Upcoming events
AI Hour for Teachers, 18 May
Monthly, drop‑in AI Hour for Teachers: two one‑hour windows with no registration or fixed agenda—ask anything about AI, try tools, and swap ideas.
Theses & Tomatoes: Start your studies with Pomodoro
Join us for guided studying and pick up tips for more effective work during Pomodoro sessions!
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Welcome to CMAT Researchers' Day 2026!
Welcome to CMAT Researchers' Day 2026!
This is the third time we’re dedicating a day to networking, quality time, science, fun, and lunch together.
The program includes a lecture by Prof. Erik Berg (Uppsala University) on autonomous labs for battery electrolyte development, followed by group activities. There will be a poster session where you can discuss your project with your fellow researchers. The event ends with a joint lunch, provided by Maukas.
This is the third time we’re dedicating a day to networking, quality time, science, fun, and lunch together.
The program includes a lecture by Prof. Erik Berg (Uppsala University) on autonomous labs for battery electrolyte development, followed by group activities. There will be a poster session where you can discuss your project with your fellow researchers. The event ends with a joint lunch, provided by Maukas.
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Reproducibility and Open Science Practices in Machine Learning // 20.May.2026
What is reproducibility and why do we need to care about it in machine learning research? What are the best practices for sharing machine learning models in your research? Join us for this one day event!
Qual+ seminar: Why should we study industries, and how?
A seminar with Professor Emerita Eleanor Westney on incorporating industry more effectively into our research.
Identity Work as Strategy: Rethinking Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Media Work - Research seminar with Sven-Ove Horst
This seminar brings identity work to the center of organization studies by showing how strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship are grounded in ongoing processes of professional becoming
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
Join and ask anything about research data management and open science.
The final seminar of the CO-CARBON research project, Where is urban green in climate action?, will be held on Wednesday, May 20, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Think Corner, University of Helsinki.
Career Design Lab: job search support
We will answer your questions about job hunting and provide feedback on your job application documents.
AI Hour for Teachers, 20 May
Monthly, drop‑in AI Hour for Teachers: two one‑hour windows with no registration or fixed agenda—ask anything about AI, try tools, and swap ideas.
The Science of Beauty – lecture
Lecture on what are the brain mechanisms that are engaged when we experience beauty? by Professor Semir Zeki
School of Business Ceremonial Conferment 2026
The 17th Ceremonial Conferment of the School of Business will be celebrated on May 21–23, 2026.
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Public defence, Automation, Systems and Control Engineering, MSc Ogulcan Isitman
Control and Planning for Magnetic Robotic Manipulation Across Scales.
Public defence, New Media, MA Mamdooh Afadila
Filmmaking Practice Through a Cognitive Penetration Lens:
A Practitioner’s Inquiry into Implicit Social Perception.
A Practitioner’s Inquiry into Implicit Social Perception.
Vortices, Skyrmions, Möbius Strips: From Nanooptics to Ocean Waves
Prof. Konstantin Bliokh gives a talk on recent theoretical and experimental results in subwavelength high-intensity vortices in 2D wave systems, the generation of the Bessel-type vortices, and manipulation of floating particles using topologically structured water waves.
Aalto Founder Talks #8: Maija Itkonen, Founder and CEO of Onego Bio
Maija is a designer, innovator, third time founder who has built and exited two tech companies and one of the pioneers in the alternative protein field. Currently she’s acting as CEO and Co-Founder of Onego Bio.
Aalto University alumni & friends get-together at BMW Welt, Munich
Join us on May 25 for reconnecting and hearing the latest from Aalto and BMW
