WASP Intelligent Systems Colloquium (WISC)

The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program is Sweden's major national initiative for basic research, education and faculty recruitment on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems acting in collaboration with humans, adapting to their environment through sensors, information and knowledge, and forming intelligent systems-of-systems. The program involves students and faculty at Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, and Lund University.

Seven professors and fifty-eight PhD students from the first WASP-AI Graduate School class are visiting several research groups in Germany, starting with the MPI-IS. The objective for their visit is to offer their PhD students the possibility to meet and mingle with both junior and senior researchers of the top groups in their research areas, see the respective laboratories, and simply establish a network and broader perspective for their topics in a more intense and consolidated way than might be possible at conferences.

To collaborate with and learn from this distinguished research program, we are holding intermingled scientific talks and poster sessions by both WASP and MPI-IS researchers at MPI-IS Stuttgart on Monday, October 14, and at MPI-IS Tübingen on Tuesday, October 15, as detailed in the program below. Please be sure to register if you plan to attend!

Event Agenda

Time Monday, October 14, at MPI-IS in Stuttgart - Room 2R04 (Werner-Köster Hörsaal) 9:30 Shuttle departure from Tübingen to Stuttgart 10:25 - 10:30 Welcome by Leila Masri (MPI-IS) 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:30 MPI-IS Overview & Robot Skin by Katherine J. Kuchenbecker (MPI-IS) 11:30 - 12:00 WASP and AI Research in Sweden & Reasoning and Learning over Streaming Data by Fredrik Heintz (WASP) 12:00 - 13:00 Lab Tours 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 14:50 Advances in Object Grasping and Manipulation by Danica Kragic (WASP) 14:50 - 15:10 Supporting Users in Supporting Industrial Robots in Skill Acquisition, Reuse, Refinement, and Learning by Elin A. Topp (WASP) 15:10 - 15:30 Learning-Based Control by Sebastian Trimpe (MPI-IS) 15:30 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 16:45 Lightning Talks I 16:45 - 17:45 Poster Session I 18:00 Shuttle departure from Stuttgart to Tübingen 18:30 - 20:00 Small group dinners at local restaurants - reserve your spot using the registration survey     Time Tuesday, October 15, at MPI-IS in Tübingen - Room N0.002 9:30 Shuttle departure from Stuttgart to Tübingen 10:25 - 10:30 Welcome by Michael J. Black (MPI-IS) 10:30 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:30 Sequential Monte Carlo and a New Visual Tracker by Thomas Schön (WASP) 11:30 - 11:50 A Statistical Physics Perspective on Inference and Optimization by Caterina De Bacco (MPI-IS) 11:50 - 12:10 Set-valued Numerics, Parameter Estimation and Chaos by Warwick Tucker (WASP) 12:10 - 13:10 Lab Tours 13:10 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 14:50 Statistical Learning and Inference by Jun Yu (WASP) 14:50 - 15:10 MI - Morphological Intelligence by Torbjörn Lundh (WASP) 15:10 - 15:30 Shape and Motion Priors for Visual 3D Scene Reconstruction by Jörg Stückler (MPI-IS) 15:30 - 16:00 Break 16:00 - 16:45 Lightning Talks II 16:45 - 17:45 Poster Session II 18:00 Shuttle departure from Tübingen to Stuttgart 18:30 - 20:00 Small group dinners at local restaurants - reserve your spot using the registration survey

 

 

If you are interested in attending any part of this event, and especially if you would like to present a lightning talk and an associated poster, please register before 9:30 on Wednesday, October 9.

We hope to see you at this event!