Rami Luisto

Talks

I enjoy talking about complex technical topics both to experts and non-experts alike. Helping or enabling people to understand (tehcnical) ideas is a passion for me, and I highly recommend outreach activities to everyone who has the opportunity. The skills you gain from explaining your topic of expertise to a layman are very transerable both to the academical and business world. Especially if you do technical work e.g. in the field of AI and you have to help customers or co-workers to understand what is going on.

Listed below are both some of my more general audience talks and my older scientific talks in various seminars and conferences.

A drawing of Rami talking.

Talks about AI

18.2.2025
University of Helsinki Mathematical Perspective to Machine Learning seminar. On the geometry of latent spaces of certain language models.
22.1.2025
University of Jyväskylä Analysis Seminar. On the emergent geometry within certain AI models.
20.1.2025
Guest in the Signaali podcast. Agentti tunnissa. Miten helppoa on AI-agenttien rakentaminen? (In Finnish.)
3.10.2024
Workshop on synthetic data. Panel discussion on possibilities of data synthesis w.r.t. wellbeing data.
28.5.2024
Central Finland AI HUB II seminar on digital pathology, Jyväskylä. Some experiences in AI-supported referral handling.
30.1.2024
Corporate webinar, USA. How can Generative AI help you in today's world?
23.1.2024
AI Literacies for academic and work life guest lecture, Jyvväskylä Language models in thought and action.
27.11.2023
Fall meeting of the Finnish Association for Progressive Science, Helsinki. Intelligent behaviour without metacognition - a quick glance to the strange world of Large Language Models. (In Finnish.)
15.11.2023
NORDISCO 2023, Tampere. Artificial intelligence and threats: the case of Beware of the dog! signs. (Joint with Petteri Laihonen.)
19.9.2023
DWF & Robocorp joint webinar with Tommi Holmgren and Niko Lehtonen. Harnessing Generative AI in Modern Automation and RPA.
28.8.2023
NOS HS WS3, Copenhagen. Exploring AI language generation by studying its limitations.
5.5.2023
DWF internal company seminar, Helsinki. Who is chatGPT?

Selected public lectures

12.3.2025
Hyria. Who is chatGPT? (In Finnish.)
11.12.2024
Espoonlahti high school. Using AI with sensitive data and vulnerable people.
9.10.2024
Espoonlahti high school. AI with sensitive data and vulnerable people.
18.4.2023
Mathematics Subject Collaboration Workshop for teachers, Espoo. Does mathematics need arts? (In Finnish.)
13.1.2023
The Science Forum, Helsinki. Does mathematics need arts? (In Finnish.)
17.11.2021
The Science Forum, Helsinki. Nature vs. classroom in mathematics. (In Finnish.)
9.11.2019
FysikerFest 2019. Mathematical information in nature and popular culture.
13.3.2018
SIAM SC seminar at the Charles University. A gentle introduction to (persistent) homology.
1.4.2016
HIIT Kumpula Seminar. Making things the hard way -- Turing complete interior design.
17.9.2015
University of Helsinki mathematics students' seminar. Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.
4.12.2014
University of Helsinki mathematics students' seminar. Detecting forged data with mathematics.
12.12.2013
Askola HS science days. Sharing passwords and Mathematical robotics.
28.9.2013
Lecture in the Night of Mathematics in the Heureka science center. Joukkoäly (The wisdom of crowds)
25.4.2013
University of Helsinki mathematics students' seminar. Why is it hard to define a good product in the euclidean space?
15.11.2012
Askola HS science days. Mathematical cryptography and Tic-Tac-Toe on a torus.
22.9.2012
A short appearance in a Finnish TV show called Puoli Seitsemän to calculate some probabilities connected to sports.
13.10.2011
University of Helsinki mathematics students' seminar. On the fundamental groups of manifolds.
19.10.2010
Summammutikka-club. Prime numbers and cryptography.
21.10.2009
University of Helsinki mathematics students' seminar. Quasihyperbolic metric.

Career advice talks

5.6.2024
Guest on the Manifold Solutions podcast discussing the transition from the academical world to the private sector.
20.5.2024
Guest lecture at the Kulosaari high school AI-course.
11.10.2022
Panel discussion in the course "Introduction to Data Science" at the University of Helsinki.
28.10.2021
Panel discussion at the AGENT forum, Espoo.
21.4.2021
University of Jyväskylä Analysis seminar.
8.4.2021
Guest lecture at the Academical Skills course at the University of Helsinki.
19.3.2021
Graduate student seminar at the University of Jyväskylä.

Scientific math talks

22.5.2019
Analysis seminar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
16.5.2019
Analysis seminar at the Stony Brook University, USA.
15.7.2018
Geometric Function Theory in Fluid Mechanics, Barcelona, Spain.
9.7.2018
Nonlinear Analysis, Function Spaces and Applications, Prague, Czechia.
3.7.2018
New Developments in Complex Analysis and Function Theory, Heraklion, Greece.
24.4.2018
UCLA participating analysis seminar, USA.
19.4.2018
Analysis seminar at UIUC, USA.
8.12.2017
Analysis seminar at UIUC, USA.
13.10.2017
Leipzig-Prague weekend meeting, Labská Stráň, Czech Republic.
2017-2018
Several talks at the Charles University Function Spaces Seminar, Prague, Czechia.
8.&15.11.2016
UCLA participating analysis seminar, USA.
11.7.2016
Geometric analysis on Riemannian and singular metric spaces, Como, Italy.
27.4.2016
Seminar at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
11.2.2016
Analysis & PDE seminar at Pittsburgh University, USA.
4.2.2016
Analysis seminar at UIUC, USA.
15.10.2015
GFT meets GGT -conference, IMPAN, Warsaw.
6.5.2015
ICMAT, Madrid, Research Term on Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces.
2013-2017
Several talks at University of Jyväskylä Analysis Seminar.
2013-2017
Several talks at Aalto University Analysis and Geometry seminar.
2013-2017
Several talks at Helsinki University seminar of geometric analysis.