Kalender 2023

23. dec. 2022 - 30. jan. 2023

MSc Defences Winter 2022/2023

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this winter. The list will continuously be updated.

10. jan. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: What's the deal with ethics in computing (and AI)?

Join us when Irina Shklovski from the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

26. jan. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

DeLTA seminar by Emilie Kaufmann

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits' by Emilie Kaufmann, INRIA Lille.

26. jan. 2023, kl. 13.00-17.00

PhD defence by Chloé Alice Florence Rouyer

On 26 January Chloé Alice Florence Rouyer will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Theoretical Foundations of Learning with Worst-Case and Easy Data'.

27. jan. 2023, kl. 11.00-12.00

DeLTA seminar by Gábor Lugosi

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Learning the structure of graphical models by covariance queries' by Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University.

27. jan. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Explaining molecular properties with natural language

Join us for a talk by Dr. Andrew White! Everybody is welcome to attend.

27. jan. 2023, kl. 14.00-16.00

Afskedsreception for Finn Kensing

Finn Kensing går på pension 31. januar 2023 - vær med til at fejre hans tid på DIKU.

1. febr. 2023, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence by Yuhu Liang

On 1 February Yuhu Liang will defend his PhD thesis titled 'In pursuit of gene variation of consequence to human health and disease'.

3. febr. 2023, kl. 11.00-12.00

AI Seminar: Accurate somatic mutation detection using weakly supervised deep learning

Anders Skanderup, Principal Investigator at the Genome Institute of Singapore, will give a talk. Everybody is welcome to attend.

3. febr. 2023, kl. 14.15-16.15

Inaugural Lectures: Rasmus Pagh & Jakob Nordström

On 3 February 2023, Professors Rasmus Pagh and Jakob Nordström will give their inaugural lectures.

8. febr. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.00

DeLTA seminar by Mladen Kolar

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'An Adaptive Stochastic Sequential Quadratic Programming with Differentiable Exact Augmented Lagrangians'.

10. febr. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Platform intelligence in news

Join us for a talk by Stine Lomborg and Rasmus Helles, Associate Professors in the Department of Communication and part of Center for Tracking & Society, University of Copenhagen will give a talk. Everybody is welcome to attend.

10. febr. 2023, kl. 13.30-15.00

Kandidat Åbent Hus 2023

Besøg os til online Åbent Hus og bliv klogere på kandidatuddannelser i datalogi og andre naturvidenskabelige kandidatuddannelser.

14. febr. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Mapping Brains with Language Models

Join us when Antonia Karamolegkou from DIKU's Natural Language Processing (NLP) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

24. febr. - 12. maj 2023

Executive Masterclass – Ethical and Responsible AI

This Masterclass is for decision makers and professionals working in the Finance and Fintech industry, who seek insights in working with Artificial Intelligence in a responsible and trustworthy way.

24. febr. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Data governance and transparency for Large Language Models: lessons from the BigScience Workshop

Join us for this AI Seminar by Anna Rogers, Assistant Professor in the Center for Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen. Everybody is welcome to attend.

27. febr. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

DeLTA seminar by Amartya Sanyal

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Trustworthy Machine Learning under statistical limitations' by Amartya Sanyal, ETH.

28. febr. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Cutting Cotton Compactly – a Computational Conundrum

Join us when Mikkel Abrahamsen from DIKU's Algorithms and Complexity section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

1. marts - 3. marts 2023

Bachelor Åbent Hus 2023

Bliv klogere på vores bacheloruddannelser på Datalogisk Institut, når vi holder Åbent Hus den 1. og 3. marts 2023.

9. marts 2023, kl. 15.00-18.00

PhD defence by Dustin Brandon Wright

Join us when Dustin Brandon Wright will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Machine Understanding of Scientific Language'.

10. marts 2023, kl. 9.00-15.30

QIM Celebration and Workshop - From Foundation to Vision

We are celebrating the advances that we have made in 3D image analysis in the QIM Center’s first five years. 

14. marts 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Data and Categorization in Asylum Decision-making

Join us when Trine Rask Nielsen from the Software, Data, People and Society (SPDS) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

20. marts - 28. april 2023

MSc Defences Spring 2023

See the list of MSc thesis defences at DIKU this spring. The list will continuously be updated.

24. marts 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: XAI for representation learning

Join us for an online talk by Robert Jenssen, Director of SFI Visual Intelligence and Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Everybody is welcome to attend.

28. marts 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Efficient Robot Learning under Uncertainty

Join us when Hang Yin from the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling, and Geometry section (IMAGE) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

31. marts 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Interpreting Training

Join us for a talk by Naomi Saphra, Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University. Everybody is welcome to attend. 

12. april 2023, kl. 11.00-12.00

DeLTA seminar by Julian Zimmert

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits' by Emilie Kaufmann, INRIA Lille.

14. april 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Andreas David Lauritzen

Join us when Andreas David Lauritzen will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Development and Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening'.

17. april - 18. april 2023

FemTech retter spottet mod Rosalind Franklin – og opdagelsen af DNA’s dobbelthelix-struktur

På årets første FemTech-workshop har vi fokus på opdagelsen af DNA’s dobbelthelix-struktur. 

17. april 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

AI Seminar: Inferring selection effects in SARS-CoV-2 with Bayesian Viral Allele Selection

Join us for this AI Seminar by Martin Jankowiak, machine learning scientist at Generate Biomedicines. Everybody is welcome to attend.

17. april 2023, kl. 13.30-17.00

PhD defence by Ola Rønning

Join us when Ola Rønning will defend their PhD thesis titled 'A Probabilistic Approach to the Protein Folding Problem'.

26. april 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Per Steffen Czolbe

Join us when Per Steffen Czolbe will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Development and Clinical Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening'.

27. april 2023, kl. 16.30-18.00

DIKU Alumni: Fokus på datasikkerhed

DIKU ALUMNEFORENING: Vi sætter fokus på sikkerhed til dette medlemsevent.

28. april 2023, kl. 12.30-13.30

AI Seminar: Machine Learning Powered Inference in Cosmology

Join us for a talk by Pablo Lemos. Everybody is welcome to attend.

2. maj - 4. maj 2023

XR Symposium & Summer School 2023

The summer school on XR invites participants to Copenhagen, Denmark for three days. The participants will learn about a wide range of topics across Human–Computer Interaction with Extended Reality.

2. maj 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Deception is OK when you gotta go fast

Join us when Troels Henriksen from the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing section (PLTC) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

12. maj 2023, kl. 13.00-18.00

IT Karrieredag 2023

Fredag den 12. maj 2023 afvikles den årlige IT Karrieredag for virksomheder og studerende med IT og programmering på Københavns Universitet. Se program og hvordan du tilmelder dig.

16. maj 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Why the Body is Not a Neutral Design Space When It Comes to Self-Tracking Technologies

Join us when Sarah Homewood from the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

17. maj 2023, kl. 13.00-17.00

PhD defence by Philip Munksgaard

Join us when Philip Munksgaard will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Static and Dynamic Analyses for Efficient GPU Execution'.

23. maj 2023, kl. 13.00-17.00

PhD defence by Asbjørn William Ammitzbøll Flügge

Join us when Asbjørn William Ammitzbøll Flügge will defend his PhD thesis titled "Where the Practice is - a study of humans and machines in public employment services".

26. maj 2023, kl. 12.30-15.00

CS4ALL network meeting: DIKU’s journey towards more diversity

Join DIKU’s community for women and other gender minorities for a nice afternoon, where we will eat lunch together and talk about diversity and equity in computer science.

30. maj 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Deep learning and remote sensing for ecosystem monitoring

Join us when Christian Igel from the Machine Learning section (ML) will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

1. juni 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Yi-Shan Wu

Join us when Yi-Shan Wu will defend their PhD thesis titled "Second-Order Concentration Inequalities with Application to the Weighted Majority Vote".

6. juni 2023, kl. 14.00-15.00

AI Talk: Fact-checking Online Information Using The Crowd

Join us when Assistant Professor Kevin Roitero from the University of Udine will give a talk titled 'Fact-checking Online Information Using The Crowd'.

7. juni 2023

Copenhagen Programming Language Workshop (COPLAW) 2023

CoPLaWS is a series of annual workshops for programming language researchers working in the greater Copenhagen area (DTU, KU, ITU, RUC, but also open to researchers in industry and other institutions).

12. juni - 6. okt. 2023

MSc Defences Summer 2023

See the list of MSc defences at DIKU this summer. The list will be continuously updated.

14. juni 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Marloes Elisabeth Arts

Join us when Marloes Arts will defend their PhD thesis titled "Generative Models for Proteins: Ensembles, Dynamics and Evolution".

15. juni 2023, kl. 14.00-15.30

DIKU Business Club Summer Meeting

Member meeting for DBC member companies

23. juni 2023, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence by Rasmus Kær Jørgensen

Join us when Rasmus Kær Jørgensen will defend their PhD thesis titled "Multilingual Natural Language Processing for Applications in the Financial Domain".

28. juni 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

AI Seminar: Developing and deploying time series models in healthcare

Join us for a talk by Anna Goldenberg, professor in the departments of Computer Science and the Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. Everybody is welcome to attend.

30. juni 2023, kl. 13.05-14.00

COPLAS talk: Tail recursion transformation for invertible functions

Join us for this COPLAS talk by Joachim Tilsted Kristensen, PhD student at Oslo University.

26. juli - 3. aug. 2023

UNF Computer Science Camp 2023

Skal du eller kender du en gymnasieelev, der skal have en introduktion til datalogiens verden og sommerens fedeste oplevelse? Tilmeld dig UNF Computer Science Camp 2023 på DIKU.

7. aug. 2023, kl. 11.00-14.00

PhD defence by Nils Rethmeier

Join us when Nils Rethmeier will defend their PhD thesis titled "Efficient, Adaptable and Interpretable NLP".

10. aug. - 11. aug. 2023

Appreciating AI

In this two-day course, offered by the Data Science Laboratory, we will provide an overview of ML/AI methods with a focus on their applications to the sciences within the University of Copenhagen. 

21. aug. 2023, kl. 9.00-10.00

AI Seminar: Feedback in Quantum Algorithms: Bridging Quantum Information and Machine Learning

Join us for a talk by Jacob Biamonte, Distinguished Faculty Scholar in Quantum Sciences at the NASA Ames Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Everybody is welcome to attend.

21. aug. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

AI Seminar: ML for the sciences - towards understanding

Join us for a talk by Klaus-Robert Müller, professor of computer science at Technische Universität Berlin. Everybody is welcome to attend.

21. aug. 2023, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence by Mathias Perslev

Join us when Mathias Perslev will defend his PhD thesis titled "Segmentation of medical images and time series using fully convolutional neural networks".

25. aug. 2023, kl. 10.00-13.30

Workshop: Get ready for ESG and Energy Sector Coupling

Collaboration and knowledge exchange: Join us for a workshop addressing the upcoming ESG-reporting requirements, and presenting cases for collaboration on Scoped Carbon Accounting and energy sector coupling

28. aug. 2023, kl. 13.00-17.00

PhD defence by Abraham George Smith

Join us when Abraham George Smith will defend his PhD thesis titled "Deep-Learning Image Segmentation with Corrective Annotation".

6. sept. 2023, kl. 15.00-18.00

Bæredygtig Fremtid: Klima, teknologi og biodiversitet

Kom med når SCIENCE inviterer alumner og netværk på en tankevækkende rejse ind i fremtidens bæredygtige verden! Førende forskere giver os indsigt i de centrale dilemmaer på en let tilgængelig måde.

12. sept. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

CANCELLED. DIKU Bits: Digital twinning in agriculture and healthcare

This edition of DIKU Bits has unfortunately been cancelled. A new date to follow.

15. sept. - 20. sept. 2023

Masterclasses: Kom i form til DM i programmering

Har du ambitioner om at blive superhacker og vinde DM i programmering? Så bliv klædt på til 2 x masterclass hos Jonas Klausen og David Lolck, tidligere mester-konkurrenceprogrammører.

21. sept. 2023, kl. 16.00-18.00

ReWork Artistic Exploratory: Research and Art Exhibition (RAE²)

Come and join us when we are presenting art prototypes and research exploring the future of work. Join artists along with researchers from the ReWork research project, for this multidisciplinary art event, research exhibit, and reception.

22. sept. 2023, kl. 13.45-16.00

PhD defence by Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen

Join us when Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen will defend their PhD thesis titled 'New Results on Hash Functions and Hashing-Based Algorithms'.

28. sept. 2023, kl. 14.00-17.00

PhD defence by Carl Victor von Wachter

Join us when Carl Victor von Wachter will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Decentralized Finance: Building and Analyzing Financial Infrastructure on Blockchain Technology'.

28. sept. 2023, kl. 17.00-21.00

DIKU Alumnedag 2023: AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential

DIKU ALUMNEFORENING: Sammen med DIKU Business Club inviterer vi til den årlige alumnedag. Årets tema bliver 'AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential'.

3. okt. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Neurodiversity in Computer Science - Accessibility Breakdowns & Bottom-up Micro-Interventions

Join us when Valeria Borsotti from the Human-Centred Computing (HCC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

4. okt. 2023, kl. 8.30-16.00

Workshop: AI Research Moonshots

This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in learning more about how to envision and execute grand ideas for your own research.

10. okt. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Randomly finding bugs

Join us when Ken Friis Larsen from the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation (PLTC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

12. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

DeLTA Seminar by Xiaoyan Hu: (More) Sample-Efficient Offline RL with Options

The DeLTA Lab from DIKU presents this seminar by Xiaoyan Hu from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

13. okt. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

Pioneer Centre Talk: Why Fostering Inclusive NLP needs More Inclusion

Before Anne Lauscher, Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Hamburg will speak at the CS4ALL Talks, she will deliver a talk at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

13. okt. 2023, kl. 12.00-14.00

CS4ALL Talks: Bias and inclusiveness in computer science

Join us for two inspiring talks, lunch, and discussion.

13. okt. 2023, kl. 18.00-23.59

Kulturnatten 2023

Datalogisk Institut på Københavns Universitet byder indenfor til sjove, lærerige og kreative aktiviteter for hele familien på Kulturnatten 13. oktober 2023. Vores forskere og studerende vil guide dig gennem datalogiens forunderlige verden.

24. okt. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Cultural Adaptation of Large Language Models

Join us when Yong Cao from the Natural Language Processing (NLP) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

25. okt. 2023, kl. 14.00-17.00

HCC Open House

Visit DIKU’s Human-Centred Computing section and get thesis ideas, try exciting demos, hear about the HCC courses, and enjoy drinks, snacks, and great company.

26. okt. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

DeLTA seminar by Kasper Green Larsen: Bagging is an Optimal PAC Learner

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, holds another seminar titled 'Bagging is an Optimal PAC Learner' by Kasper Green Larsen, Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University.

30. okt. - 9. nov. 2023

Virksomhedsforløb om implementering af AI

Kom med i et virksomhedsforløb og få indblik i de nyeste AI-teknologier, og hvordan din virksomhed kan anvende AI i forretningen.

2. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

DeLTA seminar by Kaixin Wang: Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning: Approximation, Reachability, and Beyond

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Laplacian Representation in Reinforcement Learning: Approximation, Reachability, and Beyond' by Kaixin Wang, postdoctoral researcher at the Technion.

6. nov. - 10. nov. 2023

Workshop on Verifiable and Robust AI

This interdisciplinary conference will consist of a combination of invited talks, panel discussions, working groups, and contributed talks and poster presentations.

8. nov. - 9. nov. 2023

Digital Tech Summit 2023: AI transforming business

For tredje år i træk slår de danske universiteter i samarbejde med Teknologiens Mediehus dørerne op for Digital Tech Summit, der er Nordens største deep tech konference og messe.

11. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-14.00

COPLAS Talk: Lambda-Superposition: From Theory to Trophy

Join this COPLAS talk by Jasmin Blanchette from LMU München. All are welcome. No registration is required. 

13. nov. 2023, kl. 9.30-14.00

DIKU Business Club Matchmaking event for MSc students and companies

Matchmaking Event for Computer Science students and companies

13. nov. - 14. nov. 2023

FemTech bruger energi på bæredygtighed

På denne FemTech-workshop har vi fokus på bæredygtighed. 

13. nov. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.00

DeLTA seminar by Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif : Bayes meets Bernstein in meta-learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'Bayes meets Bernstein in meta-learning' by Badr-Eddine Chérief-Abdellatif, CNRS researcher at Sorbonne Université & Université Paris Cité.

20. nov. 2023, kl. 15.30-18.30

PhD defence by Concetto Emanuele Bugliarello

Join us when Concetto Emanuele Bugliarello will defend his PhD thesis titled "On Multimodal Representations Learned at Scale".

23. nov. 2023, kl. 13.00-16.00

PhD defence by Saeed Masoudian

Join us when Saeed Masoudian will defend their PhD thesis titled 'Best-of-Both-Worlds Learning in Bandits with Delayed Feedback'.

27. nov. 2023

DeLTA seminar by Andrea Tirinzoni: On Instance-optimal PAC Reinforcement Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'On Instance-optimal PAC Reinforcement Learning' by Andrea Tirinzoni, postdoctoral researcher in the FAIR team at Meta (Paris).

28. nov. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Machine Learning for the Control of Spin Qubits

Join us when Oswin Krause from the Machine Learning (ML) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

30. nov. 2023, kl. 16.30-18.30

DIKU Alumneforening: Generalforsamling og juleevent

Kom med når vi igen i år mødes til den årlige generalforsamling, hører årets julehistorie og nyder en omgang gløgg og æbleskiver i DIKU Alumneforening.

4. dec. 2023, kl. 13.30-17.00

Åbningskonference for det nye Videnscenter for Digital Teknologiforståelse

Vi markerer åbningen af videnscenteret sammen med nogle af landets førende eksperter og beslutningstagere inden for teknologiforståelse.

5. dec. 2023, kl. 10.00-11.00

DeLTA seminar by Nirupam Gupta: Machine Learning in Untrusted Environment

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled Machine Learning in Untrusted Environment' by Nirupam Gupta, postdoc at Computer Science Department at EPFL.

5. dec. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

DIKU Bits: Stochastic convex optimization

Join us when Amir Yehudayoff from the Algorithms and Complexity (AC) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

8. dec. 2023, kl. 13.15-16.00

PhD defence by Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen

Join us when Mikkel Kragh Mathiesen will defend his PhD thesis titled "The Programming of Algebra ".

19. dec. 2023, kl. 12.15-13.00

(Cancelled!) DIKU Bits: Studying microbes with deep learning

Join us when Svetlana Kutuzova from the Pioneer AI (P1AI) section will give a DIKU Bits lecture.

19. dec. 2023, kl. 15.00-16.00

DeLTA seminar by Suraj Srinavas: On The (Missing) Foundations of Interpretable Machine Learning

The DeLTA Lab from the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen holds another seminar titled 'On The (Missing) Foundations of Interpretable Machine Learning' by Suraj Srinavas, postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University.