Trends in Data-driven Control of Dynamics
September 28 - 30, 2026
Our environment is known to be more complicated than mathematical models can describe. In recent years, real-world data have been discovered as relevant source of additional information. This workshop focuses on various challenges at the interfaces between mathematics and applications. Topics of interest include, among others:
- Approximating orbits, manifolds and limit sets
- Stabilizing dynamical systems by feedback
- Continuation with noninvasive control schemes
- Equation-free methods for large systems
- Invariant sets in dynamics
- Rigorous aspects of data-driven methods
- Uncertainties: deterministic & stochastic concepts
- Real applications in science and engineering
Invited speakers
- David A. W. Barton (U Bristol, UK)
- Dirk Blömker (U Augsburg, GER)
- Rinaldo M. Colombo (U Brescia, IT)
- Harry Dankowicz (U Maryland, USA)
- Babette de Wolff (U Hamburg, GER)
- Michael E. Henderson (IBM Research, USA)
- Oliver Junge (TU Munich, GER)
- Yannis G. Kevrekidis (Johns Hopkins U, USA)
- Peter E. Kloeden (U Tübingen, GER)
- Péter Koltai (U Bayreuth, GER)
- Bernd Krauskopf (U Auckland, NZL)
- Christian Kühn (TU Munich, GER)
- Robert C. Melville (IEEE Senior fellow, USA)
- Hinke M. Osinga (U Auckland, NZL)
- Kathrin Padberg-Gehle (U Lüneburg, GER)
- Jens Rademacher (U Hamburg, GER)
- Ghislain Raze (U Liège, BE)
- Ludovic Renson (Imperial College, UK)
- Jan Sieber (U Exeter, UK)
- Constantinos Siettos (U Naples, IT)
- Karl Worthmann (TU Ilmenau, GER)
Talks
Titles (confirmed so far)
- David A. W. Barton (U Bristol, UK): How Close are we to Autonomous Experimentation With Nonlinear Structures?
- Rinaldo M. Colombo (U Brescia, IT): Inverse Design for Data Reconstruction in Conservation Laws
- Harry Dankowicz (U Maryland, USA): Ultra-High-Gain Sensor Design Using Self-Excited Template Dynamics and Data-Driven Learning
- Babette de Wolff (U Hamburg, GER): Delay-dependent Synchronisation Phenomena in Coupled Oscillator Networks
- Michael E. Henderson (IBM Research, USA): The Image of a Manifold Under a Flow or Map
- Oliver Junge (TU Munich, GER): Entropic Transfer Operators
- Peter E. Kloeden (U Tübingen, GER): Robustness of a Dynamical Systems Model with a Plastic Self-Organising Vector Field to Noisy Input Signals
- Péter Koltai (U Bayreuth, GER): Noise-induced Amplification of Persistence: Stochastic Inertia
- Bernd Krauskopf (U Auckland, NZL): An Excitable System with Delayed Feedback as a Memory Element
- Christian Kühn (TU Munich, GER): Uncertainty Quantification of Dynamical Systems
- Robert C. Melville (IEEE Senior fellow, USA): Derivative-free Generation of Curves and Surfaces Defined Implicitly With Experimental Applications
- Hinke M. Osinga (U Auckland, NZL): Response of Pulsing Oscillators to any Abrupt and Possibly Strong Perturbations
- Ghislain Raze (U Liège, BE): Experimental Applications of Arclength Continuation
- Jan Sieber (U Exeter, UK): Non-invasive Control in the Limit of Large Numbers
Location
University of Rostock
Institute of Mathematics
Ulmenstraße 69, Building 3
18057 Rostock (Germany)
Organizers
Jens Starke and Thomas Lorenz
Mail: ddc “at” uni-rostock.de

