Date: 21 Sep 2009
From: jyrki@diku.dk
Subject: Doctoral dissertation defence on MPI

Doctoral dissertation defence: Aspects of the Efficient Implementation 
of the Message Passing Interface (MPI)

Defender: Jesper Larsson Träff
Opponents: Brian Vinter, Jaswinder Pal Singh

Time: Friday, 2 October 2009 at 14:00–16:00
Place: Lille Auditorium

See: http://www.diku.dk/begivenheder/2009/doktordisputatsforsvar/

Jesper took his Ph.D. degree at our department in 1995. Already before 
finishing his thesis, he moved to Germany and he has worked there since 
then. In spite of the move, he has maintained good contacts with our 
department. For example, he has been an industrial partner and an 
adviser of the PE-lab since its foundation in 1998. Now he is back here 
again! Instead of making his "habilitation" in Germany, he decided to 
take his "doctor scientiarum" degree at our department.

Jesper's dr.scient. thesis is a collection of 26 articles plus a 
100-page introduction to these articles. Jesper would very much like to 
see you among the audience. If you choose to participate, you may want 
to read the thesis beforehand; the link mentioned above gives the 
details how to get the thesis. Jesper prefers an open discussion and he 
is prepared to answer your questions (but he was unsure whether the 
Danish system will allow this; the Finnish system would).

On Jesper's behalf,

Jyrki