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