Scientific Programme

VC2025, 15 to 18 July 2025, TU Wien

Conference Programme

Arrival day/welcome reception: Mensa, 18:00 until 21:00 July 14, 2025

The conference Desk is open for the collection of conference packs from 17:00 – 19:00

Conference begin: HS1 (red) 08:30 July 15, 2025

The conference desk is open from 07:45

Conference dinner: Doors open 19:30 July 15, 2025, evening (Wiener Rathaus)

Discussion dinner:19:00 July 17, 2025, evening (Heuriger, optional)

Conference end: July 18, 2025

Venue: Freihaus, TU Wien

VC2025 Full conference Booklet, revised 15.07.2025 (pdf)

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VC2025 Scientific Program Overview

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  • Organising Committee

    A. Daniilidis (Chair)

    J. Haunschmied

    F. Stark-McNeilly

    S. Tapia Garcia

    G. Tragler

    J. Tridon

    V.M. Veliov

     

  • Scientific Committee

    A. Daniilidis, AT (Chair)

    R. Bot, AT

    G. Feichtinger, AT

    H. Frankowska, FR

    S. Gaubert, FR

    L. Grüne, DE

    J. Haunschmied

    K. Kunisch, AT

    A. Prskawetz, AT

    W. Semmler, US

    G. Tragler, AT

    V.M. Veliov, AT

  • Invited Speakers

    R. Boucekkine, Aix-Marseille Université, FR

    P. Cardaliaguet, Université Paris Dauphine, FR

    X. Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK

    B. Kaltenbacher, University of Klagenfurt, AT

    A. Kugi, TU Wien, AT

    G. Wachsmuth, Brandenburgische Technische Universität, DE

  • Special Sessions

    The programme comprises 5 parallel sessions over 4 days

    Stream 1

    M. AKIAN/D. VASQUEZ – Hamilton-Jacobi equations for optimal control and games: new trends in numerical and analytical aspects

    A. ALPHONSE / M. HINTERMÜLLER – Topics in nonsmooth optimization and control – session withdrawn

    R. BAIER/E. FARKHI – Set-valued mappings in approximation, control and optimization

    R. BOT/Y. MALITSKYI/A. DANIILIDIS – Continuous optimization and applications

    K. BREDIES – Optimization in inverse problems

    M. DAMBRINE – Advances in shape optimization

    H. FRANKOWSKA/M. QUINCAMPOIX – Control of systems in Wasserstein spaces

    S. GAUBERT/ G. VIGERAL – Operator and algebraic methods for games

    N. HAYEK/S. PICKENHAIN- Control of dynamic systems and games with applications

    A. KHAN/C. GUTIERREZ/M. SAMA/ C. TAMMER – Uncertainty quantification in optimization, optimal control, and identification

    L. MALLOZZI – Variational Methods and Transportation Problems

    S. RODRIGUES – Feedback control and stabilization of nonlinear PDEs

    A. RÖSCH/J.PFEFFERER – Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization

    K. STURM/GANGL – Topology optimisation: theory, numerics and applications

    S. TANG/K. ZHANG – Optimal control, backward stochastic differential equations and related topics

    H. ZIDANI – Control problems in some metric spaces – session withdrawn

    Stream 2

    A. CALVIA/E. BANDINI/ K. COLANERI – Stochastic control and applications

    H. DAWID – Industry dynamics

    L. DENG – Recents advances in economic dynamics

    D. DRAGONE – Advances in health economic models of individual behavior – session withdrawn

    F. EL OUARDIGHI/G. FEICHTINGER/S. WRZACZEK – Do nonlinear feedback Nash equilibrium strategies really exist?

    G. FABBRI/S. FAGGIAN/ F. GOZZI – Mathematical models for human impact on the environment

    M. FREIBERGER – Dynamic responses of heterogeneous actors to disaster risk

    D. GHILLI/M. LEOCATA – Mean field control and mean field games and economic applications

    F. GOZZI/F. MASIERO/ G. ZANCO – Infinite dimensional optimal control and differential games in economics

    L. GRÜNE/K. WORTHMANN – Learning methods in optimal and predictive control

    P. KORT – Dynamics of the firm

    M. KUHN – Modelling disruptive changes and resilience in economic-environment systems

    R. NECK – Dynamic macroeconomics

    A. PRSKAWETZ , M. SANCHEZ – Heterogeneity and inequality in population economics

    W. SEMMLER – Using Model Predictive Control,  Reinforcement Learning, and Related Methods for Risk Control

    T. UPMANN/D. GROMOV – Dynamic management of natural resources

    S. WRZACZEK/M. FREIBERGER/ M. KUHN – Economics of climate change

    S. WRZACZEK/R. NECK – Dynamic games in economics

     

     

  • VC2025 Scope

    1. Optimal Control (ODF, PDE)
    2. Dynamic Games/Mean Field Games
    3. Continuous Optimization; Shape Optimization
    4. Mathematical Economics
    5. Industrial Applications