On Thursday, August 21, Dr. Kristína Fedorová defended her PhD thesis on "Structure-Exploiting Model Predictive Control for Real-Time and Embedded Applications", supervised by Prof. Michal Kvasnica. Dr. Roman Kohút defended his PhD thesis on "Enhancing Energy Efficiency: Advanced Forecasting Algorithms for Energy Management Systems", supervised by Prof. Michal Kvasnica. Congratulations!