ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Last week, I visited WindEnergy Hamburg, and one of my first stops was the Controllab stand. It was great to catch up with Paul, whom I had the chance to work with during my secondment at Controllab over the winter. I also got to try their offshore crane simulator." by ModConFlex researcher Kaja. 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Researcher Filippo Testa visited ONERA - the French Aerospace Lab - for 3 months. He worked at the Applied Maths department. Many thanks to ONERA and Sébastien Pernet for hosting him! Learn more about Filippo and his #ModConFlex experience ⤵️ www.youtube.com/shorts/xLKlQ... #MSCA #EUhorizon 022
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Alan Valadez presented “Reactive-Priority Current Limiting for LVRT of Synchronverters” at #ECCE2026 at Valencia. Alan is a researcher at ORE Catapult and a PhD student at Tel Aviv University. #PowerElectronics #PowerSystems #EUhorizon #MSCA #ModConFlex 111
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026#ModConFlex researcher Bouchra Elghazi presented at the MTNS 2026 at Waterloo. Right after attending the attached pH School, where two supervisors from ModConFlex taught (B. Jacob and Y. Le Gorrec) and H. Ramirez who taught Boundary Controlled pH Systems at the 2025 ModConFlex network meet. #MSCA 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The author of the article in our last post bsky.app/profile/modc..., ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau, talks about the benefits of interdisciplinary and international experience (and more): youtube.com/shorts/-4OPI... Vicente is a PhD student at Université de Bordeaux. #MSCA #EUhorizon 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026New publication by V. Ocqueteau and M. Tucsnak in the Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: They study the small vertical motion of a floating cylinder. link.springer.com/article/10.1... arxiv.org/abs/2504.20523 #AppliedMathematics #FluidMechanics #MathematicalPhysics #WellPosedness #MSCA 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Meet Ziqi Wang, PhD student at @faudcnavh.bsky.social and (co)author of several articles on machine learning. How did he benefit from being a #MSCA researcher? What is he going to take away for the future? You also learn a little about the #ModConFlex project. youtu.be/KJPbQF4r8GQ?... #EUhorizon 021
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The choice was once again not an easy one - and not for lack of good presentations. This year's prize for the best presentation at the #ModConFlex network meeting goes to Mario Sinani from Imperial College London. Congratulations!! #msca #HorizonEU 121
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Wuppertal summer uni invites interested young women from 10th grade on to participate in a week of university experience. ModConFlex researcher Kaja Krhaç presented a lively introduction into "How do mathematicians think?" to 40 students. #msca #HorizonEU #ModConFlex 021
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 02/07/2026#ModConFlex represented with two sessions at ECC Reykjavik next week, organised by Yann Le Gorrec. See here for the programme: controls.papercept.net/conferences/... controls.papercept.net/conferences/... ecc26.euca-ecc.org #HorizonEU #msca 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 29/06/2026At the beginning of June, the #ModConFlex conference brought together scientists from academia and industry to present and discuss research in Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures Interacting with Fluids. More: modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/network-m... #msca #horizonEU 021
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 18/06/2026On Tuesday, #ModConFlex' annual network and training meeting came to a close. The event once again provided an excellent opportunity for intensive discussions of research results and future plans - both in smaller and larger groups. Research ➡️ modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/publicati... #MSCA 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Congratulations to Zhuo, who successfully defended his thesis on the Stabilization of systems describing the motion of rigid bodies interacting with a fluid at Bordeaux university this week. The first #ModConFlex researcher to defend his thesis! #msca #HorizonEU 031
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thanks to the Würzburg university for hosting #MSCA researcher A. Alcalde, resulting in: Quantifying Concentration Phenomena of Mean-Field Transformers in the Low-Temperature Regime A. Alcalde, L. Bungert, K. Riedl, T. Roith arxiv.org/abs/2605.10931 #MachineLearning #DynamicalSystems #HorizonEU 040
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 12/05/2026#MSCA researcher Kaja Krhač, who is an applied mathematician and theoretical physicist, spent three months at our project partner Controllab Products. The focus of her work at Controllab was to capture the complex problem of implementing moving boundary conditions for a realistic fluid. 021
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Exact Sequence Interpolation with Transformers co-authored by A. Alcalde arxiv.org/abs/2502.02270 shows that transformer models, which power many modern AI systems, can be designed to exactly match a set of input-output examples while keeping the number of parameters under control. #EUhorizon 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 22/04/2026#MSCA researcher Zhuo Xu publsihed an article that helps to improve our understanding of how fluid–structure systems can be controlled in a robust and reliable way. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Volume 43, Issue 2 hal.science/hal-05065176v2 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 16/04/2026#ModConFlex researcher Mario Sinani at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social authored "Data-Driven Parametric Aeroelastic Modeling of the Pazy Wing", AIAA SciTech 2026. with R.Palacios, U.Fasel and A.Wynn #physics_informed #machineLearning #dynamicalsystems #aerospace arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/... 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 18/03/2026#ModConFlex researcher Vicente Ocqueteau has finished a paper on the “Analysis of a Model for a Floating Platform Coupled with a Flexible Beam”. In the paper, he establishes well-posedness and derives an energy balance for the model. Link to paper: ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2603.12786 #HorizonEU #MSCA 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Last week, ModConFlex researchers and professors from Besançon, Twente and Wuppertal met at the Franco-German Doctoral College at Wuppertal. It was a great opportunity to exchange with more recent and long-term members of the PHS community. www.epc.ed.tum.de/rt/cdfa-phs/ #MSCA #HorizonEU 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures Interacting with Fluids - Conference 10 to 12 June 2026 at Wuppertal (Germany) More details and registration: modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en/network-m... #ModConFlex #HorizonEurope #MSCA 020
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Congratulations to the very productive #ModConFlex researchers! Over 20 papers have been written within our #MSCA project so far - several of them published. For details, see modconflex.uni-wuppertal.de/en #HorizonEU 020
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Boundary control systems on a one-dimension spatial domain - new paper co-authored by #ModConFlex researcher Bouchra Elghazi: The paper studies when mathematical models of flexible structures with control at their boundaries are well posed. arxiv.org/abs/2601.01634 #HamiltonianSystems #horizonEU 030
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 08/12/2025#ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu recently co-authored a paper in #IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/112... #gridforming #IBR #powersystem #powerelectronics #renewables #stability #protection #relay #horizonEU 031
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Currently, #MSCA researcher Ignacio Diaz is visiting Wuppertal. We present his simulation: an energy preserving #PortHamiltonian system. It could be interpreted as an example for a wing of a plane / a floating platform. #PortHamiltonian #simulation #discretization #flexibleMechanics #horizonEU 020
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 18/11/2025During science night, #MSCA researcher Albert Alcalde presented an interactive web app on Sentiment Analysis with Transformers, which lets visitors type any sentence and instantly see whether it expresses a positive or negative sentiment. The App: albertalcalde.github.io/SentimentAna... #HorizonEU 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 29/10/2025#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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/10/2025How 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/10/2025How 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Usually, #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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 08/09/2025#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 011
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 06/08/2025New 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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Congratulations 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Tonight, #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 120
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 30/06/2025#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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Last 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 03/06/2025#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/ 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 27/05/2025New 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 14/05/2025At 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. 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 12/05/2025#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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Several 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/ 020
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Paper 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 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 12/02/2025As 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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 06/02/2025"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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 20/01/2025How 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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The 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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Our 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... 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 17/12/2024#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... 010
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Co-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 000
ModConFlex @modconflex.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Here are two graphics from "Stability analysis for multi-machine power systems with constant power loads" by Yoash Levron, Alan Valadez and George Weiss: 000