Tutorials



IFAC World Congress 2026 will feature a diverse set of nine tutorials covering a broad spectrum of emerging and fundamental topics in control. These tutorials will take place during the congress period from August 24 (Monday) to August 28 (Friday) and are included in the regular registration, providing participants with valuable opportunities to gain insights into both theoretical advances and practical applications across modern control systems.

# Day/Date Title Contributors Time Room
1 Monday, 24 August 2026 Learning Safe Control Policies: Reinforcement Learning‑Enabled Differentiable Predictive Control Thomas Banker, Ali Reza Daneshvar Garmroodi, Nathan P. Lawrence, Jan Drgona, Ali Mesbah 13:10‑15:10 101
2 Tuesday, 25 August 2026 Game‑Theoretic Control Paradigms for Socio‑Technical Networks Tamer Basar, Quanyan Zhu 09:50‑11:50 101
3 Tuesday, 25 August 2026 Learning and Control in Game Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents Yuksel Arslantas, Yifen Mu, Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis, Muhammed Omer Sayin 13:10‑15:10 101
4 Wednesday, 26 August 2026 Distributed Control and Optimization A. Stephen Morse, Karl Johansson, Ji Liu, Angelia Nedich 09:50‑11:50 101
5 Wednesday, 26 August 2026 From Research to Practice: Entrepreneurship in Control Alisa Rupenyan, Benjamin Sawicki 13:10‑15:10 101
6 Thursday, 27 August 2026 Large Language Models for Process Control Bhushan Gopaluni, Furong Gao, Biao Huang, Joseph Kwon, Mehmet Mercangoz, Chunhui Zhao 09:50‑11:50 101
7 Thursday, 27 August 2026 Quantum Information Control: A Unification of Statistical Inference and Quantum Control Moe Z. Win 13:10‑15:10 101
8 Friday, 28 August 2026 Advanced Battery Modeling, Monitoring and Control for Emerging Applications Huazhen Fang 09:50‑11:50 101
9 Friday, 28 August 2026 Best Practice of Efficient Stability Chart Calculations: Advanced Multi‑Dimensional Bisection and Sparse Semi‑Discretization Daniel Bachrathy 09:50‑11:50 102