Contents in this issue are:
- Reports from IFAC Conferences (MATHMOD, INCOM, ECC, ECOSM, CPHS)
The 2025 Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD) and the 18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM) took place in Vienna, Austria. The European Control Conference (ECC) 2024 was held in Stockholm, Sweden. The 7th IFAC Conference on Engine and Powertrain Control, Simulation and Modeling (ECOSM) took place in Dalian, China. The 5th IFAC Workshop on Cyber Physical Human Systems (CPHS) was held from in Antalya, Türkiye. - President’s Column
Dong-Il “Dan” Cho provides a brief and exciting overview of the eight IFAC journals Automatica, Annual Reviews in Control, Mechatronics, Journal of Process Control, Control Engineering Practice, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, and IFAC Journal of Systems and Control. - IFAC Affiliates Portal statistics
The newsletter presents further statistics about IFAC affiliates from the Portal. - Distinguished Lecturer Report
Mustafa Khammash, an IFAC Pawel J. Nowacki Distinguished Lecturer, visited India in early 2024 to deliver a series of lectures at leading institutions, including the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS), and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras). - IFAC Activity Fund Report
The South African Council for Automation and Control (IFAC NMO) supported the CYBATHLON 2024, which happened in Switzerland, with a hub in Durban. The CYBATHLON is the Olympics competition of the prosthetic industry – a platform that challenges teams from all over the world to develop assistive technologies suitable for everyday use with and for people with disabilities. A team from South Africa was taking part in the Arm Prosthesis category. - Performance of the IFAC Control Orchestra at IFAC 2026
The organizers of the 23rd IFAC World Congress 2026 in Busan, KR, are planning a comeback of the IFAC Control Orchestra. They are looking for additional participants from the automatic control community who have some previous musical experience. - Calendar of upcoming IFAC Conferences
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