08:45-09:00	Opening and coffee
09:00-09:30	Introductions
	Greetings from the Academy of Finland	Science Adviser Antti Väihkönen
	News of the Algodan Centre	Professor Esko Ukkonen, Director of the Centre
9:30-10:30	Research themes
	Data Mining: Theory and Applications	Heikki Mannila Jaakko Hollmén Jefrey Lijffijt
	Pattern and Link Discovery	Hannu Toivonen
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:30	Research themes cont.
	Neuroinformatics	Aapo Hyvärinen Doris Entner
	Combinatorial Pattern Matching	Veli Mäkinen Leena Salmela
	Machine Learning	Jyrki Kivinen
	Other subgroups	Mikko Koivisto Valentin Polishchuk
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:20	Poster exhibition and demonstrations, coffee
15:20-15:30	Vision and future plans
	Esko Ukkonen and Heikki Mannila
15:30-16:15	Scientific Advisory Board, internal discussion
16:15-16:45	Summary
	Comments from the Scientific Advisory Board
	Discussion
16:45	End of meeting

Scientific Advisory Board

• Professor Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
• Senior Principal Research Scientist Volker Tresp, Siemens AG, Germany

Academy of Finland

• Professor Tarja Systä, Tampere University of Technology, Member of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Academy of Finland
• Science Adviser Antti Väihkönen, Academy of Finland

Algodan Centre-of-Excellence

• Professor Esko Ukkonen, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Esko.Ukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi, tel. +358 9 191 51280
• Chief Research Scientist Jaakko Hollmén, Department of Information and Computer Science, and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University
• Professor Aapo Hyvärinen, Department of Computer Science/Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki
• Professor Jyrki Kivinen, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• Academy Research Fellow Mikko Koivisto, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki
• Vice President, Professor Heikki Mannila, Department of Information and Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University
• Professor Veli Mäkinen, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• Professor Hannu Toivonen, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki
• Post doc Valentin Polishchuk, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• Post doc Leena Salmela, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• PhD student Doris Entner, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki
• Poster and demo chair, PhD student Esa Junttila, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki
• Web chair, PhD student Janne Korhonen, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki
• PhD student Jefrey Lijffijt, Department of Information and Computer Science, and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Aalto University
• Researchers and PhD students in the unit

Secretaries and technical help

• Research Coordinator, Dr. Greger Lindén, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki, Greger.Linden@cs.helsinki.fi, tel. +358 9 191 51389 and gsm +358 40 715 0786
• Technical Assistant, Amanuensis Teija Kujala, Department of Computer Science and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, University of Helsinki