Monday

We will meet at Dipoli (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo).

• 11-12: Registration @in front of Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Please wear your badge at all times during the event.

• 12-13: Opening ceremony @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Lehtikuohu toast (Lehtikuohu is a non-alcoholic Finnish drink)

  Welcoming words:

  • Sami Kaski, Prof., Head of FCAI and ELLIS Unit Helsinki, Aalto University and University of Manchester

  • Bernhard Schölkopf, Prof., President of ELLIS Society, Director of Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

  • Ilkka Niemelä, Prof., President of Aalto University

  • Mervi Heinaro, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, Sports and Culture, City of Espoo

  • Arno Solin, Asst. Prof., ELLIS Scholar, Aalto University

  • Presentation of the organizing group

• 13-14: Lunch @Metso restaurant, Dipoli
  We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 14-15:30: Keynote (Bernhard Schölkopf) @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Please find more about Bernhard on his webpage. Bernhard’s lecture is part of the ELLIS Distinguished Lecture series.

• 15:30-17:30: Relaxed Social at Fat Lizard Otaniemi (departure after Bernhard’s keynote)
  We will organise a relaxed social for getting to know each other.

Tuesday

We will meet at Dipoli (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo).

• 9:15-9:30: Recap @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Let’s grab a coffee (served starting 9:00), recap Mondays highlights and look at Tuesday.

• 9:30-10:30: Panel discussion @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Topic: Future of AI in the industry with Charles Martinez (G-Research), Frank R. Schmidt (Bosch), Prof. Jaakko Lehtinen (NVIDIA), Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS) and ELLIS students as moderators

• 10:30-12:30: Company fair @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  Participants will have the chance to speak with representatives of companies and organisations. Participating companies and organisations are: G-Research, NVIDIA, CSC, F-Secure, Orion, Planmeca, Kone, Novartis, Bosch, FAIR EDIH, IDEAS NCBR, Ellogon.

• 12:30-13:30: Lunch @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 13:30-14:15: Tooling session @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Tooling sessions are short (15 minutes) sessions where someone presents a tool and/or software (e.g., git, JAX, arXiv, research rabbit, etc.) that can help other PhD students. We have informed the selected participants.

  • 13:30 - 13:45 Joanna Sliwa - JAX

  • 13:45 - 14:00 Andre Cruz - Auditing and training fair ML models
    In this tooling session, we'll go over the myriad of ways your ML model can be making unfair predictions, how to detect it, and how to correct it using open-source tools. We'll also see a few real-world examples of high-risk applications and how a model's decisions can impact people's lives.

  • 14:00 - 14:15 Chengkun Li - Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo 

• Industry PhD pitches @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Selected ELLIS students interning in companies share their experiences on working with the company with the other participants.

• 14:15-15:00: Women in AI session @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  A roundtable discussion of female panelists. The central theme is around sharing personal career journeys and industry insights, while also addressing the challenges confronted by minority groups. The session is organised together with Women in AI.

• 15:00-17:00: Poster session @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  You will be able to discuss ongoing or even published work with other participants. We have informed the participants about their slot. You can hang your poster already in the morning. (Coffee served starting 15:00.)

• 18:30 (boarding), 19:00 (departure) - 23:00: Cruise with Dinner @Sunlines departure pier near Kauppatori, Central Helsinki (google maps)
  We will embark on a cruise through the Helsinki archipelago (see inspiration here). There will be dinner and we have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.
  
  

Wednesday

We will meet at Dipoli (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo).

• 9:30-9:45: Recap @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Let’s grab a coffee (served starting 9:00), recap Tuesdays highlights and look at Wednesday.

• 9:45-11:15: Keynote (Sara Magliacane) @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Please find more about Sara on her webpage.

• 11:15-12: Tooling session @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Tooling sessions are short (15 minutes) sessions where someone presents a tool and/or software (e.g., git, JAX, arXiv, research rabbit, etc.) that can help other PhD students. We have informed the selected participants

  • 11:15 - 11:30 Korbinian Pöppel - Writing custom CUDA kernels

  • 11:30 - 11:45 Najwa Labid - org-mode

  • 11:45 - 12:00 Marvin Schmitt - Amortized Simulation-based inference.

• 12-13: Lunch @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 13-14:45: Parallel Workshops @Undergraduate Centre (We will guide you there after lunch)
  For these workshops, we have organized multiple rooms that allow for a focused discussion on specific topics. Any topics that are interesting to the participants could be discussed from large language models over research careers to balancing research and leisure. We will coordinate the sessions so that the most popular topics can be discussed.
  Rooms: R001/M134, R001/M140 Majakka, R001/M203, R001/M205, R001/M234 M3, R001/U262 KPMG, R001/U264 K-RYHMÄ

• 15-15:30: Introduction to LUMI supercomputer by CSC @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputer LUMI is hosted by CSC and LUMI Consortium. LUMI is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the third fastest globally. This HPE Cray system is also one of the world’s leading platforms for artificial intelligence.

• 15:30-17:30: Poster session @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  You will be able to discuss ongoing or even published work with other participants. We have informed the participants about their slot. You can hang your poster already in the morning. (Coffee served starting 15:30.)

• 18-20: Visit to Aalto Startup Centre @A Grid, Otakaari 5I, I-WING 4th Floor (we will lead you there)
  Presentation of the Aalto Startup Center (among the world's top 3 University Business Accelerators) with informal discussions with local startups. Food and drinks will be served.

Thursday

We will meet at Dipoli (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo).

• 9:30-9:45: Recap @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Let’s grab a coffee (served starting 9:00), recap Wednesdays highlights and look at Thursday.

• 9:45-11:00: Keynote (Aapo Hyvärinen): @Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli
  Please find more about Aapo on his webpage. Aapo is affiliated with ELLIS Unit Helsinki.

• 11:00-11:15 (Intro at Luumituli) and 11:30-12:15: Finnish Centre for AI session @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  Research groups from the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) present and discuss their research. FCAI is a community of experts that brings together top talents in academia, industry and the public sector to solve real-life problems using both existing and novel AI. Find more information here.

• 12:15: Group picture @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli

• 12:15-13:15: Lunch @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 13:15-15:15: Poster session @Sief/Capitolium hall, Dipoli
  You will be able to discuss ongoing or even published work with other participants. We have informed the participants about their slot. You can hang your poster already in the morning.

• 15:30- : Hotdog snack @near Dipoli
  A hotdog bike will provide hotdogs (meat/vegetarian/vegan) and soft drinks.

Friday

We will meet in front of Dipoli (Otakaari 24, 02150 Espoo).

It is important to be on time because the busses cannot wait!

• 9:00: Bus transfer to Haltia from Aalto leaving from in front of Dipoli
  We will provide a bus transfer to the Nuuksio national park from Haltia that leaves from in front of Dipoli. The park is hard to reach with public transport and thus please be on time.

• 10-11:30: Keynote (Amir Zamir) @Haltia lecture hall, Haltia, Nuuksio
  Please find more about Amir on his webpage.

• 11:30-12: Closing ceremony @Haltia lecture hall, Haltia, Nuuksio
  Let's look once more at the highlights of this years EDS and see what next year will be like.

• 12-13: Lunch group 1 / Exhibition group 2 @Halti, Haltia, Nuuksio
  We will have to split the participants into two groups. Here group 1 will eat while group 2 can have a look at the exhibitions in Haltia. We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 13-14: Lunch group 2 / Exhibition group 1 @Halti, Haltia, Nuuksio
  We will have to split the participants into two groups. Here group 2 will eat while group 1 can have a look at the exhibitions in Haltia. We have informed the catering team about your dietary restrictions.

• 14-17: Nuuksio activities (start near Halita, Nuuksio)
  We have organised the following activities:

  • typical Finnish lake saunas (please bring swimsuits and a towel)

  • Standup paddleboarding (please bring swimsuits and a towel)

  • Singing bowl meditation / sound healing

  • Outdoor games

  • Short hiking trip

  • Running school (please bring running gear)

• 17:00 Bus transfer from Haltia, Nuuksio to Helsinki City Centre via Aalto University (Dipoli)

  • Driving time to Aalto University (Dipoli): 30 min

  • Driving time to Helsinki City Centre: 45 min