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. Since its establishment in 1996, this series has included 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 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

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 3:00 p.m. Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Optimal control and the design of feedback controls
William S. Levine
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, April 13, 2007, 1:30 p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Estimation and control in confocal microscopy
Sean Andersson
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Boston University

Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 3:00p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2460 Hosts: Nuno Martins and P.S. Krishnaprasad: Feedback Control Over a Signal-to-Noise-Ratio Limited Communication Channel
Jim Freudenberg
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Friday, February 2, 2007, noon Bio-Psych Building, Room 1208 Hosts: Cindy Moss and P.S. Krishnaprasad: Reading the Neural Code in the Natural Sensory World
Garrett B. Stanley
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 3:00 p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2168 Hosts: Steve Marcus and P.S. Krishnaprasad: Identification and Realization Theory for Hybrid Systems
Mihaly Petreczky
Center for Imaging Science
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 2:00 p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2168 Hosts: Nuno Martins and P.S. Krishnaprasad: Nonlinear Control with Limited Information
Daniel Liberzon
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Coordinated Sicent Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, October 10, 2006, 4:00p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2168 Hosts: E. Abed and P.S. Krishnaprasd: No Assembly Required: Magnetically Guided Self-Assembly and Manipulation in Fluids
Gary Friedman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Drexel University

Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 2:00 p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Prototyping environment from distributed embedded systems
Sameer Joshi
Project Engineer
Pathway Technologies Incorporated

Friday, September 1, 2006, 2:00 p.m. AV Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Multi-Agent Coordination by Decentralized Estimation and Control
Kevin Lynch
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University