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Kaisa (name)
Kaisa is a Finnish and Estonian feminine given name, a diminutive of Katherine and its variants, and may refer to: *Kaisa Korhonen (born 1941), Finnish writer * Kaisa Leka (born 1978), Finnish artist and politician *Kaisa Mäkäräinen (born 1983), Finnish biathlete *Kaisa Miettinen (born 1965), Finnish mathematician *Kaisa Nyberg, Finnish cryptographer *Kaisa Pajusalu (born 1989), Estonian rower *Kaisa Parviainen (1914–2002), Finnish javelin thrower *Anna-Kaisa Rantanen (born 1978), Finnish association football player *Kaisa Roose (born 1969), Estonian conductor *Sanna-Kaisa Saari (born 1987), Finnish beauty pageant *Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (born 1979), Finnish cross country skier *Kaisa Sere (1954–2012), Finnish computer scientist *Kaisa Varis (born 1975), Finnish cross country skier and biathlete See also *Kajsa Kajsa is a Swedish feminine given name. Initially, Kajsa, Kaisa or Cajsa was a variation of the name Karin, in turn a variation of the name ''Katarina'' (Catherine). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Miettinen
Kaisa Miettinen is a Finnish mathematician and the former vice rector of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. She is a professor of industrial optimization with the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In addition, she heads the Multiobjective Optimization Group (former name Industrial Optimization Group). Her research interests include multiobjective optimization (theory, methods, and software), multiple-criteria decision making, nonlinear programming, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid approaches, data-driven decision support, decision analytics as well as various applications of optimization. Education Miettinen received her Master of Science degree in mathematics in 1988, her Licentiate of Philosophy degree in mathematical information technology in 1990, and her PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) degree in mathematical information technology in 1994, all from the University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. Career Since 1987, Miettinen h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Varis
Kaisa Varis (born 21 September 1975, in Ilomantsi) is a Finnish retired cross-country skier and biathlete. Her career has been marred by doping convictions: as a cross-country skier, she was involved but not suspended in a doping scandal and in 2003 she was suspended two years for doping use. After her suspension, she returned as a biathlete in 2007, but in 2008 she received a lifetime ban from all International Biathlon Union (IBU) competitions after another positive doping test. However, her lifetime ban was overturned in March 2009 because the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the IBU failed to adhere to correct testing procedures; she remains eligible to compete in biathlon. Career Cross-country skiing In cross-country skiing, Varis competed from 1995 to 2006. Her biggest success was the win of the bronze medal in the 15 km at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, but she is better known for her doping controversies at those championships: Varis was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Sere
Kaisa Sere (3 June 1954 – 5 December 2012) was a Finnish computer scientist, specialising in research into formal methods. Kaisa Sere was born 3 June 1954 in Gamlakarleby. She received an MSc in mathematics in 1979 and a PhD in computer science in 1990, both from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, southern Finland. She undertook formal methods research in action systems, distributed systems, hardware design, neural networks, and program refinement. She undertook joint research with Ralph-Johan Back and was involved in many collaborative European research projects. She also supervised 19 PhD students. During 1984–5, Sere was a lecturer at Ohio State University in the United States. During 1991–2, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. During 1993–8, she held an Associate Professorship at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the University of Kuopio in Finland. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen
Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (born 1 February 1979) is a retired Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the World Cup between 1998 and 2018. With 354 individual World Cup starts, Saarinen is the current record holder for both men and women, with Stefanie Böhler in second place with 343. Career Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won three bronze medals with one in 2006 (Team sprint) and two in 2010 (30 km, 4 × 5 km relay). Saarinen also won six medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with four golds (Team sprint: 2009, 10 km: 2009, 4 × 5 km relay: 2007, 2009) and two bronze (7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit: 2009, 10 km: 2011). She has six individual victories in FIS races since 2002, but did not win her first World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanna-Kaisa Saari
Sanna-Kaisa Saari (born 3 October 1987) is a Swedish and Finnish beauty pageant titleholder. Saari represented Sweden at 2009 in China where she was 2nd runner-up in the Miss Charm special award. She also represented Sweden at Miss Tourism International 2010 in Malaysia. She represented Finland in the Top Model of the World 2010 in Germany. She was also a finalist in the Finnish pageant in 2012, then was later appointed Miss Grand Finland 2014 to compete at the Miss Grand International 2014 in Thailand, but was unplaced. In 2019, she started as a Finnish presenter of the mobile game show ''Primetime''. Early and personal life Saari was born in Ekenäs, Finland Ekenäs (; fi, Tammisaari ) is a town and former municipality in Finland that comprised the former municipalities of Snappertuna and Tenala together with the town of Ekenäs. It was merged with Pohja and Karis to form the new municipality of Ras .... In 2011, Saari moved back to Finland from Sweden, where she had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Roose
Kaisa Roose ( Music Conductor) was born in Tallinn, Estonia on 15 April 1969. At the age of six she began studying piano at the Tallinn School of Music. In 1987 she was admitted to the Tallinn Conservatoire, where she studied choir conducting, taking her degree in 1992. The following year Kaisa Roose was admitted to The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where she studied orchestra conducting. She completed her studies there and took her degree in 1997 and gave her debut concert with the Danish Odense Symphony Orchestra. The same year Kaisa Roose was awarded the Grethe Kolbe Grant for promising young conductors. The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen engaged Kaisa Roose at the age of 28 to perform a modern ballet written by Kim Helweg, "Cupid and Psyche" ("Amor og Psyke"). Her success in this was a turning point in her career that led to a three-year contract as a conductor at the Theater. During her career, Kaisa Roose has conducted all the Danish regional orchestras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna-Kaisa Rantanen
Anna-Kaisa Rantanen (born 10 February 1978) is a Finnish former football midfielder, who most recently played for Klepp IL of the Norwegian Toppserien. Career Rantanen previously played for HJK Helsinki in the Naisten Liiga, Linköping FC, Djurgårdens IF and Jitex BK in the Swedish Damallsvenskan, and VfL Wolfsburg in the German Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba .... She is a member of the Finnish national team since 1996, taking part in the 2005 and 2009 European Championships. She scored Finland's first goal in a final tournament. Rantanen announced her retirement from football in early 2014 after spending two seasons in Norway with Klepp. She later agreed to play on an informal basis for local minnows Randaberg IL. Titles * 3 Finnish Leagues (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Parviainen
Katri "Kaisa" Vellamo Parviainen (3 December 1914 – 21 October 2002) was a Finnish athlete. She competed in the javelin throw at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1948, finishing 16th in 1952; in 1948 she also placed 13th in the long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a .... References 1914 births 2002 deaths People from Juankoski People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish female javelin throwers Olympic athletes for Finland Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Finland Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from North Savo {{Finland-athl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Pajusalu
Kaisa Pajusalu (born 19 February 1989, in Pärnu, Estonia) is a former Estonian rower. Rowing career She has won two medals at the Junior World Championship in the double sculls event with Jevgenia Rõndina. In 2009 and 2010 Pajusalu also won a silver medal at the U23 World Championships in the single sculls event. She is also a four-time World champion ". C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints. Retrieved on 20 February 2012. and four-time European champion in indoor rowing and a multiple winner of the ALFA indoor rowing competition. Achievements *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Nyberg
Kaisa Nyberg is a Finnish cryptographer and computer security researcher. Contributions Nyberg's research includes the theory of perfect nonlinear S-boxes (now known as Nyberg S-boxes), provably secure block cipher design (resulting in KN-Cipher, and the cryptanalysis of the stream ciphers E0 and SNOW. Education and career Nyberg received her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1980 from the University of Helsinki. Her dissertation, ''On Subspaces of Products of Nuclear Fréchet Spaces'', was in topology, and was supervised by Edward Leonard Dubinsky. Nyberg began doing cryptography research for the Finnish Defence Forces in 1987, and moved to Nokia in 1998. She became professor of cryptology at Aalto University School of Science Aalto University ( fi, Aalto-yliopisto; sv, Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the He ... in 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaisa Mäkäräinen
Kaisa Leena Mäkäräinen (born 11 January 1983) is a Finnish former world-champion and 3-time world-cup-winning biathlete, who currently competes for Kontiolahden Urheilijat. Outside sports, Mäkäräinen is currently studying to be a Physics teacher at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu. Her team coach is Jonne Kähkönen, while Jarmo Punkkinen is her ski coach. Career Mäkäräinen was originally a cross-country skier and focused on this until the age of twenty. She started training for the biathlon in 2003. In 2004, she made the Finnish National Team. 2005 saw Mäkäräinen compete at the Biathlon World Championships for the first time. Her best placings in the Biathlon World Championships have occurred at the 2007 World Championships in Antholz-Anterselva, where she placed eighth in the individual 15 and seventh in the mass start events. At the 2008 Biathlon World Championships in Östersund, she was 15th in the mass start. During the 2007-08 Biathlon World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
