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Learning to Control Unknown Strongly Monotone Games

 03.03.2026   11:1512:00

Speaker: Siddharth Chandak, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University, USA
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Foundation Models Meet Control: Promises, Pitfalls, and Open Questions

 05.03.2026   11:0012:00

Speaker: Prof. Simone Formentin, Associate Professor of Automatic Control Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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Reward Model Learning vs Direct Preference Optimization: A Comparative Analysis of Learning from Human Preferences

 13.02.2026   11:1512:00

Speaker: Andi Nika, doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Learning Equilibria in Strategic Asymmetric Environments

 11.02.2026   11:1512:00

Speaker: Francesco Bacchiocchi, ELLIS PhD student in ELLIS PhD student in Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano,Italy
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Learning the Learners: A Meta-Learning Approach for System Identification

 10.02.2026   14:0015:30

Speaker: Prof Dario Piga Professor at the SUPSI–IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland. Dr Marco Forgione, Senior Researcher, IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland.
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

From Predictions to Decisions in Dynamic Strategic Environments

 05.02.2026   11:1512:00

Speaker: Aymeric Capitaine, PhD student at École Polytechnique/Inria Paris, France
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Sample-Efficient Active Learning from Human Feedback

 07.01.2026   11:1512:00

Speaker: Belen Martin-Urcelay, PhD Giorgia Tech, USA
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Data-driven Analysis of First-Order Methods via Distributionally Robust Optimization

 06.01.2026   11:0012:00

Speaker: Bartolomeo Stellato Assistant Professor Princeton University Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Instant-Optimal Algorithms for Pure Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

 02.12.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Cyrille Kone, PhD, University of Lille
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Optimizing Robotic Systems at All Scales

 02.12.2025   16:0017:00

Speaker: Assistant Professor Brian K. Plancher, Computer Science at Dartmouth College, USA.
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Real-time control of critical infrastructure in times of scarcity

 01.12.2025   14:0015:00

Speaker: Sophie Hall, PhD student at ETH Zurich 
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

BIG Hype: Best Intervention in Games via Distributed Hypergradient Descent

 31.10.2025   14:0015:00

Speaker: Mr. Panagiotis Grontas, PhD Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA), ETH Zurich.
Location:  ME C2 405 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Policy Gradient Methods in Repeated Games Joint work with Domenico Mergoni and Ed Plumb

 30.10.2025   10:3011:30

Speaker: Dr Galit Ashkenazi-Golan, Assistant Professor at the department of mathematics, LSE, UK
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Pick-to-Learn for Systems and Control: Data-driven design with state-of-the art safety guarantees

 16.06.2025   15:0016:00

Speaker: Prof Dario Paccagnan,  Associate Professor at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Quantum computing through the lens of control: Introduction and robustness properties

 13.06.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Julian Berberich is a Lecturer (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

A Separation Principle for data-driven predictive control – the role of models and beyond

 06.06.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Chiuso, Ph.D. – IEEE Fellow
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

MechE Colloquium: Learning of Complex Dynamical Systems in Adversarial Environments with Applications to Power Systems

 20.05.2025   12:0013:00

Speaker: Prof. Javad Lavaei, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
Location:  MED 0 1418 &  Online
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Robustness of accelerated first-order optimization algorithms

 16.05.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Mihailo Jovanovic is a professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the founding director of the Center for Systems and Control at the University of Southern California, USA.
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Enhancing Cyber-resilience in Cyber-Physical Microgrids

 02.05.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Dr Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at the University of Manchester, UK
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control with Stability Guarantees

 14.04.2025   14:0015:00

Speaker: Sucheth Shenoy, Master Student  Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Control and estimation of multi-agent systems via structured multi-marginal optimal transport

 11.04.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Professor Johan Karlsson KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Stochastic Safety and Safe Decisions

 04.04.2025   11:0012:00

Speaker: Rafal Wisniewski, Professor and Deputy Head for research in the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark
Location:  ME C2 405
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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