| Date and place of birth |
July 6, 1937; Suistamo, Finland |
| Education |
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Turku, 1965 |
| Employment |
- Assistant in Mathematics
- University of Turku, 1962-67
- Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Tampere University of Technology, 1967-68
- University of Turku, 1968-71
- Professor of Mathematics
- Tampere University of Technology, 1971-72
- University of Turku, 1972-
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| Scientific Activities |
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Associate Editor 1990-93
- Designs, Codes and Cryptography
- Member of the Editorial Board 1990-
- Journal of Discrete Mathematical Systems and Cryptography
- Associate Editor 1998-
- Institute of Combinatorics and Its Applications
- Foundation Fellow 1990-
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences 1978-
- Supervisor of 10 Ph.D. Students
- Referee of several selection committees for
professorships and lecturerships in mathematics or
computer science
- (e.g., Technical University of Tampere (five times),
Universities of Oulu, York, Syracuse (USA), Illinois,
Tel-Aviv (twice), Puerto Rico and Bilkent)
- Member of the organizing, program or advisory committees of
several international symposiums; most recently
- IEEE Information Theory Symposiums in Kobe (1988),
San Antonio (1993) and Ulm (1997)
- International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications
- SETA'98, Singapore (1998),
- Developments in Language Theory in Turku (1993)
- Occasional referee of several scientific journals, e.g.,
- American Mathematical Monthly, Discrete Mathematics, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Information and Control (new name: Information and Computation),
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Archiv der Mathematik, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
- Reviewer of several international and Academy of Finland research projects
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| Administrative Duties |
- - Head of the Mathematics Department, University of Turku, 1973
- - Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
University of Turku, 1975-77
- - Chairman of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
University of Turku, 1985-86
- - The responsible person of
the Mathematics Department,
University of Turku, until 1998.
- - For several years member of the senate, faculty
councils, institute councils and several committees,
Tampere University of Technology and/or University of
Turku,
- - Member of the Natural Science Research Council of the Academy
of Finland, 1992-94
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| Honours |
- - Knight 1st class of the Order the White Rose of Finland, 1993
- - The special issue 8.5 of Applicable Algebra in Engineering,
Communication and Computing (1997) with articles dedicated to
Aimo Tietäväinen on the occasion of his 60th birthday,
pp. 347-435
- - "The very knowledge of coding". Studies in honor of Aimo
Tietäväinen on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday,
156 pages.
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| Conferences and scientific visits since 1990: |
- - "Applications of Algebraic Geometry", Puerto Rico, 1990
(invited lecture, session
chairman)
- - IEEE Information Theory Symposium, San Diego, 1990 (lecture)
- - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 1990 (lecture)
- - "Codes and Designs", Oberwolfach, 1990 (invited lecture)
- - "The Fourth Nordic Discrete Mathematics Symposium", Fredrikshavn,
1990 (lecture)
- - University of Linköping, 1990 (lecture)
- - "Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory", Leningrad, 1990
(invited lecture, session
chairman),
- - IEEE Information Theory Symposium, Budapest, 1991 (the editors'
meeting)
- - "Algebraic Coding Theory", Paris, 1991 (lecture, session chairman)
- - "Information Theory", Oberwolfach, 1992 (invited lecture, session
chairman)
- - "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications", Veldhoven, 1992
(invited lecture)
- - "Coding Theory", Bergen, 1992 (two lectures)
- - University of Tel-Aviv, 1992 (lecture)
- - Technion of Haifa, 1992 (lecture)
- - IEEE Information Theory Symposium, San Antonio 1993 (session
chairman, the editors' meeting)
- - "Codes and Character Sums over Finite Fields", Puerto Rico, 1993
(two lectures)
- - "Discrete Metric Spaces", Bielefeld, 1994 (invited lecture)
- - Coding theory special session of the American Mathematical Society
- - Chicago meeting, 1995 (invited lecture)
- - "Mediterranean Workshop of Coding and InformationIntegrity",
Mallorca, 1996 (lecture, session chairman)
- - "Number Theory and Its Applications", Bilkent, 1996 (two invited lectures)
- - University of Szeged, 1997 (lecture)
- - IEEE Information Theory Symposium, Ulm, 1997 (lecture given by P. Charpin)
- - "Designs and Codes", Oberwolfach, 1998
- - "Numbers, Information and Complexity", Bielefeld,1998 (invited lecture; session chairman)
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