Scientific conferences are a major part of any PhD journey and by now have become just as normal to me as having Finnish lunch at 11 o’clock – or sauna. Speaking from my experience, these three things are very similar in nature in a multitude of ways: discussing current developments in research, debating technical details that only a handful of people in the room (can pretend to) understand and yes, even sharing food. But conferences are much more than just these moments and

They say your first scientific conference is something you never forget. Mine? It came with a last-minute paper submission, a PhD interview, a vacation across Europe, a sick supervisor, a 13-hour flight, and a glass of water I downed mid-sentence. Here’s how it all unfolded.

DSII participants recently had the opportunity to visit Tammervoima’s waste power plant Tarastenjärvi, a key piece of energy infrastructure in Tampere region. The plant offers an example of how society’s unavoidable waste can be transformed into useful thermal and electrical energy.

Soon it will be 6 years since the revolutionary AI model GPT-3 was released. Following that, it felt like each month brought forth a new breakthrough, and a new headline forecasting the end of work as we know it. But recently, at least according to a loud minority, the deafening roar of progress has finally started to quiet down. But what does the data say? How can we even quantify the quality of the models?

Training modern AI systems is becoming increasingly expensive. The largest models today require enormous amounts of electricity, and if the trends continue, the models of tomorrow will require even more. There are two possible ways to reduce the energy costs, either by optimizing the hardware, or by optimizing the software.

DSII had the privilege of visiting Dynaset’s headquarters in Ylöjärvi, a location where the company’s remarkable journey began in a small garage. The story starts with engineer Reijo Karppinen, who pursued an idea many dismissed at the time: harnessing a machine’s hydraulic power to create electricity and other useful outputs.

Thanks to the Doctoral School of Industry Innovations at Tampere University, I’ve been given the chance to be part of a project focused on electrifying marine transport. The concept is to use hydrogen to power the marine vehicle using fuel-cell-generated energy, reducing the fossil fueldependency.

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