At the 40th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS 2026) in Vienna, Austria, members of the MoSi group contributed with a paper, two PhD Colloquium presentations, and in several organizational and advisory roles. Adelinde Uhrmacher served as Program Chair and, at the pre-conference held jointly with DigHum 2026, joined a panel on "Shaping Health Futures with Simulation and AI." Justin Kreikemeyer served as PhD Colloquium Chair, and Pia Wilsdorf chaired the session on Automation in Modeling and Simulation. In the technical program, the group presented a full paper:
- "Optimizing Interventions for Agent-Based Infectious Disease Simulations" (Anja Wolpers and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher, in cooperation with Johannes Ponge, Stanford University USA).
The PhD Colloquium featured two contributions from MoSi:
- "Towards Benchmarking Methods for Learning Chemical Reaction Networks from Time Series Data" (Glenn Skrzypczak and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher), and
- "Challenges in calibrating simulation models with stylized facts" (Jan Niklas Martin and Adelinde M. Uhrmacher).
We are especially pleased that Jan Niklas Martin received the Best PhD Colloquium Contribution Runner-up Award, selected by an independent jury of senior conference attendees. These contributions are the product of MoSi's ongoing work on simulation-based optimization, model calibration, and the use of learning and AI methods across the modeling and simulation lifecycle.