Topic: international

Jaak Vilo, Vice President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, has been elected a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe.

Speaker application is open until April 1 for TEDxUniversity of Tartu.

Michał Novak studied quantitative economics at the University of Tartu through IMESS. Now in banking, he fondly recalls peaceful Botanical Garden walks and cooking pierogis for friends.

Lukas Andrijauskas is a master’s student in Computer Science at the University of Tartu. When he’s not studying, he enjoys teaching mathematics and has taken part in Estonia’s unique “Home Café Days”.

On 27 October from 13–18, the University of Tartu development conference “A university for us, Estonia and the world” took place in the university assembly hall and online. Keynote speakers were Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Kersti Kaljulaid and Kristina Kallas.

Three student teams from the University of Tartu took part in the Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC) on 4 October, where a total of 173 teams from across the Nordic and Baltic countries competed in the main ICPC category.

The University of Tartu’s podcast for prospective international students, “Tiksu to UniTartu”, is back this summer with a second season.

On 6 May, the Rector’s Office met with the rector and representatives of the University of Latvia, who also visited Delta Centre and the Estonian Biobank.

The specialists from the University of Tartu create unified and secure access to Europe's supercomputers

A team of computer science students from the University of Tartu performed successfully at the ICPC European Programming Championship held in Portugal, achieving 13th place out of 53 participating teams.