Internal ALeSCo Workshop (DFG Research Unit)

Monday, April 27, 2026, 14:00 - Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 14:00

Room 02-016/18, Georges-Koehler-Allee 101, Freiburg 79110, Germany

Contacts: For any questions feel free to contact Leonard

Locations:

  • Faculty of Engineering: Room 02-016/18, Georges-Köhler-Allee 101, 79110 Freiburg, Google Maps
  • Lunch (Monday, Tuesday): Mensa Flugplatz, Georges-Köhler-Allee 082, 79100 Freiburg, Google Maps
  • Lunch (Wednesday): Kashmir Restaurant, Elsässer Str. 71, 79110 Freiburg im Breisgau, Google Maps
  • Dinner: Chada Thai, Richard-Wagner-Straße 24, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, Google Maps 

Freiburg mobility services:

Freiburg has a reliable tram service and many bike roads.

  • You can buy tickets on the tram/bus or from the mobile app of VAG (local transportation company)  GooglePlay, AppStore
  • You can rent Frelo bikes at the Frelo stations located around the city, e.g., you can ride your bike for 30 mins and then bring it back to a Frelo station Frelo website.

Participants

 

Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)

  • Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
  • Dr. Victor Lopez
  • D. Julian Schiller
  • Yi Yang

 

Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)

  • Prof. Dr. Timm Faulwasser
  • Alex Erdin
  • Jens Püttschneider

 

Technische Universität Ilmenau (TUIL)

  • Prof. Dr. Karl Worthmann
  • Lea Bold
  • Johannes Heeg
  • Emilia Krendelsberger

 

Technische Universität München (TUM)

  • Prof. Dr. Sandra Hirche
  • Sami Noel Aziz Hanna
  • Konrad Reichel
  • Max Beier

 

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (UFR)

  • Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl
  • Florian Messerer
  • Katrin Baumgärtner
  • Leonard Fichtner

 

National University of Singapore (NUS)

  • Dr. Armin Lederer

 

Schedule

 

Talks in more detail

 

Talk MERCATOR Fellow

Event-Triggered Online Learning for Safe Control (Dr. Armin Lederer)

Project P1

  • Neural network training with persistence of excitation (Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller)
  • Training feedforward neural networks via moving horizon estimation (Yi Yang)
  • Performance guarantees for recurrent neural network training via turnpike properties (Dr. Julian Schiller)
  • Output-feedback Q-learning for nonlinear systems with Koopman linear embedding (Dr. Victor Lopez)

Project P2

Neural Network Training and Optimal Control (Prof. Dr. Timm Faulwasser, Jens Püttschneider)

Project P3

TBA

Project P4

Safe active learning control with Gaussian processes 
(Prof. Dr. Sandra Hirche, Konrad Reichel, Sami Noel Aziz Hanna)

Project P5

  • Active learning for stochastic economic model predictive control - nonlinear optimization formulations and numerical methods (Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl)
  • FoggyEnv: A simple example for dual control (Leonard Fichtner)
  • Optimal control in belief space (Katrin Baumgärtner)
  • Internal feedback optimization for stochastic MPC (Florian Messerer)

Project P6

Benchmarks for Active Learning in Systems and Control 
(Prof. Dr. Sandra Hirche, Prof. Dr. Timm Faulwasser, Max Beier, Alex Erdin)