CDS Lecture Series: Upcoming Lectures

Lecture Series

Upcoming Events

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Introduction

There has been a steady growth in the interactions between control theory and various branches of the physical and biological sciences. These interactions have been significantly influenced by the increasing role of the dynamical systems perspective in these sciences. This series of talks is designed to highlight some of the exciting developments now taking place at the forefront of research in Control and Dynamical Systems and to draw attention to some of the emerging interdisciplinary connections. In 2003, this series will include contributions by engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists engaged at the forefront of research in control systems, computation, cell biology, robotics, networking, cooperative pheonomena and other areas.

This series has been supported in part by the Army Research Office under the ODDR&E MURI97 Program Grant No. DAAG55-97-1-0114 to the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (through Harvard University), and the ODDR&E MURI01 Program Grant No. DAAD19-01-1-0465 to the Center for Communicating Networked Control Systems (through Boston University), and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under under AFOSR Grant No. F49620-01-0415.

The CDS lecture series is associated with the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory and the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures. Please visit the listing of all previous CDS lectures.

Lecture Schedule, Academic Year 2003-2004

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Tuesday, July 11, 11:30 a.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Bio-Inspired Robotic Motion Control
Dimitris P. Tsakiris
Institute for Computer Science - FORTH
Heraklion, Greece

Tuesday, June 22, 10:30 a.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems
Lalit Mestha
Principal Scientist, Wilson Center for Research and Technology
Xerox Corporation

Friday, June 4, 11:00 a.m.
CSIC (Bldg 406), Room 1115
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad

Sensor Network Localization
Brian Anderson
Chief Scientist, National ICT Australia, Ltd
Distinguished Professor, Australian National University

Friday, May 28, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: System Biology in Practice: Science, Technology, Challenges
Amir Handzel
Senior Scientist
Beyond Genomics, Inc

Friday, April 30, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Interpolation by rational diffeomorphisms of the circle
Joel Langer
Department of Mathematics
Case Western Reserve University

Wednesday, April 21,2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Wrinkling, draping and crumpling
L. Mahadevan
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University

Wednesday, April 14, 11:30 a.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Multiagent Repeated Games and Convergence to Nash Equilibria
Jeff Shamma
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California - Los Angeles

Friday, November 7, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Hosts: Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis and P. S. Krishnaprasad: Temporal logic control of continuous systems
George Pappas
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, November 5, 12:30pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Computational Anatomy and Models for Image Analysis
Michael Miller
Director, Center for Imaging Science
The Johns Hopkins University

Friday, October 31, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: In-Silico Biology: promise and peril
Jeremy Gunawardena
Director, Virtual Cell Program
Harvard Medical School

Friday, October 24, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Buildilng, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: On the Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems: Theory and Algorithms for Trajectory and Schedule Optimization
Peter Caines
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McGill University

Friday, September 26, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Modeling the cell's sense of direction
Pablo Iglesias
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Computational Medicine and Biology<
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, August 15, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Stability of Networked Control Systems in the Presence of Packet Losses
Babak Azimi-Sadjadi
Department of Electrical, Systems and Computer Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

Tuesday, August 5, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: Avis Cohen: Towards Flapping-of-Wings of a Butterfly from Robotic Controls
Kei Senda
Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering
Kanazawa University, Japan