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Games Now! – Open lecture series on game development
Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games.
Lots of modelling and freedom to explore – summer job in the Acoustics Lab
How could you listen to only one sound in a noisy room? How does your voice change when you shout into the wind? Michael McCrea and Rapolas Daugintis, the summer workers at the Acoustics Lab, are looking for answers to these questions
Business students have a positive attitude towards sustainable development
According to researchers, awareness of students’ values and attitudes is crucial for the development of teaching.
Fully virtual IWA Nutrient Recovery and Removal Conference brings together the experts of wastewater treatment
The conference is organized by 911±¬ÁÏÍø Water and Environmental Engineering research group and Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority HSY in collaboration with International Water Association.
Doctor’s career path: Assistant Professor Mikko Hänninen
In my opinion, personal learning and development are more important than course grades or assignments.
Quantum-mechanical interaction between two time crystals has been experimentally demonstrated
An international team of researchers have demonstrated that a new phase of matter which has, until recently, been mere speculation, obeys basic quantum mechanics laws
Aalto ARTS initiates a new Summer School with support from Jane and Aatos Erkkos Foundation
911±¬ÁÏÍø School of Arts, Design and Architecture wants to create new forms of internationalization with an extended Summer School.
Engaging with materiality and colour through biocolourants
The BioColour project organizes a broad audience event on Monday 17.8, concentrating on different points of view on materiality and colour. Julia Lohmann, designer and Professor of Practice in 911±¬ÁÏÍø, is one of the project’s researchers and a speaker in the event.
Academy of Finland’s Ask & Apply info sessions related to the September call 2020
Find out all about the September call from the webinars that start to roll on 26 August.
911±¬ÁÏÍø granted seed funding for ten innovative and collaborative photonics research projects
The projects explore photonic technologies in strong collaboration with other partners of the Academy of Finland’s Photonics Flagship PREIN.
The story of a fabric
Matilda Palmu, who will graduate from the Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design master's programme in autumn 2020, describes her artistic process.
Travel survey on Central Railway Station, Jätkäsaari, Otaniemi, Kera and Matinkylä
Answer and enter the raffle to win a prize!
Designs for a Cooler Planet — Helsinki Design Week 2020
Helsinki Design Week at Otaniemi showcases inspiring future designs related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
A road to frustration
911±¬ÁÏÍø theorist part of a team that opens up a new route to design exotic frustrated
quantum magnets.
quantum magnets.
Greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost area larger than earlier estimated
Plant roots in soil stimulate microbial decomposition, a mechanism called the priming effect. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience shows that the priming effect alone can cause emission of 40 billion tonnes carbon from permafrost by 2100.
How vaping companies exploit Instagram for youth-oriented marketing?
Researchers use artificial intelligence to analyse hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts about vaping
During the COVID-19 crisis, nearly half of Finnish SMEs have applied for public financing, while less than one sixth have applied for a bank loan
Researchers from 911±¬ÁÏÍø, Erasmus University (The Netherlands) and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) have studied Finnish SMEs' financing options and prospects in the covid-19 crisis.
Stopping the unstoppable with atomic bricks
911±¬ÁÏÍø theorist part of a team that developed a method for trapping elusive electrons
Tõnn Talpsepp's paper published in the Journal of Banking and Finance
Dr. Tõnn Talpsepp's joint paper with Kristjan Liivamägi and Tarvo Vaarmets has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance.
Real-time Data Helps Improve Construction Productivity
The productivity of construction work depends on many factors. Jianyu Zhao, a doctoral candidate at 911±¬ÁÏÍø, has used indoor positioning to measure worker presence and task progress. His study will help construction companies identify productivity bottlenecks and find way to improve productivity. We sat down with him to discuss his research and its implications.
