Contents in this issue are:
- IFAC Major Awards 2023-2026
This newsletter presents the winners of the High Impact Paper Award. All winners of IFAC Major Awards and Medals for this and past triennia can be accessed via www.ifac-control.org/awards/major-awards. - President’s Column
Dong-Il “Dan” Cho highlights highlights the transformative impact of travel grants for early-career researchers and celebrates the support of 93 young and underrepresented researchers through the IFAC Foundation and the Korean National Organizing Committee at the 2026 IFAC World Congress in Busan. - IFAC Executive Officers’ Meeting & Technical Lecture
The IFAC Executive Officers’ Meeting for 2026 took place from 16-18 April 2026 at Vienna Technical University (TU) in Vienna, AT. This year’s Technical Lecture was given by Silvia Mastellone (CH). - IFAC Activity Fund Report: PARC 2025
The Pan-African Robotics Competition (PARC) 2025 took place in Saly, Senegal. By sponsoring it through its Activity Fund, IFAC contributed not only to the success of the event, but also to the development of a new generation of engineers who are learning to apply control principles to real-world challenges from an early stage. - IFAC Conference Report (CAMS 2025)
The 16th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles (CAMS 2025) was held from August 25 to 28, 2025, in Wuhan, China. - IFAC Affiliates Portal statistics
Over the past half year, the IFAC Affiliates Portal recorded a 25% increase in approved affiliates. With no surprise, the growth is in conjunction with the 2026 World Congress registrations and the incentive to benefit from a fee reduction for affiliates. - World Congress Update
The 23rd IFAC World Congress will take place in approximately two months (23-28 August 2026) in Busan, KR. The newsletter provides updates on the program, registration, and travel information. - IFAC Activity Fund Report: Control Podcast
The inControl Podcast is a long-form interview series dedicated to systems and control, distributed free of charge across all major podcast platforms. The project supported by the IFAC Activity Fund contributed to the production of new episodes. Cumulative listenership exceeded 150,000 across more than 150 countries/regions and territories, with over 2,500 monthly listeners at the time of writing. - Calendar of upcoming IFAC Conferences
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