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Doctoral Programme in Economics

Following the tradition of the national doctoral programme in economics launched in 1990, DPE promotes doctoral education by providing a deepening structure of courses in core areas of economics. 

The Programme's fresh doctors are well placed in international academic institutions, central banks, research institutes, government organizations, and in private sector.

Want to know more? Visit our profile & activities page to learn more about the key research areas and activities in the programme.

• Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics
• Doctoral School and Doctoral Programmes
• University of Helsinki Doctoral School
• Website http://www.helsinki.fi/domast

Organisation profile

Organisation profile.

The Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics (Domast) offers PhD thesis topics and high-quality supervision in several areas of mathematics. These areas include analysis, inverse problems, mathematical biology, mathematical physics, mathematical logic and statistics. 

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• Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Doctoral Researcher, Grant-funded researcher
• Survival and event history analysis

Person: Visiting scholar, U1 Research and teaching staff, Doctoral Researcher

Kusti J Aholainen

Person: Doctoral Researcher

Aleksi Ilari Anttila

• Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Prof. emer., Title of Docent, Professor Emeritus
• Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics - Supervisor for doctoral programme

Antti Oskari Aro

• Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Doctoral Researcher

Person: U1 Research and teaching staff, Doctoral Researcher

• 2 Not started
• 19 Finished

Projects per year

ODE-systems with boundary conditions containing higher order derivatives

Taskinen, J. & Atlasiuk, O.

01/04/2024 → …

Project : Academy of Finland: Researcher mobility to Finland

Ph.D. supervision of M.Sc. Zhang Zhan

Taskinen, J.

01/02/2023 → …

Project : External funding

FiRST: Centre of Excellence in Randomness and Structures

Saksman, E. , Hytönen, T. , Ilmonen, P., Koskela, P., Kuusi, T. , Kytölä, K. , Lukkarinen, J. , Matomäki, K., Peltola, E., Vihola, M., Zhong, X. & Muratore Ginanneschi, P.

01/01/2022 → 31/12/2028

Project : Academy of Finland: Centres of Exellence funding

EduQ: EduQ coordinator

Maniscalco, S. , Kupiainen, A. & P Pekola, J.

31/07/2021 → …

Project : Other project

QUAMAP: Quasiconformal methods in analysis and application

Astala, K. , Faraco, D. & Rogers, K.

01/09/2019 → 31/08/2024

Project : Research project

Publications

• 38 Doctoral Thesis
• 4 Conference contribution
• 2 Master's thesis
• 1 Other contribution
• 1 Bachelor's thesis
• 1 Licenciate's thesis
• 1 Working paper

Research output per year

A conversation with Hugh Woodin

Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

A Remark on the Expressivity of Asynchronous TeamLTL and HyperLTL

Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

Complexity of Neural Network Training and ETR: Extensions with Effectively Continuous Functions

Research output : Working paper › Preprint

Establishing Academic Burnout's Relationship with Problematic Internet Use and Specific Health-Risk Behaviours: A Cross-sectional Study of Finnish Higher Education Students

Research output : Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

How first order is first order logic?

• 170 Invited talk
• 154 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
• 80 Oral presentation
• 76 Academic visit to other institution
• 65 Academic visit at UH
• 42 Peer review of manuscripts
• 21 Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
• 11 Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)
• 7 Editor of research journal
• 6 Assessment of candidates for academic posts
• 6 Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
• 5 Public Talks
• 3 Editor of research anthology/collection/conference proceedings
• 3 Member of doctoral thesis committee / follow-up group
• 3 Opponent of doctoral dissertation
• 2 Consultancy
• 1 Post doctoral mentor
• 1 Membership or other role in public Finnish or international organization
• 1 Membership or other role in review committee
• 1 Types for other activities - Other

Activities per year

Workshop on inquisitive modal logic and related topics

Matilda Cajsa Emilia Häggblom (Speaker: Presenter)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars

Workshop on Optimal Transport from Theory to Applications

Julia Anna Sanders (Poster Presentation)

Matematiikan päivät 2024

Jari Taskinen (Member of organizing committee)

Syntax and Semantics

Juliette Kennedy (Speaker)

Activity : Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Dagstuhl Seminar 24111:Logics for Dependence and Independence: Expressivity and Complexity

Guggenheim fellowship.

Kennedy, Juliette (Recipient), 2022

Prize : Prizes and awards

ISAAC Award

Hytönen, Tuomas (Recipient), 2017

J. V. Snellman -palkinto

Siltanen, Samuli (Recipient), 2018

Magnus Ehrnroothin palkinto

Saksman, Eero (Recipient), 27 Apr 2018

Professor E.J. Nyström Prize

Lassas, Matti (Recipient), 29 Apr 2020

Gel phantom data for dynamic X-ray tomography

Heikkilä, T. (Creator), Meaney, A. (Creator) & Help-Rinta-Rahko, H. (Creator), Zenodo, 5 Mar 2020

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3696816 , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3696816 and one more link , https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02841 (show fewer)

Cone-beam gel phatom data for dynamic X-ray tomography

Heikkilä, T. (Creator), Meaney, A. (Creator) & Help-Rinta-Rahko, H. (Creator), Zenodo, 28 Apr 2023

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.7739985

STEMPO - dynamic X-ray tomography phantom

Heikkilä, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 23 Sept 2022

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.7081688 , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7081688 and one more link , https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12471 (show fewer)

Tomographic X-ray data of time-dependent 3D cross phantom

Latva-Äijö, S. (Creator), Zenodo, 1 Sept 2018

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.1446516 , https://www.fips.fi/dataset.php

Helsinki Deblur Challenge 2021 open photographic dataset

Juvonen, M. (Creator), Moura, F. (Creator) & Siltanen, S. (Creator), Zenodo, 9 Jun 2021

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4916176

Press/Media

Esiintyminen yle aamu-tv:n jälkikaronkka- ohjelmassa.

Samuli Siltanen

1 item of Media coverage

Press/Media : Press / Media

Tietokirjailijat ry:n podcast: Voiko brainy books -kirjoja lukemalla fiksuuntua?

1 Media contribution

Radio Suomen Kutsuvieraana

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