Scientific Programme

VC2025, 15 to 18 July 2025, TU Wien

Planning for the 16th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games is well underway and the majority of speakers and special sessions have been confirmed.  This page will be updated with additional details, as they emerge.

  • Organising Committee

    A. Daniilidis (Chair)

    J. Haunschmied

    F. Stark-McNeilly

    S. Tapia Garcia

    G. Tragler

    V.M. Veliov

     

  • Scientific Committee

    A. Daniilidis, AT (Chair)

    R. Bot, AT

    G. Feichtinger, AT

    H. Frankowska, FR

    S. Gaubert, FR

    L. Grüne, DE

    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

    5 parallel sessions over 4 days (approximately 35 – 40 sessions)

    R. BOT/Y. MALITSKY/A. DANIILIDIS – Continuous Optimization and Applications

    K. BREDIES – TBC

    M. DAMBRINE – Advances in shape optimization

    H. DAWID – Industry dynamics

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

    G. FABBRI – Mathematical models for human impact on the environment

    S. FAGGIAN – Infinite dimensional optimal control and differential games in economics

    S. FEDERICO/G. FERRARI – Stochastic Control and Applications

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

    F. GOZZI – Mean field control and mean field games and economic applications

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

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

    P. KORT – Dynamics of the firm

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

    L. MALLOZZI – Variational Methods and Transportation Problems

    R. NECK – Dynamic macroeconomics

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

    A. PRSKAWETZ – Heterogeneity and inequality in population economics

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

    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

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

    D. VASQUEZ – Numerical and analytical aspects for optimal control – Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations (TBC)

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

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

    H. ZIDANI – Control problems in some metric spaces

     

    Additional session organiser names and titles to be confirmed.

     

  • VC2025 Scope

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