M.Sc. Paul Saikko defends his doctoral thesis Implicit Hitting Set Algorithms for Constraint Optimization on Monday the 2nd of December 2019 at 12 o’clock noon in the University of Helsinki Exactum building, Auditorium B123 (Pietari Kalmin katu 5, 1st floor). His opponent is Professor Laurent Simon (University of Bordeaux, France) and custos Associate Professor Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki). The defence will be held in English.

The thesis of Paul Saikko is a part of research done in the Department of Computer Science and in the Constraint Reasoning and Optimization research group at the University of Helsinki. His supervisors have been Associate Professor Matti Järvisalo and Professor Petri Myllymäki (University of Helsinki).