Participation in Conferences and Seminars

Sebastian von Alfthan

• SoftSimu2002 - Novel Methods in Soft Matter Simulations. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. 31.5.-6.6.2002.
• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, Joensuu, Finland, 14.-16.3.2002.

Toni Auranen

• Darmstadt University of Technology, Graduate College 340: Summer Academy. 15-22.9.2002, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal, Austria, 2002.
  - Presentation: Time-frequency representations of magnetoencephalographic data and their statistical analysis.

Sami Brandt

• Statistical Methods for Video Processing Workshop, June 2002,Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 53rd Annual Meeting of the Scnadinavian Society for Electron Microspcopy (SCANDEM 2002), June 2002, Tampere, Finland.

Alexander and Andrey Fingelkurts

• International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON8), France, September 9-15, 2002.
  - Poster: Fingelkurts, Al.A., Fingelkurts, An.A., Krause, C.M., Möttönen, R., Sams, M. The role of brain oscillations in audiovisual speech integration: The McGurk study.
  - Fingelkurts, An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A., Krause, C.M., Möttönen, R., Sams, M. Audiovisual speech integration and operational synchrony of cortical networks (a McGurk study).
• 11th World Congress on Psychophysiology, Montreal, Canada, July 29 - August 3, 2002.
  - Poster: Fingelkurts, Al.A., Fingelkurts, An.A., Krause, C.M., Sams, M. Oscillatory brain dynamics in audiovisual speech integration.
  - Poster: Fingelkurts, An.A., Fingelkurts, Al.A., Krause, C.M., Sams, M. The duration of cortical operations during audiovisual speech integration.

Maria Huhtala

• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, Joensuu, Finland, 14.-16.3.2002.
  - Poster: Carbon Nanotubes under Bending
• Nanotube 2002, Boston, USA, 6.-11.7.2002.
  - Poster: Influence of Bending on Local Structure of Carbon Nanotubes.

Anu Huttunen

• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, March 14-16,2002, Joensuu, Finland.
  - Talk: Field distributions of nonlinear photonic crystals.
• Finnish Optics Days 2002, April 24-26, 2002, Kajaani, Finland.
  - Poster: Effects of boundary materials in linear and nonlinear photonic crystals.
• International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC/LAT) 2002, June 22-27,2002, Moscow, Russia.
• 3rd International WE Heraeus Summerschool on Photonic Crystals, July 15-25, 2002, Wittenberg, Germany.
  - Poster: All-optical switching with nonlinear photonic crystal slabs.
• Jyväskylä summer school, August 12-30, 2002, Jyväskyla, Finland. Participation in courses:
  - Electronic properties of nanostructure quantum systems.
  - Mesoscopic physics and quantum measurement problem.

Mikko Karttunen

• 'Liposomes: From Models to Application', International Conference. Wroclaw/Szklarska Poreba, Poland, May 26-29, 2002. Invited talk.
• 'Modeling Soft Materials and Biological Systems' intensive course. University of Santiago de Chile, October 2002. Guest lecturer.

Kimmo Kaski

• Conference on Computational Physics, CCP 2002, San Diego, USA, August 24-27, 2002.
• The International Econophysics Conference, Bali, Indonesia, August 29-31.
• Academia Europaea Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-11, 2002.

Christina M. Krause

• Internatioanl Multisensory Research Forum, 3rd Annual Meeting. Geneva, Switzerland, May 24-26,2002.
  - Poster: Krause, C.M., Möttönen, R., Auranen, T., Tiippana, K., Lampinen, J., Sams, M. Brain oscillatory responses during an audiovisual memory task a MEG study.
• Bioelectromagnetics Society Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, June 23-27, 2002.
  - Invited talk: EMF Effects on Human Cognitive Processes and the EEG.

Antti Kuronen

• The XXXVI Annual Conference of the Finnish Physical Society, 14.-16.3.2002, Joensuu, Finland.
  - Poster: Computer simulation of Si(001) surface and Ge on Si(001) thin films.
• Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2002, Boston, MA, USA, 2.-6.12.2002.
  - Poster: Adatom Diffusion on Strained Si(001)-(2x1) Surface.

Laura Laitinen

• fMRI-based Experiments course by Dr. Robert Savoys. AMI Center, HUT, Finlands, March 2002.

Jouko Lampinen

• RSS'2002 International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, 3-6 September, Plymouth, UK, 2002
• Wallenberg Foundation invited symposium Learning and Memory - from Brains to Robots, 25-26. Oct., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2002

Teemu Leppänen

• Advanced Course Molecular Simulation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 7.-19.4.2002.
• SoftSimu2002 - Novel Methods in Soft Matter Simulations. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. 31.5.-6.6.2002.
• Let's Face Chaos Through Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.

Markus Miettinen

• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, March 14-16,2002, Joensuu, Finland.
  - Poster: Computer simulations of a polymer chain under shear flow.
• Second Annual Stockholm-Helsinki Miniconference in Micro-Meso Multi-Scale Simulations. 4.4.2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
  - Talk: Computer simulations of a polymer chain under shear flow.
• Modern Methods in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics winter school. 18.-20.3.2002, Turku, Finland.
• SoftSimu2002 - Novel methods in soft matter simulations. 31.5.-6.6.2002, Espoo, Finland.
  - Poster: Computer simulations of a polymer chain under shear flow.
• Dynamics of Biological Systems From Molecules to Networks. International workshop in biophysics. 10.-17.8.2002, Krogerup Hojeskole, Denmark.
  - Poster: Computer simulations of a polymer chain under shear flow.
• NATO-ASI: Computer simulations of a surfaces and interfaces. International summer school. 9.-20.9.2002, Albena, Bulgaria.
  - Poster: Computer simulations of a polymer chain under shear flow.

Kota Mogami

• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, Joensuu, Finland, 14.-16.3.2002.
  - Talk: Thermostat Dependency of the Simulation of Carbon Nanotube.

Riikka Möttönen

• fMRI-based Experiments, March 18-21, 2002, AMI Center, HUT, Espoo, Finland.
• fMRI & EEG Data Analysis Training Seminar, May 30 - June 1, 2002, Sendai, Japan.
• 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2 - 6, 2002, Sendai, Japan.
  - Abstract: Möttönen. R amd Sams,M.: Cortical Processing of Audiovisual Speech.

Petri Nikunen

• 36th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Physical Society, Joensuu, Finland.
  - Poster: Effects of quenched impurities on surface diffusion, spreading and ordering of O/W(110)
  - Poster: A testbench for integration schemes used in dissipative particle dynamics

Laura Nurminen

• 15th Annual Workshop, Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics, March 18-22, Athens, GA, USA
• NATO Advanced Study Institute, Computer Simulations of Surfaces and Interfaces, September 9-20, Varna, Bulgaria

Klaus Riederer

• Audio Engineering Society (AES) 21st International Conference on Architectural Acoustics & Sound Reinforcement, June 1-3, 2002, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  - Presentation of paper and sound demonstration: Riederer and R. Niska: Sophisticated tube headphones for spatial sound reproduction.

Mirta Rodriguez

• Finnish Physical Society Annual Conference, March 2002, Joensuu, Finland.
  - Talk: Supersfluid phenomena in trapped Fermi gases
  - Poster: A loading system for integrated atom optics
• Physics of Ultracold Dilute Atomic Gases workshop, June 9-20, 2002, Benasque, Spain.
• International Quantum Electronic Conference IQEC/LAT 2002, June 22-27, 2002, Moscow, Russia.
• Euroconference Quantum Optics, September, 21-26, 2002, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
  - Poster: Bloch oscillations in Fermi gases.

Mikko Sams.

• Abstracts:
  • Krause, C., Möttönen, R., Auranen, T., Tiippana, K., Lampinen, J. and Sams, M. Brain Oscillatory responses During an Audiovisual Memory Task - a MEG study. International Multisensory Research Forum, 3rd Annual Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 24th - 26th May, 2002.
  • Tiippana, K., Andersen, T. and Sams, M. Illusory flashes are induced by beeps, but are illusory beeps induced by flashes. International Multisensory Research Forum, 3rd Annual Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 24th - 26th May, 2002.
  • Andersen, T., Tiippana, K. and Sams, M. Endogenous visual spatial attention affects audiovisual speech perception. International Multisensory Research Forum, 3rd Annual Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 24th - 26th May, 2002.
  • Krause, K., Möttönen, R. Jensen, O. Auranen, T., Tiippana, K., Lampinen, J. and Sams, M. Brain oscillatory responses during an audiovisual memory task - an MEG study. International Multisensory Research Forum, 3rd Annual Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 24th - 26th May, 2002.
  • Möttönen, R. and Sams, M. Cortical Processing of Audiovisual Speech. 8th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 2 - 6, 2002, Sendai, Japan.
  • Tiippana K., Hayes E., Kraus N. and Sams M. (2002). Maturation of audiovisual speech perception. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting Abstract Book (San Francisco, U.S.A.), 42.
  • Tuomainen J., Andersen T.,Tiippana K. and Sams M. (2002). Audio-visual integration of speech with time-varying sine wave speech replicas. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(2), 2358.
• Invited talks:
  • Sams, M. Audiovisual speech perception. Seminar in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA, March 19, 2002.
  • Sams, M. Audiovisual speech perception. In "Speech in Context", Houston, Texas, USA, March 13-16, 2001.
  • Sams, M. Ihmisen audiovisuaalinen havaitseminen. Esitelmä kokouksessa "Aivojen kuvantamis- ja mittausmenetelmät kognitiivisessa neurotieteessä", Oulu, 17.5.2002.
  • Sams, M. Audiovisual speech perception. Seminar in Northwestern University, Department of Communication Sciences Neurobiology and Physiology, Otolaryngology, Evanston, USA, April 18, 2002.
  • Sams, M. Neurocognitive mechanisms of audiovisual speech. 6th Finnish-Russian Winter School, January 5.-11., 2002, Tvärminne, Finland

Toni Tamminen

• Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Tenerife, 31.5.-8.6.2002.
• STeP 2002, The 10th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference, Oulu, Finland, 16.-17.12.2002.

Aki Vehtari:

• Ordinary meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, March 2002
• The Seventh Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Tenerifa, Spain, June 2002
• The 2002 International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society, Plymouth, UK, September 2002