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That temperature was already reach in the Otaniemi cold lab:
http://physics.aalto.fi/en/groups/uki/research/world_record_in_low_temperatures/

...and this took place already back in year 2000.

That temperature was already reach in the Otaniemi cold lab:
http://physics.aalto.fi/en/groups/uki/research/world_record_in_low_temperatures/

Here's the man's dissertation: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/hand.... Check that first, then jump to conclusions...

Something that surprises me is that we're so obsessed with the exact positioning of things on Earth but at great exo-solar distances, we seem to be okay with measurements to the nearest million light years. A couple days ago I read about a new method devised to measure location to within a few hundred meters of something 200 million kilometers away from Earth and it struck me as odd that more effort isn't put into this. While the practicality of Earthbound work is far greater, the implications for physics and verifying theories seems to be an obvious benefit for better positional measurements in space. I know satellites and objects near Earth are heavily measured but why isn't there more attention paid to precision of deep space objects? What problems prevent sensor fusion from being applied to space? Too much noise? No way to actually verify your results?

The video is quite rude, none of the Finnish (or other US?) students are even mentioned.

Here is the Altoo University's description of the project:
  In English,
  in Swedish
  and in Finnish.

None of the Stanford students is mentioned by name, but at least Altoo University emphasis the large team involved.

I will never understand the USian need of single out a few individuals in a team as "heroes", "leaders" or "representatives", but then I'm from a less stratified society with a very different (less hierarchical/authoritarian, more cooperative) view of how to accomplish goals. No, I'm not Finnish, Finland (companies and government included) embrace the most authoritarian culture in Scandinavia (on the other end of the spectrum is Sweden with almost anarchistic/libertarian social structures, wouldn't work at all in USA where the sense of social duty (including following rules put up by a majority) and honour is less pronounced), but they don't even come close to US and the hierarchies is always much more shallow then in USA, e.g. usually it is only 3-7 levels from the top boss to the lowest grunt, even in a Finnish multi billion dollar company (a scale could look something like this, from most authoritarian society, to the least, Japan-China-USA-GB-Germany (Germany have changed a lot the last decades)-Finland-Netherlands-Sweden (I avoid mentioning Eastern European countries, since the official chain of command in those countries are very different from the real world social structures)).

The video is quite rude, none of the Finnish (or other US?) students are even mentioned.

Here is the Altoo University's description of the project:
  In English,
  in Swedish
  and in Finnish.

None of the Stanford students is mentioned by name, but at least Altoo University emphasis the large team involved.

I will never understand the USian need of single out a few individuals in a team as "heroes", "leaders" or "representatives", but then I'm from a less stratified society with a very different (less hierarchical/authoritarian, more cooperative) view of how to accomplish goals. No, I'm not Finnish, Finland (companies and government included) embrace the most authoritarian culture in Scandinavia (on the other end of the spectrum is Sweden with almost anarchistic/libertarian social structures, wouldn't work at all in USA where the sense of social duty (including following rules put up by a majority) and honour is less pronounced), but they don't even come close to US and the hierarchies is always much more shallow then in USA, e.g. usually it is only 3-7 levels from the top boss to the lowest grunt, even in a Finnish multi billion dollar company (a scale could look something like this, from most authoritarian society, to the least, Japan-China-USA-GB-Germany (Germany have changed a lot the last decades)-Finland-Netherlands-Sweden (I avoid mentioning Eastern European countries, since the official chain of command in those countries are very different from the real world social structures)).

The video is quite rude, none of the Finnish (or other US?) students are even mentioned.

Here is the Altoo University's description of the project:
  In English,
  in Swedish
  and in Finnish.

None of the Stanford students is mentioned by name, but at least Altoo University emphasis the large team involved.

I will never understand the USian need of single out a few individuals in a team as "heroes", "leaders" or "representatives", but then I'm from a less stratified society with a very different (less hierarchical/authoritarian, more cooperative) view of how to accomplish goals. No, I'm not Finnish, Finland (companies and government included) embrace the most authoritarian culture in Scandinavia (on the other end of the spectrum is Sweden with almost anarchistic/libertarian social structures, wouldn't work at all in USA where the sense of social duty (including following rules put up by a majority) and honour is less pronounced), but they don't even come close to US and the hierarchies is always much more shallow then in USA, e.g. usually it is only 3-7 levels from the top boss to the lowest grunt, even in a Finnish multi billion dollar company (a scale could look something like this, from most authoritarian society, to the least, Japan-China-USA-GB-Germany (Germany have changed a lot the last decades)-Finland-Netherlands-Sweden (I avoid mentioning Eastern European countries, since the official chain of command in those countries are very different from the real world social structures)).

There is no Helsinki University of Technology. We are the Aalto University. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

Anyhow, the Otaniemi Exam Archive is entirely unofficial, but it should be noted that it is generally considered futile in Finland to try to keep exam questions secret after the exam. Technically, I suppose this violates the copyright of whoever wrote the exam (assuming exam questions can be copyrighted), but nobody seems to care, and I've seen several professors themselves go through previous exams to prepare students.