Recent Trends in Optimization and Control
Follow-up Workshop
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LocationCIGASSCheikh Anta Diop University Dakar, Senegal | |||||||
| Contact: optcon@igpm.rwth-aachen.de |
Organizing & Scientific Committee
- Mapundi Banda (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- Berhanu Belayneh (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
- Jan Friedrich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Michael Herty (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Babacar Ndiaye (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal)
- Diaraf Seck (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal)
Invited Speakers
- Montaz Ali (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
- Jean Medard Ngnochouye (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
- Volker Schulz (Trier University, Germany)
Scientific Overview
After our successful workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, this follow-up workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to strengthen and expand the previously established connections to create a collaborative research environment as a basis for future research collaborations. The main objective of this workshop is to present recent results and to exchange ideas on the current scientific topics in opimization and control, and on the continuation of the established network in the future.Participants: | The workshop is intended for invited researchers from Africa and Germany only. There is no open registration. The field of participants will consist of participants from the last workshop and new researchers from Africa. |
Workshop: | During the workshop researchers will give talks and review some of the major topics and new trends in the area. |
Optimization and control have many applications in various fields of applied science and engineering, also with particular relevance for sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. in the field of infrastructure, health, and mobility. Many real life problems are described as highly complex mathematical models, which are subject to optimization and control. While a careful mathematical analysis and their solution methods may not solve directly the mentioned problems, the improved understanding through optimization models will provide important contributions.