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...

Some recent publications from Helsinki Algorithms & Theory: we've got papers to appear in STOC 2025, S&P 2025, Eurocrypt 2025… algorithms.fi/publications/

HIIT Foundations Friday meets once a month at the University of Helsinki City Center campus! Next meeting on February 28, 2025, at 11:15 — speaker: Petteri Kaski More information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

Accepted to STOC 2025: "Distributed Quantum Advantage for Local Problems" arxiv.org/abs/2411.03240

Accepted to STOC 2025: "Online Locality Meets Distributed Quantum Computing" arxiv.org/abs/2403.01903

We are now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellows (3 years) or Research Fellows (5 years) in ICT. Deadline 2 February at 11:59 PM Finnish time Find out more information @ shorturl.at/uMk4i #postdocjob #postdoc #artificialintelligence #datascience #bioinformatics #algorithms #AcademicSky

Helsinki CS Theory Seminar at Aalto University: next talk tomorrow (January 22) by Pekka Parviainen research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/semin...

HIIT Foundations Friday meets once a month at the University of Helsinki City Center campus! Next meeting on January 31, 2025, at 11:15 — speaker: Heikki Mannila More information here: research.cs.aalto.fi/hiit-foundat...

HALT — Helsinki Algorithms & Theory community is now also here at Bluesky! algorithms.fi