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 to class 2026 PhD students.
In‑Person Week (24th-28th aug).
Practical information
PhD Students are responsible for booking their own tickets and accommodation.
- Keynote/plenary speeches
- Introduction to WASP and WASP Graduate School
- Company visit
- Lectures
- Discussions
- Workshops
- Social activities
Program
Monday, August 24
Venue: B-huset, Ada Lovelace, LiU, Campus Valla
09.30 Start of summer school, coffee and welcome kit
10.30 Opening and Welcome. Introduction about CBSS and WASP Graduate School
11.00 PhD Student Perspective – Student Council
11.30 Presentation from WASP Program office
11.45 Lunch, Universitetsklubben
13.00 WASP Research areas Coffee break
15.00 “Explain your research in one minute”, Anders Sahlman
16.30 Social activity and finger foods,
Venue: Nexus
Tuesday, August 25
Venue: Visualiseringscenter, Norrköping
08.15 Gathering at Vallfarten, LiU Campus Valla
08.30 Bus transport to Norrköping
09.30 Dome show, Anders Ynnerman, Linköping University
Coffee break
11.00 Data Visualization an introduction, Martin Falk, Linköping University
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Data Visualization an introduction
Coffee break
15.15 Bus transport to Linköping.
Wednesday, August 26
Venue: B-huset, Ada Lovelace, LiU, Campus Valla
08.30 Lecture: Robot planning and behavior trees, Petter Ögren, KTH
Coffee break
10.30 Lecture: Robot planning and behavior trees
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Diversity and Inclusion Group, workshop and including Coffee break
15.00 WASP Research Arenas (WARA) A Bridge Between Industry and Academia
17.30 Dinner, Stångs Mjärdevi
Venue: Teknikringen 7, Collegium
Thursday, August 27
Venue: B-huset, Ada Lovelace, LiU, Campus Valla
08.00 Lecture: Structure in noisy network data, Fiona Skerman, Uppsala Universitet
09.30 Coffee break
10.00 Lecture: Structure in noisy network data
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Parallel company visits. Please note that we will be walking to the companies, so we recommend dressing according to the weather
- Ericsson
- SICK IVP
- The National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC)
Friday, August 28
Venue: B-huset, Ada Lovelace, LiU, Campus Valla
08.45 Experience sharing by WASP Alumni, Karin Stacke, Sectra and Mattias Tiger, Linköping University
09.15 Coffee break
09.45 Workshop
11.00 Meeting with the Swedish Industry, Axis Communications and Saab
11.45 Evaluation and summary
12.00 Lunch to-go