Concealed snipers are used in a variety of peacekeeping and military missions. For his doctoral dissertation, Toni Mäkinen developed a method that can be combined with several microphones to estimate the trajectory and locate the source of a gunshot.
Nowadays people are regularly using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other services on mobile devices. One design trend is to bring events in these services to the mobile phone in real time.
The partners conducting the HPCFinance project and Techila Technologies Ltd will hold an event titled "Conference and Training Event on Computational Methods and Technologies for Finance" on 13-17 May in Tampere.
FAST-Lab. gets the opportunity to share its EU project expertise at next week's Gearing Up For Horizon 2020 event in Tampere, when Professor Jose L. Martinez Lastra will speak about "How to Meet the Funders' Expectations".
Gearing Up for Horizon 2020 seminar organized by TUT has been so popular that a larger hall has been arranged for the event. Thus, there are 70 more seats available and the registration for these has been opened.
The winner will accompany Olympic athlete Jenni Mikkonen on a canoe trip on the picturesque Lake Vesijärvi in Kangasala near Tampere. The trip will take place on 30 May from 16:30 to 19:30.
The School of Architecture at Tampere University of Technology, the municipality of Kangasala and Tampere Vocational College Tredu held a competition seeking exciting and innovative design ideas for an exhibition pavilion. The entries will be on display in the Sähkötalo building until 3 May.
Jari Ikonen was appointed as the Chairman of TUT’s Alumni Association at the association's annual general meeting on 24 April 2013. Ikonen graduated from TUT with a master’s degree in information technology in 2000 and currently works at Hermia Ltd.
The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters has granted the 2013 Magnus Ehrnrooth Prize in Physics to Professor Ilpo Vattulainen from Tampere University of Technology.
In a paper published by the prestigious journal, Nature Methods, biologists at the Universities of Eastern Finland, Tampere and Luxembourg, Tampere University of Technology and the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, USA, have created the biggest family tree of human cell types.
The EU’s new programme running from 2014 to 2020 will combine all research and innovation funding currently provided through the Framework Programmes for RTD, innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
May 21 - 23, 2013
Nano Communications Center (NCC)
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Tampere University of Technology
Tampere, Finland
http://et4nbic.cs.tut.fi/nanocom/summerschool2013.html
Chronic conditions and lifestyle behaviours, such as obesity, are becoming more and more common. Personalized health coaching and health technology will offer an economically feasible solution for tackling the challenges they present to society.
An entry submitted by FAST-Lab. has been selected as a semi-finalist in a worldwide challenge to showcase the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) in sensor/control and M2M applications enabling the Internet of Things (IOT).
The number of students applying for admission to Tampere University of Technology increased in 2013. A total of 4,118 Finnish applicants applied for admission within the framework of the Joint National Application System.
The doctoral dissertation of MSc Turkka Salminen explores the production of nanomaterials using a process known as pulsed laser ablation. The remarkable properties of nanomaterials have opened up a wide range of potential applications, for example, in cancer treatment.
Award-winning comedian Matt Parker from the UK will perform at TUT on 12 April. He will take the audience on a breath-taking journey into the world of mathematics and its mysteries.
Katja Nevalainen applied different nanofillers, atomic layer deposition technology and melt-compounding process to manufacture polymer nanocomposites. The aim was to manufacture a material with enhanced properties.
The 17th European Molecular Beam Epitaxy Workshop, Euro-MBE, took place on March 10-13, 2013, in Levi – a beautiful skiing resort in Finnish Lapland. The conference was organized by the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) of Tampere University of Technology (TUT).