Workshops on Dynamics and Control

We are delighted to announce two upcoming events taking place from November 12th to 14th, 2025, at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

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Dynamics and control in the age of data

Date and Place

Wednesday, 12.11.2025 to Thursday, 13.11.2025

Saarland University
Campus A5 1
Room 0.09
66123 Saarbrücken

GAMM Activity Group Workshop

Date and Place

Thursday, 13.11.2025 to Friday, 14.11.2025

Saarland University
Campus A5 1
Room 0.09
66123 Saarbrücken

Programm

Dynamics and control in the age of data

Wednesday, 12.11.2025

TimeSpeakerTitle
13:00Opening
13:10Boumediene Hamzi
Department of Computing
and Mathematical Sciences
Caltech
Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
14:05Sébastien Gros
NTNU Trondheim
Norway
MPC as a model of the solution of Markov Decision Processes, and the RL over MPC pathway
15:00Coffee break
15:30Merten Stender
TU Berlin
Germany
Reservoir Computing for Model-Free Control
16:10Anne‑Kathrin Schmuck
MPI for Software Systems
Germany
Follow the STARs: Dynamic ω-Regular Shielding of Learned Probabilistic Policies
16:50Sebastian Peitz
TU Dortmund and
Lamarr Institute
Germany
Efficient probabilistic surrogate modeling techniques for partially-observed large-scale dynamical systems
17:20Break
19:30Dinner

Thursday, 13.11.2025

TimeSpeakerTitle
09:00Sina Ober-Blöbaum
University of Paderborn
Germany
Symplectic and reversible methods in deep learning
09:40Patricia Pauli
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
Neural Networks for Control – and Vice Versa
10:20Coffee
10:50Lalo Magni
University of Pavia
Italy
Recurrent Neural Network based MPC with stability and performance guarantees
11:35Rolf Findeisen
TU Darmstadt
Germany
Episodic Learning of Local Policies for Global Objectives: A Bayesian Optimization and MPC Perspective
12:15Closing

GAMM Activity Group Workshop

Thursday, 13.11.2025

TimeSpeakerTitle
15:00Opening
15:05Johannes Heeg
TU Ilmenau
Germany
Learning Quadrotor Control in Differentiable Simulation
15:30Irene Schimperna
University of Pavia
Italy
Kernel EDMD for data-driven nonlinear Koopman MPC with stability guarantees - Part I
15:55Lea Bold
TU Ilmenau
Germany
Kernel EDMD for data-driven nonlinear Koopman MPC with stability guarantees, Part 2
16:20Chairs of GAMM FADebate of GAMM FA
16:50Coffee break
17:05Maximilian Raff
University of Stuttgart
Germany
Koopman Based Trajectory Optimization with Periodic Boundaries for Co-Design
17:30Ulrich Römer
TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Germany
Co-Design - A Tool to Study Efficiency in Robot Walking
18:00Alexander Fidlin
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Anton Schiela
University of Bayreuth
Germany
Presentation of an application idea for a DFG priority program
18:45Break
19:30Dinner

Friday, 14.11.2025

TimeSpeakerTitle
09:00Tessina Scholl
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
On a Bounded-Real-Lemma-Based Lyapunov-Krasovskii Functional for Time-Delay Systems
09:25Patrick Bachmann
University of Bayreuth
Germany
Input-to-output stability for infinite dimensional systems
09:50Markus Herrmann-Wicklmayr
Saarland University
Germany
Individual Minima-Informed Multi-Objective MPC for Fixed Point Stabilization
10:15Coffee break
10:45Najmeh Ghaderi
Saarland University
Germany
Observer design for a class of coupled semi-linear wave PDE systems with unknown input
11:10Andrii Mironchenko
University of Bayreuth
Germany
Sampled-data and event-triggered control of infinite-dimensional systems
11:35Joachim Deutscher
Ulm University
Germany
A Koopman Operator Approach to Data-Driven Control of Semilinear Parabolic Systems
12:00Attila Genda
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
Experimental Verification of Escape From a Potential Well
12:25Farewell

Overnight stay

Participants are requested to make their own hotel reservations. The following hotels are recommended for overnight stays:

The mentioned hotels can be reached by bus directly from the university.

About the GAMM Activity Group

The GAMM Activity Group Dynamics and Control - i.e. the GAMM Fachausschuss Dynamik und Regelungstheorie - is a working group of GAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik). It brings together members from various fields, spanning from mathematical systems theory, control engineering, nonlinear dynamics, and vibration theory to multi-body dynamics. The focus is on method developments and method application to a wide range of problems from mechatronics, energy systems, robotics, autonomous driving, and aeronautics. The exchange about the different subject areas fosters vibrant discussions and it frequently triggers new research. Moreover, the open discourse helps to bridge gaps between applied mathematics, mechanics, and engineering sciences.
The connecting element is the mathematically sound analysis of dynamical systems and their control. In addition to more classic questions, the analysis and control of dynamical systems via communication networks, the consideration of cyber-physical systems and the fusion of traditional approaches with techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence are of increasing importance in the discussions. 
The committee's goals are, in particular, to strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation between mathematics and engineering and to promote young scientists. To this end, the committee organizes half-yearly workshops in which faculty members, doctoral candidates, students, and participants from industry take part. These workshops are a forum to discuss current research results, to respond to trends and new developments, as well as to initiate and to advance joint scientific cooperations.

Currently, the activity group is chaired jointly by
Prof. Timm Faulwasser (TU Hamburg)
Prof. Robert Seifried (TU Hamburg)
Prof. Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau)

As of April 2022 the activity group had more than 100 members from academia and industry. The activity group organizes two workshops per year and it coordinates the activities in the Section S20 of the Annual Meeting of GAMM.