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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Modular Learning and Optimization for Planning of Discrete Event Systems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Fredrik Hagebring\n\nDate and time: October 29\, 10:00\n \nLocation:  Location: ED-salen\, Hörsalsvägen 11 and online \nDoctoral student: Fredrik Hagebring\, Chalmers\, Electrical Engineering\, Systems and control\, Automation \nTitel: Modular Learning and Optimization for Planning of Discrete Event Systems \nSupervisor: Bengt Lennartsson\, Chalmers\n \nOpponent: Professor Spiridon Reveliotis\, Georgia Tech\, USA \n\nOriginal location: ED-salen\, Hörsalsvägen 11 and online
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-modular-learning-and-optimization-for-planning-of-discrete-event-systems/
LOCATION:ED-salen\, Hörsalsvägen 11\, ED-salen\, Hörsalsvägen 11\, Göteborg\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20211022T101500
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20211022T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Autonomous Avoidance Maneuvers for Vehicles using Optimization
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Pavel Anistratov\n\nDate and time: October 22\, 10:15\n \nLocation: Online \nDoctoral student: Pavel Anistratov\, Vehicular Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering\, Linköping University \nTitel: Autonomous Avoidance Maneuvers for Vehicles using Optimization \nSupervisor: Lars Nielsen\, Björn Olofsson\, Jan Åslund \nOpponent: Jonas Mårtensson\, Division of Decision and Control Systems\, KTH
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-autonomous-avoidance-maneuvers-for-vehicles-using-optimization/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210923T091500
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210923T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210910T094945Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Designing with Machine Learning in Digital Pathology
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Martin Lindvall\n\nDate and time: September 23\, 09:15 \nLocation: Room K3\, Kåkenhus and online \nTitel: Designing with Machine Learning in Digital Pathology \nDoctoral student: Martin Lindvall\, Department of Science and Technology \nSupervisor: Professor Jonas Löwgren\, Department of Science and Technology \nOpponent: Associate Professor Andreas Holzinger\, Medical University Graz\, Austria \n\nOriginal location: Linköping University / Campus Norrköping and online
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-designing-with-machine-learning-in-digital-pathology/
LOCATION:Campus Norrköping\, Linköping University\, Campus Norrköping\, Linköping University\, Norrköping\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210920T130000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210924T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210623T092739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083902Z
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SUMMARY:WARA-PS Field Test and Data Collection 2021
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to WARA-PS Field Test and Data Collection 2021 – a week of workshops and demonstrations. We invite researchers\, supervisors and industry representatives to participate and to be inspired by the research conducted in WARA Public Safety. \nThe activities will be recorded and documented for others within and outside WASP to enjoy and utilize in their own research. This year\, you will also be able to participate remotely\, by following our live streams during the events\, as well as getting regular updates about ongoing activities and areas of research. \nOur aim for the workshop is to showcase the continuous progress of the research within the domain\, and our future contributions in the digitalization of public safety. \nWe hope to see you there! \nTime: September 20 13.00 – September 24 15.00\nLocation: Gränsö slott\, Västervik and online\nAgenda: To see the agenda of the week\, please have a look at the WARA-PS portal \nSign Up\nTo sign up for the workshop\, please email jesper.tordenlid@combitech.com or emma.jonsson@combitech.com \nA limited number of supervisors and students can apply for 1 to 4 days based on research needs. Resources from WARA-PS will be available all days and we will create a detailed agenda to separate the groups and activities in time and space at Gränsö for a safe\, efficient and rewarding field test and data collection activity. \nCOVID-19 attention: We will carefully follow the updates from FHM\, WASP\, Gränsö Slott and participating organizations in order to use all precautions necessary for our planned activities. The activities and agenda might be rearranged or even postponed if any changes. \nOriginal location: Gränsö slott\, Västervik and online
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/wara-ps-field-test-and-data-collection-2021/
LOCATION:Gränsö Slott\, Västervik\, Gränsö Slott\, Västervik\, Västervik\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210917T140000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210917T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Data-Driven Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation: Control Stability and Data-Efficiency
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Shahbaz Abdul Khader\nDate and time: September 17\, 14:00 \nLocation: Lindstedtsvägen 26\, Stockholm and online \nTitel: Data-Driven Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation: Control Stability and Data-Efficiency \nDoctoral student:  Shahbaz Abdul Khader\, Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning\, KTH \nSupervisor:  Danica Kragic\, Robotik\, Division of Robotics\, Perception and Learning\, KTH \nOpponent:  Associate Professor Ludovic Righetti\, New York University \nOriginal location: KTH
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-data-driven-methods-for-contact-rich-manipulation-control-stability-and-data-efficiency/
LOCATION:KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210917T130000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210917T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210901T070203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083902Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Privacy expectations and challenges of smart home ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Tomasz Kosinski\n\nDate and time: September 17\, 13:00 \nLocation: Room CSE 473\, Jupiter building\, Hörselgången 5\, Campus Lindholmen and online \nDoctoral student: Tomasz Kosinski\, Department of Computer Science and Engineering\, Chalmers University of Technology \nTitel: Privacy expectations and challenges of smart home ecosystems \nSupervisor: Professor Morten Fjeld\, Department of Computer Science and Engineering \nOpponent:  Professor Florian Alt\, Professor of Usable Security at the Bundeswehr University Munich \n\nOriginal location: Chalmers University of Technology / online
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-privacy-expectations-and-challenges-of-smart-home-ecosystems/
LOCATION:Chalmers University of Technology\, Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210825T130000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210825T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210707T062828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083902Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: On Experimentation in Software-Intensive Systems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of David Issa Mattos\n\nDate and Time. August 25\, 13:00 – 17:00\n \nLocation: Room 473\, Jupiter Building \nTitel: On Experimentation in Software-Intensive Systems \nDoctoral student: David Issa Mattos\,  Division of Software Engineering\, Chalmers Universtity of Technology \nOpponent:  Professor. Tom ́aˇs Bureˇs – Charles University\, Czech Republic \nSupervisor: Professor Jan Bosch\, Division of Software Engineering\, Chalmers Universtity of Technology
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-on-experimentation-in-software-intensive-systems/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210618T130000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210618T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210510T130022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083905Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Uncertainty-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision Tasks on Sparse Data
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Abdelrahman Eldesokey\n\nDate and time:  June 18\, 13:00\n \nLocation: Online \nDoctoral student: Abdelrahman Eldesokey\, Department of Electrical Engineerin\, Linköping University \nTitel: Uncertainty-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision Tasks on Sparse Data \nSupervisor:  Professor Michael Felsberg\, Department of Electrical Engineering\, Linköping University \nOpponent: Professor Richard Bowden\, University of Surrey\, United Kingdom \n\n 
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-uncertainty-aware-convolutional-neural-networks-for-vision-tasks-on-sparse-data/
LOCATION:Linköping University\, Linköping University\, Linköping\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210618T000000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210618T235959
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210408T150617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083907Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: ComPOS – a domain-specific language for composing Internet-of-things systems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Alfred Åkesson\nLocation: Online \nTitel: ComPOS – a domain-specific language for composing Internet-of-things systems \nDoctoral student: Alfred Åkesson\, Department of Computer Science\, Lund University \nSupervisor: Görel Hedin\, Lund University \n Opponent: Professor Tommi J Mikkonen\, University of Helsinki \nOriginal location: E:1406 / online
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-compos-a-domain-specific-language-for-composing-internet-of-things-systems/
LOCATION:E:1406\, E-building\, Klas Anshelms väg 10\, Lund University\, E:1406\, E-building\, Klas Anshelms väg 10\, Lund University
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210611T130000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210611T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210427T111629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083906Z
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SUMMARY:WASP and DDLS join forces for research within a data-driven future
DESCRIPTION:WASP and DDLS join forces for research within a data-driven future\nWelcome to the official launch of the WASP-DDLS collaboration! \nThe two largest research programs in Sweden\, the Wallenberg AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) and the SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Driven Life Science (DDLS)\, will team up in a new collaborative effort\, with the ultimate goal of solving groundbreaking research questions and to create synergies across disciplines. \nThis Zoom-meeting will combine inspirational talks and discuss possible ways to initiate formations of strong collaborations that can bridge the gap between the scientific disciplines. We welcome WASP researchers and life scientists to take part in the webinar and to actively engage in new alliances. \nThe first part of the meeting was recorded\, see below. \n \n 
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/wasp-and-ddls-join-forces-for-research-within-a-data-driven-future/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210611T100000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210611T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210531T125156Z
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SUMMARY:Lic. Thesis Seminar: Forward and Inverse Decision-Making in Adversarial\, Cooperative\, and Biologically-Inspired Dynamical Systems
DESCRIPTION:Doctoral student:  Inês de Miranda de Matos Lourenço\, Division of Decsion and Control Systems\, KTH \nSubject area:  Electrical Engineering \nSupervisor:  Professor Bo Wahlberg\, Division of Decsion and Control Systems\, KTH \nOpponent:  Assistant Professor Karinne Ramirez-Amaro\, Chalmers University of Technology
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/lic-thesis-seminar-forward-and-inverse-decision-making-in-adversarial-cooperative-and-biologically-inspired-dynamical-systems/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210610T090000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210610T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210525T105914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083903Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Short-term Underground Mine Scheduling
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Max Åstrand\n\nDate and time: June 10\, 09.00 \nLocation:   F3\, Lindstedtsvägen 26\, Stockholm (English)  \nDoctoral student:  Max Åstrand\, Division of Decision and Control Systems \nTitel: Short-term Underground Mine Scheduling \nSupervisor:  Professor Mikael Johansson\, Division of Decision and Control System \nOpponent:  Docent Mats Carlsson\, RISE.\, Swedish ICT\, SICS\, Computer Systems Laboratory \n\nOriginal location: KTH
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-short-term-underground-mine-scheduling/
LOCATION:KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210609T133000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210609T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210528T112344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083903Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Designing Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Piergiuseppe Mallozzi\nDate and Time: June 9th\, 13:30\n \nLocation: Room 473\, Jupiter Building \nTitel: Designing Trustworthy Autonomous Systems \nDoctoral student: Piergiuseppe Mallozzi\, PhD Software Engineering\, Chalmers University of Technology \nSupervisor: Patrizio Pelliccione\, Chalmers University of Technology \nOpponent:  Cristina Seceleanu\, Mälardalen University\, Sweden \nOriginal location: Chalmers Universtity of Technology
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-designing-trustworthy-autonomous-systems/
LOCATION:Chalmers University of Technology\, Chalmers University of Technology\, Göteborg\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210608T150000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210608T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210525T105130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083904Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Motion Planning and Control of Automated Vehicles in Critical Situations
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Lars Svensson\nDate and time: June 8\, 15:00 \nLocation: Online \nTitel: Motion Planning and Control of Automated Vehicles in Critical Situations\n \nDoctoral student:  Lars Svensson\, Department of Machine Design\, KTH \nSupervisor:  Professor Martin Törngren\, Department of Machine Design\, KTH \nOpponent:  Professor Christian Gerdes\, Stanford University \nOriginal location: KTH
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-motion-planning-and-control-of-automated-vehicles-in-critical-situations/
LOCATION:KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210608T140000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210608T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210525T104503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083904Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Rendezvous of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Linnea Persson\n\nDate and time: June 8\, 14:00\n \nLocation: Online \nDoctoral student:  Linnea Persson\, Division of Decision and Control Systems\, KTH \nTitel: Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Rendezvous of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles \nSupervisor:  Professor Bo Wahlberg\, Division of Decision and Control Systems\, KTH \nOpponent:  Professor Jonathan How\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nOriginal location: KTH
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-model-predictive-control-for-cooperative-rendezvous-of-autonomous-unmanned-vehicles/
LOCATION:KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210608T100000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210608T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210525T103635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083904Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: On the Foundations of Practical Language-Based Security
DESCRIPTION:Title: On the Foundations of Practical Language-Based Security \nRespondent: Maximilian Algehed \nOpponent: Frank Piessens \nDate & Time: June 8\, 10:00 – 13:00 \nLink to thesis and to the online disputation \n\n\nAbstract\nTeoretiska Grundvalar för Praktiska IT-Säkerhetsverktyg\nModerna datorprogram är de mest komplexa artefakter som människan någonsin\nhar skapat. För att samhället ska kunna lita på att ingenjörer och programmerare\ninte utsätter oss alla för stora risker med dessa komplexa system behöver vi\ntillgång till verktyg som hjälper oss att förebygga säkerhetsluckor. Den här\navhandligen handlar om hur vi kan säkerställa att sådana verktyg faktiskt\nfungerar och inte ger ett falskt intryck om säkerhet där ingen finns.\nVerktyg av den här typen kan i grova tag uppdelas i två kategorier. I den första\nkategorin faller verktyg som programmeraren använder under utvecklingstiden\nför att hitta problem innan programmet färdigställts och i den andra kategorin\nfinner vi verktyg som agerar huvudsakligen efter att ett program redan användsi praktiken för att hindra säkerhetshål som inte upptäcks under utvecklingsperi-\noden från att skapa problem. I den här avhandlingen finns nya resultat för bådadessa kategorier av verktyg.\nI den första kategorin bidrar den här avhandlingen med en ny metod för att\nbevisa att programmeringsspråk kan garantera att alla program i språket är\nsäkra. I den andra kategorin bidrar den här avhandlingen med en ny förenande\nteori och ett bevis att det inte existerar några perfekta mekanismer för att ge\nsäkerhet. Sammanfattningsvis ger den här avhandlingen stöd till inställningen att\ndatasäkerhet är någonting som bör finnas med från början i utvecklingsprocessen\ndå det är förhållandevis mer tekniskt komplicerat att anpassa system för att\nuppnå datasäkerhet a posteriori.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-on-the-foundations-of-practical-language-based-security/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210604T091500
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210604T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121713
CREATED:20210504T132058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083906Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Learning Visual Perception for Autonomous Systems
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Doctoral Defense of Gustav Häger\n\nDate and time: June 4\, 09:15 \nLocation: Online \nTitel: Learning Visual Perception for Autonomous Systems \nDoctoral student: Gustav Häger\, Department of Electrical Engineering\, Linköping University \nSupervisor: Michael Felsberg\, Department of Electrical Engineering\, Linköping University \nOpponent: Roman Pflugfelder\, Technische Universität Wien och Austrian Institute of Technology
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-learning-visual-perception-for-autonomous-systems/
LOCATION:Linköping University\, Linköping University\, Linköping\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210602T000000
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210602T235959
DTSTAMP:20260602T121714
CREATED:20210318T075343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083908Z
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SUMMARY:WASP4ALL 2021 - Building Excellence for the Era of AI
DESCRIPTION:WASP has now passed its fifth year and with an expanded program including initiatives towards AI and Math\, WASP continues to build the foundations for ensuring relevance and impact of its research. This event will highlight and showcase the excellence that WASP is producing. With talks from a mix of WASP researchers\, international speakers\, industrial partners and high-profile decision makers\, this event demonstrates how WASP is building excellence for the Era of AI. \n​We warmly welcome you to take part of this streamed production and live talks.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/wasp4all-2021-building-excellence-for-the-era-of-ai/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=+01:00:20210528T131500
DTEND;TZID=+01:00:20210528T235900
DTSTAMP:20260602T121714
CREATED:20210419T073803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260601T083906Z
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SUMMARY:Licentiate Defense: Robust LIDAR-Based Localization in Underground Mines
DESCRIPTION:Title: Robust LIDAR-Based Localization in Underground Mines \nSpeaker: MSc Kristin Nielsen\, Epiroc Drills AB/LiU \nOpponent: Prof John Folkesson\, KTH \nSupervisor: Doc Gustaf Hendeby\, LiU \nCo-supervisors: Prof Fredrik Gustafsson\, LiU\, Dr Robert Lundh\, Epiroc Drills AB/LiU \n  \nDate: 2021-05-28 \nTime: 13:15-15:00 \nPlace: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/68373726076?pwd=RUZRWDBBMlBCUTV3azBWNWNPbWIvZz09 \nLanguage: English \n  \nAbstract: \nThe mining industry is currently facing a transition from manually operated vehicles to remote or semi-automated vehicles. The vision is fully autonomous vehicles being part of a larger fleet\, with humans only setting high-level goals for the autonomous fleet to execute in an optimal way. An enabler for this vision is the presence of robust\, reliable and highly accurate localization. This is a requirement for having areas in a mine with mixed autonomous vehicles\, manually operated vehicles\, and unprotected personnel. The robustness of the system is important from a safety as well as a productivity perspective. When every vehicle in the fleet is connected\, an uncertain position of one vehicle can result in the whole fleet begin halted for safety reasons. \nProviding reliable positions is not trivial in underground mine  environments\, where access to global satellite based navigation systems is denied. Due to the harsh and dynamically changing environment\, onboard positioning solutions are preferred over systems utilizing external infrastructure. The focus of this thesis is localization systems relying only on sensors mounted on the vehicle\, e.g.\, odometers\, inertial measurement units\, and 2D LIDAR sensors. The localization methods are based on the Bayesian filtering framework and estimate the distribution of the position in the reference frame of a predefined map     covering the operation area. This thesis presents research where the properties of 2D LIDAR data\, and specifically characteristics when obtained in an underground mine\, are considered to produce position estimates that are robust\, reliable\, and accurate. \nFirst\, guidelines are provided for how to tune the design parameters associated with the unscented Kalman filter (UKF). The UKF is an algorithm designed for nonlinear dynamical systems\, applicable to this particular positioning problem. There exists no general guidelines for how to choose the parameter values\, and using the standard values suggested in the literature result in unreliable estimates in the considered application. Results show that a proper parameter setup substantially improves the performance of this algorithm. \nNext\, strategies are developed to use only a subset of available measurements without losing quality in the position estimates. LIDAR sensors typically produce large amounts of data\, and demanding real-time positioning information limits how much data the system can process. By analyzing the information contribution from each individual laser ray in a complete LIDAR scan\, a subset is selected by maximizing the information content. It is shown how 80% of available LIDAR measurements can be dropped without significant loss of accuracy. \nLast\, the problem of robustness in non-static environments is addressed. By extracting features from the LIDAR data\, a computationally tractable localization method\, resilient to errors in the map\, is obtained. Moving objects\, and tunnels being extended or closed\, result in a map not corresponding to the LIDAR observations. State-of-the art feature extraction methods for 2D LIDAR data are identified\, and a localization algorithm is defined where features found in LIDAR data are matched to features extracted from the map. Experiments show that regions of the map containing errors are automatically ignored since no matching features are found in the LIDAR data\, resulting in more robust position estimates. \n\nQuestions are answered by Ninna Stensgård\, Phone  013-28 47 25 \nE-mail ninna.stensgard@liu.se \n\n 
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/licentiate-defense-robust-lidar-based-localization-in-underground-mines/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Machine Learning for Wireless Link Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Author: Vidit Saxena\,  PhD in Electrical Engineering\, KTH \nTitle of thesis: Machine Learning for Wireless Link Adaptation \nDate and location of defense: Thursday May 20\, 2021 at 13.00 in the lecture hall F3\, Lindstedtsvägen 26\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\nor online via: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/68818071898 \nOriginal location: KTH or online.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-machine-learning-for-wireless-link-adaptation/
LOCATION:KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Stockholm\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Sensor Management for Target Tracking Applications
DESCRIPTION:Title: Sensor Management for Target Tracking Applications \nSpeaker: Per Boström-Rost \nOpponent: : Prof Peter Willett\, University of Connecticut \nSupervisor: Gustaf Hendeby\, LiU \nCo-supervisors: Daniel Axehill\, LiU \n\nDate: 2021-05-10 \nTime: 14:15-17:00 \nPlace: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/67125115813?pwd=aDU0NFZOcTdyaGVHc0NGM28yMGpudz09 \nLanguage: English \nLink to thesis \n\nAbstract\nMany practical applications\, such as search and rescue operations and environmental monitoring\, involve the use of mobile sensor platforms. The workload of the sensor operators is becoming overwhelming\, as both the number of sensors and their complexity are increasing. This thesis addresses the problem of automating sensor systems to support the operators. This is often referred to as sensor management. By planning trajectories for the sensor platforms and exploiting sensor characteristics\, the accuracy of the resulting state estimates can be improved. The considered sensor management problems are formulated in the framework of stochastic optimal control\, where prior knowledge\, sensor models\, and environment models can be incorporated. The core challenge lies in making decisions based on the predicted utility of future measurements. \nIn the special case of linear Gaussian measurement and motion models\, the estimation performance is independent of the actual measurements. This reduces the problem of computing sensing trajectories to a deterministic optimal control problem\, for which standard numerical optimization techniques can be applied. A theorem is formulated that makes it possible to reformulate a class of nonconvex optimization problems with matrix-valued variables as convex optimization problems. \nThis theorem is then used to prove that globally optimal sensing trajectories can be computed using off-the-shelf optimization tools. As in many other fields\, nonlinearities make sensor management problems more complicated. Two approaches are derived to handle the randomness inherent in the nonlinear problem of tracking a maneuvering target using a mobile range-bearing sensor with limited field of view. The first approach uses deterministic sampling to predict several candidates of future target trajectories that are taken into account when planning the sensing trajectory. This significantly increases the tracking performance compared to a conventional approach that neglects the uncertainty in the future target trajectory. The second approach is a method to find the optimal range between the sensor and the target. Given the size of the sensor’s field of view and an assumption of the maximum acceleration of the target\, the optimal range is determined as the one that minimizes the tracking error while satisfying a user-defined constraint on the probability of losing track of the target. \nWhile optimization for tracking of a single target may be difficult\, planning for jointly maintaining track of discovered targets and searching for yet undetected targets is even more challenging. Conventional approaches are typically based on a traditional tracking method with separate handling of undetected targets. Here\, it is shown that the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter provides a theoretical foundation for a unified search and track method\, as it not only provides state estimates of discovered targets\, but also maintains an explicit representation of where undetected targets may be located. Furthermore\, in an effort to decrease the computational complexity\, a version of the PMBM filter which uses a grid-based intensity to represent undetected targets is derived.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-sensor-management-for-target-tracking-applications/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Exploiting Direct Optimal Control for Motion Planning in Unstructured Environments
DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploiting Direct Optimal Control for Motion Planning in Unstructured Environments \nRespondent: Kristoffer Bergman \nOpponent: Prof. Emilio Frazzoli\, ETH Zürich \nSupervisor: Assoc. Prof. Daniel Axehill \nCo-supervisor: Prof. Torkel Glad \n\nDate: 2021-05-06 \nTime: 15:15 \nPlace: Zoom/Ada Lovelace https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/62231874057?pwd=L3orZW9XY1hNajF1by9MU2lvTkRWUT09 \nLanguage: English \nLink to thesis \n\nAbstract\nDuring the last decades\, motion planning for autonomous systems has become an important area of research. The high interest is not the least due to the development of systems such as self-driving cars\, unmanned aerial vehicles and robotic manipulators. The objective in optimal motion planning problems is to find feasible motion plans that also optimize a performance measure. From a control perspective\, the problem is an instance of an optimal control problem. This thesis addresses optimal motion planning problems for complex dynamical systems that operate in unstructured environments\, where no prior reference such as road-lane information is available. Some example scenarios are autonomous docking of vessels in harbors and autonomous parking of self-driving tractor-trailer vehicles at loading sites. The focus is to develop optimal motion planning algorithms that can reliably be applied to these types of problems. This is achieved by combining recent ideas from automatic control\, numerical optimization and robotics. \nThe first contribution is a systematic approach for computing local solutions to motion planning problems in challenging unstructured environments. The solutions are computed by combining homotopy methods and direct optimal control techniques. The general principle is to define a homotopy that transforms\, or preferably relaxes\, the original problem to an easily solved problem. The approach is demonstrated in motion planning problems in 2D and 3D environments\, where the presented method outperforms a state-of-the-art asymptotically optimal motion planner based on random sampling. \nThe second contribution is an optimization-based framework for automatic generation of motion primitives for lattice-based motion planners. Given a family of systems\, the user only needs to specify which principle types of motions that are relevant for the considered system family. Based on the selected principle motions and a selected system instance\, the framework computes a library of motion primitives by simultaneously optimizing the motions and the terminal states. \nThe final contribution of this thesis is a motion planning framework that combines the strengths of sampling-based planners with direct optimal control in a novel way. The sampling-based planner is applied to the problem in a first step using a discretized search space\, where the system dynamics and objective function are chosen to coincide with those used in a second step based on optimal control. This combination ensures that the sampling-based motion planner provides a feasible motion plan which is highly suitable as warm-start to the optimal control step. Furthermore\, the second step is modified such that it also can be applied in a receding-horizon fashion\, where the proposed combination of methods is used to provide theoretical guarantees in terms of recursive feasibility\, worst-case objective function value and convergence to the terminal state. The proposed motion planning framework is successfully applied to several problems in challenging unstructured environments for tractor-trailer vehicles. The framework is also applied and tailored for maritime navigation for vessels in archipelagos and harbors\, where it is able to compute energy-efficient trajectories which complies with the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea. \nOriginal location: Zoom/Ada Lovelace
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-exploiting-direct-optimal-control-for-motion-planning-in-unstructured-environments/
LOCATION:Ada Lovelace\, B-building\, Campus Valla\, Linköping University\, Ada Lovelace\, B-building\, Campus Valla\, Linköping University\, Linköping\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:Launching WASP Research Arenas 2.0
DESCRIPTION:WASP invites industries and researchers to the launch of WARA 2.0\, introducing the updated concept\, news from all five arenas and a glimpse of what is to come. \nWASP Research Arenas (WARAs) are research collaboration platforms gathering researchers from academia and industry. Through the arenas\, the participating researchers gain exclusive access to infrastructures\, resources and competence in a context that facilitates networking and promotes knowledge transfer. \nDuring 2020 the concept of WASP Research Arenas has been rewritten\, resulting in several new\, state of the art research arenas. The new concept and arenas will officially be launched at this webinar. \nProgram\nOpening – Anders Ynnerman\, WASP Program Director\, Linköping University \nWARA 2.0 – Torbjörn Lundahl\, WARA Director\, Ericsson Research\nPresentation of the overall objective with the WARA initiative\, description of the concept and criteria for establishing WARA\, and how to propose and get approval for an arena. \nWARA Common – Johan Eker\, Ericsson Research\nWARA-common is a data center and cloud provider open for WASP researchers to build and operate their services\, deploy large scale computations\, or use in education. We also collect metrics and logs from the full cloud stack and the facilities\, for use in research projects on data-driven operations together with Ericsson. \nWARA Public Safety – Jesper Tordenlid\, Saab\nIn WARA Public Safety we provide a large scale and industrially relevant demonstration environment where heterogeneous Systems of Systems collaborate to solve tasks within Public Safety. You have access to unique autonomous vehicles and sensors in the air\, on water\, on ground and underwater as well as experienced engineers and real users. The coastal environment and scenarios within search & rescue and transportation\, offers challenges relevant for many domains. \nWARA Robotics – Jonas Larsson\, ABB Corporate Research\nThe WARA will include a multitude of manipulation tasks to give a rich set of research problems in an environment that enables robots to navigate and perform manufacturing-relevant manipulation tasks. Under realistic deployment conditions this require robots to autonomously understand the world around them\, to build knowledge incrementally\, learn new skills\, perform them safely and reliably\, and adapt to changes in the environment and humans’ behavior. \nWARA Software – Christoph Reichenbach\, Lund University\nThe WARA for Software connects software technology research between academia and industry.  Its activities focus on understanding and growing the utility of modern tools for building and improving software in the Swedish industry. The WARA constructs benchmarks and platforms for evaluating software tools\, and supports WASP PhD students in both exploiting and advancing the state of the art in software technology. \nWARA Media  – Johanna Björklund\, Umeå University\nThe mission of WARA Media is to foster a community around Media AI\, that cuts across scientific fields and industry sectors.  The research topics cover generation and classification of media\, augmentation and replication of human communication and control\, and finally verification and validation. We welcome new participants from the WASP community and the Swedish industries – please connect if interested. \nWARA NLP – Salla Franzén\, SEB\nNatural Language Processing is a foundational research area and an enabler for human machine interaction\, process automation and many other applications. The aim of the WARA NLP under planning is twofold. Firstly\, to develop a community for academic\, industrial and governmental organizations with interests in NLP applications and base research. Secondly\, to generate high-quality research in NLP in areas of importance for the WARA participants and society\, such as training large-scale language models for Nordic languages with federated learning and adapter models for transfer learning. \nInformation\nThe event will be held in English. \nDate: March 10\, 2021 \nTime: 13:15–14:15 (GMT +1) \nContact\nAny questions regarding this event can be sent to: info@wasp-sweden.org
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/launching-wasp-research-arenas-2-0/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Location-aware Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Clouds
DESCRIPTION:Chanh Nguyen Le Tan will defend his doctoral thesis “Location-aware Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Clouds” on February 17th\, 13:00–16:00. \nOpponent: Professor Maarten Van Steen\, Univ. Twente\, The Netherlands. \nGraduation Committee:\nProfessor Ling Liu\, Georgia Institute of Technology\, US.\nProfessor Andreas Kassler\, Karlstad University\, Sweden.\nProfessor Virginia Dignum\, Umeå University\, Sweden. \nSupervisor: Erik Elmroth \nOriginal location: Umeå universitet\, Aula biologica
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-location-aware-resource-allocation-in-mobile-edge-clouds/
LOCATION:BIO.E.203 Aula Biologica\, Umeå University\, BIO.E.203 Aula Biologica\, Umeå University\, Umeå\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:PhD Defense: Digital Cognitive Companions for Marine Vessels - On the Path Towards Autonomous Ships
DESCRIPTION:Thesis title: Digital Cognitive Companions for Marine Vessels – On the Path Towards Autonomous Ships \nAuthor: Mårten Lager\, Department of Computer Science\, Lund university \nFaculty opponent: Professor Henrik I. Christensen\, University of California\, USA \nLocation: Online – link by registration
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/phd-defense-digital-cognitive-companions-for-marine-vessels-on-the-path-towards-autonomous-ships/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:Lic. Thesis Seminar: Adaptiveness and Lock-free Synchronization in Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent
DESCRIPTION:Lic. thesis seminar \nFebruary 1\, 14.00 via zoom \nKarl Bäckström\, Computer Science and Engineering\, Chalmers University of Technology\, will present his lic thesis Adaptiveness and Lock-free Synchronization in Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent. \n 
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/lic-thesis-seminar-adaptiveness-and-lock-free-synchronization-in-parallel-stochastic-gradient-descent/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Lic. Thesis Seminar: Integration of Clouds to Industrial Communication Networks
DESCRIPTION:Title: Integration of Clouds to Industrial Communication Networks \nPresenter: Haorui Peng\, Electrical and Information Technology\, LTH\, Lund University and Wallenberg AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) \nReviewer: Prof. Åke Arvidsson från Kristianstad University \nWhen: 29 January 2021 at 13.15 \nLocation: Online at the zoom platform. Please register at https://www.lth.se/digitalth/events/register-2021-01-29/ in order to get an access link. \nAbstract\nCloud computing\, owing to its ubiquitousness\, scalability and on-demand ac- cess\, has transformed into many traditional sectors\, such as telecommunication and manufacturing production. As the Fifth Generation Wireless Specifications (5G) emerges\, the demand on ubiquitous and re-configurable computing resources for handling tremendous traffic from omnipresent mobile devices has been put forward. And therein lies the adaption of cloud-native model in service delivery of telecommunication networks. However\, it takes phased approaches to successfully transform the traditional Telco infrastructure to a softwarized model\, especially for Radio Access Networks (RANs)\, which\, as of now\, mostly relies on purpose-built Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) for computing and processing tasks. \nOn the other hand\, Industry 4.0 is leading the digital transformation in manufacturing sectors\, wherein the industrial networks is evolving towards wireless connectivity and the automation process managements are shifting to clouds. However\, such integration may introduce unwanted disturbances to critical industrial automation processes. This leads to challenges to guaran- tee the performance of critical applications under the integration of different systems. \nIn the work presented in this thesis\, we mainly explore the feasibility of inte- grating wireless communication\, industrial networks and cloud computing. We have mainly investigated the delay-inhibited challenges and the performance impacts of using cloud-native models for critical applications. We design a solution\, targeting at diminishing the performance degradation caused by the integration of cloud computing.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/lic-thesis-seminar-integration-of-clouds-to-industrial-communication-networks/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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SUMMARY:Webinar: WASP Industrial PhD Student Call
DESCRIPTION:Interested in WASP’s upcoming Industrial PhD Student call? Join our webinar to learn more! \nWASP invites everyone interested in the upcoming WASP Industrial PhD Student Call to an information webinar on January 27th\, 2021\, 13:15-15:15. The webinar will be held through Zoom. If you wish to attend\, please register through the link below. You will receive a meeting invitation a couple of days before the webinar. \nAbout the WASP Industrial PhD Student Call\nWASP is offering up to 10 industrial doctoral student positions within AI\, Autonomous Systems and Software at the five partner universities Chalmers\, KTH\, Linköping University\, Lund University and Umeå University as well as the research groups at Örebro University and Uppsala University that are members of WASP AI. The industrial partner should have research activities in Sweden. \nThe projects are expected to address fundamental research problems within any of WASP’s research areas and expect to have a strong visionary and novelty nature\, i.e.\, not only application development. The call opens January 25th\, 2021. \nWASP industrial PhD students will be part of the WASP graduate school. The graduate school is making efforts to actively attract industrial PhD students. To make the industrial PhD studies relevant to companies\, courses offered in the program are tailored to meet the future needs in industry. \nAbout Industrial PhD studies\nIn our Industrial PhD Report\, an overall comment from the editors is the possibilities for industry to think of industrial PhD students as a strategic instrument. The main types of results for participating industry are partly concrete in the form of research results and a doctoral degree but also\, as shown in recent research\, participating industries improve their overall innovation capability.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/webinar-wasp-industrial-phd-student-call/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:Autonomous Vehicle Maneuvering at the Limit of Friction
DESCRIPTION:Title: Autonomous Vehicle Maneuvering at the Limit of Friction\nRespondent: Victor Fors\nDivision: Vehicular Systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering\, Linköping University\nSupervisors: Lars Nielsen\, Björn Olofsson\, Jan Åslund\nOpponent: Professor J. Christian Gerdes\, Department of Mechanical Engineering\, Stanford University\, CA\, US\nDate and time: 2020-12-10\, 15:00\nPlace: Online via Zoom (can be viewed in Ada Lovelace\, B-building\, Campus Valla\, Linköping University) \nJoin Zoom Meeting https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/65015486154?pwd=eFhNMHFkcTNMOGNNQ1NZUWplV3MvZz09 \nAbstract: \nWithout a driver to fall back on\, a fully self-driving car needs to be able to handle any situation it can encounter. With the perspective of future safety systems\, this research studies autonomous maneuvering at the tire–road friction limit. In these situations\, the dynamics is highly nonlinear\, and the tire–road parameters are uncertain. \nTo gain insights into the optimal behavior of autonomous safety-critical maneuvers\, they are analyzed using optimal control. Since analytical solutions of the studied optimal control problems are intractable\, they are solved numerically. An optimization formulation reveals how the optimal behavior is influenced by the total amount of braking. By studying how the optimal trajectory relates to the attainable forces throughout a maneuver\, it is found that maximizing the force in a certain direction is important. This is like the analytical solutions obtained for friction-limited particle models in earlier research\, and it is shown to result in vehicle behavior close to the optimal also for a more complex model. \nBased on the insights gained from the optimal behavior\, controllers for autonomous safety maneuvers are developed. These controllers are based on using acceleration-vector references obtained from friction-limited particle models. Exploiting that the individual tire forces tend to be close to their friction limits\, the desired tire slip angles are determined for a given acceleration-vector reference. This results in controllers capable of operating at the limit of friction at a low computational cost and reduces the number of vehicle parameters used. For straight-line braking\, ABS can intervene to reduce the braking distance without prior information about the road friction. Inspired by this\, a controller that uses the available actuation according to the least friction necessary to avoid a collision is developed\, resulting in autonomous collision avoidance without any estimation of the tire–road friction. \nInvestigating time-optimal lane changes\, it is found that a simple friction-limited particle model is insufficient to determine the desired acceleration vector\, but including a jerk limit to account for the yaw dynamics is sufficient. To enable a tradeoff between braking and avoidance with a more general obstacle representation\, the acceleration-vector reference is computed in a receding-horizon framework. \nThe controllers developed in this thesis show great promise with low computational cost and performance not far from that obtained offline by using numerical optimization when evaluated in high-fidelity simulation.
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/autonomous-vehicle-maneuvering-at-the-limit-of-friction/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Defense
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SUMMARY:WASP Virtual Industry Meeting 2020
DESCRIPTION:We invite industry\, WASP researchers and WASP PhD students for two virtual days of research ideas exchanges and networking. \nThis is a two-day event with the purpose to identify\, initiate and catalyze exchanges and collaborations between WASP researchers and industry*. \nDay one is devoted to addressing business and industry challenge driven research problems in scientific thematic discussions between WASP researchers and researchers from the industry*. The second day is a job fair where participating companies are invited to sign up for short meetings with WASP PhD students to inspire and engage in career discussions. \n*Swedish Industry with R&D operations in Sweden. \nTimeline\nOctober 1st Registration opens \nOctober 30th Registration deadline\nNovember 6th Participation will be confirmed\nNovember 25th Deadline for industry representatives to book time slots with PhD students (a separate invitation will be sent out during week 47)
URL:https://wasp-sweden.org/event/wasp-virtual-industry-meeting-2020/
LOCATION:Online\, Online\, Other
CATEGORIES:Conference
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