The interest in the Aalto Science Institute (AScI) international summer internship programme again reached a record high: a total of 350 applications were received to the 27 positions made available by the departments at SCI, ELEC, ENG and CHEM schools. This represents an increase of about 15 % from the 303 applications received in 2017. From this pool of applicants, 29 interns were recruited and have been working with their respective research groups over the summer.

The interns will have their final seminar on Fri 10 August, starting at 09:00 am in the Top Lounge (U523, Otakaari 1). Please mark your calendars and come see the presentations: the event has every year been very informative and inspiring. Light refreshments provided (please register by emailing asci@aalto.fi).

For more information about the internship programme, see the AScI website at http://asci.aalto.fi/en/internships/incoming_asci_interns/.

Programme

Session 1
Chair: Prof. Mikko Alava

09:00 Anna Robbins: Analysis of construction site workflow
09:10 Daria Snytkina: Reviews within the framework of the RECAP project
09:20 Akash Pushkar: Construction Progress Monitoring
09:30 Ekaterina Kostroma: Entrepreneurial identity and failure: what’s the connection?
09:40 Alexandra Mestre: Adiabatically driven single electron box

09:50 Break (10 minutes)

Session 2
Chair: Dr Jaakko Järvinen

10:00 Diana Checa: The use of cellulose for a more sustainable flotation process
10:10 Fabio Priante: Rational design of future catalyst materials
10:20 Alfonso Amayuelas: Detecting and predicting T1 events in a flowing foam
10:30 Alexandre Fantou: Corrosion behaviour of high-entropy alloys using positron annihilation spectroscopy
10:40 Irem Efe: Understanding the corrosion behavior of High Entropy Alloys: A comparative work on 304, 316 types of stainless steel and High Entropy Alloy

10:50 Break (10 minutes)

Session 3
Chair: Prof. Filip Tuomisto

11:00 Ester Koistinen: Machine Learning with Bayesian Optimisation Structure Search (BOSS)
11:10 Pavel Bilkis: Message Passing Algorithms for Data Detection
11:20 Ali Tabatabaee: Design of a Generic Decentralized Marketplace (And Other Stories)
11:30 Victor Castillo Martínez: Applications of machine learning to Molecular Physics
11:40 Amara McCune: Visualizing Datasets of Crystal Structures: A Comparison of Methods
11:50 Florian Windolf: Predicting Phases in Active Matter Systems
12:00 Aleksandr Kravchenko: Algorithmic Design of Cotranscriptionally Folding 2D RNA Origami Structures