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Send it up, up and away? Maybe not, space junk is a problem!
Clearing up the world’s space junk can pave the way for better mobile infrastructure and other ways to move into space
Quantum Garden uses sculpture to get the public to train AI
The sculpture gathers data sequences to help solve a quantum computing problem.
Young scientists meet Millennium Technology Prize winners in Singapore
This week, the Global Young Scientists Summit once again unites Millennium Technology Prize and Nobel Prize winners with some of the best young scientists from all over the world. Among them are Toni Pasanen and Juho Heiska from Aalto University.
AI’s story won’t be complete without art
Aalto’s Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka wants art and technology to collide and make something new
Media Lab students to exhibit in Seoul, South Korea in May 2019
Students from Aalto Media Lab were invited by KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and aSSIST, Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies to exhibit their works in Seoul for the second time.
Artificial human tissues and nature’s super coatings – the materials exhibition that took Slush by storm is now coming to Otaniemi
Come along ºÚÁÏÍø University and learn about the latest developments in materials research. At the same time, you can also admire the Ioncell dress worn by Finland’s First Lady Jenni Haukio at the Independence Day Reception.
Aalto University’s digitization project: cross-functional collaboration at its best
With about 70,000 MA and PhD theses now in digital format, the working group wants to try three-dimensional objects next.
Intelligent materials make the manufacturing ecosystems and companies’ business models more sustainable
Better use of information and materials requires intense and more open cooperation between companies.
Academy of Finland calls on Academy Programmes, FIRI funding and international joint calls
The Academy of Finland will open the calls on three Academy Programmes, Finnish Research Infrastructures (FIRI) and international joint projects during the springtime.
Miina Rautiainen’s forest images are taken from a height of hundreds of kilometres
As a professor of remote sensing, she develops methods that are needed in areas such as climate change research.
Photos from the last Xmas Demo Day
Collection of photos from the last Demo Day organized on the 5th of December 2018 at the Maker Space, Learning Centre of Aalto University.
Secrets of our universe live in a big blue cylinder
There isn’t much on Earth but you can find it just about everywhere else — how a type of helium might tell us how everything we know got its start.
Is artificial intelligence capable of love? 
Love simulation  EVE  studies the relationship between a human who wants to be loved and a loving AI.  
Matthijs Lof’s paper accepted to be published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics
Finance Assistant Professor Matthijs Lof’s paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Econometrics.
Michael Ungeheuer’s paper accepted to be published in the Journal of Finance
Finance Assistant Professor Michael Ungeheuer’s paper has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance.
Petri Jylhä’s paper awarded
Finance Assistant Professor Petri Jylhä’s paper received the Amundi Pioneer Distinguished Paper Prize
Matti Suominen’s paper accepted to be published in the Review of Financial Studies
Finance Professor Matti Suominen’s paper has been accepted for publication in the Review of Financial Studies.
SUMMER INTERSHIPS AT THE FINANCE FACULTY
We are primarily looking for Finance students in their second to fourth year of studies. Completion of a Bachelor’s thesis or other relevant experience is a plus.
Mixing art and artificial intelligence
Artists have for long been quick to experiment, use and misuse new technologies--but does AI mean the end of human-made art?
Aalto University now part of three research flagship projects
The competence clusters of photonics, artificial intelligence, and biomaterials promote high-level research, economic growth, and societal wellbeing.
