Monthly Meeting

Welcome to our September Monthly Meeting!

The meeting will feature engaging scientific presentations and topical discussions.

The meeting will be held on 21 September 2026 at 17:15 at the House of the Estates, Room 15, Snellmaninkatu 9–11, 00170 Helsinki.

Due to the security regulations of the House of the Estates, advance registration is required, and participants must present proof of identity.

All those wishing to attend the meeting are asked to register by Wednesday, 16 September 2026.

You can register for the meeting by email at societas@scientiarum.fi or by phone at 050 435 5742.

The Monthly Meeting is conducted in Swedish and Finnish.

Programme

Memorial address for Professor Maijaliisa Rauste-von Wright
The memorial address will be given by Erika Löfström.

Memorial address for Professor Klaus Törnudd
The memorial address will be given by Jan Sundberg.

Presentation by Mikko Karttunen: Itsevarmasti väärässä: kenttäopas uuteen tutkimusapulaiseesi

Mikko Karttunen is Professor of Computational Engineering at the University of Eastern Finland and has been a researcher at ELLIS Institute Finland since September 2025. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1999. His research has focused on biomaterials, materials and artificial intelligence. Mikko Karttunen was elected a member of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters in 2025.

Confidently Wrong: A Field Guide to Your New Research Assistant

Every lab now has a collaborator who works around the clock, reads faster than anyone, and occasionally invents a citation with total conviction. This talk looks at where AI genuinely accelerates research work – literature triage, code, first drafts, data wrangling – and where it quietly manufactures problems you won’t notice until reviewer two does. Some real examples, a few cautionary tales, and a practical rule of thumb for deciding when a machine’s output is a starting point and when it’s a liability.