Networking, knowledge transfer and education: Take part in our events.

Recently, we organized the CyDiSy conference, seminar series, and symposia. To watch the recordings, visit our YouTube channel.

Events

2026

August

Open day

Meet us at Scientifica 2026

Sat Aug 29 - Sun Aug 30 2026, All day

September

Workshop

Annual retreat

Wed Sep 2 - Fri Sep 4 2026, All day

November

Workshop

bench2biz

Fri Nov 13 - Thu Nov 19 2026, All day

December

Workshop

CDC Workshop: Distributionally Robust Optimization for Control, Learning, and Games

Mon Dec 14 2026, All day

2027

July

21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification: learning models for decision and control

Wed Jul 7 - Fri Jul 9 2027, All day

Past Events

2026

August

Workshop

IFAC'26 Workshop From optimization to autonomy

Sun Aug 23 2026, All day

July

Industry-Academia Workshops on Control and Computational Methods

Wed Jul 1 2026, All day

June

Workshop

Workshop on Local Electricity Communities - Energy Policy meets Automation

Wed Jun 17 2026, 9:30am - 12pm

Workshop

2026 IEEE Switzerland Section Annual General Assembly

Fri Jun 12 2026, All day

Workshop

Thematic workshop - Theme 1.4: Lifelong Learning Control

Thu Jun 4 2026, 10:45am - 4pm

May

Lecture

John von Neumann Lecture: Science and (ir)responsibility of scientists

Fri May 29 2026, 3 - 4:15pm

Workshop

Thematic workshop - Theme 3.3 Energy Systems

Fri May 29 2026, 10am - 6pm

Thematic workshop - Theme 3.4: Advanced control for robotics

Fri May 29 2026, All day

Workshop

Thematic workshop - Theme 3.1 Mobility

Tue May 26 2026, All day

Workshop

Thematic workshop - Responsible automation

Fri May 22 2026, All day

Thematic workshop - Theme 3.2: Advanced manufacturing

Thu May 21 2026, All day

Open day

NCCR Automation Fellowship - Info event

Tue May 19 2026, 5 - 6pm

Thematic workshop - Theme 1.1: Design of Autonomous Systems: From data to control

Tue May 19 2026, All day

Workshop

Theory Pathfinder Kick-Off Workshop

Mon May 18 2026, 2 - 5pm

Open day

NCCR Automation Fellowship - Info event

Mon May 18 2026, 9 - 10am

Open day

Ball-on-plate at the Enter museum Science Days

Sat May 16 - Sun May 17 2026, All day

Workshop

Thematic workshop - Theme 1.2: Interconnection of autonomous systems

Fri May 15 2026, All day

Info event: CAS ETH Applied Automation Technology

Tue May 12 2026, 12:15 - 1pm

Talk: kuafu - a startup orchestrating the grid of tomorrow: smarter, cleaner, more resilient

Tue May 12 2026, 12 - 12:45pm

Junior Retreat

Mon May 11 - Wed May 13 2026, All day

Workshop

Workshop: Stress Management, Resilience & Psychological Safety in Academia

Wed May 6 2026, 10am - 5pm

Workshop

Workshop: Personal Branding and Professional Visibility for researchers

Tue May 5 2026, 9:30am - 5pm

Workshop

Workshop: Effective Visual Communication of Science

Mon May 4 2026, 9am - 5pm

April

Lecture

Reliability Control and Decision Making: A case study of E-geared Electric Vehicles

Thu Apr 16 2026, 4:15 - 5:15pm

Visit to METAS - all members welcome

Thu Apr 16 2026, All day

Info event: CAS ETH Applied Automation Technology

Wed Apr 15 2026, 5:30 - 6:15pm

March

Workshop

EU-TALENT Centre: Prepare to lead! Leadership training for a successful academic career

Fri Mar 20 2026, 12:30 - 2:30pm

Workshop

EU-TALENT Centre: Prepare to lead! Leadership training for a successful academic career

Thu Mar 19 2026, 12:30 - 2:30pm

Kolloquium

Game On "System-Theoretic Analysis of Dynamic Generalized Nash Equilibria – Turnpikes and Dissipativity"

Tue Mar 17 2026, 4 - 5pm

5.Netzwerkanlass Reallabor Sisslerfeld

Wed Mar 11 2026, 4:15 - 6:15pm

February

Kolloquium

Game On! Seminars on game theoretic control and applications

Tue Feb 24 2026, 2 - 3pm

Conference

Fourth Champéry Power Conference

Sun Feb 8 - Fri Feb 13 2026, All day

Seminar: Learning equilibria in games with bandit feedback

Tue Feb 3 2026, 2 - 3pm

January

Kolloquium

Swissnex Japan: Supercomputers for Trusted AI

Thu Jan 29 2026, 10:30 - 11:30am

Kolloquium

Test-Time Training Agents for Deep Exploration

Tue Jan 13 2026, 6:45 - 8:45pm

NCCR Automation visit to Flexbase

Mon Jan 12 2026, All day

2025

December

Workshop

Game Theory Meets MPC: Advances in Multi-Agent Control

Tue Dec 9 2025, All day

Kolloquium

Public Debate: Should autonomous vehicles be widely adopted?

Wed Dec 3 2025, 6:30 - 7:30pm

Conference

Public debate: Should autonomous vehicles be widely adopted?

Wed Dec 3 2025, 6:30 - 7:30pm

November

Seminar

Sektorkopplung – Synergiepotenzial der Energiesektoren nutzen

Thu Nov 27 - Fri Nov 28 2025, All day

Kolloquium

MechE Colloquium: Towards Hands-Off Automation: Data-Driven Design, Robustness, and Real-Time Control

Tue Nov 25 2025, 12 - 1pm

Workshop

Industry Open House

Wed Nov 19 2025, 9:30am - 5:30pm

Zukunftstag: Robotertag: Entdecke, Spiele und Programmier!

Thu Nov 13 2025, All day

Site Visit Year 5

Thu Nov 13 - Fri Nov 14 2025, All day

Information session Site Visit

Fri Nov 7 2025, 2 - 3pm

When AIs take over: Some unforeseen risks

Thu Nov 6 2025, 6 - 7pm

Information session Site Visit

Tue Nov 4 2025, 10 - 11am

October

IEEE SWISS CSS SEMINAR - BIG Hype: Best Intervention in Games via Distributed Hypergradient Descent

Fri Oct 31 2025, 2 - 3pm

Kolloquium

Treffpunkt Science City

Sun Oct 26 2025, 11am - 4pm

Vicson Symposium - Sophie Hall to give a talk

Sat Oct 11 2025, All day

Workshop

NASA Space Apps Hackathon

Sat Oct 4 - Sun Oct 5 2025, All day

September

EnergyDataHackdays

Thu Sep 11 - Fri Sep 12 2025, All day

Conference

Swiss CLOCK Summit

Tue Sep 2 - Fri Sep 5 2025, All day

June

Workshop

Tutorial Session: From Research to Reality in Control

Fri Jun 27 2025, 2:10 - 4:10pm

Kolloquium

Tutorial Session: Dynamics and Control Enable New Incentive Schemes

Wed Jun 25 2025, 2:10 - 4:10pm

Workshop

Soft skills for junior researchers: Value sensitive innovation

Wed Jun 4 2025, 9:30am - 4pm

Workshop

Soft skills for junior researchers: Beyond the academic routine: Strategically managing your research

Tue Jun 3 2025, 9:30am - 3pm

Workshop

Soft skills for junior researchers: Mental clarity and decision-making for academics

Mon Jun 2 2025, 9am - 5pm

May

Guest lecture

John von Neumann Lecture on "Privacy for the paranoid ones - the ultimate limits of secrecy" by Artur Ekert (Oxford and CQT Singapore)

Tue May 27 2025, 4 - 5:15pm

Workshop

Market Design & Energy Markets

Mon May 19 2025, 4:15 - 5:45pm

Open day

Energieabend Walenstadt

Fri May 9 2025, 7 - 9pm

Junior Retreat

Wed May 7 - Fri May 9 2025, All day

April

Workshop

Industry/Academia Workshop on Control and Computational Methods

Wed Apr 9 - Thu Apr 10 2025, All day

Open day

CAS ETH in Automation Info Event

Thu Apr 3 2025, 12:30 - 1:30pm

March

Course

EECI course: Neural Networks for Optimal Control

Mon Mar 31 - Fri Apr 4 2025, All day

2024

December

Workshop

Winter Retreat

Fri Dec 6 2024, All day

November

Open day

Walenstadt visit

Fri Nov 22 2024, 9:45am - 5:45pm

Conference

ETH Zurich Industry Day

Thu Nov 21 2024, All day

Workshop

Visit to Syngenta Crop Protection

Wed Nov 20 2024, All day

Workshop

bench2biz part 2

Wed Nov 13 - Tue Nov 19 2024, All day

Workshop

bench2biz day 1

Wed Nov 6 2024, All day

Symposium

Panel: Future industry trends at Swiss Robotics Day feat. Maryam Kamgarpour

Fri Nov 1 2024, 12 - 12:30pm

October

Workshop

ELO-X Workshop on Ethical Innovation for Autonomous Systems

Wed Oct 23 - Fri Oct 25 2024, All day

Kolloquium

AI+X Summit: Revolutionizing Urban Mobility: Smart Solutions for Smart Cities

Thu Oct 3 2024, All day

September

NCCR Automation Industry Workshop

Tue Sep 17 2024, All day

Guest lecture

Presentation of IEEE CSS Best Paper award 2024

Fri Sep 6 2024, 11am - 12pm

July

Workshop

ACC 2024 Workshop: Challenges in Control for the Future of Mobility

Mon Jul 8 - Tue Jul 9 2024, All day

Kolloquium

Diversity & Inclusion Forum 2024

Thu Jul 4 2024, 2:30 - 6pm

June

Kolloquium

ECC'24 lunch event: Centres in Automatic Control: Research excellence is only the beginning

Thu Jun 27 2024, 12:15 - 1:15pm

Seminar

ECC 2024 Tutorial: Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation

Thu Jun 27 2024, 12 - 1pm

inControl live panel discussion: "Lessons from AI: What Can We Learn from the Hype?"

Wed Jun 26 2024, 3 - 4pm

Kolloquium

ECC'24 lunch event: How do your biases affect your leadership, career, and work environment?

Wed Jun 26 2024, 12:15 - 1:15pm

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on Data-Driven Verification and Control with Provable Guarantees

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on "Workshop on Multi-agent learning and control: recent advances and open problems"

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on: Exploring cyber-physical-human systems through Living laboratories

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on "When Bayesian optimization meets real-time control"

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on "Neural Network control with stability and performance guarantees"

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Workshop

ECC'24 Pre-conference workshop on "Navigating uncertainty: online multi-agent control, optimization and learning"

Tue Jun 25 2024, All day

Seminar

From Concept to Launch: Empowering Startups and Young Researchers Leveraging MATLAB and Simulink to commercialize innovators projects

Tue Jun 18 2024, 8:30am - 12pm

Open day

Innovation Day at ETH Zurich

Fri Jun 14 2024, All day

Workshop

NCCR Automation Annual Retreat

Mon Jun 10 - Thu Jun 13 2024, All day

May

Kolloquium

John von Neumann Lecture on "Stability and Learning in Strategic Games" by Éva Tardos (Cornell University)

Fri May 31 2024, 4 - 5:15pm

Workshop

Industry/Academia Workshop on Control and Computational Methods

Wed May 22 2024, All day

Open day

Walenstadt Energy Day

Sat May 4 2024, 9am - 5pm

Seminar

Webinar: Direct Adaptive Learning of the LQR

Thu May 2 2024, 5 - 6pm

March

Seminar

NCCR Automation Seminar: Asynchronous optimization through the lens of control theory by Mikael Johansson

Mon Mar 25 2024, 3 - 4pm

February

Conference

Third Champéry Power Conference

Sun Feb 4 - Fri Feb 9 2024, All day

January

Workshop

Lateral Leadership Workshop

Tue Jan 23 2024, All day

2023

November

Conference

Site Visit

Tue Nov 14 - Wed Nov 15 2023, All day

Workshop

bench2biz day 2

Thu Nov 9 2023, All day

Conference

Swiss Robotics Day

Fri Nov 3 2023, All day

Workshop

bench2biz day 1

Thu Nov 2 2023, All day

October

Kolloquium

Talk: Frequency regulation through vehicle-to-grid: Robust decision-making and the EU law

Mon Oct 30 2023, 11am - 12pm

Open day

Herofest

Fri Oct 13 - Sun Oct 15 2023, All day

September

Conference

NCCR Symposium - Complex Interconnected Systems and decision making in measure spaces

Tue Sep 26 2023, 1:30pm - Wed Sep 27 2023, 6:30pm

Conference

NCCR Symposium - Complex Interconnected Systems and decision making in measure spaces

Tue Sep 26 2023, 12pm - Wed Sep 27 2023, 6:30pm

Energy Data Hackdays 2023

Fri Sep 15 - Sat Sep 16 2023, All day

MathWorks user day

Thu Sep 14 2023, All day

August

Conference

7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

Wed Aug 16 - Fri Aug 18 2023, All day

June

Lecture

Invited Lecture: Kalman filtering for systems with spatiotemporal dynamics: noise, spatial localization & design of distributed architectures by Dr. Juncal Arbelaiz

Wed Jun 21 2023, 1 - 2pm

Annual retreat 2023

Thu Jun 8 2023, All day

Annual retreat 2023

Wed Jun 7 2023, All day

Workshop

NCCR Automation Annual Retreat

Tue Jun 6 - Thu Jun 8 2023, All day

Lecture

John Von Neumann Lecture

Fri Jun 2 2023, 3 - 6pm

Kolloquium

Open Research Data events series

Fri Jun 2 2023, All day

May

Workshop

Diversity & Inclusion workshop

Wed May 24 2023, 9:30am - 3:30pm

Seminar: Learning in games with applications to electricity markets by Maryam Kamgarpour

Wed May 10 2023, 11am - 12pm

Kolloquium

Open Research Data events series

Mon May 8 2023, All day

Workshop

CyDiSy Workshop

Wed May 3 - Fri May 5 2023, All day

April

Kolloquium

Open Research Data events series

Fri Apr 28 2023, All day

Seminar

Seminar: Machine Learning for Power Systems: Is it time to trust it?

Tue Apr 4 2023, 3 - 4pm

March

Open day

Informatiktage 2023

Mon Mar 27 - Sat Apr 1 2023, All day

February

Kolloquium

Optimization-based control and learning

Mon Feb 13 2023, 1 - 3:30pm

2022

December

Workshop

CDC Workshop: Skills and Perspectives for Early Career Development

Mon Dec 5 2022, All day

November

Workshop

bench2biz day 2

Mon Nov 21 2022, All day

Workshop

bench2biz day 1

Mon Nov 14 2022, All day

Conference

Swiss Robotics Day

Fri Nov 4 - Sat Nov 5 2022, All day

October

Conference

NCCR Symposium Day 2 - Socially responsible Automation (part of CSS Day 2022)

Tue Oct 25 2022, 2 - 6:30pm

Conference

NCCR Symposium Day 1 - The interplay of dynamical systems, neural networks and control

Mon Oct 24 2022, 2 - 6:30pm

Workshop

ITSC 2022 Workshop on Co-Design and Coordination of Future Mobility Systems

Sat Oct 8 2022, All day

September

Workshop

Career turnarounds - what is the right choice?

Tue Sep 27 2022, 12 - 6pm

Workshop

Energy Data Hackdays

Fri Sep 16 - Sat Sep 17 2022, All day

July

Workshop

Future of Mobility: Building Intelligent Transportation

Thu Jul 7 2022, 9:30 - 10:30am

Workshop

KMU Workshop - Automation & Cobots

Thu Jul 7 2022, All day

June

Seminar

NCCR Annual Retreat

Wed Jun 22 - Fri Jun 24 2022, All day

Conference

Swiss Drone Days

Sat Jun 11 - Sun Jun 12 2022, All day

May

Seminar

Symposium - Systems Theory of Algorithms - Part II

Mon May 23 2022, 2 - 8pm

Seminar

Symposium - Systems Theory of Algorithms - Part I

Mon May 9 2022, 2 - 6:30pm

February

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Profs. Marco Zimmerling and Sebastian Trimpe

Mon Feb 28 2022, 4 - 5pm

The Power of Networking - Meet Swiss STEM Networks II

Thu Feb 24 2022, 9:30 - 11am

The Power of Networking - Meet Swiss STEM Networks I

Thu Feb 17 2022, 9:30 - 11am

Seminar

The Power of Networking - Making it Personal - Develop your Networking Strategy

Thu Feb 10 2022, 9:30 - 11am

Seminar

The Power of Networking - The Why and How of Networking

Wed Feb 2 2022, 9:30 - 11am

2021

December

Open day

SATW TecDays

Fri Dec 3 2021, All day

Conference

ETH Energy Days

Wed Dec 1 2021, All day

November

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Timm Faulwasser

Mon Nov 29 2021, 4 - 5pm

Workshop

bench2biz workshop

Mon Nov 29 2021, 1 - 5pm

Workshop

bench2biz workshop

Wed Nov 24 2021, 1 - 5pm

SNSF Site Visit

Mon Nov 22 - Tue Nov 23 2021, All day

Workshop

bench2biz workshop

Fri Nov 19 2021, 1 - 5pm

Workshop

bench2biz workshop

Tue Nov 16 2021, 1 - 5pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Heinrich Nax

Mon Nov 15 2021, 4 - 5pm

Workshop

bench2biz workshop

Mon Nov 15 2021, 1 - 5pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation Seminar Series - Prof. Rose Yu

Mon Nov 8 2021, 5 - 6pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Thierry Prud'homme

Mon Nov 1 2021, 4 - 5pm

October

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Dr. Arash Ajoudani

Mon Oct 25 2021, 4 - 5pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Dorsa Sadigh

Mon Oct 18 2021, 4 - 5pm

Workshop

SATW TecDays

Tue Oct 12 2021, All day

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Murat Arcak

Mon Oct 11 2021, 4 - 5pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Ehsan Hashemi

Mon Oct 4 2021, 4 - 5pm

September

Seminar

NCCR Automation seminar series - Prof. Johanna Mathieu

Mon Sep 27 2021, 4 - 5pm

Seminar

NCCR Automation Seminar Series - Prof. Necmiye Ozay

Tue Sep 21 2021, 4 - 5pm

Conference

ETH Industry Day

Wed Sep 8 2021, 12 - 5:30pm

June

Seminar

NCCR Automation Retreat

Wed Jun 23 - Fri Jun 25 2021, All day

Summer School

ETH-EPFL Summer School: Foundations and mathematical guarantees of data-driven control

Wed Jun 9 2021, 11am - Tue Jun 15 2021, 12pm

Conference

L4DC Conference

Mon Jun 7 - Tue Jun 8 2021, All day

May

Workshop

Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools - ICRA 2021 Workshop

Sun May 30 - Sat Jun 5 2021, All day

January

Workshop

Open Access and Research Data Management

Thu Jan 28 2021, 2 - 4pm

Workshop

Open Access and Research Data Management

Tue Jan 26 2021, 2 - 4pm

2020

November

Seminar

Researchers Kick-Off

Wed Nov 11 2020, 9am - 12pm

August

Seminar

Principal Investigators Kick-Off

Mon Aug 31 - Tue Sep 1 2020, All day