September–October 2026 5th Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems (SCINDIS 2026), September 30–October 2, 2026, University of Bayreuth, Germany Topics included stability and control of PDEs and time-delay systems, input-to-state stability,& semigroup theory, and infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. August 2026 Educational School on Port-Hamiltonian Systems, August 14–15, 2026, University of Waterloo, Canada Organized by Kirsten Morris and Birgit Jacob, the school covered energy-based modeling, control and estimation, passivity, stability, boundary control of infinite-dimensional systems, and structure-preserving discretization. July 2026 Workshop on Recent Trends in Control and Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems, July 7, 2026, in conjunction with ECC 2026, Reykjavík, Iceland Organized by Nicolas Espitia, Jean Auriol, and Lassi Paunonen, the workshop addressed PDE control and estimation, backstepping, port-Hamiltonian systems, model predictive control, digital implementation, and data-driven and AI-enhanced methods. July 2026 African Control Systems Symposium (AFCONS 2026), Senegal. July 14–16, 2026 The symposium promoted research, education, and international collaboration in control systems, with scientific presentations, poster sessions, industry participation, and robotics demonstrations. March 2026 Special Issue on Estimation and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems (2026) TC members contributed to the organization of a special issue in the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, published by Oxford University Press. The issue brought together 18 papers by more than 50 researchers on topics including boundary control, observer design, stabilization, adaptive control, and event-triggered control. August 2025 Workshop on Learning, Estimation and Control for PDE Systems, August 24, 2025, IEEE CCTA 2025, San Diego, California, USA Organized by Shu-Xia Tang, Mamadou Diagne, and Leobardo Camacho Solorio, the full-day workshop covered learning based PDE methods, neural operators, boundary control, data-driven estimation, and battery and multiphysics applications in energy and mobility. 2025 Educational Outreach: “When Robotics Meet Controls” at the Pan-African Robotics Competition (PARC 2025), Senegal Co-organized by Mamadou Diagne, Fatima Kébé, and Sidy Ndao in collaboration with DAUST and IEEE CSS, this activity introduced students to control concepts through hands-on robotics challenges, including obstacle avoidance, sensor-based human–robot collaboration, and object manipulation. December 2024 Workshop on “Control and Adaptation: Imagine What’s Next.” December 15, 2024, in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024) Organized by Mamadou Diagne, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis, Shu-Xia Tang, Huan Yu, Tiago Roux Oliveira, Rafael Vazquez, and Iasson Karafyllis, the workshop celebrated Professor Miroslav Krstic’s 60th birthday and brought together researchers to discuss advances in nonlinear and adaptive control, PDE control, PDE–ODE systems, extremum seeking, and time-delay systems. August 2021 Canceled - 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, August 2021, Cambridge, UK. It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of the postponed 24th MTNS which was due to be held in Cambridge in August 2021 due to anticipated travel restrictions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic. The 25th MTNS will be held on 12-16 September 2022, Bayreuth, Germany. June 2021 European Control Conference, June 29-July 2, 2020, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. May 2021 American Control Conference, May 26-28, 2021, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. December 2020 Workshop at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control on Advanced Battery Management, December 12 & 13, 2020. See also the workshop website. 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC20, December 14-18, 2020, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, virtual event. Online TC Meeting during the 2020 IEEE CDC August 2020 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, August 24-28, 2020, Cambridge, UK. Postponed until August 2021 due to anticipated travel restrictions imposed by the covid-19 pandemic. July 2020 21st IFAC World Congress, July 12-17, 2020, Berlin, Germany. American Control Conference, July 1-3, 2020, Denver, USA. May 2020 European Control Conference, May 12‑15, 2020, Saint Petersburg, Russia. February 2020 EECI International Graduate School on Control 2020 - Modeling and control of nonlinear and distributed parameter systems: the port Hamiltonian approach, February 24-28, 2020, Paris Saclay, France. December 2019 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC19, December 11-13, 2019, Nice, France. July 2019 EECI International Graduate School on Control 2018 - PDE Control : theory, numerics and applications, July 15-27, 2019. American Control Conference, July 10-12, 2019, Philadelphia, USA. May 2019 3rd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations CPDE 2019 and XI Workshop Control of Distributed Parameter Systems (CDPS 2019). Oaxaca, Mexico, May 20-24, 2019 Spring School - Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems. Oaxaca, Mexico, May 16-18, 2019 April 2019 Spring School on Theory and Applications of Port-Hamiltonian Systems. Island Fraueninsel in the Lake Chiemsee, Gernany, 31 March - 5 April 2019 December 2018 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC18), December 17-19, 2018, Miami Beach, USA. Workshop on “Traffic Flow Control via PDE Techniques” (see http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~nlimperis/Workshop_CDC_2018.html for details) within CDC 2018 (https://cdc2018.ieeecss.org/workshops.php), on Sunday, December 16, 2018, at Miami Beach, FL, USA. October 2018 2nd Workshop on Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems (SCINDIS-2018), October 10 – 12, 2018, Würzburg, Germany September 2018 INFIDHEM-School on Control of Evolution Equations, September 30 - October 4, 2018, Wuppertal, Germany. July 2018 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, July 16-20, 2018, Hong Kong. June 2018 American Control Conference, June 27-29, 2018, Milwaukee, USA. May 2018 6th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non-Linear Control, May 2-4, 2018, Valparaiso, Chile. January 2018 Conference on Control theory of infinite-dimensional systems, Hagen, Germany, 10th to 12th January 2018. December 2017 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC17, December 12-15, 2017, Melbourne, Australia. Half Day Workshop Offered at the 56th CDC (Sunday 10 December 2017, 1PM-5PM), Distributed Parameter Systems: from theory to applications Speakers: Ruth F. Curtain, Kirsten Morris, Michael A. Demetriou, Sergiy Zhuk Organizers: Michael A. Demetriou, Orest V. Iftime http://cdc2017.ieeecss.org/workshops.php#WSH2 September 2017 7th edition of the School and Worksop on "PDE's, Optimal Design and Numerics” August 20 to September 1, 2017 July 2017 10th CDPS, Workshop on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, Bordeaux France, 3-7 July 2017 IFAC World Congress, Toulouse France, 10-14 July 2017 May 2017 American Control Conference, Seattle, USA, 24-26 May 2017 December 2016 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC16, December 12-14, 2016, Las Vegas, NV, USA. Alph day Workshop "New Trends in Control of Distributed Parameter Systems ", Las Vegas, 11 December 2016 October 2016 Workshop "Stability and Control of Infinite-Dimensional Systems", Passau, Germany, 12 - 14 October 2016 September 2016 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control 2016, September 19-22, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina. July 2016 American Control Conference, ACC16, July 6–8, Boston, MA, USA 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), July 11-15, 2016, Minneapolis, USA. June 2016 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations CPDE 2016, June 13-15 2016, Bertinoro Italy Summer school; An introduction to modelling and control of systems governed by PDEs, June 13 – 15, 2016 Bertinoro Italy March 2016 IMA Annual Program Year Workshop on Computational Methods for Control of Infinite-dimensional Systems, March 14-18, 2016 Minneapolis, USA.
