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On 23 March 2020 at 10.15 a.m., Adriano Augusto will defend his thesis Accurate and Efficient Discovery of Process Models from Event Logs for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science). The defence will be held using Zoom. Supervisors: Prof. Marlon Dumas (Institute of Computer Science UT); Prof. Marcello La Rosa (University of Melbourne, Australia).

At a meeting held in the main building of the University of Tartu on 28 February, Senior Research Fellow in Botany Aveliina Helm outlined to President Kersti Kaljulaid nature-based solutions for curbing biodiversity loss and the climate crisis and presented the prototype of the Rohemeeter or ‘Greenmeter’ app, which is due for completion shortly and which will help everyone assess the state of Estonia’s biodiversity.

Today, on 19 February, the traineeship and job fair of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is held in the Philosophicum, and the Maarjavälja career day for students of medicine and science and technology takes place in the Physicum.

Foreigners who have obtained a master's degree in Estonia and stay in Estonia are beneficial to the Estonian state and business in any case. The question may be whether our society is ready for them to stay here, writes Aune Valk, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Tartu. It is definitely useful for Estonia and Estonia’s business sector if foreigners who have obtained a master’s degree in Estonia stay here to work. The question could be, whether our society is ready for this, Aune Valk writes.

On 26 February, the University of Tartu (UT) holds an Open Doors Day during which final-year secondary school students and other future applicants can take part in various activities. The University of Tartu library hosts a study fair on the UT curricula at which experienced specialists give admission and career advice. Together with representatives of student organisations, participants can find out how to be more than a student and what else they can do for personal development during their studies at the university.

On 21 February at 2.15 p.m Faiz Ali Shah will defend his thesis "Extracting Information from App Reviews to Facilitate Software Development Activities" for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science). Supervisors: Prof. Dietmar Pfahl (Institute of Computer Science UT); Res. fellow Kairit Sirts (Institute of Computer Science UT). Opponents: Prof. Alessandra Gorla (IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain); PhD Sebastiano Panichella (Zurich University of Applied Science, Switzerland).

The University of Tartu Delta Centre, one of the most modern centre for digital technology, analytics and economic ideas in the Nordic countries, will open its doors on Wednesday, 29 January at 12:00. The Delta Centre comprises an academic and a research building and an entrepreneurship building and will bring together more than 3000 students, lecturers, researchers and development employees from companies.

Today, the agreement for Estonia to join the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration NeIC was signed at the Delta Centre in Tartu. This agreement gives Estonian research infrastructures the possibility to maintain and enhance their competitiveness and do more international cooperation. The agreement was signed by Arne Flåøyen, Director for NordForsk, an institution that facilitates and provides funding for cooperation on research across the Nordic region, and Andres Koppel, the chairman of the board of the Estonian Research Council.

Bolt, the leading European on-demand transportation platform, is partnering with the University of Tartu for an applied research project on the development of self-driving technology for a Level 4 autonomous car. The project will contribute to Bolt’s vision of making moving around cities easier, quicker and more reliable. The research sets a goal for integrating autonomous vehicles (AVs) on Bolt’s transportation platform by 2026. In the short-term, Bolt will collaborate with the University of Tartu to run AV pilots in suitable urban areas.

Economic expert and entrepreneur Ott Pärna took up the position of Head of Marketing of University of Tartu Delta Centre on 1 October. Erik Puura, UT Vice-Rector for Development, says that the university offered the position of Marketing Director to Pärna to build up and develop the entrepreneurial image of the university.

Recently, news of Mozilla’s new translation programme Bergamot spread through international technology news portals. Few know that the high-level team also includes language technologists from the University of Tartu who are helping to improve the flexibility and quality of machine translation. The head of the Tartu part of this work, professor of natural language processing at the Institute of Computer Science Mark Fišel, describes the background of the collaboration.

The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has concluded an agreement with the University of Tartu for carrying out online training courses in computer programming in cooperation with schools for at least 500 young people by spring 2022.

On 17 December 2019 at 10.15 a.m., in J.Liivi str. 2 room 405, Huishi Yin will defend her thesis "Using a Kano-like Model to Facilitate Open Innovation in Requirements Engineering" for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science). Supervisor: Prof. Dietmar Pfahl (Institute of Computer Science UT) Opponents: Dr. Andreas Jedlitschka (Fraunhofer Institute of Experimental Software Engineering, Germany); Dr. Richard Berntsson Svensson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden).

Our student team "UT Randomized Algorithms" participated in the Northwestern Europe Regional Contest from 15-17 November and ranked 13th, which was the best result among Estonian and neighbouring universities.

Scientists of the University of Tartu, visiting lecturer of IT Law at the Faculty of Law Tõnu Mets and Head of the Working Group on Information Security of the Institute of Computer Science Arnis Paršovs found a problem related to giving, validating and the effectiveness of digital signatures.

The University of Tartu has moved up to places 201-250 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings Table for Computer Science, which was published last week. This confirms the high quality of the university’s research, citations, academic work, internationalisation and entrepreneurship cooperation alike.

The vocational open online course (VOOC) is designed to support ICT professionals to develop and strengthen their key competencies in order to respond to the challenges and skills mismatches introduced by the dynamic presentation of blockchain technology in the digital era.

On Tuesday 8 October at 16:15, Raimundas Matulevičius, UT Professor of Information Security, will deliver his inaugural lecture “Information Security Risk Management Using System Models” in English in the university’s Assembly Hall.

Five University of Tartu teams, which consisted of students from the Institute of Computer Science and Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, participated in the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest on October 5. The University of Tartu team Tartu 1 was the best among Estonian participants, accomplishing 19th position of overall 286 teams.

The University of Tartu requests the honour of your presence at the inaugural lecture by Raimundas Matulevičius, UT Professor of Information Security. The lecture entitled “Information Security Risk Management using System Models” will be held on 8 October 2019 at 16:15 in the University Assembly Hall.