As a part of our semester programme, we organise a workshop on “Theory of Control and Reinforcement Learning” on June 19-20, 2025 at CWI, Amsterdam.
Register here for the workshop
We invite contributions for talks and/or posters from researchers in the theory of control and RL, especially ones bridging them. The organisers will select talks based on topic and available slots. For contributed talks, we will confirm the speakers by May 4th, 2025. Attendance without presenting is welcome as well.
Registration deadline: 26 May 2025.
Anuradha Annaswamy is the Founder and Director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She previously held faculty positions at Yale and Boston University, and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Her research interests span adaptive control theory and its applications to aerospace, automotive, propulsion, and energy systems as well as cyber-physical systems such as Smart Grids, Smart Cities, and Smart Infrastructures. She has received best paper awards (Axelby, 1986; CSM, 2010; IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, 2021-23), Distinguished Member and Distinguished Lecturer awards from the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), and a Presidential Young Investigator award from NSF, 1991-97. She is a Fellow of IEEE and the International Federation of Automatic Control and recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Science for 2021. She received the IEEE Control Systems Technology Award from CSS in 2024.
Anu Annaswamy is the author of a graduate textbook on adaptive control, co-editor of two vision documents on smart grids and two editions of the Impact of Control Technology report, and editor of IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, the IFAC Annual Reviews in Control, and Asian Journal of Control. She has co-authored two National Academies consensus reports: The Future of Electric Power in the United States (2021) and The Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System (2023). She served as the President of CSS in 2020. Currently, Dr. Annaswamy serves as President-elect of the American Automatic Control Council and as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Control Systems magazine. Dr. Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985.
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09:00 - 09:30 Registration and tea/coffee
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome
09:45 - 10:45 Emilie Kaufmann, Univ. Lille, CNRS- CRIStAL, Inria, France
10:45 - 11:15 break
11:15 - 12:15 Gergely Neu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Contributed talks
15:00 - 15:30 break
15:30 - 16:30 Tim van Erven, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
16:30 - 17:30 Roxana Rădulescu, Utrecht University, Netherlands
17:30 - 19:00 Posters and Discussion with drinks/bites
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and tea/coffee
09:30 - 10:30 Jan Peters, Technische Universität Darmstadt, DFKI, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 break
11:00 - 12:00 Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT, USA
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Poster session
13:30 - 14:30 (TBA)
14:30 - 15:30 (TBA)
15:30 - 16:00 break
16:00 - 17:00 Contributed talks
17:00 - 18:00 Posters and Discussion with tea/coffee
The conference will be held in the Turing room at the Congress Centre of Amsterdam Science Park, next to Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).
Address: Science Park 125, 1098 XG Amsterdam.
Please be aware that hotel prices in Amsterdam can be quite steep. We strongly recommend all participants to secure their hotel reservations as early as possible!
Hotel Recommendations
* Generator Hostel
* MEININGER Hotel (Amsterdam Amstel)
* Hotel Casa
* The Manor Amsterdam
* The Lancaster Hotel Amsterdam
From these hotels, the venue can be reached in 15-30 minutes with public transport. In all public transportation, you can check in and out with a Mastercard or Visa contactless credit card and also with Apple Pay and Google Wallet.
Sharing a hotel room is a great way to reduce costs! If you are attending and are interested in room-sharing arrangements, please send an email to events@cwi.nl .
