighth and ninth grade girls who are all enthusiastic about science and technology.
Call for Education Proposals 2021 (EIT Manufacturing)
Education focuses on humans: engage, connect and empower them to become the backbone of a strong European Manufacturing Innovation Community; a propserous and inclusive society.
Call for Innovation Proposals 2021 (EIT Manufacturing)
The EIT Manufacturing community is looking for Innovation Activities with high potential. Proposers should focus on products and services with real economic, environmental, and societal impacts.
EIT Manufacturing - Call for Proposals 2021 is Open (deadline: 6 APR 2020)
You can find all the call details on this page: call documents, Q&A, webinars and other useful information
Turbulent convection at the heart of stellar activity
By combining modern data analysis techniques with stellar structure modelling for main-sequence and giant stars, researchers shed new light on stellar dynamos
Simon memorial prize awarded to Professor Jukka Pekola
Professor Pekola was awarded the Simon Memorial Prize for fundamental achievements in quantum thermodynamics
Celebrating International Women's Day in the School of Science
Some of the ways we celebrated the impact of the women in Sci's community
Researchers developed a new solution that brings high quality extended reality to easy-to-use and inexpensive devices
The solution developed at Aalto makes use of distributed computing and offloads the heaviest part of graphics rendering to remote servers
Try something new – check out staff clubs!
In club activities, you get to know your colleagues in a fun way - and you might even get inspired to start a new club.
Finnish researchers look at noisy quantum computer
Researchers from CSC – IT center for science, Aalto University and Åbo Akademi and their collaborators from Boston University in the USA have for the first time demonstrated how the noise impacts on quantum computing in a systematic way. The results are published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.
All of us are exposed to information manipulation - Welcome to follow open lectures and learn what that means
Informational influence and information manipulation touch every one of us. For that reason, the Information Networks Programme welcomes everyone to come and learn about this phenomenon.
Mailbox for corona-related questions opened
You can send emails concerning Aalto University and the coronavirus to corona.information@aalto.fi.
Call a Researcher! discussions brought new perspectives
The Digital Disruption of Industry consortium offered again its researchers’ expertise to citizens, politicians, companies and organisations through one hour free Skype discussions. The Call a Researcher! week held in February 2020 was implemented for the third time.
