Defensio by Phuoc Truong Huynh

On October 1, 2025, Phuoc Truong Huynh successfully completed his doctoral studies with his thesis on “Parameter identification from optimized measurements, with applications in acoustics.” He is thus the eighth doctoral graduate of the doc.funds doctoral school “Modeling-Analysis-Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic systems.” The examiners (and reviewers of the dissertation) were Prof. Tapio Helin, LUT University Finland, and Prof. Vincent Duval, INRIA, France. The thesis was supervised by Barbara Kaltenbacher, AAU, and Prof. Daniel Walter, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Making better use of energy thanks to optimisation methods: new MSCA doctoral network ALMOA approved

ALMOA (Advances in Large-scale, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Optimisation for Challenging Applications) is set to be launched in January 2026. It is the first doctoral network coordinated by the University of Klagenfurt that is funded by the EU through Horizon Europe as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action. Thirteen doctoral students will be conducting research on mathematical optimisation issues at thirteen European universities. The project has two aims: the new algorithms should help to make logistics and transport more sustainable, energy systems more efficient, and data processing more resource-efficient. At the same time, the doctoral students will benefit from an excellent training network, providing them with valuable cross-sector insights.

Mathe läuft bei uns

As Team “Mathe läuft bei uns”, the sporty mathematicians Teresa Rauscher, Johannes Schmucker, and Angelika Wiegele took on the USI Team Run Challenge 2025. The event was held as part of the Klagenfurter Altstadlauf, where participants had to complete a 5 km course in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. The USI awarded a prize to the team with the smallest difference between their own time and the average time of all teams.
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Summer internship at the Department of Mathematics

During the four-week summer internship, students gain insight into academic and scientific life at the Institute of Mathematics. In targeted input phases, combined with self-study phases and group work, they explore accessible mathematical topics.
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