Calendar

WASP Winter Conference 2024

January 9th · Internal event

Learning Theory 2024 (Module 1)

January 18th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Synergies between Policy Learning and Sampling-based Planning

January 30th, 15:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Learning and Optimizing Camera Pose

February 2nd, 13:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Learning with Skill-based Robot Systems: Combining Planning & Knowledge Representation with Reinforcement Learning

February 2nd, 10:00 · Defense

Mathematics for Machine learning 2024 (Module 1)

February 8th, 10:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

Learning Theory 2024 (Module 2)

February 20th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Machine learning for anomaly detection in edge clouds

February 23rd, 09:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Equivariant Neural Networks for Biomedical Image Analysis

March 1st, 13:15 · Defense

Mathematics for Machine learning 2024 (Module 2)

March 6th, 10:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: State estimation with auto-calibrated sensor setup

March 8th, 13:00 · Defense

Winter Conference in Statistics 2024

March 10th · External event

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2024 (Module 1)

March 14th, 10:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Combinatorial Semi-Bandit Methods for Navigation of Electric Vehicles

March 15th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Evaluating and Improving Rendered Visual Experiences: Metrics, Compression, Higher Frame Rates & Recoloring

March 15th, 13:15 · Defense

Learning Theory 2024 (Module 3)

March 20th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Introduction to logic for AI 2024

March 25th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Single Base Station mmWave Radio Positioning, Mapping, and SLAM

April 8th, 10:00 · Defense

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2024 (Module 1)

April 9th, 09:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2024 (Module 1)

April 11th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Robot Learning for Deformable Object Manipulation Tasks

April 12th, 10:00 · Defense

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of AI and Autonomous Systems 2024

April 15th · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Mandatory course, WASP Course

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2024 (Module 2)

May 16th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP4ALL 2024

May 23rd, 10:00 · External event

PhD Defense: Algorithms and Models in Nanopore DNA Sequencing: Advanced Decoding and Modeling with Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models

May 24th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Dividing the Indivisible: Algorithms, Empirical Advances, and Complexity Results for Value-Maximizing Combinatorial Assignment Problems

May 28th, 09:15 · Defense

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2024 (Module 2)

May 30th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Artificial Intelligence for Medical Image Analysis with Limited Data

May 30th, 13:00 · Defense

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2024 (Module 3)

June 3rd, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: On Infinite-Domain CSPs Parameterized by Solution Cost

June 3rd, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Bathymetric Surveying Through Neural Inverse Sonar Modeling

June 5th, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Control Strategies for Physical Human—Robot Collaboration

June 7th, 10:15 · Defense

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2024 (Module 2)

June 11th, 09:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Beyond Recognition: Privacy Protections in a Surveilled World

June 12th, 09:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Machine Learning Methods for Image-based Phenotypic Profiling in Early Drug Discovery

June 12th, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Learning, reasoning, and compositional generalisation in multimodal language models

June 13th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Control Synthesis for Multi-Agent Systems under Coupled Signal Temporal Logic Tasks: A Top-Down Model Predictive Approach

June 14th, 15:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Dynamic rEvolution: Adaptive state estimation via Gaussian processes and iterative filtering

June 14th, 09:30 · Defense

PhD Defense: On Deep Learning for Low-Dimensional Representations

June 14th, 09:15 · Defense

Thematic Summer School on Embodied AI 2024

June 24th, 11:30 · Summer School

Joint Summer School on Generative AI 2024

August 12th · Summer School

Reinforcement Learning 2024 (6hp), Online information meeting

August 19th, 13:00 · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Synthesis and Repair for Functional Programming: A Type- and Test-Driven Approach

August 23rd, 15:00 · Defense

2024 WASP-WISE symposium on Machine Learning for Materials and Molecular Discoveries

August 26th · External event

WASP Community Building Summer School 2024

August 26th · Summer School

Reinforcement Learning 2024 (6hp), Module 1

September 2nd · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Autonomous Systems 2024 (6hp), Module 1

September 9th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Learning When To Drive in Uncertain Scenarios: A deep Q-learning approach

September 10th, 10:00 · Defense

PhD defense: Disturbance-Aware Motion Planning and Control of Unmanned Aerial and Surface Vehicles

September 13th, 10:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Modelling and analysis of multi-scale networks

September 13th, 13:00 · Defense

Learning Feature Representations 2024 (6hp), Module 1

September 16th, 09:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WARA-PS Demonstration Week 2024

September 16th · Research Arena Workshop

WASP International Study Trip to Canada

September 21st · International / National Study Trip

WASP International Study Trip to Italy

September 21st · International / National Study Trip

PhD Defense: Advancing Federated Learning: Algorithms and use cases

September 23rd, 13:00 · Defense

WASP International Study Trip to Germany

September 23rd · International / National Study Trip

PhD Defense: Equivariant deep learning with applications in computer vision

September 26th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Exploiting Sparsity In Parameter Estimation And Input Design

September 26th, 10:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Spherical NeurO(n)s for Geometric Deep Learning

September 27th, 10:15 · Defense

Scalable Data Science and Distributed ML 2024 (6hp), Module 1

October 1st · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP International Study Trip to Japan

October 5th · International / National Study Trip

Reinforcement Learning 2024 (6hp), Module 2

October 7th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Predictive and Vision-based Control for Multi-Agent Aerial and Space Systems

October 8th, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Learning Robot Vision under Insufficient Data

October 11th, 10:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Minimax Adaptive Control and Estimation

October 11th, 09:15 · Defense

Learning Feature Representations 2024 (6hp), Module 2

October 21st · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP Academia and Industry Days 2024

October 24th, 08:30 · External event

PhD Defense: Perspectives on Predictive and Annotation Uncertainty in Probabilistic Machine Learning

October 25th, 09:00 · Defense

Scalable Data Science and Distributed ML 2024 (6hp), Module 2

October 31st · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: From Chance to Choice: Strategies to Attaining Resilience in Cyber-Physical Systems

December 2nd, 13:00 · Defense

High-dimensional statistics and optimization (6hp), Module 3

December 3rd, 11:15 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Learning Feature Representations 2024 (6hp), Module 3

December 5th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Motion Estimation from Temporally and Spatially Sparse Medical Image Sequences

December 5th, 09:15 · Defense

Reinforcement Learning 2024 (6hp), Module 4

December 9th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Augmenting Test Oracles with Production Observations

December 13th, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Pedestrian Behavior Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods

December 17th, 13:00 · Defense

Scalable Data Science and Distributed ML 2024 (6hp), Module 3

December 17th · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP Winter Conference 2026

January 13th · Internal event

Learning Theory 2026 (Module 1)

January 20th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Introduction to Mathematics for Machine Learning 2026 (4hp), Moudle 1

February 4th, 10:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2026 (Module 1)

February 16th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Learning Theory 2026 (Module 2)

March 3rd · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Introduction to Mathematics for Machine Learning 2026 (4hp), Moudle 2

March 4th, 10:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

Planning and Relational Learning 2026 (6hp), Module 1

March 5th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of AI and Autonomous Systems 2026 (3hp)

March 11th, 13:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Mandatory course, WASP Course

International study trip to Singapore

March 21st · International / National Study Trip

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2026 (Module 1)

March 30th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Introduction to Logic for AI 2026

March 30th · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

Learning Theory 2026 (Module 3)

April 14th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

International study trip to Northern Great Britain, (Edinburgh & Leeds)

April 18th · International / National Study Trip

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2026 (Module 2)

April 27th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Planning and Relational Learning 2026 (6hp), Module 2

April 27th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2026 (Module 2)

May 7th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Planning and Relational Learning 2026 (6hp), Module 3

May 18th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course

Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing 2026 (Module 3)

June 4th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course