Prof. Dr. Konstantin Hopf (TU Chemnitz) will give a talk on Explanations and Decision Behavior in Algorithmic Decision Support at 11:00 am in 2/W040. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Our team sucessfully submitted an article for the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026 held in South Korea, where approximately only a quarter of the submitted 24000 publications were accepted. The paper is part of the MORE-KIBA junior researcher group and is titled Hierarchical Causal Abduction: A Foundation Framework for Explainable Model Predictive Control. The preprint can be found on arXiv. Additionally, this press release summarizes the results of the article and the related project.

Together with two other professorships at our institute, we established a new master course (taught in English) starting in winter semester 2026/27. All information about Automation, Robotics and Control along with all relevant documents can be found on its official website.

Prof. Dr. Mohanakrishnan Logan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) will give a talk on Advancing Bioprocess Innovations for Sustainable Bioenergy and Bioproducts at 01:45 pm in 2/W012. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Rumschinski (Hochschule Furtwangen) will give a talk on A practical perspective on Koopman operator theory at 01:45 pm in 2/W014. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Michel Riechmann & David Hasler (ogmo) will give a talk on Fit for the Future? - A new Approach to Wastewater Management at 03:15 pm online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Philipp Rumschinski (Hochschule Furtwangen) will visit our professorship to strengthen our cooperation.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has granted a new project for the professorship titled "Linking Approximate Dynamic Programming, Predictive Control, and Dissipativity: Novel Adaptive Control Approaches for Nonlinear Systems". This project explores new approaches to adaptive control of nonlinear systems linking Adaptive Dynamic Programming, a technique from reinforcement learning to solve optimal control problems, Model Predictive Control, and dissipativity, which can be interpreted as a generalization of energy conservation in the context of dynamical systems. This project aims to combine the advantages of these techniques for adaptive control of nonlinear systems to compensate for model error and improve closed-loop performance. This research is carried out in cooperation with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timm Faulwasser from the Hamburg University of Technology.

Prof. Greg Caporaso (Northern Arizona University) will give a talk on Closing the Loop: Microbiome Data Science and Off-Earth Composting at 04:00 pm online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.