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Currently, #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

During 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

#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

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

Text: Sentiment analysis with Transformers in action. Logos of EU and ModConFlex. Date and time of event: Sat, 25.Oct, 17:00-24:00.

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

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

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

"Last year, more than 90 percent of wind and solar projects commissioned worldwide produced power more cheaply than the cheapest available fossil-fuel alternative."

#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

PhD student position at Tel Aviv University in modelling, stability analysis and control of electric power grids comprising grid forming inverters (EU-Horizon project ModConFlex) The School of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University in Israel is looking for a Ph.D. student in the field of system modelling and control, with emphasis on applications in power electronics.

Interested in doing a #PhD in #engineering?

Open Position:

➡️ euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/371136

👩‍🎓

#ControlTheory
#AppliedMathematics
#ElectricalEngineering

Oscillation reduction of floating wind turbines. Stabilization of power grids using virtual synchronous machines.

#HorizonEU

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

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

WDR Lokalzeit Bergisches Land | 17.07.2025 - hier anschauen Themen: Klimafreundlicher Batteriezug geht auf Testfahrt | Mysteriös: Geköpfte Kängurus in Fauna sorgen für Unruhe | Tattoos und ihre Geschichten | Bergische Uni leitet Eu-Forschungsprojekt zum Klimas...

For a translation (summary) see our Mastodon or LinkedIn channels. There is too little space here...

www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalz...
(Start at Minute 11).

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

#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

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

On Wednesday afternoon several of our #MSCA project's researchers present at the "Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures" session at the

5th IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE 2025)

ifac.papercept.net/conferences/...

#ModConFlex
#horizonEU

Hybrid Schrödinger-Liouville and projective dynamics Quantum dynamics provides the arguably most fundamental example of hybrid dynamics: As long as no measurement takes place, the system state is governed by the Schrödinger-Liouville differential equati...

Hybrid Schrödinger-Liouville and projective dynamics:

arxiv.org/abs/2504.05532

Presentation at cpde2025.bjut.edu.cn (Beijing) this week by #ModConFlex researcher Kaja Krhač.

There is a special session on Modelling and Control of Flexible Structures with several other of our #MSCA PhD students.

Discussion with group in the lab.

Prof. Weiss, his two ModConFlex PhD students (left and rightmost) and an additional scientist.

#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/

Some equations from the paper

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

Two photos: Bouchra Elghazi explaining control theory by balancing a pen in her hand and Birgit Jacob talking about a career in mathematics to students from different schools. Photographer: Luka Storms (BUW)

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.

Figure 1 from "On an Initial Value Problem Describing the Small Oscillations of a Floating Cylinder"

#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

Continue operation or replace? The BAM tool is designed to help wind farm operators make the best decision for their turbines. - Copyright BAM

Digital tool to optimize the use of older wind turbines
Berlin, 09.04.2025 – The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is developing a digital tool to help wind farm operators decide whether to continue operating older win...
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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/

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

"Small-signal synchronization stability of sequence-decomposed grid-forming IBRs" by #ModConFlex researcher Qian Liu:

open:
wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/18...
IEEE:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/107...

#GridForming
#PowerSystemStability #InverterBasedResources #BatteryEnergyStorageSystems

EU flag with text "funded by the European Union" and ModConFlex logo

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

SCIENCESHOTS What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

Graphical comparison of DLG, AGIC and AWA (own) method to approximate original graphics. Four different cases. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06822

"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

Interesting map. A source for the map would be appreciated. Thank you!

The infographic features a quadrant layout with a light blue background. Each section contains an illustration depicting forms of electricity generation: solar panels on the top left, a hydropower dam on the top right, onshore wind turbines on the bottom left, and offshore wind turbines on the bottom right. Each section displays a percentage increase in production in Q3 2024 compared to Q3 2023: +23% for solar, +13% for hydropower, +2% for onshore wind, and +21% for offshore wind. The European Commission’s logo is located at the bottom center.

Our vision for energy? Clean, affordable, and proudly made in Europe.

By investing in next-gen clean energy like fusion and geothermal, we are ensuring a sustainable future for all Europeans.

Our success over the past two years is clear. And the third quarter of 2024 proves it ↓