As part of the Una Europa funded grant TOC4Deep (Tensor-based Optimal Control Approaches for Deep Learning) a series of half-day workshops will be held over the next 6 months to encourage scientific networking and discussions between the project universities of Edinburgh, Bologna and KU Leuven. The first of these workshops will take place on Thursday 21st April, with a focus on research relating to optimization and optimal control. The workshop will be hybrid, with in person attendance in JCMB 5323 or via Zoom (link to follow). The timetable and speaker information is below: Time (BST) - please mind the time zone 9-9.30 - Introduction/TOC4Deep presentation 9.30-10.15 - John Pearson, University of Edinburgh "Preconditioned Iterative Methods for Multiple Saddle-point Systems Arising from PDE-constrained Optimization" 10.15-10.30 - Break 10.30-11.15 - Wim Michiels, KU Leuven "Stability, Robustness Analysis and Model Order Reduction of Periodic Control Systems with Delay" 11.15-12 - Margherita Porcelli, Università di Bologna "A spectral PALM algorithm for Dictionary Learning"