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Over 100 graduates received their diplomas

The last graduation ceremony of the Academic year was a sunny one.
Studies
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Close cooperation between computer graphics research and games industry benefits everyone

The differences between academic research and industrial R&D are apparent mainly time spans.
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Surgify technology to make cranial surgery safer and faster

An innovation refined at Aalto may aid physicians and patients in just over a year.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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Petri Kuosmanen (left) and Visa Sippola thank Aalto for support and an inspiring atmosphere.

Success for Aalto teams on the CASMI-contest for metabolite identification

Aalto University teams won and came second in the category of best automatic structural identification.
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Professor of Practice Antti Suhonen's paper accepted in the Journal of Portfolio Management

"Quantifying Backtest Overfitting in Alternative Beta Strategies", forthcoming in the Journal of Portfolio Management.
Research & Art
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Matthijs Lof appointed as Assistant Professor in Finance (2. term)

Assistant Professor of Finance Matthijs Lof has been appointed for a second term at the Department of Finance.
Research & Art
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Skype data of 500 million people reveals the real patterns of social adoption

Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Snowball sample of the Skype social network (gray links), showing multiple innovators as green nodes, induced small vulnerable trees as red nodes and links, and the triggered connected stable cluster as blue nodes and links. Picture: Nature Publishing Group

Economics research increasingly of interest also to women

The Department of Economics has seen around a dozen women defending their doctoral theses over the last two years.
Studies, Research & Art
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'Now that the number of female doctors of economics is increasing, the field will certainly see a greater number of female professors in the future’, Professors Pertti Haaparanta and Juuso Välimäki are happy to report.

It isn’t worth making compromises when recruiting for growth businesses

The team game builds success, growth and business culture.
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Kai Lyytinen, Tero Salminen, Antti Kosunen and Sanna Lahti know that at its best, entrepreneurship is a team game that brings success.

International small business award to Olli Vuola

Aalto Ventures Programs Executive Director Olli Vuola received the International Council for Small Businessin Presidential Award in New York.
Awards and Recognition
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Researchers implemented a prototype for Narrowband Internet-of-Things system

This is among the first standalonemode NB-IoT, Narrowband Internet-of-Things, implementations in the world.
Research & Art
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Software Business Lab part of winning team in Fortum Hackathon

Akatsuki Ryu represents SBL in the winning team, Team Proximity, in the Fortum Hackathon in May
Awards and Recognition
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Researchers discover attacks against widely used cryptographic libraries

The researchers fixed the vulnerability by editing the code in a way that the attacker cannot learn the secret key of the victim.
Research & Art, Press releases
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Saija Hollmén appointed Vice Dean at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Ms Hollmén’ area of responsibility is art and creative practices.
Research & Art
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Saija Hollmén wants to promote multidisciplinary activities and cross-disciplinary dialogue. Photo by Anne Kinnunen.

Electrical engineering and automation professorship named Walter Ahlström professorship

Professor Matti Lehtonen will hold the professorship.
Cooperation
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Professorship strengthens the cooperation of ABB and Aalto in Industrial Internet solutions

Dr. Iiro Harjunkoski has been appointed Adjunt Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering.
Cooperation
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Iiro Harjunkoski

Päivi Törmä appointed Academy Professor

The results of Törmä’s work are expected to pave the way to the development of room temperature superconductors.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Acoustics researcher finds explanation for auroral sounds

Sounds are born when charges in the lower atmosphere’s temperature inversion layer discharge as a result of geomagnetic storms.
Press releases, Research & Art
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New Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) research programs selected

The new HIIT research programs will be launched in August 2016
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New M.Sc. programme in Global Management established

The new M.Sc. programme is built around the prestigious CEMS MIM studies.
Cooperation, Studies
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