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https://modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de
#ModConFlex' third Network Meeting took place at Besançon (France).

The meeting started with the project management meeting, followed by the 13 Ph.D. students presentations - and one presentation prize. Followed by several days of scientific and complementary teaching.

#MSCA
#horizonEU
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
How does AI know how you feel?

Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!

For more details, see the event's webpage:

nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...

#horizonEU
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
How does AI know how you feel?

Join our ModConFlex members Albert Alcalde and Giovanni Fantuzzi at Erlangen's Long Night of Science on 25 October to find out!

For more details, see the event's webpage:

nacht-der-wissenschaften.de/2025/sentime...

#horizonEU
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Usually, #ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau works at the University of Bordeaux.

Currently, he is spending two months at the University of Wuppertal.

On Wednesday, he presented his research on floating objects to the Work Group.

#horizonEU
#MSCA
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#ModConFlex researcher Alan Valadez presented his work on

“Enhancing Grid Stability with Synchronverter-Based Control for Grid-Side Converters in Wind Power Systems”

at ECCE Europe 2025 (Birmingham).

#HorizonEU

#WindPower
#SyntheticInertia
#GridForming
#PowerElectronics

#OffshoreWind
September 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New method to model the complex, flexible motion of aircraft wings.

M. A. Sinani, R. Palacios and A. Wynn: "Physics-Informed Data-Driven Modelling of Nonlinear Aerodynamic Forces of the Pazy Wing", 2025, AIAA SciTech Forum, 6-10 January, Orlando

#machineLearning
#aerospaceEngineering
August 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Congratulations to Marius Tucsnak, who received the W.T. and Idalia Reid prize at the Third Joint SIAM/CAIMs Annual Meeting last week:

www.siam.org/publications...

Marius Tucsnak is the ModConFlex Consortium member @univbordeaux.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Tonight, #ModConFlex will be on TV!

A few weeks ago, a small team from regional TV passed by @uni-wuppertal.bsky.social to meet with our coordinator and one of the PhD students. In 2 days here:

www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/loka... (in German, though - we will translate in a few days).

#HorizonEU
July 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#ModConFlex researcher Mario Sinani co-authored

"Capturing & Bounding Nonlinear Modal Energy Transfer for Geometrically Exact Beams using Semi-Definite Programming"

css.paperplaza.net/images/temp/...

#nonlinearStructuralDynamics #aeroelastics
June 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Last week, several #ModConFlex researchers presented at the 5th IFAC Workshop - CDPE 2025 - at Beijing. A group of 8 from the project attended

Ignacio Diaz and Bouchra Elghazi were on the shortlist for the Young Author Award and Bouchra even won the prize in the end. Congratulations!

#HorizonEU
June 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#ModcConFlex researcher Maddalen Irigoien and Prof. George Weiss from Tel Aviv University visited #MSCA project colleague Alan Valadez during his stay at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Many thanks to the "Real Time Systems for Energy Technologies" group at KIT:
www.itep.kit.edu/rtset/english/
June 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New paper by #ModConFlex researcher Zhuo Xu on the robustness of a fluid-particle interaction system.

"A distinctive feature, not yet considered in the ISS literature, is that our system involves a free boundary..."

arxiv.org/abs/2505.08393

#PDE

#MSCA
#HorizonEU
May 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
At the 2025 #GirlsDay #MSCA researcher Bouchra Elghazi explained the idea behind her mathematical research with a pen - balancing it on her palm and talking about dynamical systems and controls in a very illustrative way.

The 15 students from different schools also met with professor Birgit Jacob.
May 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
#ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau co-authored a study of small oscillations of a floating cylinder:

#existence, #uniqueness and #regularity results for the #solutions of the governing #equations.

arxiv.org/abs/2504.20523

#wellposedness
#waterwaves
#floatingbodies
#floatingWindTurbines
May 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Several PhD students and supervisors from the #ModConflex #EUhorizon #MSCA project met - and presented - at the Spring School on Theory and Applications of Port-Hamiltonian Systems (PHS2025) last week.

For program details and some more photos, see www.epc.ed.tum.de/rt/phs2025/
April 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Paper on global #exponential #stabilization (including the position of the particle) for fluid-particle interaction system: design of a PD control acting on the particle.

by #ModConFlex researcher Zhuo Xu and Marius Tucsnak.

#globalStabilization
#globalWellPosedness

arxiv.org/abs/2501.11446
March 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
As of today, we have 12 papers by #ModConFlex researchers on our website.

That is on average one paper every two months since the start of our #MSCA project - great. Thanks to everyone for their contribution!

modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/publicati...

#HorizonEU
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
"Approximate and Weighted Data Reconstruction Attack in Federated Learning":
👉 private data can be reconstructed from shared information in #federatedLearning
👉 emphasizing need for stronger defense mechanisms to protect user privacy

#gradientInversion
#MachineLearning
#ArtificialIntelligence
February 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
How can a central server effectively use a limited reward budget to motivate distributed clients to cooperate?

*A Potential Game Perspective in Federated Learning* on arXiv:

arxiv.org/abs/2411.11793

#gametheory
#federatedlearning

#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning

#HorizonEU
#MSCA
January 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The first #ModConFlex network meeting took place in Nov 2023 at the University of Twente with 12 researchers (PhD students) and their supervisors.

The researchers stayed for some days of learning.
Videos / slides of teaching available:

modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/de/teaching-...

#HorizonEU
January 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our presently 13 #MSCA researchers (PhD students) have an #engineering, #physics and/or #mathematics background.

More on the PhD students and their research on #ArtificialIntelligence over #ControlTheory and floating #WindTurbines to #FlexibleAircraft:

modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/de/modconfle...
January 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#ModConFlex Researcher Kaja Khrač co-authored a paper on #PortHamiltonian systems with #EnergyPorts and #PowerPorts.

Introducing port-Hamiltonian systems with energy ports allows to treat constrained and input-output Hamiltonian systems under the same hat.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Co-authored by #ModConFlex #MSCA researcher Zhuo Xu: "LQR control for a system describing the interaction between a floating solid and the surrounding fluid": on #mathematics of #solid moving on the #sea and #control acting on the solid

#floatingwindfarms
#offshorewind

arxiv.org/abs/2406.08072
December 9, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Here are two graphics from "Stability analysis for multi-machine power systems with constant power loads" by Yoash Levron, Alan Valadez and George Weiss:
December 9, 2024 at 1:51 PM
#MSCA researcher Albert Alcalde co-authored "Clustering in pure-attention hardmax transformers and its role in sentiment analysis"

#Transformers
#mathematical properties remain poorly understood.
#Interpretability is a key property for these #AI models.

#HorizonEU
arxiv.org/abs/2407.01602
December 5, 2024 at 9:20 AM