Datahyking Network-wide research and training event
March 31 – April 4 2025 @ Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik, RWTH Aachen University – Templergraben 55
52062 Aachen, Germany
Organizing Committee
- Michael Herty (RWTH Aachen University)
- Sara Veneruso (RWTH Aachen University)
- William De Deyn (RWTH Aachen University)
Invited Plenary Speakers
- Martin Gugat (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Raúl Tempone (RWTH Aachen University)
- Sebastian Krumscheid (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Simone Göttlich (University of Mannheim)
Invited Speakers
- Chiara Segala (University of Italian Switzerland)
- Elisa Iacomini (University of Ferrara)
- Jan Friedrich (RWTH Aachen University)
Program
Monday March 31
15:00 – 15:45: Welcome reception
15:45 – 16:30: Guest Talk
16:30 – 17:00: Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00: Plenary Guest Talk
Tuesday April 1
9:00 – 10:30: DC presentations
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30: DC presentation
11:30 – 12:30: Plenary Guest Talk
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45: Guest Talk
14:45 – 15:45: DC-Supervisor Meetings
Coffee break
16:00 – 18:00: DC-Supervisor Meetings
Wednesday April 2
9:00 – 10:30: DC presentations
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00: Plenary Guest Talk
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30: DC-Supervisor Meetings
16:00 – 19:00: Social Activity
Thursday April 3
9:00 – 10:30: DC presentations
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30: DC presentation
11:30 – 12:30: Plenary Guest Talk
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: DC-Supervisor Meetings
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30: Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board Meeting
19:00 – 21:00: Social Dinner
Friday April 4
9:00 – 10:00: DC presentations
10:00 – 10:45: Guest Talk
Coffee break
Registration
Registration is only open for people involved in the DataHyKing project and for speakers. The registration form is open until January 31, 2025 at the following link.
Accommodation and Travel
Due to the limited availability of hotel rooms in Aachen, we have reserved rooms at the “Motel One” for workshop participants. If you are interested in reserving a room, please contact the hotel directly at aachen@motel-one.com, mentioning the names Michael Herty and Nicole Marinic. Each attendee will be responsible for paying for the room at the hotel.
We advise you to make your reservation by February 24, 2025, as we will no longer be able to guarantee availability after this date.
For those who need to reach Aachen by plane, here you can find a list of the nearest airports and how they are connected to Aachen.
Datahyking Network-wide research and training event
September 9 – 11 2024 @ Batiment Fizeaux – Parc Valrose, Nice, France
The DATAHYKING Network-wide research and training event will take place in Nice, on the Campus Valrose of Université Côte d’Azur from September 9th, 2024 until September 11th, 2024. It will feature scientific lectures from international researchers, some training sessions and a meeting with the European Union Project Officer.
The event will take place at the 5th floor of the Building Fizeaux, on the beautiful Parc Valrose of the Université Côte d’Azur.
The social dinner will take place Tuesday, September 10 at 7:00 PM at the restaurant Le Galet, located 3 Promenade des Anglais, 06000 Nice, France (directly on the seafront).
Program
Monday September 09
9:30 – 10:30: Welcome and introductory words
10:30 – 11:30: Jingwei Hu: A brief introduction to the Boltzmann equation and its numerical methods 1/4
11:45 – 12:45: Giovanni Samaey: Reproducible research: efficient data management strategies for high-quality open science 1/2
Lunch
14:30 – 15:30: Jingwei Hu: A brief introduction to the Boltzmann equation and its numerical methods 2/4
15:45 – 16:45: Giovanni Samaey: Reproducible research: efficient data management strategies for high-quality open science 2/2
Coffee: Afternoon break
Tuesday September 10
9:00 – 10:30: Siddhartha Mishra: Learning Solution operators of PDEs.
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00: Jingwei Hu: A brief introduction to the Boltzmann equation and its numerical methods 3/4
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00: Jingwei Hu: A brief introduction to the Boltzmann equation and its numerical methods 4/4
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30: Supervisory Board Meeting
Social Dinner
Wednesday September 11
8:30 – 10:45: Review Meeting: General
Coffee break
11:00 – 13:00: Review Meeting: DC Presentations
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Project Officer Meeting sessions
16:00 – 16:30: Review meeting: feedback and open discussions
Registration
If you would like to join the workshop, please register via the following link:
Datahyking Workshop
April 8 – 12 2024 @ Department of Computer Science, Leuven, Belgium
Program
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Monday 8 April
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Tuesday 9 April
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Wednesday 10 April
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Thursday 11 April
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Friday 12 April
- 12:30: Lunch
- 14:00-14:45: Welcome and project overview by coordinator (Giovanni Samaey) - Auditorium
- 14:45-15:20: PI introductions (5 minutes per academic partner) - Auditorium
--- Coffee break ---
- 15:45-17:00: DC introductions (5 minutes per doctoral candidate) - Auditorium
--- 18h30: welcome dinner @ Troubadour (Leuven) ---
- 9:00-11:00: Minitutorial 1A: Paolo Goatin – Traffic modelling (Auditorium)
--- Coffee break ---
- 11:30-13:00: DC presentations 1 (Auditorium):
- Frederic Blondeel - Robust consensus-based optimization for machine learning
- Tommaso Tenna - Numerical methods for merging scales in hyperbolic problems
- Ilaria Ciaramaglia - Interactions between microscopic and macroscopic models for autonomous vehicles in human-driven environments
--- Lunch break ---
- 14:00-15:30: Companies presentations 1 (Auditorium):
- Zensor
- Incico
- TML
--- Coffee break ---
- 16:00-17:30: Parallel one-on-one supervisory meetings
- Theresa Köfler / Axel Klar / Lorenzo Pareschi / ESI (room 03.100 Codd)
- Ilaria Ciaramaglia / Paola Goatin / Gabriella Puppo / Autovie (room 04.100 Dijkstra)
- 9:00-11:00: Minitutorial 2A: Lorenzo Pareschi – Numerics for kinetic equations (Auditorium)
--- Coffee break ---
- 11:30-13:00: Companies presentations 2 (Auditorium):
- Autovie
- ASML
- ESI
--- Lunch break ---
- 14:00-16:00: DC presentations 2 (Auditorium):
- Theresa Köfler - Advanced discretization methods for hyperbolic and kinetic equations with moving boundaries
- Domenico Caparello - High-order and hybrid domain decomposition methods for hyperbolic and Boltzmann equations
- Martin Fleurial - Microscopic and macroscopic models for multilane and multispecies traffic flow
--- Coffee break ---
- 16:30-18:00: Parallel one-on-one supervisory meetings
- Klaas Willems / Axel Klar / Giovanni Samaey / ESI (room 01.100 Allen)
- Martin Fleurial / Paola Goatin / Gabriella Puppo / Autovie (room 03.100 Codd)
- Domenico Caparello / Lorenzo Pareschi / Thomas Rey / Cenaero (room 04.100 Dijkstra)
- 9:00-11:00: Companies presentations 3 (Auditorium):
- Cenaero
- Euronext
- SCK
- Neovya
--- Coffee break ---
- 11:30-13:00: DC presentations 3 (Auditorium):
- Sara Veneruso - Analysis and numerical methods of consensus-based optimization techniques
- Klaas Willems - Particle methods for granular flow: numerical methods and adjoint based optimization for parameter identification
- Carmen Mezquita - Modeling and optimization of multi-modal transportation networks based on kinetic and hyperbolic equations
--- Lunch break ---
- 14:00-15:30: Parallel one-on-one supervisory meetings
- Sara Veneruso / Michael Herty / Lorenzo Pareschi / Incico (room 02.112 Python)
- Tommaso Tenna / Gabriella Puppo / Thomas Rey / Cenaero (room 03.100 Codd)
- Carmen Mezquita / Paola Goatin / Axel Klar / TML (room 04.100 Dijkstra)
- 14:45: Frederic Blondeel / Lorenzo Pareschi / Giovanni Samaey / Zensor (03.112 Pascal)
--- Coffee break ---
- 16:00-18:00: Scientific and industrial advisory board meetings (Auditorium)
--- 19h45: dinner @ El Sombrero (Leuven) ---
- 9:00-10:30: Minitutorial 2B: Lorenzo Pareschi – Numerical methods for kinetic equations (Auditorium)
--- Coffee break ---
- 11:00-12:30: Minitutorial 1B: Paola Goatin – Traffic modelling (Auditorium)
--- Closing lunch ---
Location
The training workshop will take place at the Department of Computer Science, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee, in auditorium Erik Duval (room 00.225). This is located on the ground floor, at the end of the foyer (see black cross on the floor map below).

On entering the building, you can also go to the front office (00.02), where the secretariat will be happy to help you.
Registration
If you would like to join the workshop, please send an email to pmt@datahyking.eu to register, indicating your time of arrival & departure and the names of all attendees.
We would prefer to welcome you in person.
But there is also the possibility to join some of the meetings online. Please let us know via the emailadress if and when you would like to participate online, so we can arrange the practicalities.
Accommodation
Here is a list of hotel recommendations in and around Leuven:
- The Lodge Theater ***, Leuven: Hotels :: The Lodge Group – Hotels, Brasseries en Feestzalen (lodge-hotels.be)
- The Lodge ***, Heverlee: www.lodge-hotels.be/nl/hotels/b/the-lodge-heverlee-1
- Begijnhof Congreshotel ****, Leuven: www.bchotel.be
- Novotel Leuven Centrum****, Leuven: novotel.accor.com
Directions
The Department of Computer Science is located at Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee

By car:
You can park your car at Parking Kapeldreef, which you can find on the Kapeldreef, right in front of the Computer Science building 200A.
To obtain the access code to the parking, send an email to pmt@datahyking.eu.
By bus:
Throughout Leuven you can find bus stops of ‘De Lijn’.
Line 2 ‘Heverlee Campus’ (stop: ‘Heverlee Campus’) or line 616 ‘Leuven-Bertem-Moorsel-Zaventem’ (stop: ‘Heverlee Celestijnenlaan’) will bring you to the department.
All info and travel times can be found here: Home – De Lijn
SAVE THE DATE : Technical skills training course: high-performance computing
March 11 & 12 2024 — Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
The course will start on Monday March 11, morning (~9am) and will finish on Tuesday March 12, afternoon (~5pm).
It will be held at Polytech Nice Sophia (https://polytech.univ-cotedazur.fr/) in Sophia Antipolis (Nice, France) located here:
930 Rte des Colles, 06410 Biot (https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z4Cuu44BPn6UrT1R9)
From abroad, we recommend to arrive on Sunday and leave on Wednesday.
The most convenient airport is Nice Côte d’Azur (https://www.nice.aeroport.fr/en).
Although some hotels are available in Sophia Antipolis, it can be difficult to reach them on weekends, so we recommend to stay in Antibes or Nice.
To reach Polytech Nice Sophia:
– from Antibes, take bus A from the railway station (https://www.envibus.fr/le-reseau/ligne/ligne-a) and stop at Saint Philippe (~1/2 hour);
– From Nice, take bus 630 (https://services-zou.maregionsud.fr/it/horaires/Zou%20!%20Proximit%C3%A9/BUS/ligne/630/direction/OUTWARD/14633) and stop at Saint Philippe (~1 hour)
Kick-off and recruitment meeting — May 25 & 26 2023– Leuven, Belgium
On May 25-26, we will hold the formal kick-off meeting for the MSCA Doctoral Network DATAHYKING. As foreseen in the proposal, we will combine the recruitment meeting with some interactive training sessions for both the academic and industrial supervisors, on recruitment bias, open feedback culture in intercultural environments, open science and IP in public/private collaborations.
If you would join the meeting, please send an email to pmt@datahyking.eu to register, indicating your time of arrival and departure and the names of all attendees.
Program (subject to updates)
Thursday May 25
9:30 – 11:30: Gender and diversity bias in recruitment (interactive session, Diversity Office)
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30: Kick-Off Meeting
Lunch
14:30 – 16:30: Scientific overview (short presentation by academic partners)
Coffee break
17:00-18:00: Recruitment meeting
Dinner
Friday May 26
9:00 – 11:00: Scientific overview (short presentations by industrial partners)
Coffee break
11:30 – 14:00: Open feedback culture (interactive session, Diversity Office)
Including lunch
14:00 – 16:00: Responsible research, ethics and IP (interactive session, Research Coordination Office and Leuven Research and Development)
Including coffee break
Closing
Location
The meeting will take place at the Department of Computer Science, Celestijnenlaan 200A in 3001 Heverlee, in meeting room Java (05.152)
This is located on the 5th floor, at the end of the corridor on your right-hand side.

On entering the building, you can also go to the front office (00.02), where the secretariat will be happy to help you.
Accommodation
Here is a list of hotel recommendations in and around Leuven.
The Lodge Theater ***, Leuven: Hotels :: The Lodge Group – Hotels, Brasseries en Feestzalen (lodge-hotels.be)
The Lodge ***, Heverlee: www.lodge-hotels.be/nl/hotels/b/the-lodge-heverlee-1
Begijnhof Congreshotel ****, Leuven: www.bchotel.be
Novotel Leuven Centrum****, Leuven: novotel.accor.com
Directions
The Department of Computer Science is located at Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee

By car:
You can park your car at Parking De Molen. The access code will be mailed to you a few days in advance.
You can find De Molen on the Celestijnenlaan, at walking distance from our building, 200A.
By bus:
Throughout Leuven you can find bus stops of ‘De Lijn’.
Line 2 ‘Heverlee Campus’ (stop: ‘Heverlee Campus’) or line 616 ‘Leuven-Bertem-Moorsel-Zaventem’ (stop: ‘Heverlee Celestijnenlaan’) will bring you to the department.
All info and travel times can be found here: Home – De Lijn