Mathematics for Smart Energy
November 4-6, 2025
Weierstrass Institute Berlin
The workshop brings together mathematicians and engineers from academia and industry to discuss mathematical challenges and solutions related to Smart Energy applications.
Smart Energy is a collective term for intelligent technologies in the fields of energy conversion, storage, transmission, and consumption control. These areas cover the entire value chain of the energy industry and include concepts like smart grid, smart metering, smart home, and smart city. The increasingly decentralized energy supply with local energy converters such as wind, solar, hydro, and biogas power plants is a key factor in smart energy. Another one is the growing electro-mobility sector, where smart charging and random arrivals pose important research questions. The link to and stability of the distribution network may also need to be accounted for, especially when fleets of electric vehicles are considered.
Further questions relate to data privacy issues. One can think of optimizing the position and interaction of some energy community, wherein individual players may not wish to disclose their constraints or preferences. In such a case one has to think of algorithms allowing for the preservation of privacy.
Mathematical aspects to be discussed include but are not limited to
- Stochastic optimization
- Bilevel optimization
- Multi-agent problems in energy and markets
- Port-Hamiltonian modeling of power grids
- Distributed and online optimization
Organizers
- Wim van Ackooij (EDF Palaiseau)
- Rene Henrion (WIAS Berlin)
- Dietmar Hömberg (WIAS Berlin)
Invited speakers
- Holger Heitsch (WIAS Berlin)
- Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin)
- ...
Contact and further information
Email: MA4SmEn25@wias-berlin.de
Support
We gratefully acknowledge support by FMJH Program Gaspard Monge in optimization and operation research (PGMO), and Weierstrass Institute Berlin.
