Prof. Xun Xu visited ISW in University of Stuttgart from 16-17 October. A workshop was held on the 16th , where a total of 5 projects were presented and the status of the IRTG programme was briefed. The Auckland team also had Peter Xu present and the Stuttgart had the following people present:  Oliver Roehlre, Arimin Lechler, Akos Csizsar, Simona Galliani and PhD students.