The conference honours the scientific life of Rainer Picard of his first 80 years and will be held at TU Dresden. There will be scientific talks on the 27th and 28th of July 2026, with the conference dinner on the evening of the 27th. 

Organising Committee

Ralph Chill, Sebastian Franz, Dirk Pauly, Sascha Trostorff, Marcus Waurick

Participants (list is updated regularly):

Rainer Picard (of course)

Bernhard Aigner

Hans-Dieter Alber

Gabriel Barrenechea

Sebastian Bauer (tbc)

Martin Berggren

Fairouz Bouchelaghem

Andreas Buchinger

Ralph Chill (tbc)

Michael Doherty

Eva Fasangova (tbc)

Sebastian Franz

Desmond McGhee

Ulrich Langer

Dirk Pauly

Marianna Porfido

Michael Reissig

Reinhard Racke

Wolfgang Ruess

Herimamy Theogenie Rafenomanantsoa  

Felix Schwenninger (tbc)

Christian Seifert

Stefan Siegmund (tbc)

Joseline Doriane Simo Tekeu

Werner Timmermann

Sascha Trostorff

Carsten Trunk

Werner Varnhorn

Hendrik Vogt

Marcus Waurick

Martin Weber

Bold faced letters are confirmed speakers.

Registration via Email to the organisers.

Schedule:

Monday 

 9:00 -- 9:05 Opening / 9:05 -- 10:45  Talks / 10:45 -- 11:15  Coffee break / 11:15 -- 12:00 Talk / 12:00 -- 13:45 Lunch break / 13:45 -- 15:25 Talks / 15:25 -- 15:55  Coffeee break / 15:55 - 16:40 Talk / From 17:30 till late Conference Dinner

Tuesday

9:05 -- 10:45  Talks / 10:45 -- 11:15  Coffee break / 11:15 -- 12:00 Talk; Closing and lunch after that.

The workshop Asymptotics 2024 was held at TU Bergakademie Freiberg from the 10th to 13th of June 2024. Researchers from 9 different countries discussed possible connections and common interests in the area of homogenisation and stability theory.

Invited speakers were 

Charles Batty (U Oxford)

Carolin Kreisbeck (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

Stefan Neukamm (TU Dresden)

Claudia Timofte (U Bucharest).

The social programme consisted of a 3 hours guided tour in the silver mines of Freiberg.

The workshop took place at TU Bergakademie Freiberg between the dates

18th of July 2022 and 22nd of July 2022. 

The conference focussed  on control theory and applications (predominantly) in     the area of partial differential equations. Apart from talks by experienced researchers there were extended poster-sessions for PhD-candidates and/or PostDocs     with a poster prize sponsored by Birkhäuser/Springer; the winners are

First Poster Prize Manuel Schaller (TU Ilmenau)

Runner Up Hannes Gernandt (TU Berlin)

Runner Up Michael Doherty (University of Strathclyde)

The proceedings of WOSTAP 2022 will be published in the Birkhäuser Book Series: Trends in Mathematics and has the title

Systems Theory and PDEs - Open Problems, Recent Results, and New Directions