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Quantum Computing – Workshop and Opening Event

Part 1 workshop

Topological Quantum Computing, Gaussian Boson Sampling
 and Measurement-based Quantum Computing

Part 2

Part 2 Opening Event

Quantum Hub Opening Event

  • D-IAS Aud
    Fioniavej 34
    5230 Odense
  • 22 September 2023
  • Organizers: DIREC and Centre for Quantum Mathematics, SDU
  • Participation is free

PART 1 Workshop:  09:00-12:00

Topological Quantum Computing, Gaussian Boson Sampling
 and Measurement-based Quantum Computing

Programme

09:00 Welcome
by DIREC managing director Thomas Riisgaard Hansen

09:10 Topological Quantum Computing
by Professor and QM Centre Director Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen

10:20 Coffee break

10:35 Gaussian Boson Sampling
by Assistant Professor Shan Shan

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 Measurement-based Quantum Computing
PhD Student Santiago Quintero de los Rios

All are welcome

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PART 2: 13:00 – 17:00

SDU Quantum Hub Opening Event

Programme

13:00 Welcome by SDU Quantum Hub
by Director Professor Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen

13:05 Presentations of quantum research activities at:

  • NBI, Professor Klaus Mølmer

  • DTU, Professor Ulrik Lund Andersen

  • ITU, Associate Professor Michael Kastoryano
  • AU, Professor Birgit Schiøtt

  • AAU, Professor Torben Larsen

  • KU, Professor Matthias Christandl

15:25 Coffee break

15:40 Presentation of the SDU Quantum Hub
by Professor Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen

16:10 Addresses
by TEK Dean, Professor Henrik Bindslev, NAT Dean, Professor Marianne Holmer & Rector, Professor Jens Ringsmose

16:30 Reception

Registration is not needed

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ReWork Artistic Exploratory: Research and Art Exhibition

ReWork artistic exploratory:

Research and Art Exhibition

Come and join us when we are presenting art prototypes and research exploring the future of work.

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  • KU Lighthouse
    Tagensvej 16A
    2200 København N
  • 21 September 2023, 16:00-18:00
  • Organizers:
    DIKU and The Culture Yard

ReWork is a multidisciplinary research project exploring the future of hybrid work technologies and experiences. ReWork collaborators include academic researchers at Danish universities in partnership with artists, cultural institutions, and companies in several industries.

Join artists Stine Deja, Jakob La Cour, Line Finderup Jensen, and Lea Porsager, along with researchers from the ReWork research project, for this multidisciplinary art event, research exhibit, and reception.

About the collaborators:

Stine Deja explores the uncanny and sometimes absurd futures of our landscapes, lives, bodies, and environments, with media including sculpture, 3D animation, sound, and immersive installations.

Jakob La Cour creates extended reality experiences and performance art that draws on ancient and traditional rituals and practices in combination and contrast with cutting edge modern technologies.

Line Finderup Jensen examines past and future human experiences and the nature of reality through videos, VR, interactive 3D animated games, and paintings.

Lea Porsager engages with physics, feminism, politics, and culture through a variety of artistic practices including tangible and intangible media such as land art and sculpture, film, text, and animation.

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Summer School on Missing Data, Augmentation and Generative Models

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Missing Data, Augmentation and Generative Models

This summer school will introduce the state-of-the-art for handling too little or missing data in image processing tasks. The topics include data augmentation, density estimation, and generative models.

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Missing data is a common problem in image processing and in general AI based methods. The source can be, for example, occlusions in 3D computer vision problems, poorly dyed tissue in biological applications, missing data points in long-term observations, or perhaps there is just too little annotated data for a deep-learning model to properly converge.

On this PhD summer school, you will learn some of the modern approaches to handling the above-mentioned problems in a manner compatible with modern machine learning methodology.

This summer school will introduce the state-of-the-art for handling too little or missing data in image processing tasks. The topics include data augmentation, density estimation, and generative models. The course will include project work, where the participants make a small programming project relating their research to the summer school’s topics.

The summer school is the fifteenth summer school jointly organized by DIKU, DTU, and AAU. DIREC is co-sponsor of the PhD school.

Photo from the summer school in 2022

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IC2S2 – 9th International Conference on Computational Social Science

IC2CS

9th International Conference on Computational Social Science

IC2S2 has emerged as the dominant conference at the intersection of social and computational science, bringing together researchers from around the world in economics, sociology, political science, psychology, cognitive science, management, computer science, statistics and the full range of natural and applied sciences committed to understanding the social world through large-scale data and computation.

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  • Mærsk Tower
    Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 København
  • 17 - 20 July 2023

IC2S2 has emerged as the dominant conference at the intersection of social and computational science, bringing together researchers from around the world in economics, sociology, political science, psychology, cognitive science, management, computer science, statistics and the full range of natural and applied sciences committed to understanding the social world through large-scale data and computation.

The conference will begin with a one-day session of tutorials in a range of social and computational methods (July 17). This will be followed by a full-scale three-day conference (July 18-20) featuring research and researchers from around the world, across a broad range of relevant fields, and working on all areas of computational social science to advance its many frontiers.

Unlike important social computing and associated computer science conferences, the IC2S2 community actively balances and maintains a conversation between social and computational scientists which integrates technological advances and opportunities with social scientific rigor and insight.

DIREC is co-sponsor of IC2S2.

Picture “Sunset at Nyhavn” courtesy of Jim Nix

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NordiCrypt Summer 2023

NordiCrypt Summer 2023

 
Join the second NordiCrypt meetup at Aarhus University

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  • Aarhus University, TBA
  • 7 July 2023, 11.00 - 17.00
    followed by a joint dinner
  • Language: English

NordiCrypt is a group for “IACR-style” cryptographers created by researchers from DTU, ITU and AU to promote joint networking activities for researchers in Denmark and the rest of Northern Europe. NordiCrypt is an initiative born in the larger context of DIREC.

NordiCrypt will organize one-day meetups in Denmark approximately every 3-6 months. The meetups are open to researchers from neighbouring fields, as well as neighbouring countries.

If you want to give a 20–25-minute talk about your recent work, then please also send an email to Carsten Baum with a title of your talk. 
The organizers will then put a program together.

Registration is free, although you will have to pay for the dinner yourself.

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DIREC Software Engineering Meetup

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DIREC Software engineering Meetup

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the first Danish Software Engineering meeting under the auspices of DIREC.

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  • IT University of Copenhagen
    Rued Langgaardsvej 2, 2300 Copenhagen S
  • 6 June 2023, 10:00 - 16:00
  • Participation is free of charge
  • Organizers: ITU and SDU
  • Contact:
    Yvonne Dittrich ydi@itu.dk
    Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard mbkj@mmmi.sdu.dk

Software Engineering is a core discipline when it comes to developing and maintaining technologies and infrastructures that help our society to prosper and to address climate change. Software Engineering and the quality of the development processes make sure that health, identity, and payment infrastructures work correctly, supports the operations of wind parks, and help to embed artificial intelligence and machine learning in a transparent and responsible ways in administrative procedures.

Software and its engineering is, however, often taken for granted. Software Engineering research takes place as an add on to research focusing on application domains or other computer science sub-disciplines.

The intention of this meeting is to make the depth and breadth of Danish Software Engineering research visible and to start a discussion among Danish Software Engineering researchers and relevant stakeholders on how to strengthen the Danish Software Engineering research and its collaboration with Industry.

Agenda

10.05: Welcome

10.05 – 11.00: Keynote: From Newcomer to Insider in Industry-Academia Collaboration and the Role of SwedSoft in the Equation
by Javier Gonzalez Huerta, Software Engineering Department, Blekinge Institute of Technology.

11.00 – 11.15: Coffee

11.15 – 12.15: Lightning talks on SE Research in Denmark
by DTU, AU, ITU and CBS

12.15 – 13.00: Lunch break

13.00-14.00: Lightning talks in SE research in Denmark
by AAU, SDU and KU

14-15: Keynote: Industry-Academia Collaboration in a Danish Perspective
by Klaus Marius Hansen, Microsoft

15.00-15.15: Coffee and cake

15.15 – 16.00: Panel:
How to shape strong cooperations between Industry and research

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Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp

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Young Researcher entrepreneurship bootcamp

Calling all young researchers in AI and data science with an interest in entrepreneurship!

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  • The Kitchen
    Aarhus University
    Universitetsbyen 14, 8000 Aarhus C
  • 30 May - 2 June 2023
  • The course is free of charge
  • ECTS: 2.5 Points

Did you know that only 12-13% of PhDs end up in a tenure track academic career? The good news is that there are other exciting, fulfilling, flexible career paths, which you can shape yourself.

Join the Young Researcher Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (YREB) PhD summer school (2.5 ECTS) to grow your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how that can benefit both your current research and future career.

The course specifically leverages AI, data science, and computer science in the service of societal and environmental challenges in for instance health-tech, green-tech, manufacturing, and business. The aim is to build entrepreneurial capacity and to increase the establishment of university-based startups.

Aarhus University is the host of YREB’23.   

The programme

The themes for each of the four days are as follows:

Day 1: Explore the unknowns through design thinking.
Day 2: Develop your entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and mindset.
Day 3: Bring an idea into praxis – customer fit and technical practicalities.
Day 4: Commercialize an idea through business model and pitch training.

The programme is co-developed by AAU, AU DTU, KU, DIREC and AI Pioneer Centre.

Target Group

We welcome PhD students and Post-doctoral researchers from computer/data related disciplines with little to no business experience from any Danish university.

What you will learn

By developing your entrepreneurial mindset you will be better able to:

  • Generate research ideas that meet an actual need and validate whether they have the potential to become a viable business.
  • Grasp the fundamentals of creating a novel startup.
  • Understand the basics of ML Ops as a prerequisite for building an AI startup.
  • Take the steering wheel in your current research and future career.
  • Cultivate innovative thinking and presentation skills.
  • Navigate how to collaborate with tech transfer and innovation officers (e.g. Investores and intellectual property (IP)).

What is in it for you?

  • 2.5 ECTS
  • Insights into ideation, ML Ops, entrepreneurial mindset, testing business ideas etc.
  • Engaging, active learning approaches.
  • Meet inspiring, like-minded individuals, entrepreneurs, and educators.
  • Being invited to pitching event at Digital Tech Summit November 8th – 9th 2023.
  • This course is free of charge.
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Contemporary Computer Supported Cooperative Work Research

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Contemporary Computer Supported Cooperative Work Research

This PhD course is for PhD students conducting their research within the areas of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human Centred Design – currently working on positioning their research theoretically to push the boundaries for the novel and contemporary research contributions in CSCW research.

Registration is closed
  • Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
  • 8 May, 15 May, 12 June and 13 June, 2023
  • The course is free of charge
  • Organizer: Pernille Bjørn, DIKU

Contemporary CSCW research – How to create the literature scaffolding of contemporary CSCW PhD research which link to foundational aspects of CSCW while pushing the CSCW research into new contemporary areas of research.

Theoretical themes include (but not limited to) Articulation work & Coordination, Classifications & Categories, Awareness & Translucence; Infrastructures & Invisible Work; Knowledge Sharing & Common Information Spaces.

Learning outcome

  • Develop CSCW research questions looking to the past and thinking about the future
  • Identify and discuss contemporary CSCW research literature directions
  • Analyze, and extend current CSCW research towards future contemporary research directions and frameworks

After the course, students will have a foundational base for developing their theoretical research framework for their CSCW thesis – which both connects to the past, while focus on future contemporary directions. 

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NordiCrypt Meetup

NordiCrypt Meetup

 
Join the first NordiCrypt meetup at Technical University of Denmark.

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  • Technical University of Denmark
    Bldg. 101, Meeting room S12
  • 23 March 2023, 11.00 - 17.00
    followed by a joint dinner
  • Language: English
  • DEADLINE FOR SIGNUP:
    15 March 2023

NordiCrypt is a group for “IACR-style” cryptographers created by researchers from DTU, ITU and AU to promote joint networking activities for researchers in Denmark and the rest of Northern Europe. NordiCrypt is an initiative born in the larger context of DIREC.

NordiCrypt will organize one-day meetups in Denmark approximately every 3-6 months. The meetups are open to researchers from neighbouring fields, as well as neighbouring countries.

If you want to give a 20–25-minute talk about your recent work, then please also send an email to Carsten Baum with a title of your talk. 
The organizers will then put a program together.

Sign up

Send an email to Assistant Professor Carsten Baum cbaum@cs.au.dk no later than March 15th.

Registration is free, although you will have to pay for the dinner yourself.

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PhD course: Confronting Data Through Design Methods

PHD Course

Confronting Data Through Design Methods

 
Join this new PhD course and explore different modes of inquiry with data-applying design methods.


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  • University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science
  • 7 - 9 February 2023
  • Language: English
  • DEADLINE FOR SIGNUP:
    24 January 2023

The focus will be on the implications for researchers working in the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Participatory Design (PD) and Critical Data Studies, but the course is open to PhD students from all areas of work and design studies.


Lectures by:



  • Majken Overgaard, who is heading CATCH known for its curatorial focus on the possibilities of imagining new technological futures as activism. She is an external lecturer at ITU and the co-founder of Korridor – a new digital art collective – investigating emerging culture and art online right now, such as blockchains, web3 and NFT.
  • James Auger, who is the director of the design department at LMF, ENS Paris-Saclay and co-director of the Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS & ENSCI). He is also an Associate Professor at RMIT (Europe). His work explores ways through which practice-based design research can lead to more considered and democratic technological futures.
  • Naja Holten Møller, who is an Associate Professor at DIKU. She is the founder of the Confronting Data Co-lab, a cooperation of scholars working and acting together in support of the stakeholders we encounter and engage with in our research, focusing on critical public technologies.

The participants gain knowledge of:

  • speculative design as a method
  • how to apply speculative design in practice,
  • and the criteria for evaluating research within this field.

The PhD course is organized by Ass. Prof. Naja L. Holten Møller and PhD fellow Trine Rask Nielsen and Kristin Kaltenhäuser from the University of Copenhagen with support from DIREC.

The aim of DIREC is to expand the capacity within research, innovation and education in digital technologies in Denmark. In addition, DIREC shall contribute to the competitiveness of Denmark through collaboration with Danish businesses and the public sector on developing new innovative products and services based on the newest digital technologies.

DIREC is partially funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

 

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    Managing Director Thomas Riisgaard Hansen.

    DIREC – Digital Research Centre Denmark
  • Aabogade 34, 8200 Aarhus N
  • thomas.r.hansen@direc.dk

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