Associate professor
vosalo(at)utu.fi
University of Turku, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Main Mathematical Interests (in mostly random order)

• dynamical systems, mostly symbolic dynamics, subshifts, tiling systems and cellular automata.
• groups, automorphism groups, geometric group theory
• automata theory, picture-walking automata
• measure theory, ergodic theory, ergodic Ramsey theory
• general topology, algebraic topology, geometry, algebraic geometry
• universal algebra and lattice theory
• category theory, combinatorics, graph theory, descriptive set theory, recursion theory, complexity theory, matroids, vector spaces

Teaching Activity

• Lebesguen mitta ja integraali (Lebesgue measure and integral), fall 2023.
• Logiikka (Logic), spring 2023.
• Topologian perusteet (Basic topology), fall 2022.
• Cellular automata, spring 2022.
• Topologian perusteet (Basic topology), fall 2019.
• Symbolic dynamics II, spring 2019.
• Johdatus automaattien teoriaan (Introduction to automata theory), spring 2018.
• Cellular automata, spring 2018.
• Algoritminen matematiikka (Algorithmic mathematics), spring 2017.
• Johdatus automaattien teoriaan (Introduction to automata theory), spring 2017.

Other things

• My math blog
• Programming and programming languages
  • Game programming, play Conway's Soldiers here.
  • Implementing esoteric programming languages and programming in them
• Music
• Learning natural languages.
  • Fluent Finnish, English. Ok Spanish.
  • Studied Swedish and German at school. I read these relatively fluently.
  • I currently study Japanese, Russian and French, sort of.
• mathoverflow
  • When not doing math, I do mathoverflow. Totally different.