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Tuula Teeri appointed President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Tuula Teeri will leave her position as the President of Aalto University probably in the late autumn.
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President Tuula Teeri. Photo: Aalto University/ Janne Lehtinen

Emotional expressions of love and loathing clearly differ in motions

Social eMotions research project of Aalto University culminates in an interactive dance performance.
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The upper row shows portrayals of love, lower row loathing. The lines show trajectories of limb movements, line widths indicate velocities. Picture: Klaus Förger.

Record-breaking tiny centenary celebration logo only a hundredth of a millimetre in size

The logo for Finland’s centennial was created from silicon with the same method as the world's smallest Aalto vase.
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The smallest logo for Finland’s centennial from two different angles. The first structure included the flag. In the measurement scale below, 5 µm equals two-hundredths of a millimetre. The distance from one edge to another is almost precisely one-hundredth of a millimetre. Images: Nikolai Chekurov/Micronova, Aalto University

Algorithm can create a bridge between Clinton and Trump supporters

Twitter case study aims to minimize the controversies.
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Endorsement network of US Elections: each dot indicates a Twitter user and a line between two dots indicates that one user retweeted the other. The two sides, red - republicans and blue - democrats do not endorse each other, while endorsing their own sides heavily. Picture: Kiran Garimella / Aalto University.

Aalto University endowment portfolio returned 6.1% in 2016

The purpose of the endowment is to generate additional funding for top quality research and education.
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Aalto University and Saab sign a ten-year cooperation agreement

The aim is to strengthen their cooperation, especially in long-term sensor technology research.
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Optimising energy consumption with the internet of things

Aalto University develops intelligent control of energy use in residential and office buildings in association with Finnish industry partners.
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Aalto University School of Engineering

Election candidates engage in battles also in social media

An extensive analysis of online material showed that the voter is in danger of being forgotten when candidates have a go at each other.
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Picture represents the mutual interaction of the candidates in Twitter. Interaction occurs mainly between the candidates of the same party.

Scholarships for the most promising information security students

F-Secure, Intel and Nixu partner with Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security HAIC in response to high demand for information security experts.
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Students develop new innovations for a smart crane

Students and researchers develop new products and solutions at the Industrial Internet Campus using the open interfaces and data from the crane.
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Eight Aalto teams in Helsinki Challenge semifinals

The Finland 100 jubilee year brings Finnish universities together to change the world.
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A new method for converting wastewater nutrients into fertiliser

Nutrient emissions to waterways, and the energy consumption in the production of fertilisers will decrease.
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Aalto University School of Engineering

ELFI: Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference facilitates more effective simulation

The Engine for Likelihood-Free Inference is open to everyone, and it can help significantly reduce the number of simulator runs.
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SysBio: Example of a simulator which models spreading of an infectious disease (SysBio).

The researchers created a tiny laser using nanoparticles

Researchers at Aalto are the first to develop a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses so-called dark lattice modes.
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Hydropower in China impacts the flow of the Mekong River

The study shows that the hydropower operations considerably increased dry season flows and decreased wet season flows.
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Mekon River livelihoods and food security are closely linked to water.

A new mutation mechanism was found in human and bacterial genomes

The genome’s rapid mutation can affect the resistance of bacteria.
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Show it!

Design is a process that can be made more accessible when it is made visible.
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Researchers of non-wetting surfaces and meanings of Renaissance fashion awarded €2 million EU grants

The European Research Council has awarded €2 million to the projects of Professor Robin Ras and Professor Paula Hohti.
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Physicist Robin Ras receives 2 million euro ERC funding for research on non-wetting surfaces

In the future, new types of extremely non-wetting surfaces can be applied from everyday life to high-performance microfluidic devices.
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The ERC is funding for ground-breaking, cutting-edge research. Professor Robin Ras is excited to contribute to the rapidly growing field of science and technology of non-wetting surfaces. Photo Mikko Raskinen, Aalto University.

Researchers discovered elusive half-quantum vortices in a superfluid

Gained understanding in quantum physics may be a step towards quantum computers.
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A half-quantum vortex combines circular spin flow and circular mass flow, leading to the 
formation of vortex pairs that can be observed experimentally. Image: Ella Maru Studio.