TIEJ601 Tietotekniikan jatkokoulutusseminaari, 4 op
Postgraduate Seminar in Information Technology, 4 ECTS cr

Meetings on Thursdays once a month.
Time: 12.15-14.00. Place: Ag C 233. Dates 3.2., 3.3., 31.3., 28.4., 26.5.

Step to program of spring 2011.

You should register for the seminar separately every academic year. Use the Korppi system to register for this seminar.

The idea is to bring together the postgraduate students at the Department of Mathematical Information Technology. The aim is to broaden the participants' view on what kind of topics are being studied at the department and related institutes as well as to disseminate the latest research results.
The programme of the postgraduate seminar will consist of presentations given by visitors and supervisors about research and topics that support research and doctoral studies and talks given by doctoral students about their research. The participants can also propose topics to be discussed in the seminar.
Active participation in the seminar is highly recommended for each postgraduate student of the department.

Active participation (at least 12 times plus own talks).
Two-three seminar presentations (as described below).
Note that the seminar should cover the whole period of postgraduate studies (on average 3-4 years).
When you have given enough talks and participated often enough, contact the leader of the seminar in order to get the credits.

Presentations of 20-30 min on the topic of the doctoral dissertation.
Each participant should give two presentations during the postgraduate studies:
- at the beginning phase of the studies to state the research problem and visioning how to tackle with the problem,
- somewhere in the middle of the studies to describe the results obtained so far. One should also show a plan for the rest of the studies,
- while finishing the dissertation to wrap up and summarize the key results obtained. The idea is also to describe the whole postgraduate study process - "pros and cons" to assist other participants still carrying out their own studies
The presentations should have a scientific style. The exact subject and the contents of the presentations should be discussed with the supervisor(s) of the postgraduate studies. It is important that the heterogeneous backgrounds of the audience should be taken into account. The following information should be clearly presented in the talk:
- topic of the PhD thesis, its format (collection of papers or monograph) and the supervisor(s)
- the status of the thesis and the expected finishing time
- background and main scientific contribution of the PhD thesis as well as results expected to be obtained and applicability of the results to be obtained and
- which part of the thesis is the talk related to.

16.9.:
- Prof. Theodor Stewart (University of Cape Town, South Africa and Manchester Business School, UK):
  - Editorial and Review Process of Journals
  - Operational Research for Development in Africa
    In this talk, we discuss why OR in the developing world is distinct in many ways from "first world" OR, and why this creates special challenges. These challenges are illustrated by applications in water resources and fisheries management in South Africa.
- Prof. Kaisa Miettinen: Making Applications: Research Plan, Curriculum Vitae, List of Publications etc. (ppt)
- Dr. Sami Kollanus: Information about Different Funding Possibilities
14.10.:
- Prof. Pekka Neittaanmäki: Introduction to computational sciences and description of research activities (ppt)
- Prof. Vagan Terziyan: Industrial Ontologies Group: Our Research Activities and Future Plans (ppt)
- Erkki Kurkinen: Influence of human factors and affective technology in utilitarian mobile applications (pptx). Abstract (txt)
11.11.:
- Prof. Timo Tiihonen: Modeling and Simulation Visions towards 2020 (pptx)
- Miika Nurminen: Tag-based metadata management for information integration (pdf). Abstract (txt)
9.12.:
- Giovanni Iacca: Advances in compact Differential Evolution (pdf). Abstract (pdf)
- Prof. Kaisa Miettinen: Some Mobility Issues (ppt)

22.9.: Prof. Jyrki Wallenius (HSE): Publishing in International Journals: Personal Observations
- Material 1 (ppt), Material 1 (pdf)
- Material 2 (ppt), Material 2 (pdf)
- Material 3 (ppt), Material 3 (pdf)
27.10.:
- Prof. Andrzej P. Wierzbicki (National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland): Personal experiences about conference talks, international research customs, hermeneutical horizons and paradigms.
- Kaisa Miettinen: Giving Conference Talks: How to give a good talk? (pdf) and Hints for making conference trips (pdf)
24.11.:
- Dr. Julia Pavlova: IIASA: Programs for Young Scientists (pdf). Abstract (doc)
- Ahmer Iqbal: Uses of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) in different fields (ppt). Abstract (doc)
- Fengyu Cong: Concatenated Trial Based Hilbert-Huang Transformation on Mismatch Negativity (ppt). Abstract (doc)

Nicholas J. Higham: Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1993 (and editions after that)