As part of the Digital Rail Conference organized by the Smart Rail Connectivity Campus (SRCC) in Annaberg-Buchholz, our professorship contributed to the PublicDay4Kids. The aim was to spark enthusiasm for STEM topics among young students.
Under the motto "Bitte (den) Abstand halten!" ("Mind the Distance!") the pupils first had the chance to test their skills with two remote-controlled model trains. A short presentation then explained the path from human control to the technical implementation of distance regulation, which was finally illustrated with a simulation model.
The activity was met with great interest, showing how exciting and accessible technology can be when experienced hands-on. A summary of the entire event can be found in this press release.

Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel (Technical University of Denmark) will give a talk on Dynamic price signals for indirect control of flexible energy resources at 01:00 pm online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Ulbrich (ETH Zürich) will give a talk on Agrarsysteme der Zukunft - Herausforderungen und Chancen des Vertical-Farmings at 04:00 pm in 2/W059. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Mathews Mgodi, student at Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (Tanzania) visits our lab during a research internship granted by DAAD scholarship for a Master’s thesis research.

Dr. ETH Dipl.-Ing. Moritz Gold (ETH Zürich) will give a talk on The Next Chapter of Insect Farming: New Frontiers for Profitability at 02:30 pm in 2/W015. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Asst. Prof. Tobias K. S. Ritschel (Technical University of Denmark) will give a talk on On mixture approximations for dynamical problems with distribution variables at 03:00 pm in 2/W059. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.

Prof. Jean Lévine (MINES ParisTech) will visit our lab as part of our joint DFG project "Characterizing and approximating the boundary of the admissible set".

The professorship warmly welcomes its new team member Xiaoxi Jia who will strengthen our team in the interdisciplinary optimization-based control.
Xiaoxi received her M.Sc. degree in mathematics (optimization) from Nanjing Normal University in China in 2020. She then obtained the Ph.D. degree in Optimization in 2023 from University of Würzburg in Germany with the focus on the analysis of the (safeguarded) augmented Lagrangian methods and the corresponding subproblem solvers for solving a series of structured optimization problems. After stays as a postdoctoral researcher at the Saarland University and University of Florence, she joined our group.

M. Sc. Sebastian Weickert (Universität Hohenheim) will give a talk on How sustainable is the production of microalgae protein compared to conventional sources? at 08:00 am online. Everybody is heartily invited. All past and future seminars can be found here.