November 18 – November 20, 2025
Focus Period Symposium: Robot Learning
The ELLIIT Focus Period Symposium is the highlight of the five-week focus period, during which young international scholars, ELLIIT researchers and other well-established international academics gather in Lund to work together on joint research challenges. See the current list of confirmed speakers here.
The Focus Period Symposium takes place at Lund University Faculty of Engineering (LTH) in lecture hall Teknodromen, M-building, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund.
Please note, that the number of participants is limited to 90 persons, and registration might close earlier than the deadline indicates if the limit is reached.
Focus Period
Lund 2025
Symposium Program
Please note that the program is still subject to change.
November 17, 2025
17:00 - 19:00
Carolinasalen, Kungshuset
Paradisgatan 2, 223 50 Lund
Welcome reception at Kungshuset
A welcome drink and some hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Day 1 – November 18, 2025
08:30 - 09:00
Teknodromen, M-building, LTH
Ole Römers väg 1, 22 363 Lund
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Opening and Introduction
09:30 - 10:15
Jens Kober
Associate Professor at Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands)
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee
10:45 - 11:30
Roberto Martín-Martín
Assistant Professor at University of Texas (USA)
11:30 - 12:15
Georgia Chalvatzaki
Professor at Technical University Darmstadt (Germany)
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Ioannis Havoutis
Associate Professor at University of Oxford (UK)
14:15 - 15:00
Abhinav Valada
Professor at University of Freiburg (Germany)
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:15
Jean-Jacques Slotine
Professor at MIT (USA)
16:15 - 17:00
Panel discussion
Day 2 – November 19, 2025
08:45 - 09:30
Justus Piater
Professor at University of Innsbruck (Austria)
09:30 - 10:15
Dongheui Lee
Professor at TU Vienna (Austria)
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee
10:45 - 11:30
Yiannis Aloimonos
Professor at University of Maryland (USA)
11:30 - 12:15
TBA
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Joseph Lim
Associate Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
14:15 - 15:00
Renaud Detry
Associate Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium)
15.00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:15
Haozhi Qi
Research scientist and Assistant Professor Meta FAIR and University of Chicago (USA)
16:15 - 17:00
Panel discussion
19:00
Maryhill Estate
Ålabodsvägen 193, 261 63 Glumslöv
Symposium dinner
Bus transport to the dinner venue Maryhill Estate departs from Lund Cathedral at 18:00
Day 3 – Month Day, Year
08:45 - 09:30
Sylvain Calinon
Senior Research Scientist at Idiap Research Institute EPFL (Switzerland)
09:30 - 10:15
Roberto Calandra
Professor at Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee
10:45 - 11:30
Carme Torras
Research Professor at UPC Technical University of Catalunia
11:30 - 12:15
Soon-Jo Chung
Professor at Caltech (USA)
12:15 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:15
Jing Xiao
Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)
14:15 - 15:00
Rudolph Triebel
Professor at Robotics Institute of DLR and KIT (Germany)
15.00 - 15:30
Coffee
15:30 - 16:30
Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks
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