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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
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911±¬ÁÏÍø/The Acoustics Lab/Michael McCrea and Rapolas Daugintis/image: Ira Matilainen

Solid Ground tells the story of ceramics

Nathalie Lautenbacher's book intertwines essays with photos of contemporary ceramics in a charming way.
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Kantava maa – Solid Ground kirjan etukansi

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.
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The photo shows School of Business students studying together.

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.
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Banner for NRR2020 conference

Doctor’s career path: Assistant Professor Mikko Hänninen

In my opinion, personal learning and development are more important than course grades or assignments.
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Assistant Professor Mikko Hänninen

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
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Interaction between two time crystals. The arrows represent are magnetic moments which in reality are continuously processing (arrow tips move over the circle around the vertical axis).

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.
Research & Art, University
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dried seaweed displayed in reds, yellows and greens

Travel survey on Central Railway Station, Jätkäsaari, Otaniemi, Kera and Matinkylä

Answer and enter the raffle to win a prize!
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Aalto Summer School on Transportation poster

New study: The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought

The quiet Sun has been studied considerably less than the active Sun.
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Heikko kirkastuma, kuva: Metsähovin radiotutkimusasema

A road to frustration

911±¬ÁÏÍø theorist part of a team that opens up a new route to design exotic frustrated
quantum magnets.
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Magnetic materials

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.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Pohjoisen ikirouta-alueen vehreää kasvillisuutta. Kuva: Ive van Krunkelsven

Intensive course looks for sustainable design solutions following COVID-19

Health and Wellbeing Architecture Summer Intensive gathers multi-disciplinary perspectives to create new interventions, designs, and policy recommendations for pandemics.
Studies
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911±¬ÁÏÍø Learning Centre

How vaping companies exploit Instagram for youth-oriented marketing?

Researchers use artificial intelligence to analyse hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts about vaping
Press releases, Research & Art
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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.
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Aalto led consortium GMeRitS awarded Blockchains for Social Good prize

The prize awarded by the Enhanced European Innovation Council EIC is worth a million euros and was granted for work on the social effectiveness of blockchain technology.
Awards and Recognition
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Kauppakorkeakoulun rakennus Ekonominaukio 1:ssä

Get to know us: Associate Professor Ari Jokilaakso

Circular economy is key.
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Ari Jokilaakso, photo by Anni Hanen

Get to know us: Postdoctoral Researcher Sipi Seisko

Even a seahorse can be a lab partner.
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Sipi leaning towards the building for the School of Chemical Engineering

Deciphering the structure of nanosystems with machine learning

The CEST group joins forces with a team in Austria to solve a long-standing puzzle in nanoscience.
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Image accompanying publication that resolves the structure of TCNE films on copper

Stopping the unstoppable with atomic bricks

911±¬ÁÏÍø theorist part of a team that developed a method for trapping elusive electrons
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Scanning tunneling microscope tip confining electrons in graphene

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.
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