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Dec

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 2

December 3rd – 5th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

13

Jan

WASP Winter Conference 2026

January 13th – 15th · Internal event

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December

Advanced Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 3

December 1st – 2nd · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 2

December 3rd – 5th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

January

WASP Winter Conference 2026

January 13th – 15th · Internal event

Learning Theory 2026 (Module 1)

January 20th – 21st · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

February

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

February 4th – 5th · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2026 (Module 1)

February 16th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

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January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

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

June

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

July

August

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

September

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

October

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

November

PhD Defense: Grounding in Context: Studies in Robot Language Grounding in Real-world Contexts

November 1st, 13:00 · Defense

High-dimensional statistics and optimization (6hp), Module 1

November 4th, 11:15 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Navigating Data Privacy and Tools: A Strategic Perspective

November 4th, 09:15 · Defense

Reinforcement Learning 2024 (6hp), Module 3

November 4th · AI Prioritized, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Order-Picking Optimization as a Service

November 7th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Enhancing DevOps with Autonomous Monitors: A Proactive Approach to Failure Detection

November 8th, 09:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Robust and generalizable AI for medical image processing

November 8th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Critical Scenario Identification for Testing of Realistic Autonomous Driving Systems

November 15th, 09:15 · Defense

High-dimensional statistics and optimization (6hp), Module 2

November 19th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Towards Declarative Specification of Static Analysis for Programming Tools

November 22nd, 13:15 · Defense

Autonomous Systems 2024 (6hp), Module 2

November 25th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Geometric Deep Learning for Medical Image Processing Problems

November 29th, 09:00 · Defense

December

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

January

PhD Defense: Methods for brain MRI image synthesis and analysis

January 10th, 13:00 · Defense

WASP Winter Conference 2025

January 14th · Internal event

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 1[New WASP course]

January 29th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Convergence and Stability Analysis of Stochastic Optimization Algorithms

January 31st, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Radio Channel Characterization for Distributed MIMO

January 31st, 09:15 · Defense

February

Introduction to Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (4hp), Moudle 1

February 6th · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Machine Learning for Perception and Localization: Efficient and Invariant Methods

February 7th, 13:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Personalized Models and Optimization in Federated Learning

February 12th, 09:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Addressing Shortcomings of Explainable Machine Learning Methods

February 13th, 13:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Towards Zero Bottlenecks for Scaling Autonomous Driving

February 28th, 13:15 · Defense

March

Introduction to Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (4hp), Moudle 2

March 5th · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: On the Trustworthiness of Trusted Third Parties

March 7th · Defense

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of AI and Autonomous Systems 2025 (3hp)

March 11th, 10:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Mandatory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Efficient Strategies for Safety Assurance of Automated Driving Systems

March 12th, 13:15 · Defense

PhD Defense: Local Learning Rules for Deep Neural Networks with Two-State Neurons

March 13th, 14:00 · Defense

PhD Defense: Bayesian Optimization Across the Spectrum of Knowledge: Enhancing Efficiency through Beliefs, Information and Assumptions

March 17th, 13:15 · Defense

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2025 (Module 1)

March 19th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: On Performance Guarantees for Systems with Conic Constraints

March 21st · Defense

Introduction to Logic for AI 2025

March 24th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Introductory, Joint Curriculum Introductory course, WASP Course

PhD Defense: Learning and Exploiting Subgoal Structures in Classical Planning

March 24th, 09:15 · Defense

Deep Learning 2025 (Module 1)

March 26th · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 2 [New WASP course]

March 26th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

PhD defense: Human-Centric Control Design for Safe & Connected Vehicles

March 27th, 09:00 · Defense

PhD defense: Human-Centric Control Design for Safe & Connected Vehicles

March 27th, 09:00 · Defense

PhD defense: Adaptive Measurement Strategies for Network Optimization and Control

March 28th, 10:00 · Defense

PhD defense: Towards Reliable Deep Foundation Models in OOD detection, model calibration, and hallucination mitigation

March 31st, 14:00 · Defense

April

PhD Defense: Coordination for safe interactions of connected and automated vehicles on highways and intersections

April 4th, 14:00 · Defense

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2025 (Module 1)

April 8th, 09:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Deep Learning 2025 (Module 2)

April 23rd, 12:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Interaction, Collaboration, and Visualization 2025 (Module 1)

April 24th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

May

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2025 (Module 2)

May 15th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Interaction, Collaboration, and Visualization 2025 (Module 2)

May 26th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

AI and Patents – How can AI be patented?

May 27th, 17:45 ·

Interested in WASP’s Industrial Postdoc and PhD Student calls? Join our webinar to learn more!

May 27th, 10:00 · Internal event

June

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2025 (Module 2)

June 11th, 09:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Joint Summer School on Resilience and Regulation

June 23rd · Summer School

July

August

Thematic Summer school on Rethinking and Rescaling LLMs

August 18th · Summer School

WASP Community Building Summer School 2025

August 25th · Summer School

September

Networking event with WARA Medicine

September 3rd, 12:00 · Internal event

Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 1

September 4th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Interaction, Collaboration, and Visualization 2025 (Module 3)

September 4th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Are you interested in a career outside academia? Welcome to a webinar for WASP PhD:s and PostDocs

September 10th, 15:00 · Seminar

Advanced Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 1

September 17th, 12:00 · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Graphical Models and Bayesian Learning 2025 (6hp), Preparatory lecture- Graph theory (Zoom)

September 17th, 09:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Graphical Models and Bayesian Learning 2025 (6hp), Preparatory lecture-Probability theory (Zoom)

September 18th, 09:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP Workshop on Diversity and Inclusion in Academia

September 19th, 13:00 · Diversity and Inclusion group

Topological Data Analysis 2025 (Module 1)

September 22nd · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

WASP International Study Trip to Los Angeles

September 27th · International / National Study Trip

October

WASP Academia & Industry Days 2025

October 6th, 11:00 · External event

WASP International Study Trip to the Netherlands

October 6th · International / National Study Trip

Graphical Models and Bayesian Learning 2025 (6hp), Module 1

October 13th, 12:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Topological Data Analysis 2025 (Module 2)

October 16th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Advanced Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 2

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

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 1

October 27th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

November

Topological Data Analysis 2025 (Module 3)

November 17th · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

Graphical Models and Bayesian Learning 2025 (6hp), Module 2

November 19th, 12:00 · AI Mandatory Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Advanced course, WASP Course

Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 2

November 24th, 11:30 · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

December

Advanced Autonomous Systems 2025 (6hp), Module 3

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

Mathematics for Machine Learning 2025 (6hp) Module 2

December 3rd · AI Elective Course, AS Elective Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course, WASP Course

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

Learning Theory 2026 (Module 3)

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

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2026 (Module 1)

April 14th · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational 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

May

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2026 (Module 2)

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

Research Opportunities at the Intersection of Society, Life Sciences, and Technology, Joint Conference

May 7th · External event

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

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

June

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

Software Engineering and Cloud Computing 2026 (Module 2)

June 10th · AI Elective Course, AS Mandatory Course, Joint Curriculum Foundational course

July

August

September

October

November

December