Community Building Summer School is intended to introduce new PhD students to the program WASP. This year’s Community Building Summer School will take place during week 35 in Linköping.
Participant Information
Mandatory
Class 2025
Practical information
PhD Students are responsible for booking their own tickets and accommodation.
Program
Monday 2025-08-25: Campus Valla, Linköping
10:00 – 11:00
START OF SUMMER SCHOOL: Coffee & Welcome kit hand-out
WASP Program Office
11:00 – 11:30
Welcome and introduction about CBSS, Stephanie Lowry (ORU)
Short film about the WASP Graduate School
Introduction to WASP Graduate School, Daniel Axehill, LiU
11:30 – 12:00
PhD Student perspective
Karol Wojtulewicz, LiU PhD Student Council Chair
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Presentation from WASP Program Office – Communication
Natalie Pintar, WASP Program Office
13:30 – 14:30
Brief presentation of the WASP research areas (15 min* 4)
Autonomous Systems: Karl-Erik Årzén, LU
AI/Math: Holger Rootzén, CTH
AI/MLX: Thomas Schön, UU
Software: Robert Feldt, CTH
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:00
Panel discussion WASP research areas-
Moderator: Stephanie Lowry
16:00 – 16:30
Experience sharing by WASP graduates of 2025
Rishi Hazra (Digital)
Georg Hess
17:00 – 18:00
Mingle
Tuesday 2025-08-26: Campus Valla, Linköping
09:00 – 10:00
Lecture: Structure in noisy network data: Fiona Skerman
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30
Group exercises
Fiona Skerman
11:30 – 12:30
Lunch
12:30 – 13:30
Presentation of results of the group exercises
14:00 – 17:00
Parallel company visits
Qualcomm
Sectra
The National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC)
Wednesday- 2025-08-27: Campus Valla, Linköping
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture: Robot planning and behavior trees
Petter Ögren, KTH
10:30- 11:00
Coffee break
11:00- 12:00
Group exercises
Petter Ögren, KTH
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 16:00
DIG workshop
16:00 – 17:00
WASP-WARA Overview: Caroline Sturesson, LiU
WARA PS Presentation: Jesper Tordenlid , Combitech
17:00 – 17:30
Presentation of WASP Clusters: Core technology Clusters
Elias Nyholm, CTH
Stefan Stojanovic, KTH
18:00 – 19:30
Dinner at Universitetsklubben
Thursday 2025-08-28: Visualization Center C, Norrköping
08:30- 09:30
Bus to Norrköping
09:30- 10:00
Data Visualization – an introduction
Martin Falk, Linköping University
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30
Data Visualization – an introduction
Martin Falk, Linköping University
12:30- 13:30
Lunch
13:30- 14:30
Dome Show: Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University
14:30- 15:00
Coffee
15:15
Bus to Linköping
Friday 2025-08-29: Campus Valla, Linköping
Lecture: Sovereign Scalable Data Engineering Sciences & Distributed Machine Learning Operations (SovScaDesDisMaLOps) Raazesh Sainudiin, VakeWorks AB.
URL: https://vake.works/SovScaDesDisMaLOps/2025/book/
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30
Raazesh Sainudiin (continued lectures)
11:30 – 12:00
Jim Dowling from Logical Clocks AB on Sovereign Operations
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 15:30
Group exercises and discussions including fika: Raazesh Sainudiin and Alfred Lindström, VakeWorks AB.
15:30 – 16:00
Concluding remarks
Moderator: Stephanie Lowry
