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At its meeting of 9 December, the UT strategy committee discussed the location of the future IT development centre. After thorough deliberation of the arguments, it was decided that the preferred location for the centre is the Narva maantee area near Oeconomicum, the academic building of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. The choice was made between two remaining options—the university’s research campus in Maarjamõisa field and the Oeconomicum area on Narva maantee

Cybernetica AS has been awarded a contract with the United States Air Force Research Laboratory to contribute to the Brandeis privacy R&D programme of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Novel Tools for Analyzing Privacy Leakages (NAPLES) project will be carried out by Cybernetica with the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Tartu as a subcontractor.

The 10th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics 28 June - 1 July 2016, Tartu, Estonia

AS Eesti Telekom and the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science have signed a cooperation agreement to promote the creation of new business ideas based on research and development work in the field of internet of things. For this, the students’ study environment and options will also be developed and in March the UT smart environment lab will be opened.

Submission of Master's Thesis

The University of Tartu has the largest number of graduates in Estonia—an estimated of 70 000 graduates. Aiming to bring the alumni community closer together, link them more to the university, develop mutual communication and professional cooperation, the University of Tartu launched a network for its alumni (www.utalumni.ee), novel in Estonia as well as Europe, the like of which is also used by the University of Oxford.

University of Tartu announced an architecture competition to find the best solution for the IT centre to be built on Narva Road. The city of Tartu decided to transfer the immovable property next to Oeconomicum to the university for building the centre. The centre will house the Institute of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and School of Economics and Business Administration. The building should be as energy efficient as possible.

On 8 February, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves awarded by way of exception two Young Scientist Awards. The prize was given to UT mycologist Leho Tedersoo and media and communication researcher Andra Siibak. Graduate of the Institute of Computer Science Dan Bogdanov was given the Young IT Scientist Award. Leho Tedersoo is Senior Research Fellow in Ecology of Biological Interactions at the University of Tartu. In a short period of time he has founded his own research group and become an internationally acknowledged mycologist.

The admission system for the Actuarial and Financial Engineering Master's programme is open from 2 January to 15 March.

Submitted Theses. About defense

On Tuesday, 1 December, the University of Tartu celebrates the 96th anniversary of the national university with the traditional ceremony, torch-light procession and ball. Two honorary doctorates and 112 doctorates will be conferred at the ceremony and the University of Tartu Contribution to Estonian National Identity award will be presented. The ceremony is broadcasted live on www.uttv.ee.

Dr Matthias Mnich will give a venia legendi lecture Multivariate Algorithmics for Hard Optimization Problems on March 19 at 15.00 in room 317.

Jean-Charles Lamirel helds public lecture "Feature selection: a key technique for data mining" on 30 October at 10am in J. Liivi 2 room 317. Abstract:

Margus Freudenthal's PhD defence on 25 October at 16.00, Liivi 2-403 "Simpl: A Toolkit for Domain-Specific Language Development in Enterprise Information Systems"

Luciano Garcia Banuelos venia legendi "Structuring business process models: methods and applications" at 10 J. Liivi 2 room 317 Karam A.Gouda venia legendi "Searching Large Graph Databases" at 13 J. Liivi 2 room 317

Fabrizio Maria Maggi venia legendi lecture "Process mining: learning from the past to improve the future in business process management" on 16 October at 12.15 J. Liivi 2 - 317

Methods of Analysis and Algebra international conference dedicated to the centennial of professor Gunnar Kangro 1-6 September 2013. More information here.

Faculty's opening ceremony of the new academic year will be held on Monday, September 2 at 1 pm in the assembly hall of the main building (Ülikooli 18).

Graduation Ceremony 2013 will take place in the Festive Hall of the Main Building (Ülikooli 18) on Thursday, 20 June at 15 o'clock. Watch online http://www.uttv.ee/esileht.

The international conference on Optimization and Analysis of Structures gathers experts in the fields of Solid Mechanics, Fracture Mechanics, Material Science, also Applied Mathematics and the Theory of Optimization. 25-27 August 2013 More information here