Helsinki CS Theory Seminar: Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 14.15. Václav Rozhoň: Near dynamic optimality of Splay trees. Aalto University, Maarintie 8, room TU1. https://research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/seminar/seminar.html

ANTA seminar: Thursday, July 9, 2026, at 15.15. Prof. Timothy Trudgian (UNSW Canberra): Division!. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3 (M234). https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/anta/seminar.php

Our research group at Aalto University is hiring 3 postdocs + 3 doctoral students to work on distributed quantum algorithms in projects funded by an ERC Advanced Grant and a QuantERA grant. Application deadline: July 31, 2026. Start date: October 2026–October 2027 (negotiable). Apply now!

Thesis presentations: Friday, July 3, 2026, at 11.30–12.15. Julia Valkama: Resource Profiling for High Performance In-Memory Database Workloads. Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, room T003. https://algorithms.fi/theses/

Wonderful news: Our Professor @jukkasuomela.fi has received an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Distributed Quantum Advantage (DistQuant)”. Congratulations, Jukka! 👏💐 More: www.aalto.fi/en/news/high... @aalto.fi #ERCAdG

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, at 14.15. Gerald Williams: Cyclic presentations of groups, knot groups, LOG groups, and 3-dimensional manifolds. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), r… https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

Thesis presentations: Monday, June 15, 2026, at 11.30–12.15. Luukas Karihtala: Formalizing Distributed Sparse Matrix Multiplication Algorithms in Lean. Aalto University, Ekonominaukio 1, room T003. https://algorithms.fi/theses/

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, June 8, 2026, at 14.15. Ville Uotila: Introduction to Springer Theory. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3 (M234). https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

ANTA seminar: Tuesday, June 2, 2026, at 10.00. Prof. Iván Blanco Chacón, Antti Haavikko (U. Alcalá), Matilde Costa (U. Barcelona): Summer School on Heegner Points and the Gross-Zagier Formula. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaa… https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/anta/seminar.php

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, May 25, 2026, at 14.15. Tuomas Kelomäki: Finiteness result on Jones polynomials via categorified projectors. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3 (M234). https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, May 18, 2026, at 14.15. Michael Yang: Completions to discrete probability distributions in scaled log-linear models (master's thesis presentation). Aalto University, Undergraduate Cen… https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

Logic Seminar: Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 12.15–14.00. Davide Quadrellaro: On the model theory of free buildings. University of Helsinki, Exactum (Pietari Kalmin katu 5), room C124. https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/Logic/Home/Seminar/

Helsinki Algorithms & Theory Days coming on August 27–28, 2026! algorithms.fi

Logic Seminar: Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 12.15–14.00. Lauri Hella & Kerkko Luosto: Defining the Length of Linear Order with Three Variables. University of Helsinki, Exactum (Pietari Kalmin katu 5), room C124. https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/Logic/Home/Seminar/

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, April 27, 2026, at 14.15. Etna Lindy (Aalto): Partial multiplicities of the eigenvalues of the Sylvester resultant matrix. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3… https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

6 papers from Helsinki at ICALP 2026! algorithms.fi/icalp2026/

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, April 20, 2026, at 14.15. Miika Rankaviita (Aalto): Midterm review: Severi strata, Hilbert schemes, and link invariants. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3 (… https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

The Baltic Olympiad in Informatics 2026 starting tomorrow! Organized at the Aalto University campus in Otaniemi, in collaboration with Aalto University, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, and MAOL. boi2026.cses.fi

AGC (Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics) Seminar: Monday, April 13, 2026, at 14.15. Milo Orlich: What is a Cohen-Macaulay ring?. Aalto University, Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1), room M3 (M234). https://math.aalto.fi/en/research/discrete/seminars/agc/

Logic Seminar: Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 12.15–14.00. Andrew Cropper: Logic-based machine learning. University of Helsinki, Exactum (Pietari Kalmin katu 5), room C124. https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/Logic/Home/Seminar/

Logic Seminar: Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 12.15–14.00. Teymur Ismikhanov: Dichotomy for Axiomatising Inclusion Dependencies on K-Databases. University of Helsinki, Exactum (Pietari Kalmin katu 5), room C124. https://wiki.helsinki.fi/xwiki/bin/view/Logic/Home/Seminar/

HIIT Foundations Friday: Friday, March 27, 2026, at 11.15–13.00. Maxwell Forst: An introduction to lattice reduction theory. University of Helsinki, Athena building (Siltavuorenpenger 3 A), room 169. https://research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundations/

We are hiring summer interns: www.aalto.fi/en/aalto-sci...

The presentation slides from Helsinki Distributed Quantum Computing Workshop 2025 now available online: algorithms.fi/quantum-work...

HIIT Open 2025 programming contest has started!

HIIT Open 2025 programming contest coming on Saturday, 45 contestants in 20 teams competing at Aalto University! open.hiit.fi

HIIT Open 2025 coming on November 8, the registration form is now open! open.hiit.fi

Algorithmic activities coming next: · CS Theory Seminar: October 15 · HIIT Frontier Friday: October 17 · HIIT Foundations Friday: October 31 · Puzzle & Pizza: November 5 algorithms.fi

New papers from the HALT community: 2 x SODA 2025, 2 x NeurIPS 2025, 3 x Asiacrypt 2025, and more! algorithms.fi/publications/

Most of the presentation slides from Theory Days now available online: algorithms.fi/theory-days-...

Congratulations to Corinna Coupette for the 2025 ERC Starting Grant! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Fantastic news! Maja Vuckovac, @robinwelsch.bsky.social and @dataspider.bsky.social secured ERC Starting Grants. Huge congratulations 🙌 #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu www.aalto.fi/en/news/eu-g...

Helsinki Algorithms & Theory Days program is now available online: algorithms.fi/theory-days-...

Helsinki Algorithms & Theory Days on 28–29 August, 2025, keynote talk by Andris Ambainis algorithms.fi/theory-days-...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We are #hiring Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) for researchers in ICT. Find out more information in the 🔗 www.hiit.fi/hiit-postdoc... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EduSky #Research #postdocjobs #postdoc

Corinna's talk today!

Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak's slides from Frontier Friday here: algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

HIIT Foundations Friday on 23 May 2025! Corinna Coupette gives a talk on "TCS for Law: Toward a Computational Theory of Legal Systems", more information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

HIIT Foundations Friday coming this week! Jose Lado will give a talk on "Solving topological quantum matter on a quantum computer". More information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Keijo Heljanko gave a talk on "Towards Unified Analysis of GPU Consistency" today in Helsinki CS Theory Seminar, slides here: research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/semin...

Accepted to ICALP 2025: "Shared Randomness Helps with Local Distributed Problems", with Alkida Balliu, Mohsen Ghaffari, Fabian Kuhn, Augusto Modanese, Dennis Olivetti, Mikaël Rabie, and Jara Uitto arxiv.org/abs/2407.05445

More information on the activities of Helsinki Algorithms & Theory community here: algorithms.fi

Helsinki CS Theory Seminar meets again today! Just a general reminder that our talks are also streamed online; if you join the mailing list you will also receive the Zoom link! research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/semin...

HIIT Frontier Friday coming on April 11! Read more here: algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

Foundations Friday tomorrow!

HIIT Foundations Friday on 28 March 2025! Alexandru Tomescu (University of Helsinki): Flow decompositions in TCS and Bioinformatics: from theory, to practice and back research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Today's Frontier Friday material here: algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

HIIT Frontier Friday: next meeting on 14 Mar 2025, at 11:00–12:00 algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...

HIIT Foundations Friday on 28 March 2025! Alexandru Tomescu (University of Helsinki): Flow decompositions in TCS and Bioinformatics: from theory, to practice and back research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Information on HIIT Frontier Friday now here, next meeting: 14 Mar 2025 algorithms.fi/frontier-fri...