Progress Meeting at MPI Magdeburg

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 an marvelous organisation of the event.

Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme
Seminar room Prigogine; Sandtorstraße 1, 39106 Magdeburg
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The entire schedule can be accessed as a PDFhere.

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	Lunchhour
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

Assistant coordinator: Christoph Griehl, MSc.

Assistant coordinator: Louise Witzlack, MSc.