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.

Invitations are sent out to Class 2025 PhD students.

Detailed Information about the summer school will be continuously updated below.

Participant Information

Mandatory

Class 2025

Practical information

PhD Students are responsible for booking their own tickets and accommodation.

Program (preliminary)

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)
AI/Math: Holger Rootzén, CTH
AI/MLX: Thomas Schön, UU
Software: Robert Feldt, CTH
Autonomous Systems: Karl-Erik Årzén, LU

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 – 10:00
Lecture: Robot planning and behavior trees
Petter Ögren, KTH
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 – 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

Thursday 2025-08-28: Visualization Center C, Norrköping

08:00 – 09:00
Bus to Norrköping

09:00 – 10:00
Data Visualization – an introduction
Martin Falk, Linköping University

10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00
Data Visualization – an introduction
Martin Falk, Linköping University

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch

13:00 – 15:00
Dome Show: Anders Ynnerman

15:00 – 16:00
Bus to Linköping

Friday 2025-08-29: Campus Valla, Linköping

09:00 – 10:00
Lecture: Sovereign Scalable Data Engineering Sciences & Distributed Machine Learning Operations (SovScaDesDisMaLOps) Raazesh Sainudiin, VakeWorks AB. URL: https://github.com/VakeWorks/SovScaDesDisMaLOps
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 – 15:00
Group exercises including fika: Raazesh Sainudiin, UU
15:00 – 15:30
Sovereign Deployment: Jim Dowling / Group exercises: Raazesh Sainudiin
15:30 – 16:00
Concluding remarks
Moderator: Stephanie Lowry
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