This half-day interdisciplinary PhD conference brings together doctoral students and supervisors from different faculties at Lund University who engage with computational approaches in their research. The aim is to create a shared space for learning and discussion, and to exchange computational thinking as a core research practice across disciplinary boundaries.

Short description

Computational thinking is understood broadly as the ability to formulate research problems for computational analysis, work with abstraction and models, and critically apply computational methods to diverse academic fields. The conference promotes interdisciplinary dialogue and aims to strengthen a growing community of PhD students working with computational methods. The meeting starts with an inspirational keynote talk followed by PhD-student talks and discussions. There is no requirement to present in order to attend the conference.

Programme

13:30 Welcome

13:40 Keynote talks by postdoctoral fellows

Liudi Lu: How does computational thinking help in interdisciplinary research: a journey from Mathematics to Bioengineering

Yuhe Zhang: Bridging Physics and AI: Computational Thinking in X-ray Image Reconstruction 

14:30 Coffee break

15:00 Student talks – 8 minutes per talk + 2 minutes for questions

Pierre Klintefors: Computational system-level models of cognition utilising robotic platforms

Ioannis Polychronakos: Tuning a Monte Carlo event generator

Alexander Degener: Reprogramming Glial Cells to PVALB neurons - A Computational study

15:40 Short break

15:50 Student talks – 8 minutes per talk + 2 minutes for questions

Ioannis Tzoumas: Belief segmentation and price-discrimination in equivalent currency markets

Tilde Krusberg: Changing futurescapes of Swedish food systems: a computational approach to critical futures studies

Isabel Hendriks: Imaging pipeline for Detection, Segmentation and Classification on dynamic underwater images for improved marine monitoring

16:30 Discussion session

17:00 Departure for pub hangout

Registration

Link to registration: Interdisciplinary PhD conference on Computational Thinking at Lund University  

The conference is organised by the Pufendorf Advanced Study Group Computational Science Curricula, the research school COMPUTE and Lund Social Science Methods Centre.