S U L A T I S
[Suomen laskennallisten tieteiden seura]
Sulatis Seminar on
Researcher Mobility in
Computational Sciences
CSC - IT Center for Science
Espoo, 10.11.2010
Program 10.11.2010
Life Science Center (main auditorium), Keilaranta 14
9:00 Coffee and registration Life Science Center, Keilaranta 14
9:30 Opening, greetings of Sulatis and CSC Main auditorium
Kaisa Miettinen, President of Sulatis and Juha Haataja, Director, CSC
Chair Pekka Manninen, CSC
10:00 The Academy of Finland as a funder of researcher mobility
Pentti Pulkkinen, Academy of Finland
10:45 EU FP7 and the Marie Curie mobility programme and Researcher mobility from
Tekes’s point-of-view
Teppo Tuomikoski, Finnish Secretariat for EU R&D and Tekes
11:45 Lunch break
Chair Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä Main auditorium
12:45 Erasmus Mundus programme and internationalization of PhD education in Finland
Päivi Pihlaja, CIMO
13:15 HPC-Europa2 - pan-European research infrastructure in high-performance computing
Antti Pursula, CSC
13:45 IIASA
Tiina Forsman, IIASA
14:15 Coffee break
Chair Pekka Neittaanmäki, University of Jyväskylä Main auditorium
14:45 Research training opportunities at CERN
Paula Eerola, UH
15:15 IIASA experiences
Juha Kämäri, SYKE
Pentti Pulkkinen
Academy of Finland
Dr. Pentti Pulkkinen is Programme Manager at the Academy of Finland. He did his PhD in theoretical physics and joined Academy in 1999. Since 2009 he has been working in the Programme Unit. He is in charge of the coor-dination of the Research programmes ELVIRA (Food, health and nutrition) and Lastu (Compu-tational Sciences). He is also in charge of the preparation of a new research programme in Programmable Materials.
The Academy of Finland and funding opportunities for researcher mobility
The mobility of researchers is essential for main-taining high-quality research. The Academy of Finland supports international and national mo-bility in all forms of funding. The presentation will give an overview of the possibilities for mobility in connection with different Academy funding in-struments and the stages of researcher career.
Teppo Tuomikoski
Finnish Secretariat for EU R&D and Tekes
Teppo Tuomikoski has been working working as a Senior Technology Adviser and Programme Manager on Industrial Biotechnology in Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation for 9 years.
EU FP7 and the Marie Curie mobility programme and Researcher mobility from Tekes’s point-of-view
In his presentation, Tuomikoski will present the funding instrument for researcher mobility of the EU 7. framework programme, The Marie Curie actions.
Päivi Pihlaja
CIMO
PhD, Senior Programme Adviser Päivi Pihlaja works at the Center for International mobility CIMO at Higher Education Cooperation Unit as the Erasmus Mundus contact desk in Finland. The unit supports internationalisation of Finnish higher education institutions, manages several national and European programmes and in-forms the universities about available funding.
Erasmus Mundus programme and internationalization of PhD education in Finland
Erasmus Mundus is a European Union pro-gramme funding international cooperation be-tween universities. The cornerstone of Erasmus Mundus are top-quality master’s and doctoral programmes designed jointly for students and doctorate students from all over the world. These programmes must be implemented by several universities operating in at least three different countries in Europe - possibly also in other parts of the world. They include studies in at least two different European countries, and lead to an offi cially recognised double, joint or multiple degree. Universities participating in the Erasmus Mundus programme receive funding for the administration of the programme as well as generous scholarships for the recruitment of both European and non-European young re-searchers.
Antti Pursula
CSC
Director Antti Pursula has worked at CSC since 2001. He has been involved with scientifi c soft-ware development and managed open source development projects with various partners. He has been responsible for managing CSC’s scientifi c software services and, currently, leads Application Services at CSC - a service area containing management of scientifi c ap-plications, scietifi c and methodological support and software development. Pursula has been involved in leading the HPC-Europa2 effort at CSC since its beginning in late 2008. He holds a degree (M.Sc. (Eng.)) in applied mathemat-ics and physmathemat-ics from the Helsinki University of Technology.
HPC-Europa2 - pan-European research infrastructure in high-performance com-puting
HPC-Europa2: Enabling research visits with ac-cess to HPC resources HPC-Europa2 is an EC project for funding research visits within Europe with access granted to powerful supercomput-ers. All European based reasearchers can ap-ply for a visit, and Finnish research groups are among those that are also eligible to host HPC-Europa2 visits. The programme is open for sci-entists on all fi elds who utilize computing in their research. The presentation will give a project overview incuding practical information on how to apply.
Tiina Forsman
IIASA
Science Adviser at the Academy of Finland, Secretary for the Finnish IIASA Committee
IIASA, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
• Non-political; members are science acad-emies and science funding organisations. • Has maintained the applied systems
analy-sis mission, but also expanded its scope to address global change issues, as its mem-bership has grown since 2000 to include countries around the world.
• Some 200 mathematicians, social scitists, natural scienscitists, economists and en-gineers develop assessment and decision-support methodologies, global databases and analytical tools to study these issues. • IIASA has strong and wide collaborative
networks with leading universities and insti-tutes all over the world.
• Present members from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Research
IIASA conducts policy-oriented research into problems that are too comprehensive or too complex to be solved by a single country or aca-demic discipline.
Current research areas:
• Environment and Natural Resources • Population and Society
• Energy and Technology.
IIASA has outlined its future activities in its strat-egy for 2011–2020, Research for a Changing World. The Institute’s new interlinked research areas are:
• Food and Water
• Energy and Climate Change • Poverty and Equity.
A new research plan for 2011–2015 is set to be approved in November 2010.
Creating collaboration
• Announcements of open vacancies on the IIASA website
• Direct networking, visits to IIASA and IIASA seminars
• Postdoctoral programme up to 2 years; funding not provided; call in November • YSSP, Young Scientists Summer Program
Acad-Paula Eerola
University of Helsinki
Paula Eerola is professor in experimental high energy physics at University of Helsinki. She is also leading the CMS research programme at Helsinki Institute of Physics. CMS is a multi-pur-pose experiment at the Large Hadron Collider which has started operating earlier this year. For more information see http://www.helsinki. fi /~paeerola/
Research training opportunities at CERN
Finland is one of the member states of CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Physics (http://public.web.cern.ch/public/). CERN is one of the world?s largest centres for scientifi c re-search, with world?s largest and most complex scientifi c instruments to study the basic con-stituents of matter. CERN’s four missions are research, technology, collaboration and educa-tion. In this presentation, research training op-portunities at CERN for Finnish researchers in various fi elds will be described.
Juha Kämäri
SYKE
IIASA experiences
Teemu Luostari
University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio
Teemu Luostari, M.Sc. is working as a research-er in the Invresearch-erse Problems Group at the Depart-ment of Physics and Mathematics in University of Eastern Finland. Currently, his main research areas are in the fi eld of non-polynomial model-ing methods in acoustics, elasticity and electro-magnetism. His PhD supervisors are Docent Tomi Huttunen (University of Eastern Finland), Professor Peter Monk (University of Delaware, USA) and Professor Jari Kaipio (University of Eastern Finland and University of Auckland, New Zealand). During the ongoing PhD proj-ect Teemu Luostari has visited 7 months in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of University of Delaware, USA and 1.5 weeks in the Department of Mathematics of University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Experiences of academic visits in Dela-ware and Auckland
Active research collaboration between the De-partment of Mathematical Sciences of Univer-sity of Delaware and Department of Physics and Mathematics of University of Eastern Finland started in 1999. During my PhD project I have had an opportunity to visit in Delaware twice. The fi rst visit in 2008 lasted one month only but the second visit in 2009-2010 had the duration of 6 months. In addition, in 2010 I visited 1.5 weeks Professor Jari Kaipio in Auckland, New Zealand. In this talk I will share my experiences of academic visits in Delaware and Auckland.
Niko Vuokko
Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Niko Vuokko received his MSc in mathematics from University of Turku in 2006 and his current aim is to fi nish his PhD degree in computer sci-ence from Aalto University by Summer 2011. He visited the IBM Almaden Research Center as a research scholar for 3 months in 2008. His main research interest is signifi cance testing in data mining.
Research visit to industry - experiences from IBM
Many global enterprises base their success in new innovations and IBM, which was granted 5000 patents in 2009, is certainly a company that revolves around research. How do these companies seek new talent and how is it dif-ferent from the academia? The talk will cover these topics and tell you why you should con-sider a research visit to a company.
