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Many members of the institute met on October 5th, 2026 to welcome the new semester with an entertaining game of disc golf and a meal together.

Our paper entitled "An Alternating Optimization Approach for Robust Optimal Control in Chromatography" by Dominik H. Cebulla, Andrea Gilch, Jan Rolfes, Christian Kirches, and Frauke Liers has been accepted for publication in the journal Optimization and Engineering.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the German-Polish Conference on Optimization Methods and Applications 2026 in Białystok, Poland.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) Annual Meeting 2026 in Constance, Germany.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the 29th Workshop on Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization (FRICO) in Berlin, Germany.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the "JuliaCon Global 2026" in Mainz, Germany.

The article "A Two-Stage Optimization Approach for Selecting Electric-Flight Airports" by Imke Joormann, Frederic Kroner, and Andreas Tillmann was published in Networks.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the International Conference on Bilevel Optimization in Pittsburgh, USA.

The article "Toward Robust Optimal Control of Chromatographic Separation Processes With Controlled Flow Reversal" by Dominik H. Cebulla, Christian Kirches, and Andreas Potschka was published in Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.

The contributions entitled "ADMM for Block-Structured Large-Scale Quadratic Programs" by Michel Lahmann, Artemi Makarow, Martin T. Köhler, and Christian Kirches, "Optimal Control of Semilinear Graphon Dynamical Systems" by Martin T. Köhler, Artemi Makarow, and Christian Kirches, as well as "Selecting Between Network Structures in Graphon Dynamical Systems" by Lena Schadt, Martin T. Köhler, and Christian Kirches have been accepted at the Conference on Decision and Control 2026 (CDC26) in…

Our paper entitled "Fast Switching in Mixed-Integer Model Predictive Control" by Artemi Makarow and Christian Kirches has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

The journal paper "ADMM for Block-Structured Large-Scale Quadratic Programs" by Michel Lahmann, Artemi Makarow, Martin T. Köhler, and Christian Kirches has been accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS).

There were several contributions by the institute at the "SIAM Conference on Optimization 2026" in Edinburgh, UK.

The article "Decision-dependent robust optimization with elementwise controllable uncertainty sets" by Eva Ley, Rebecca Marx, Maximilian Merkert, Tim Niemann and Sebastian Stiller was published in OR Spectrum.

A contribution by the institute was presented at the "American Control Conference 2026 (ACC)" in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.