Prof. Dr. Christian Kirches organised a minisymposium on "PDE-Constrained Optimization", Dr. Dominik Quehl-Cebulla presented "An Alternating Optimization Approach for Robust Optimal Control in Chromatography", Martin Köhler gave a talk about "Practical Optimization Methods for Computing the Cut Norm" and Eva Ley spoke on "Solving Partial Inverse Combinatorial Optimization Problems" at the "SIAM Conference on Optimization 2026" in Edinburgh, UK.