Progress Meeting at MPI Magdeburg

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On February 24 th -26 th , 2025 , the third meeting of our DFG-funded research unit IMPD4Cat  was hosted by Kai Sundmacher and colleagues at Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems . The program started with short presentations of the single subunits and continued with lectures from our invited speakers Felix Strieth-Kalthoff ( Bergische Universität Wuppertal ), Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona ( Imperial College London ), Mathias Ulbricht ( University of Duisburg-Essen ) and John Woodley ( DTU - Technical University of Denmark ). The meeting was full of lively discussions and knowledge exchange. After Wolf Zinke ( Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg ) gave us an overview on research data management in the beginning of the meeting the last day was dedicated to issues and possible solutions in RDM with Michael Liebau ( Leipzig University ). Additionally, a Magdeburg city bus tour with a subsequent dinner at Magado topped the meeting off. All FOR members thank Kai Sundmacher , Christoph Griehl , Louise Witzlack as well as Martin Uxa for a marvelous organization of the event. 

 

Venue

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems,
Seminar Room Prigogine ; 
Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg
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Symposium Schedule

The entire schedule can be accessed as a PDF here . 

9:00

Opening
Prof. Kai Sundmacher, MPI Magdeburg & OvGU.
9:15 Machine Learning Hits the Lab: Experiment Planning With Bayesian (Co-)Pilots
Jun.-Prof. Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, University of Wuppertal.
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Human in the Loop Bayesian Optimization for Chemical Experiments
Dr. Antonio del Rio Chanona, Imperial College London.
12:00 Lunch hour
13:15 Membranes and membrane-enabled processes
Prof. Mathias Ulbricht,  University of Duisburg-Essen.
14:30 Coffee break
14:45 Challenges and opportunities using biocatalysis for fine chemistry
Prof. John Woodley,  Technical University of Denmark.
16:00 Closing 

Event organizers

Coordinator: Martin Uxa, BEng .

Assistant coordinator: Christoph Griehl, MSc .

Assistant coordinator: Louise Witzlack, MSc .

Event chair: Prof. Kai Sundmacher .

 

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