Below is a list of focus sessions, representing some of the central themes of the conference. When submitting an abstract for the conference, authors are able to choose what focus session (called ‚topics‘ during registration) they would like their abstract to be considered for.  

• Infinite dimensional nonsmooth optimization (chair : Anton Schiela)
  
• Shape and topology optimization (chair: Kathrin Welker)
  
• Feedback control for large-scale systems (chair: Axel Kröner)
  
• Computational inverse problems (chair: Ville Kolehmainen)
  
• Machine learning and PDEs (chair: Lars Ruthotto and Ekkehard Sachs)
  
• Discretization and adaptivity (chair: Johannes Pfefferer)
• Model order reduction and low-rank approximation for nonlinear problems (chair: Jan Heiland)
  
• Mixed-integer PDE-constrained optimization (chair: Sebastian Sager and Martin Siebenborn)
• Optimization under uncertainties (chair: Claudia Schillings, in cooperation with GAMM FA Uncertainty Quantification)
  
• Linear algebra in computational optimization (chair: John Pearson)
  
• Mathematical imaging (chair: Martin Holler)