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SCI Master's Thesis Guide 2023-

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Preparing a Master's Thesis

Starting the thesis work:.

• Familiarize yourself with SCI's instructions and thesis process ; these instructions and process descriptions are valid with the exception that you do not have to give a presentation of your thesis
• Agree upon the thesis topic with your supervisor .
• Apply for the approval of the topic 

Preparing your thesis:

• Primary guidance comes from your advisor.
• Discuss the thesis structure with your supervisor already in the early phase of the process.
• Remember that all theses are public documents.
• The Systems Analysis Laboratory maintains an archive of all master's theses online. If you add the text below in Finnish or in English to the cover page of your thesis, your thesis can be made openly available in this archive: "Työn saa tallentaa ja julkistaa Aalto-yliopiston avoimilla verkkosivuilla. Muilta osin kaikki oikeudet pidätetään. " "The document can be stored and made available to the public on the open internet pages of Aalto University. All other rights are reserved. " If the text has not been added, the thesis will be password-protected but still available in the laboratory.

Finalizing the thesis:

• You will need to give a presentation of on your thesis (about 15 minutes). Unless you have agreed otherwise with your supervisor, you can give this presentation in the weekly seminar of the Systems Analysis Laboratory, held on Mondays at 15.15 in RIIHI (Y225a, Otakaari 1). Once your supervisor has agreed that you are ready to present your thesis in this seminar, please contact Leevi Olander to reserve a time. After giving the presentation, please fill in the thesis presentation form on your part and ask your supervisor to sign and submit it to the student services of the MSc programme . 
• Deliver the thesis to the supervisor for feedback and guidance. Note that the supervisor may need up to a month to read your thesis. You may also need time to edit and correct your thesis. 
• Once the thesis has been submitted, the supervisor typically contacts the advisor before preparing the assessment statement. 

Submitting the thesis:

• Follow the SCI-level instructions and links
• Email a pdf copy of the thesis to Minna Westerlund .  
• If you choose to have your thesis bound as a hard copy, it is common to give a bound copy to your advisor and supervisor.

Evaluation of the thesis:

• The supervisor proposes a grade for your thesis in the assessment statement. See evaluation principles .
• The Master's Programme Committee accepts all theses and decides on the grades.

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JOIN.bsc Bachelor's Thesis and Seminar is a 10-credit study module that is completed during one study term (fall, spring, or summer) in the third year of studies. The work is divided across two periods to allow time for planning, conducting research, reading literature, writing & revising multiple drafts, and giving a thesis presentation. The bachelor’s thesis is written while attending the seminar with the objective of helping you develop your academic writing and research skills. 

After completing the Bachelor’s Thesis and Seminar, you will be able to show in-depth knowledge on a topic in your field through the Bachelor thesis and presentation. As well, you will search for, critically assess, and integrate sources into your writing, following standard international citation practices. You will also be able to identify the key academic language and organisational features of a Bachelor thesis. Finally, you will give feedback to peers and receive feedback from your peers and teachers, which is an important part of academic work and the learning process. 

The language of instruction in the seminar is English, and the thesis is written in English. Students who have been educated in Finnish or Swedish are required to write their maturity essay in the language of education (i.e., Finnish or Swedish).

More information on the Bachelor's Thesis and Seminar is provided to students during their studies in the programme. Once you register for JOIN.BSc, the MyCourses page will be visible to you. Visit the landing page for links to the topics and advisors in your major.

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Aalto University: School of Science Honors Best Doctoral and Master’s Theses of 2023

Annually Aalto University awards the best 10 percent of doctoral theses. This year seven doctoral theses were honoured at the School of Science.

The criteria for the Doctoral Thesis Award are academic quality, impact, and originality. The award is worth 3000 euros.

Altogether 70 theses were approved in the School of Science in 2023. Decision on the awards was made on the proposal of the Doctoral Programme Committee, based on the nominations of the departments and the statements given by the pre-examiners and opponents.

The awards were granted to

Department of Applied Physics

Supervising professor and thesis advisor: Professor  Päivi Törmä , Department of Applied Physics

The thesis investigates superconductivity in flat band systems, and how their properties relate to quantum geometry. The results confirm the potential of flat bands for realising exotic correlated states.

Supervising professor and thesis advisor: Professor  Peter Liljeroth , Department of Applied Physics

The thesis uses a combination of molecular beam epitaxy and scanning tunneling microscope to create and probe exotic quantum states of matter.

Department of Computer Science

Supervising professor: Professor  Parinya Chalermsook , Department of Computer Science

Thesis advisor: Professor  Danupon Nanongkai , Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, Saksa

The thesis presents an elegant theory of local computation in algorithmic graph theory and resolves a 50-year-old open problem in the field of network connectivity.

Supervising professor: Adjunct Professor  N. Asokan , Department of Computer Science

Thesis advisor: Research Fellow,  Dr. Samuel Marchal , WithSecure

The thesis examines the susceptibility of machine learning models to black-box theft. It proposes multiple attacks and defenses, and investigates the potential for conflicting interactions with protection mechanisms against other threats.

Supervising professor and thesis advisor: Professor  Arno Solin , Department of Computer Science

The thesis examines ways to reduce the overconfidence of modern deep learning models, by improving their ability to estimate the uncertainty of their predictions. This is done by making connections to principled probability models, and bringing useful properties from them into deep learning models.

Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Supervising professor and thesis advisor: Professor  Ahti Salo , Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

People are often faced with decisions without perfect information about the potential outcomes. The thesis examines probabilistic computational models, that can be used to evaluate different decision alternatives in the face of uncertainty.

Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

Supervising professor:  Lauri Parkkonen , Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

Thesis advisor: Professor (emer.)  Risto Ilmoniemi , Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

In this thesis, a new kind of brain scanner was designed and constructed based on a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance and electromagnetic detection of brain activity. In addition, an approach called dynamical pulse-waveform coupling was introduced.

Master’s Theses awards

The School of Science awarded prizes to five master’s theses. The prize is worth 1000 euros.

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Speaker: MATT BUTROVICH , Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University https://mattbutrovi.ch/

On Embedding Database Management System Logic in Operating Systems via Restricted Programming Environments

The rise in computer storage and network performance means that disk I/O and network communication are often no longer bottlenecks in database management systems (DBMSs). Instead, the overheads associated with operating system (OS) services (e.g., system calls, thread scheduling, and data movement from kernel-space) limit query processing responsiveness. User-space applications can elide these overheads with a kernel-bypass design. However, extracting benefits from kernel-bypass frameworks is challenging, and the libraries are incompatible with standard deployment and debugging tools. 

This thesis presents an alternative in user-bypass: a design that extends OS behavior for DBMS-specific features, including observability, networking, and query execution. Historically, DBMS developers avoid kernel extensions for safety and security reasons, but recent improvements in OS extensibility present new opportunities. With user-bypass, developers write safe, event-driven programs to push DBMS logic into the kernel and avoid user-space overheads. There are two ways to to invoke user-bypass logic: (1) when a DBMS in user-space invokes these programs, user-bypass provides behavior similar to a new OS system call, albeit without kernel modifications. In contrast, (2) when an OS thread or interrupt triggers these programs in kernel-space, user-bypass inserts DBMS logic into the kernel stack.

First, we present a framework that employs user-bypass to collect training data for self-driving DBMSs efficiently. User-bypass programs reduce the number of round trips to kernel-space to retrieve performance counters and other system metrics. Next, we present a database proxy that applies user-bypass to support features like connection pooling and workload replication while reducing data copying and user-space thread scheduling. User-bypass programs embed DBMS network protocol logic in multiple layers of the OS network stack, applying DBMS proxy logic in a kernel-space fast path. Lastly, we present an embedded DBMS for future user-bypass applications. We discuss the design decisions, environment challenges, and performance characteristics of a DBMS that offers ACID transactions over multi-versioned data in kernel-space. We also explore applications of this user-bypass DBMS and compare them to modern user-space systems.

The techniques proposed in this thesis show user-bypass benefits across multiple DBMS design disciplines and provide a template for future DBMS and OS co-design.

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Andrew Pavlo (Chair) Jignesh M. Patel Justine Sherry Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

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However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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Toroidally focused ultrasonic flaw detectors

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• Published: 28 July 2011
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New-type toroidally focused ultrasonic flaw detectors, whose application provides an appreciable increase in the flaw detection rate with retention of high sensitivity to flaws, are considered. The construction of a flaw detector is presented, the sizes of a gauge for the formation of the toroidal surface of a lens are given, and the technology of the manufacturing of a toroidal lens is described.

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