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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 19 to 24

17 January 201817 January 2018 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 13 to 18

19 December 201719 December 2017 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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An Advent Calendar for Developers: day 7 to 12

15 December 201715 December 2017 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I spent the past year or so accumulating nice resources for data scientists and developers, and I've decided to collect them for everyone to enjoy. If you want to get one in your feed every day during the Christmas period, make sure to follow my Twitter or my LinkedIn profile. In any case, I'll be collecting them in four […]

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Science Slam Helsinki 2015: a triumph for Inverse Problems

13 January 201623 February 2016 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Last November I attended a fun event here in Helsinki: a sort of mix between science and stand-up comedy called Science Slam Helsinki. A Science Slam is a form of science communication to general audience. Each scientist gives a short talk (10-15 mins) to popularise science. Often such events are held in non-academic places, like pubs. Science […]

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Women in Mathematics in Finland: Kirsi Peltonen

25 October 201513 October 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

I am so excited to announce this upcoming event: the first lecture Women in Mathematics in Finland. I organised the seminar as national coordinator for European Women in Mathematics, since we discussed with the local members that we needed our local network to be more active. Visibility for women in mathematics is much needed in Finland, […]

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Tweeting for Real Scientists: aftermath.

14 September 201514 September 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

My week as curator of the Twitter channel @realscientists has just ended. It was refreshing and a lot of fun. I had the chance to review my own work from a fresh perspective and to check out old problems I didn't read about for a while. For those who don't know what Real Scientists is, I […]

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The Students' Seminar: what, who and why

13 April 201513 April 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Last year I became a chair to the longlasting Students' Seminar (*), together with my colleague Anssi Mirka, at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki. The seminar takes place almost every week of the study periods, usually in room B321 of Exactum, Kumpulan Kampus. Speakers and audience are usually formed by undergrad […]

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Women in STEM: let's start from a mentoring system

11 December 201415 May 2015 Paola Elefante 4 Comments

Today the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera published on his online column about women my interview about possible solutions to encourage women in STEM. I already mentioned some aspects of the problem in this post, but you can find infinite material about the gender gap in science in the net. Locally in Helsinki and […]

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The book that will improve your presentations

4 December 201427 November 2014 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

How many times have you been sitting among the audience of some conference, regretting you did not take anything to read? Or blaming yourself for not having charged your laptop the night before? Surely, one too many. Unfortunately good presenting skills do not belong to the standard professional package of a scientist. Many thinks it is not so […]

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#16days: each of us can fight violence against women

1 December 201427 November 2014 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

We are now in the middle of a campaign called 16 days, lasting from Nov 25th to Dec 10th, to fight violence against women. Why on earth I write about it on a math and science blog? Well, various reasons. First of all, this blog is also about education, that is a extensive part of […]

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