Public presentations of theses related to the Helsinki Algorithms & Theory community. Everyone is welcome to join!
Friday, October 2, 2026, at 10:30–11:15 · Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre, hall U264
Onni Miettinen will give a presentation on his master’s thesis “NP-hardness of Touring Non-convex Polygons under All Lp Metrics”. The supervisor is Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak.
Friday, September 18, 2026, at 12:00 · Aalto University, Computer Science Building, hall T2
Henrik Lievonen will defend his doctoral thesis “Locality in distributed quantum and online graph algorithms”. The opponent is Artur Czumaj from the University of Warwick, and the custos is Jukka Suomela.
Friday, July 3, 2026, at 11:30–12:15 · Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, hall T003
Julia Valkama will give a presentation on her master’s thesis “Resource Profiling for High Performance In-Memory Database Workloads”. The thesis advisor is Onni Lampi from RELEX Solutions, and the supervisor is Jukka Suomela.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 11:30–12:15 · Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, hall T003
Jussi Ritvas will give a presentation on his master’s thesis “Towards Practical Distributed Quantum Computing”. The thesis advisors are Arianne van de Griend and Ronja Stimpert, and the supervisor is Jukka Suomela.
Monday, June 15, 2026, at 11:30–12:15 · Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, hall T003
Luukas Karihtala will give a presentation on his master’s thesis “Formalizing Distributed Sparse Matrix Multiplication Algorithms in Lean”. The supervisor is Jukka Suomela.
Friday, May 22, 2026, at 11:00–11:45 · Aalto University, Computer Science Building, hall T4
Teresa Paatero will give a presentation on her master’s thesis “GPU programming and reinforcement learning in computational macroeconomics”. The thesis advisor is Juhana Siljander from the Bank of Finland, and the supervisor is Jukka Suomela.
Friday, April 10, 2026, at 12:00 · Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre, hall M1
Rustam Latypov will defend his doctoral thesis “Massively Parallel Algorithms for Sparse Graphs”. The opponent is Artur Czumaj from the University of Warwick, and the custos is Jara Uitto.