Many members of our university are currently in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to attend the Fourteenth International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory (Eurocast 2013). The Eurocast conference is organized bi-annually by a Spanish-Austrian group of esteemed researchers around Roberto Moreno-Díaz (Las Palmas), Franz Pichler (Linz) and Alexis Quesada Arencibia (Las Palmas).

Since 2007, HEAL head Michael Affenzeller co-organizes a workshop on metaheuristic problem solving with Günther Raidl (Technical University Vienna) and Witold Jacak. The conference started today, yet we were already up for a special treat: A plenary talk by Rudolf E. Kálmán, famous father of the Kalman-Bucy Filter. We can definitely look forward to an exciting week!