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ACE Network Forum & 'Duncanfest'

24th - 25th March 2025

Researchers and industry experts working across diverse areas and applications of control engineering will gather together at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford for an exciting two-day international workshop aimed at reshaping the foundations of automatic control.
24th March 2025: the Automatic Control Engineering (ACE) Network will hold its inaugural annual forum event, offering vistas into a new generation of control engineering in the UK and internationally. 

25th March 2025: a celebration of the work of Professor Stephen Duncan of the University of Oxford's Control Group will unite industry and academic speakers, reflecting on past achievements and roadmapping our response to future challenges.

You can register for the event here.

'Duncanfest'

25th March 2025 at St Hugh's College, Oxford

  PROGRAMME

 

Arrival

Overview - 09:30-10:00
— Alf J Isaksson, ABB Corporate Research

Additive Manufacturing - 10:00-11:00
— Markus Bambach, ETH Zurich
— Jos Havinga, University of Twente

Break

Applications of Control - 11:30-12:45
— Sandira Gayadeen, Worley
— Idris Kempf, University of Oxford
— Matt Arthington, University of Oxford and Ed Patmore, Incremental Solutions

Lunch

Battery Management Systems and Sustainability: I - 14:00-15:30
— Patrick Grant, University of Oxford
— Ross Drummond, University of Sheffield
— Adrien Bizeray, Brill Power

Break

Battery Management Systems and Sustainability: II - 16:00-17:00
— David Howey, University of Oxford
— Julian Allwood, University of Cambridge

Summary and close